Reviews for Ride with GPS: Bike Navigation

I've used the free version for several years while touring in Asia. If I were training seriously I would upgrade. Very useful. I just tried the mobile route planner in Laos. Unfortunately, it won't allow me to plan routes that require fording small streams of even crossing bridges that were constructed several years ago. I'm not talking about off-road, but roads that actually appear on the maps*

While driving using Google maps and Android Auto my Google maps would freeze with a vague message "check your location". While driving I had to constantly repeat this process over and over to keep my navigation running. When I removed the Ride with GPS app it never happened again. Edit: 3/6/19 The developer refunded my money, app worked great on bike. Custom service is excellent.

Don't get this app for bike touring, it's extremely slow and will ask you to turn off power saver every time you use it. No way to see where you are at unless you are recording. There is no scale on the map even though the zoom is adjustable. There is no way to check the distance to something while following a route. Giving it two stars because it will work but it is exceptionally tedious.

There are a few of us who love riding 50cc scooters. Obviously the interstate is out, and I like to keep us off the highways as much as possible due to a beginner in our group. I use Ride With GPS to not only find and plan our routes, but also to hear live navigation cues in an ear bud as we ride. We've done quite a few several-hour-long rides, and the app has only led us wrong 1 time. I love this app. It's easy to plan out the route. It's easy to follow the audio navigation cues.

I use the free version and this is by far the most useful, most informative, easiest to use, & most accurate app I've found for tracking rides. Not having to pause the app when I take breaks is super helpful. I just hit record, throw my phone in my backpack & I don't have to touch my phone again until I get back to my vehicle. At home I can review my stats & compare rides. I haven't tried the other features but It works perfectly for logging rides. Kudos

If you find as I suddenly did, that navigation voice cues run much faster than normal speed , you can set the text-to-speech speed in settings, which helps. Thanks to Ridewithgps support for the tip. It's a great app, just used it in Bavaria and turn-by-turn directions were great. Sometimes, the route line on map disappears from view for a bit. Also, with Bluetooth earbuds connected, the sounds intermittently still run thru phone speakers. But overall, a realky useful tool.

I like this App over a few other I have tried. A lot of bike clubs make their routes in ride with GPS (RWGPS). The only part I don't like is if you download a ride you can not navigate it unless you pay for pro. I think pro should be for creating/editing routes and the other things it does but allow you to navigate routes you download. It gives you one free but that's it.

This is just such a bad app for the yearly price. I'm trying to use it for a year long bikepacking trip in South America and it's really bad for planning routes. For example, if I have a 900 mile route and I want to see the distance and elevation from town A to town B, I have to go through an extensive "Plan" process that requires internet, even if the route is saved offline. Furthermore, elevation is totally inaccurate on my Garmin. E.g. a 3k ft climb in ClimbPro is probably only 2k ft.

I have tried Map My Ride, Strava, and Ride with GPS. Out of the three of them, Ride with GPS is consistently my favorite. I appreciate the user interface, and I find it generally friendly to use. There is a wide library of routes available so I can generally find something I will enjoy riding. The free app is functional and has fairly rich features to get you started. I like the app enough that I have subscribed to the paid version as well, but to get started, the free one has all you need.

Navigation works mostly well, but sometimes it fails for long enough that you make a couple of wrong turns. For some reason, the app only tells you that you're going the wrong way instead of trying to direct you back to the route. Not great for new rotes. Also, the subscription is massively overpriced; there's no reason you should have to pay so much for some GPS lookups and worse-than-google-maps directions.