Reviews for Riser: Motorcycle GPS & Social

Great app. Everything you need is right at your fingertips. It's just a pity you can't use it with Android Auto.

I truly recommend the pro version. I am in no way sponsored or affiliated in any way with Riser, although that would be cool. As long as you remember to record the trip, this app gives you anything you can imagine in regards to data. The trip planner is hands down better than any other app I have tried.

The ONLY reason I give this 2 stars is because it maps your ride and it does provide round trip routes. That's it. I've been sent down dirt and private roads, through apartment complex parking lots, down some random road 300' just so I can turn around at a waypoint, and so many other similar issues. I will be demanding a refund on my subscription. This app is garbage.

I just switched from Rever to Riser, and so far, so good. It would be nice to be able to select roads somehow. Sometimes, the app does not select the best curvie roads. But otherwise, nice app. Update, I figured out that if you tap-hold a specific point on the map, it will allow you to customize your route. It's really helpful!

Needs an option to avoid dirt roads. Only option I see is "motorway," so it's clearly a European app. It really struggles to reroute if you try to skip a dirt road. When you pass a turn, it doesn't even recognize that you're traveling the opposite way as the map is telling you. It doesn't say turn around or suggest a different route. It just freaks out with the map reorienting back and forth until you give up and close it. I'm reducing my rating of the Cardo app because the suggested Riser.

For tracking & logging your ride, it seems to be fine...but the navigation still leaves a lot to be desired even after this recent update. I let it plan a round trip ride & it turned into a dumpster fire. At one point it had me turn off the main road only to tell me to do a U-turn after 0.3 miles, then it had me going through some side residential areas in a small town for no reason, & the final straw was when it wanted me to ride down an old dirt road.

Off late, I realized that the app is not working properly, or at times, it just isn't working at all. This issue started after the last update. I am using it on a Samsung S24 Ultra without any restrictions on background battery optimization. I even tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but all in vain. What could be the reason?

The ride tracking is pretty good, although I don't think it records speed as often as position for some reason. The routing is just bad though. Curvy and SuperCurvy often just route you off of the main road into neighborhoods which, while probably technically curvier, are much more boring and just elongate the ride. Or it'll divert me off of a highway to take a couple surface streets which end up back on the same highway. Not great, and just boring.

RISER is almost a great app; almost, but not quite. RISER's pack feature is a great idea, and makes it almost the ideal app for motorcycle groups. A user can create a group and allow others to join who are within a half kilometer from the user. All the users who join the group can then see all the other users on a group ride. There are several problems with RISER that just kill its usefulness: 1. It's impossible to import a map to follow from an external source. It would be great if the user were able to create a map on Google Maps, and then import that into RISER for him and others to follow. 2. It is practically impossible to create a track to follow for later use and save it within the app. You can save tracks that you record by riding, but the only way to use a new track created within the map is to use it immediately. 3. When creating a route within RISER the options for creating the app seem bugging. Selecting the fastest route, for example, in my test, created a route that was twice as long as the curvy map. 4. When selecting a location from the map to use as a routing point, street names and addresses displayed for those points are usually way inaccurate and unhelpful. I really wanted to like this app. For the reasons given, I can't use it.

Horrible gps tracking and the routes dont make sense. "Your location" icon is lagged so it's easy to miss turns and the route doesn't recalculate to get back on track. In an effort to add "curves" the route tries to take you on private access roads, driveways, dirt roads and fire cuts! Glad I tried it out before I paid for the subscription.