Ride with GPS: Bike Navigation App Reviews

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Best I’ve used.. I’ve used several cycling apps and RWGPS is my favorite so far. The user interface is well thought out - I especially like the volume slider on the ride progress screen. The company has been responsive with improvements. Their online route planning tool is easy to use and very helpful in Planning new routes as well as reviewing existing routes in advance. I find the spoken directions very helpful. It’s also great that many organized events use RWGPS: it makes it simple to download and view course maps.

Gross. I paid $9 for online navigation for a ride I just did. That turned out to be fairly useless. Then after the ride I found that it started recording my ride when I downloaded the route at my house, 20 miles away from the starting point. I looked for a place in the app to trim it, found nothing. Then googling led me to the trim feature on the desktop version of the website, and lo and behold, they want more money for that “premium” feature. No thanks! I was able to deliberately start and stop my ride from my garmin watch, so the recording is accurate on a superior service. And guess what, if I did forget to stop my watch, I would be able to trim the activity without being extorted for more money! Posting this one star review in hopes that I can do so without having to upgrade my subscription to ultra premium gold for the privilege.

Bait and Switch. Want to plan a ride to my local Costco. Apple Maps doesn’t provide bike routes. Bike with GPS says you can map a ride. When researching the app they state under Subscriptions: to unlock offline maps, voice navigation, live logging and additional features offer these subscription options. Don’t need any of those features so I download app and registered. Go to plan my ride to Costco and it tells me that is a Basic feature and is subscription based. Notice how they didn’t say that plan a ride was a subscription in the app overview. So the only free application of the software is ride details. I already have an app that provides that. Will delete Ride with GPS for their scummy business approach.

Works amazing for long distance touring. This tool is exactly what I needed for planning and navigating long distance bike routes. I just finished a 400 mile route using this app, and this app was a huge help. It was really useful because I was not familiar with the area. The planner with all the biking maps was really helpful in figuring out which routes to take. The navigation was also essential for following the route. I’m glad I switched from Google maps and other mapping tools I was using.

Helped me get to 1,000,000’ climbed. I love this app and only wish I’d started tracking sooner. I bought a fat bike in 2016 and shortly thereafter, I got this app. When I kept forgetting to turn it off after my ride, I realized I could edit those rides if I became a premium subscriber. And so I did and I’m glad I did. Then, I realized in 2020 that I was closing in on 1,000,000 vertical feet climbed. That became my end goal and in late 2021, I hit it! Now, with an eBike, my goal this year is to ride 300,000’. For a roadie, that’s probably not a big goal. But on single track, I think it is - and I’m over 60. I love the heat maps that were added and am trying to figure out how to make my new bike the default bike so I don’t have to go in and change it every time. (The developer got back to me right away with good directions on how to change the default bike, so thanks to whomever wrote back).

Ride With GPS is the best. I’ve been using RWGPS for years. Creating a route is very easy and really helpful. Navigation on a ride is right on, and syncing with cycle computers is easy. I love the record keeping that lets me view my stats by month, year, and career. Our club (The Lehigh Wheelmen) uses RWGPS as our preferred app for club rides. The club feature allows us to maintain a library of over 100 LWA rides. A very useful feature on club routes is the Tag option which helps members find routes from specific start locations. The support team at RWGPS is the best in the industry, questions are answered promptly and in detail. I highly recommend RWGPS if you are looking for a cycling app.

Great app for cycling. I’m a beginner/intermediate rider and I love this app. Paired with my Apple Watch this gives me everything I need. Time, heart rate, mileage, elevation, speed. The route planner on mobile and web is incredibly easy to use. One other nice feature is that when a friend creates a route you can see it. It makes sharing routes so easy. I’ve noticed it used very little data during your routes, which is a nice plus. Turn by turn navigation and offline maps are both paid features but I don’t consider them requirements and the pricing seems reasonable to me. Great app, simple to use great interface!

User Friendly. I have used Ride With GPS for about a year now first, in the free version, then the premium paid version. What I found valuable was the ability to plan a route, then edit later. Other programs I used made removing routing points difficult or impossible. I am using this program for team maps. The program also allows another user to see my location on their phone in near real time. Helpful for family when I am venturing on forest trails. You have control on who can view your route with privacy settings. The program also has voice turn by turn directions. I am seeing improvements in the app as time goes on, the latest being able to plan routes on an I Phone. It also works seamlessly with routes created on a PC. Routes can be imported/exported to many GPS devices the one I am using is a Garmin 1000 Explore. The free version has many features, the upgraded paid version has more. After testing 4 other mapping programs, this is my best.

Best Ride & Run Mapping Site. RideWithGPS is simply the best mapping, route sharing, and event organizing site. Widest selection of map bases, most with autorouting ability. Powerful editing tools. Elevation estimates tend to be a little low, but more accurate than other apps. Routes easy to download for use in watch or cycle computer. I have extensive experience mapping with Garmin, MapMyRide, and Movescount also. RideWithGPS is much better. Have used it to plan literally hundreds of routes. I help organize two major local cycling fundraisers, lead a weekly ride series that never repeats routes, and combine routes for multi-day events. Highly recommended. RWGPS also has activity tracking and community tools. They may be great but I have not tried because everyone around here uses Strava.

Best bike riding app. I have tried several apps after researching even more, checking to see which ones have the features I would want and expect to find in a app to log my biking activity. So far this is by far the best I have found and love it. I do hope that they add more support for ebikes, but as it is, it is adequate for even that. I love the route planning feature for picking her out and showing me the road type and distance. I love that when you start recording it records where you’ve been and logs it. I love that you can send planned routes to your device and it will prompt you with navigation for where to turn on your route. You can connect with friends that you ride with so that you can share your planned routes.

Using RWGPS since 2013. I have been logging my rides and planning my routes with Ride with GPS in the United States Europe and Latin America and it has been a fantastic tool and helped make a lot of wonderful memories that without the planning could’ve been very messy adventures instead. The support from the team has always been terrific and it’s been a pleasure to watch the app evolve over the years (which was super!) to the really solid great tool that it’s become. I use the features like a first grader but I enjoy knowing that I have all of them at my fingertips.

Ride with GPS Rating. I am giving Ride with GPS four stars. As a rider new to creating my own routes, it was fairly straightforward and I have found the routes easy to follow. As a navigation tool, Ride with GPS has assisted me with all of my club rides and is a great tool to pair (use in tandem) with my Wahoo Element. While my Element provides the information I want as I begin a climb, for example, Ride with GPS is there to tell me when to expect an upcoming turn so that I can prepare for a change in the route. Together, these tools have been very useful and effective for my rides. Overall, I like Ride with GPS. My club riders all seem to be using Strava. I’m happy staying with Ride with GPS for now.

Another app that needs strong internet to work. In preparation for a week long event with little or no cellular coverage, I downloaded and installed this app. The event provided maps through this app that could be downloaded, which I did. I saved all the maps offline and even paid for the premium subscription to be 100% sure I had everything. When I got on the ride, first the app took 3-5 minutes just to load and then the maps, which should have been available to work offline, didn’t work when there was no GPS signal or cellular coverage. If you have coverage though, it has great tracking. The workouts here automatically go to Apple Fitness (if you agree to send the data). The elevation guide is super helpful.

Love the app, wish there was better segment/social networking support. I am so grateful for the RideWithGPS app. I’ve ridden over 7,000 miles with its assistance over the last 2 years. Routing is fairly seemless, though there is some serious memory hogging through the website platform in Safari and Chrome on Mac(save regularly!). I am recently disappointed by load failures in the segment portion of both mobile and browser platforms. Segment data often does not load, mobile notifications and emails open empty pages in app and browser, and it is difficult to find or create new segments. In a huge cycling community like NYC, it would be great to have better social integration in this regard. PLEASE don’t become Strava or anything so Facebookish, but the segment section is the one area that UI improvement could help connect cyclists riding similar routes, for fun and safety (buddy system for the win!). Thank you again for such a great app🙏 Final feedback is more for Garmin - make Edge 1030 Plus more seemless with RWGPS; without an internet connection, it is difficult to share routes created in the app and routing through the garmin connect app pales in comparison to RWGPS on mobile🤌

My GPS assist. This app keeps all my riding data organized and tabulated and allows me to go back and compare efforts on the same ride or hill to allow me to gauge what kind of shape I am in and to mark my progress. It’s also very useful for ride planning as I can understand how much climbing and distance I’ll see on a planned ride. It gives me fairly accurate estimated ride times. I can share these plans with others and load the routes into my bike computer which then can guide me regarding the turns. Quite useful on unfamiliar roads.

No turn by turn voice. I have heard the turn by turn voice. But not everything I use Ride With GPS. I have had no way of knowing where to next turn is because of no audio. Not at all happy that I’m paying for something that is not working properly. I do not want to have to pull my phone out to see if I missed my turn. Oh I use Aftershock headphones and music is used so that I can determine if the volume is up all the way for the Ride With GPS. But I don’t ride with music on and ride with gps is always silent. I’m about to cancel my subscription. RWGPS has responded to this review and showed me where the problem was. It is a setting that can be used or not within The app. Such a simple fix after all. I cannot be happier with RWGPS

Let me down in a race- subscription error. I subscribed so that I could use offline maps. In my race this morning, it promted me to to subscribe again. I tried to accpet but my phone told me I was already subscribed, so there was no way to get past the subscription prompt and start my ride. Very annoying to deal with at the start of the bike portion of a triathlon on an unfamiliar course. After the race I figured out that I was signed out (which is odd, I'd never purposefully signed out) and that was the problem- but the error message should have asked me to login before moving me into the workflow that had no exit.

Ride with GPS. I use Ride with GPS to plan group rides, outdoor and indoor rides and routes for my cycling students and coached athletes and my own rides both outdoor and on my trainer. I expect to start using it with my SMART Elite rollers this coming fall; it is time to learn how to use them! Creating and sharing routes is very easy and straightforward, even for an admitted tech Neanderthal like me! I recently began utilizing the program’s option of adding photos to points of interest/landmarks; it makes it easy for cyclists to identify their whereabouts and progress. Coach Vito

This is the one. I set out looking for a cycling app that did three things. 1. Show map and stats on my smartphones. 2. Utilize Apple Watch heart rate sensor. (This requires you to enable the feature in the app settings) 3. Works with my duotrap sensor. If you want these things, and haven’t found this app yet, you can finish your search. This app is too good. It was annoying that the heart rate on Apple Watch was not on by default, but once I got it turned on, everything works reliably. I pre-paired my duotrap from the Bluetooth settings in the app, then just start a recording and the app automatically pops up on my Apple Watch with the stats. I love it. This is what I want. I am happy.

Best bike navigation site available. I’ve been using ride with gps since it first became available. I bike tour all over the world 4-6 months a year for past 15 years and develop all my routes on my PC and download routes to my Garmin Edge daily. I’ve used a Garmin Edge as my bike navigation device since ride with gps became available which has greatly been a life saver navigating through major cities in the world. Following my routes I develop on ride with gps, I’ve never had a problem. I like how I now can save all my routes in archive and collections.

Amazing cycling app!. First off let me say that their customer service is second to no one in this day of pretty poor customer service all around for any kind of company this is is the very best. Secondly, I want to say their app is amazing. It has more cycling metrics than I’ve ever seen even more than training peaks. I’ve been cycling for seven years as a top 1% high mileage cyclist in the world, and I’ve not never heard of this app before not until I switced to wahoo did I discover it! Great complement to any of the other cycling apps out there

Best Cycling App. I was a long-time Strava user until they stopped supporting Bluetooth devices. That spurred me to look at other options. I have to thank Strava for that, because other than user base, Strava is inferior to Ride With GPS in nearly every other way. I honestly have no idea how these folks have made such a wonderful app while remaining relatively unknown. Kudos to your team for the great work you’ve done. The only complaint I have is the name. Come up with something a bit more catchy, and I think you’ll unseat the king in no time.

Great Riding App and Even Better Company. I have been a premium subscriber for years. The route planning tools and turn by turn navigation are top notch. The ability to log rides and mileage help me keep track of my fitness. Recent upgrades allow me to route plan on my iPad with ease. As for the company, in 2020 I lost my job due to COVID, and cancelled my subscription and Ride with GPS inquired as to why? When I explained my situation they extended me a free membership until I got my feet back on the ground. Great App and even better people.

Cannot Read Street Labels. RwGPS has a major flaw in that the route line obscures the map layer graphics, so you often cannot read the road or path names. This has been a longstanding problem. And also a safety issue when you have to take your eyes off the road for extended times to decipher a road or path name. In addition, when you have to manually route a segment, you lose all navigation cues and RwGPS is not smart enough to fill them in. Or allow you to manually add them. Appreciate these bugs getting fixed! Developer responded that " in order to display a route line it has to overlay the map and will obscure the road name. However, your cuesheet will have this information since you are currently on that road." Response: Most people do not use cue sheets, we just need to navigate from the map screen. Google maps figures this out and does the map routing correctly. I understand that rwgps does not own the map layer, but this glitch could be solved with the making the overlay routing lines smarter. Is this problem at least getting worked on? Thank you very much.

Couldn’t be happier. I’m very grateful my son recommended this app. When I am home, I can see the map screen and see exactly where I’m going. I can also listen to the audio cues which are extremely helpful and well timed. I can even go in and create my own audio cues wherever I want them, and then, when I’m writing, I will hear those cues. another thing I like about this is that you can record every trip, and then edit the trip into a route if you wish. If you use the route planner, you’ll have access to many other routes used by others. And also records your own routes, and gives you a heat map of your routes and those taken by others. You’ll know the distance and elevation as you plan around, and if you’re just winging it, you’ll have that data recorded and you can turn a ride into a route. I’m not sure what else anyone would want.

Need to focus on bug fixes for a while. It pains me to write a negative review of this app as I love the RideWithGPS service immensely… but the company needs to put some serious focus on fixing some shortcomings with the app that have been known for a long time but just not prioritized. The app hasn’t shown HR Zone 5 for over a year now. I can’t view my club’s events because the club has “too many”. I still get the black screen on load about 20% of the time I launch the app. Etc- I could go on with a handful of other things I’ve reported that just have never been prioritized to fix. I fear they’re too focused on shiny new features and not focused enough on fixing bugs. It’s the Apple-syndrome of software engineering. Bug fixes don’t get people wow’d — I get it. But at some point the app starts to rot without maintenance, and it becomes death by a thousand paper cuts for usability.

REVISED: routing is terrible, UI gets worse after every update.. 2023: I’m kinda oblgated to use this app because of the groups I ride longer trips with. There are a bunch of very established network gravel trails. Google Maps is far better at routing than this app. The user interface is absurdly obtuse. Point to point, changing routes, routing preferences or searching for food and amenities is a total nightmare. Why do I still try to use this app? Gonna sound nitpicky... In LANDSCAPE orientation, there is unused whitespace at the top of the live screen. I mount my phone landscape... real estate is limited and “weird” on my bikes: multiple devices distributed on a BarYak, stem and top of drops. Simple and super important: ADD TIME OF DAY, BATTERY LIFE AND CHARGING INDICATOR, CELL SERVICE (and other critical configurable data) there. Find out your power brick died, your phone is out of battery, no cell service, you’re too late for your campground. This is why I always carry a Garmin eTrex 30 as backup. Add this feature — 5 stars. BTW: the online route planning subscription is worth every penny.

Apple Watch function needs work. I bought this app because my cycling club uses it to chart out our group rides. Rather than buy a Garmin unit, I thought this app would make use of 2 devices I already own and always have on me — my iPhone and Apple Watch. Unfortunately, the Apple Watch function is very poor. Neither the turn-by-turn direction screen or metrics screen do not stay ON. So instead I had to finish my 46mi ride today using only my iPhone app (which works fine), meaning I had to keep the volume up to max to hear the directions, and also stop and check if that turn she called out for me to hear while I’m going a swift pace with wind rushing across my ears, was supposed to be a “left” or “right” turn. Having the Apple Watch display distance to next turn and also which way to turn are absolutely essential when rolling through an unfamiliar route. Perhaps it’s a setting on my app that I need to select… I just don’t know. If it turns out it’s something I’m doing wrong, I’ll adjust my rating back up to 5 stars.

Excellent app, privacy options. Switched to this app after another popular one required an account and has a terrible privacy policy. Does everything I need, with third party sensors of all kinds. One issue crept in a couple of updates ago. On the top line of a ride detail page, a 21-minute ride shows as “0:21 mins” which looks like an error. Previously rides would show minutes and seconds. Now only minutes. My rides are always under 25 minutes and I need to see the seconds.

Very Good Bike app. RWG is the best bike app I’ve tried. I’m not looking for a workout app, just an app to record my bike rides, and this one is the best for me. I like that it displays the map and pertinent stats all at once on the screen. I can see my trail, plus speed, distance, duration, averages, etc without changing screens. I’ve tried several apps lately and none other will do that. I even biked with 4 apps open and recording at the same time so I could switch between them while riding, and later compare final results, and RWG easily won out. A review wouldn’t be complete without listing a couple of negatives: You can’t see the map until you press “Go Ride”, and it seems that it is not locking in on the gps until that is done, so occasionally it will write a phony start location onto my trail. That can be removed later, but only with the paid version. I think this problem could be eliminated if you could view the map before pressing the start button. That way you could watch the gps dot until it settles down, the press Go Ride. One other feature would be very nice: Add an option to mask your start-stop location like Strava does. I want to hide my home location, but can’t do it with RWG. I hope you guys read this and consider it.

At the top. I have loved RWGPS for 4 years now. Although the free version was adequate I like a few paid features and at 5 bucks a month I want to support a company that has a great product and wonderful customer service. I didn’t realize how superb the product was until this summer on a weeklong supported ride we were provided with a garmin. Not even close. And the 2 times I needed app help (70 yo and not digital native) the email was responded to within hours. Grateful for this app that enhances my route planning and riding.

Apple Watch integration is a disaster. I got this app because I wanted a cycling guide compatible with Apple Watch. After several rides, here’s my experience using Ride With GPS on my Apple Watch: 1) During the ride the app keeps disappearing from the watch face. 2) Very challenging to navigate from an Apple Watch—both with the app disappearing and unclear when to look at the watch for directions. Ended up biking with my phone in one hand to figure out where I was going—Defeats the purpose of Apple Watch compatibility. Also, dangerous as I was not prepare with a phone holder to bike with. 3) The app drained my watch battery. After a four hour ride, I had almost no watch battery left. No other apps running. Keep in mind that I could not even see this app most at the time since it keeps disappearing from the watch face. Pros: There are some really good rides mapped out. If you’re just using your phone, looks like it works well. However, for a paid app, there’s still a lot to work out so you can use your Apple Watch to navigate.

Used to be the best app ever-not anymore. For some reason, We can no longer search for rides or routes. This was the best feature of the app. Now, it appears, I’m stuck with only the route I have pinned in the past. Very disappointing. And if that feature hasn’t gone away, it’s hidden! I won’t recommend the app anymore. Thanks for your response and the Find feature was much better than the explore feature. I want to go back to typing in a starting point etc and not have to try and find a place on the map. I know where to ride where I live. I like to plan for when I am traveling, etc. I would use the find feature based on where I would be staying. I will say this used to be my favorite app. If possible, get rid of the social media aspect and go back to the way it was. It was the bomb!

RWGPS - The BEST!!. I started using the free version of RWGPS in 2011 for developing routes and exporting the routes to develop cue sheets for a bike club that I lead rides for. After a couple of years of being really satisfied with the online app I subscribed to the top level to thank the developers and to unlock a few of the new added features. When they added the Event feature, which allows one to show multiple rotes on a single screen, the app went to a new level. When the mobile app was made available I set my Garmin aside and use the phone app to follow routes and record rides. Great map screen to follow routes and stats while riding. I’ve used Map My ride and Strava, but none compare to the features of RWGPS. Thanks and keep up the great work!!

Works flawlessly with my iPhone. Easy to set up, easy to initiate a ride. Good library of rides from others covering everywhere. Saves all your personal rides. Only complaint is it won’t link to a Fitbit to record heart rate (links to others — given how slapdash the Fitbit software is, I’d put it down to them). With a heart rate monitor it adjusts the calorie count against an HR algorithm. Output file includes speed, gps, altitude profile, other more obtuse measurements. The compilation of rides will give totals vs calendar limits. All in all a useful robust tool.

Best app if you want Varia integration. My kid got me a Garmin Varia for Christmas and I wanted and app that integrated it so I didn’t need to switch apps on the fly. Tried Cadence but it wasn’t great. This one is. I want a tool where I don’t need to go to a browser to download routes. It’s a nice option but shouldn’t be the default. I will say that it needs a night mode though. You can dim things down a bit using the hybrid or satellite views but that’s a problem in bad data areas. The map screen is way too bright for night riding without using one of those though. The routing suggestions are excellent and I like the fact you can edit one of theirs on the fly and save it right on the phone as a new route. Learning curve so far has been easy. Most stuff is front and center and intuitive. The social media stuff isn’t so over the top like in Strava lately. The most surprising thing is how well the Varia integration works. The warnings it gives are far more intuitive than what you get from the actual Varia app. I liked it will enough that I paid for it.

Slow, doesn’t recalculate. I paid for this, and in the rural areas, worked fine. In suburbs where turning happens frequently if you miss a turn, no recalculation. I almost got into accidents multiple times having to look at map rather than the audio. Need more info - are the roads heavy traffic or quiet. How hilly is the route and can you go around and minimize some of the intense hills. Had a positive experience in the Adirondacks with this, and a terrible experience in NJ. Really disappointed in this.

Great phone app/suboptimal watch app. As a route planner and iPhone app, I cannot say enough good things about. The app provides excellent turn by turn directions and excellent details. Route planning is top notch. As a watch standalone app, it is pretty good and captures the essential details for the ride. There is a bug where the app almost always refuses to stay in the foreground and I have to ask Siri to bring it back. This is more annoying but developers punted when I reported problem last summer. As an integrated app, the app frequently loses contact with the phone and almost never provides turn by turn directions. Then we do the dance of powering on and off both devices until they talk again. This is the reason why I bought the app/watch. Now searching for replacement.

Very confusing and frustrating. It seems like this app was just what I was looking for and would be worth the $5.99 per month if worked, but I could not get it to work. The description said voice navigation was available with the basic and premium subscription. I went into the route planner and planned my route from my home by tapping on the map wherever there was a turn. Created a square 2-mile route. I saved the route with a name. I selected the route from my routes library and pressed navigate. Instead of navigating me around my route with voice navigation, my route disappeared from view and the app simply started to record my route - no voice prompts at all. I played around it it for the better part of an hour trying to get it to navigate my route with voice prompts, or even just visual prompts, but without success. I re-read the help pages several times to no avail. I deleted my route and created new ones, but was unable to navigate with any of them. Being totally frustrated with the app, I went in and cancelled my subscription and deleted the app. Very disappointing.

Great for navigation, lacking for metrics. Ride With GPS is pretty great, though is biased more towards mapping and navigation more than metrics and fitness. The route planning and voice-guided navigation is really impressive. While it’s wonderful to be able to connect to my Garmin Varia (which Cyclemeter cannot do), many of the settings menus are only accessible during a ride and not easy to find. It would be nice to have a selection of screens to choose from, as the majority of the screen is dedicated to the map, making few, small font metrics visible on screen. The Apple Watch heart rate connection worked easily. I was able to connect it to my Duotrap (Trek speed and cadence sensor) without an issue, but it seems unnecessarily difficult to get recorded workouts pushed into Apple Health or Strava. For instance, I swore I had enabled to switch for Apple Health, but when I finished my ride the workout did not get pushed. Unfortunately, there’s no way to retroactively get completed workouts sent to Apple Health. And the Strava connection does not occur on the device, only by connecting your RWGPS account to your Strava account online. Incredible potential, needs just a few tweaks. I’m not sure I’m ready to commit to an annual subscription just yet, but I could definitely see subscribing on an as-needed basis for a week/month at a time. The guided navigation was so helpful during a 100 mile ride on a route we’d never taken before.

Pretty great with caveat. This app is very useful and fairly user friendly. It lets me easily plan routes and then provides navigation along the route so I don’t get lost. It keeps track of all your rides and even pushes them to the apple fitness app so you don’t have to enter them yourself. Only thing I wish I could figure out is how to keep the screen on while using it without changing system settings each time. The screen shuts off and I have to unlock my phone again to see my speed and other ride data. Kinda bugs me that features my isn’t coded in. (Or if it is, I can’t find it)

I love this app, but…. I have been a premium member for years. Absolutely love the app. I’m not a techie, and I still find it so easy to use. I design my own routes plus pull from the library for routes all over the (developed) world. Only thing that doesn’t work for me is the paved vs unpaved indicator. In many instances, paved routes are shown as unpaved. I only ride paved so I avoid any unknown route indicating unpaved. So I wonder what Im missing. On the other hand, I have used routes that didn’t indicate gravel, and yet it was. Im a senior and my husband is 84. We ride long distances(40+ mile routes.) But hubby’s balance is not what it was. So coming across several miles of unexpected gravel is no fun. But my complaints are minor compared with how much this app has improved my life! Oh - also love that I can use RWGPS on my iPhone. Did not want to have to buy and learn another device. (Tried to learn Wahoo- but returned it because it was too tiny.) One other suggestion, though. Come up with your own sturdy handlebar holder, preferably light weight metal. I have one that works and holds my phone securely, but it’s plastic. If/when my bike falls, the $35 plastic holder breaks. I’m on my 3rd or 4th. One other disappointment: website does not include info on how one might invest financially in the company, besides paying annual dues! If you want investors, make that info easier to come by.

Best cycling app I have found. I have been using ridewithgps since 2015 and it has become my favorite cycling app and website. It allows me to plan safe routes for my rides in advance and then use my smart phone to navigate the route on my bike. It logs my ride, shows me stats, gives me audible turn by turn directions, shows me the elevation profile and much more. I used the free version for years and it met all of my needs. Last year I upgraded to paid version so that my wife (and friends) can track my rides in real time so that she knows I’m safe, which is well worth the money for me. Photos taken while logging a ride can be embedded into the route, which is a nice feature. I recently had a problem with the app where it wouldn’t go into navigation mode. I was frustrated as it was the only time in over four years the app didn’t work flawlessly. I emailed tech support and they immediately responded. One of the company founders called me on a Saturday morning and helped get it working for me. They then updated the app to fix the bug. Because of their excellent customer service and the unique features of the app I rate them five stars without hesitation.

Better options exist. The subscription is not worth it for how glitchy the turn-by-turn is. I’ve used this app for several months now and connect to my Bluetooth headphones to get audio cues. Anything beyond a T intersection seems to confuse it. Often cues are late or don’t involve street names but the most frustrating is that it will frequently tell you to turn into a road just to make a 180 degree turn and go back out to the main road. Over the course of a 50 mile ride I will have to pull out my phone 5+ times to figure out where it led me astray. It will also randomly tell you to make sharp two-step turns on extended straight sections with no intersections in sight. If you’re looking for turn-by-turn I’d save the $50/year and put it towards a Garmin edge or something similar.

This app doesn’t do anything…so confused. This App is strange, not sure what the point is. The map has ZERO features, it doesnt show city names, road names, landmarks, the map has absolutely no information on it. It’s literally just a red highlighted route, on a blank map. Doesnt even show what direction is north. Absolutely USELESS tool if you’re actually trying to navigate a trail. Also the route information is not accurate, i’ve done a few rides now and the App was very misleading (both the route description and the map) Also the “track offline” feature doesnt work for anybody in my group. We downloaded the maps to be available offline successfully, but the maps are useless. You’re better off just using the route description, and tracing your own map on paper. Oldschool. This is also safer, in case your phone dies or breaks mid-trail

Solid but not worth the price. If this app was free I would be giving it 4 stars. It’s solid and has some nice features, if a bit clunky in its design. But for $60 per year I expect perfection which this is not even close to. The pre-mapped routes are nice, but are too highly emphasized. I like to explore and create my own routes. Sadly this functionality is very limited. Looking at the maps in this app does not even give you as much biking data as Google Maps, which is free. Using this app while you ride is very clunky and annoying. There’s no mechanism to see your route on your Apple Watch. Seems like the expectation is that you’ll have your phone attached to your handlebars which I don’t like. Then the app is VERY LOUD and annoying. For example on my route there was a bike path the app did not know about running parallel to the street with the bike lane. My god this app just would not stop yelling at me to go on the inferior route it thought was superior. Just not at all zen or even helpful. If this app was free it would be totally decent and fine. But for this high subscription cost the app is just way too janky and poorly designed to justify itself.

5 Stars Aren’t Enough. I’d rate RWGPS ten stars if I could. The mobile app is a great addition to the web-based version. I plan out my routes on the web version and seamlessly upload them to my Garmin Edge for navigation and metrics capture. The app is packed with features that make me a more confident cyclist, especially when riding outside of my local area. Features such as heat maps, elevation profiles, and riding surfaces come in handy when planning routes. Finding and loading routes from other cyclists is a great way to explore. Additionally, many organized rides use RWGPS for managing their routes, and it’s much more convenient than following a paper cue sheet. The developers continue to add more features, making this app better all the time.

Best Cycling App. I have been using this app for about a year now and it is fabulous. I’m 73 and it provides all of the stats that I want and need. I use a Wahoo Element Bolt on my bike which is paired to the Wahoo Element app in my iPhone. In that app I have selected Ridewithgps to receive my entire ride data as soon as I finish. That said, Ridewithgps receives my ride data almost immediately. Full disclosure, I am a retired IT Pro so I do access my ride data directly contained in the Bolt from time to time if I do need to make an add or correction. It helps your overall accuracy if you also have that skill.

Where’s the cadence view?. Since the Wahoo app no longer supports pairing both speed and cadence sensors I’m left with a Coospo speed cadence combo device that only works for speed. I can tolerate that since I can follow the seconds on the Wahoo screen counting revs for 15 or thirty seconds and multiplying by 2 or 4 to get my current revs per min. I would like to be able to see what my average revs are and view progress over time. I was ecstatic when I found RWGPS easily paired with my Coospo but disappointed when I could not find a cadence counter. Is this not a feature? If not I may have to keep looking. Also, your elapsed time display should show seconds as well as minutes.

Cycling wing man. As an avid cyclist I’ve been using multiple apps and out of all of them I will say RWGPS is by far the best app for cycling. It has all the features and more like some of the other apps but the best part it’s it very simple to create, share, edit, and get turn by turn navigation via Bluetooth device. If you’re for a all in one navigation app for cycling RWGPS is the pick. An update to the overall up would definitely put this app at the top 5 pick. 🤙🏾

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Way too expensive. Not enough free features, and basic functions are only part of the paid version. At $75 (at least) annual subscription, this is really way too expensive.

Couldn’t log in. App wouldn’t let me log in, wouldn’t let me receive routes from the computer, was glitchy and dodgy.

Mr Kamen Atanassov. Pros: All good and intuitive Cons: calories count missing

Pretty good. I've been using this paired with a Wahoo RFLKT display. It's pretty good. The screen integration with the RFLKT is not as customisable as the Wahoo or Cyclemeter apps but then again neither of them can do turn by turn navigation instructions. The best bit of RidewithGPS has always been the mapping and planning side of the website, but now with this app the recording and navigating side out on the road is there as well. Be aware that the navigation cues are entirely based on a preplanned track and can't re-calculate like a proper driving app, but it does have an "off course" alarm. I don't find the controls as intuitive as say the Strava or Cyclemeter apps but you get used to them. Also quite a steep subscription price but worth it if you were riding on unfamiliar roads away from your home town.

Connections with Garmin really poor. Poor connection to other apps. Sometimes it works sometimes it does not

Love it. After fluffing around with my fancy Garmin I came across this app through a reliable reference. Since then, with spectacular customer service helping my get the most out of the App - including king trip battery life - I’m absolutely in love with it. I use a Quadlock to put my phone on bars and have learnt how to use audio to run route directions. It’s so good when you get an App that’s better than expected. Brilliant

Awesome App 👍. Awesome ride app, used it ever since I started riding and now it’s got more features available 👍

Navigate long rides. Since join Audax Queensland in late 2018, I have become reacquainted with RWGPS and it is the failsafe for navigating those long routes. You need a little navigation nouse, but mostly you just switch it on at the start and it gives you all the turn-by-turn prompts and you can simultaneously see the que card. It can be get a little confused at cross-overs, but once you get past that it tirelessly resumes on the proper course. Strava can do some of the same but not nearly as well. You can share the ride data with Strava for better social features, but you can get by with only RWGPS but I don’t think you can get by with just Strava.

Not impressed. As a very regular cyclist over many years I’ve explored a range of gps options. I find the functionality of Ride with GPS really clunky and unreliable when compared to market leaders like strava. I find the mapping less user friendly also.

Basics are busted. Simple interface things like a big fat red route line covering the name of the road make navigation a pain. Details like the scale bar not adjusting to metric, and other basics are just not well done. The ability to plan and modify routes is lacking on mobile.

Disappointing. So far it’s been pretty disappointing. Apps very buggy in my iPhone 12 Pro. Press more in the menu and the app freezes. Have deleted it and reinstalled and no better. Hopefully it’ll improve of else I’ll unfortunately have to go back to Komoot.

Great app. Great app full of fun routes

A standout - and constantly working on being good at one thing. It’s not perfect, it gets 5 stars for being the best and being committed to improving the service. Well worth the money.

Great Functionality. But..... I would rather pay a once off payment for the app . At the moment I pay $117AUD per annum! Very expensive. How about introducing a lifetime once off payment option? Or a once off payment with a nominal additional fee to download updates at users discretion?

Brilliant route planner. Nothing else like it. If you are used to planning routes on pen and paper, the app will make complete sense to you. There is also an amazing route library available, much better than Strava when it comes to this.

Web version can't change to metric. Someone sent me a link, but without an account measurements appear as imperial. I come from a part of the world where we use metric. Like 95% of you. A simple toggle button would suffice. But no.

Not enough free functionality.. Many other apps offer navigation for free. Not sure I need to pay for navigation here.

Great planning and navigation tool, on and off-road.. I use it when cycling, on the MTB and also riding on the motorcycle.

Great app. Great apps works really well. Recording rides and planning routes is easy. Well done guys.

Excellent and must have Cycling Tool. If you are new to Cycling or quite experienced this is a fantastic App that gives you the ability to master new routes easily. The turn by turn commentary allows the rider to concentrate on the road instead of the map. This is the best App I have subscribed to all year and worth every cent.

Ridiculolsy Expensive. The UI is a little difficult to navigate but the cost for the app is just ridiculous. If you are going to charge that much, at least have a trial of all features. $5-$6 a month is fair and reaonable, not $15. I may as well by a hardware dedicated GPS device

Way to expensive!. A great concept and pretty good to navigate by, but the cost is way over the top. With the COVID19 with us for who knows how long, I wonder just how much use I’d get from it should the rules here in QLD Australia go to the extremes of the Europeans countries.

Nearly Perfect. Works well, gives me the information I need. Only one little problem in that I have trouble getting voice announcements for heart rate sometimes.

A fantastic bike packing app. I’ve been using this app for a few years to plan and ride bike packing trips and it has been brilliant. The array of maps available to plan a route is very comprehensive and detailed. The functionality of the route planning features are seamless and this makes it a fun process, as it should be. Navigation is easy and I’ve never had a problem uploading routes to a GPS unit (Garmin Edge and GPS Map). Using the app and desktop versions is a breeze and the customer service is next level. This app is brilliant.

Great App for Recording and Garmin Varia Radar. So far I’ve only used the free version. It’s good for recording your route, distance, meters climbed, time etc. It supports the Garmin Varia Radar, which works really well. Not many apps support it. This one does and it’s great to have that little side bar. I haven’t used navigation, route planning, or any of the other paid features yet. I’ve used Strava as well. I think I prefer Ride with GPS because it supports my rear radar. Strava has more “social” - competing with your mates and randoms features. But I’m just a casual rider so far and not competitive. I hear you can export your rides/routes/stats to Strava so sounds like you can have it all with a bit of a mess around.

Just go ride .. I have been using this app off and on, for about a year now, just the free version, it records my rides okay but is a bit too fiddley to navigate and the lack of features on the free version is a major issue to me . I will go back to using OsMAnd I think .

Better mapping than “other” GPS Ride App. After being a paid subscriber to the other main race/adventure cycling app, I became frustrated with its mapping tools. You can create routes easier on the desk top but cannot adapt pre-existing rides from other users on that platform. Inversely, on the phone app you can easily find pre-existing routes but cannot adapt them. Plus, with my transition to gravel rides out of the city, the off road mapping is poor. Ride GPS mapping is better, but still needs some work. The routing regularly gets into a funk and just outright refuses to let the user create a route. The creation by “lines” is equally finicky.

Far Too Expensive. In-App Purchase : AU$5.99 for 7-day subscription. That is preposterously expensive.

Useless. This has to be the worst bike related app almost impossible to do simple things such as start pause and save a ride

Bugs with Assioma power meter. App crashes every time I connect to Assioma due powermeter. I can no longer track my rides, and need to reinstall app (every time). Please fix.

Great app. I’ve been using this app for over three years and it’s fantastic. Lot’s of improvements and features. Highly recommended

Won’t sync with Karoo 2. Frustrating app!! Routes will not sync

RWG vs app. RWG is good. The iOS app is bad. Flukey, prone to crashing, missing many of the data features from the web version. This app looks like it was developed in a hurry with limited budget and with little enthusiasm.

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Bad navigation engine. The navigation engine for a city is not even close to do optimal itinerary for bikes. Even google maps does better with not having all the cycle path way. Can’t stream live hr from the Apple watch, only an average.

Last update disaster. With the very last improvement my app on the iPhone keeps crashing. Will not be able to use app as such

Génial. J’utilise cette application depuis plusieurs années et je n’ai que de bons mots pour les développeurs. Ils n’ont cesser d’apporter des améliorations. Simple d’utilisation, elle fonctionne sans "bugs" et pour un coût raisonnable vous avez accès à tous vos trajets hors connexion. La version gratuite est très complète pour faire vos trajets ou en trouver déjà faits. Indispensable pour un cycliste.

Piece of crap. I have a Garmin 530 and despite 2hrs of effort to connect ride with gps to the device via the connect and connect iq app, nothing happens. I’ve paid for a subscription and can’t get any of the routes to my device so as far as I’m concerned it’s a total waste of time and money.

Ride with GPS the best cycling app. I have tried several cycling apps for planning and navigating my cycling trips across Ontario, Quebec and abroad and RidewithGPS is the best. The customer support is also very good. They are responsive and knowledgeable.

Lost Rides. This app has a bunch of bugs. If you start recording a ride and then close the app before it realizes you’re moving, the entire route will be lost. It will simply record the distance as the crow flies from point A to B. There were other instances whereby other rides were lost just due to the app glitching. Frustrating. The auto pause is a nice feature though.

Difficult set up. Difficult set up.

Poor app design. I subscribed in my phone to import a gpx file, and found out I couldn’t do it on the phone app. Opened the desktop version, it asked me to cancel the mobile subscription then upgrade to something else. All this is just to open a gpx file!! This company/app has no future. 2 types of subscription for a routing app, really? Did you do any market research?

Beautiful app. This app is way better than Strava. I find not so user friendly which this app did well with navigating menus and setting everything up.

Erreur de traduction en français. L’utilisation de l’app en français, à tout le moins, indique les changements de direction erronée: annonce tourner à droite alors qu’il faut réellement tourner à gauche.

Useless for Canadians. I live in Vancouver which is about 20 miles from the US, and when I put in to search for mapped rides all it shows me are rides in the US. Not much good when the border is closed due to the scamdemic.

Love it!. This app rocks simple to use and very useful. I love the route making I preplan all my long touring routes and press navigate. bravo ride with gps bravo.

Not workable. The app is a good idea in theory and is well laid out. That said it has failed consistently to accurately track my ride for the past month. Previously it worked quite well on my iPhone 8S. But something has changed and it’s lost its marbles. I hope they can get a workaround

Please Make this available for other countries.. Hello, My friends from Bahrain want to track their rides and they want to follow my routes. Please work to make this app available in other regions (Bahrain would be a good start). Thanks, P.S. I will change this to a 5 Star review if this change happens promptly.

Clumsy. I found the app better-designed in the past. The current version departs from principles of being clear or intuitive, using non-standard or obscure icons to navigate the app, then having no proper way to revert — route planning is one: options to start a new route, or load current route, and no ‘get me out of here, I was just seeing what that weird symbol does’. I don’t like Apple Maps for planning or viewing, and the web-version is superior for allowing Street View, and ESRI Topo. Overall, the app is a weak and limited experience, counter-intuitive and awkward. But like anything, you can figure it out despite it being relatively inaccessible, and then you may find it the best option on a mobile phone. On an iPad, just use the web browser version for a far better and more effective experience. Subscription value is okay, but not really very good.

Always crashes for some reason. When a open bigger routes or when I open the editor it always crashes

Dark mode. This app should have a dark mode. Cmon!!

to me - best GPS app. have tinkered with many GPS apps - for recording a ride/hike/c-country ski… this app shows the route i took, stats about the ride (including altitude!), and i can save them for later reference. the basic is great for me - and no ads!!! i’ve looked for ways to pay for this app but it only had a subscription fee - to use other features. ie - i’d happily have paid something - just for the features i use. Great job! Suggestion - would be cool if had categories. e.g. hiking. At times i might b climbing and the app doesn’t record that i’m moving - i’m guessing because my forward movement is too slow.

Solid app, with room for improvement. I use Ride with GPS on all my bike rides instead of a dedicated bike computer. The app is rock for logging and navigation, and never crashes. Weaknesses: 🫤 The trip planner has a strong tendency to pick side roads and gravel trails, which makes it impractical for planning long tours. 🫤 Sluggish performance when dealing with routes longer than 200 km. 🫤 Needs better integration with Siri and Automations (e.g. to start trip logging with an NFC tap or voice command). 🫤 Some navigation prompts can be "myopic" and verbose. For example, when going through a roundabout it might instruct you to take multiple sharp turns in quick succession, when it could provide more sensible instructions by considering a longer range. 🫤 On the map, the solid red route obscures road names, and if you try to zoom in to read the road name, the label moves. The route line should be translucent, or the road names should appear on a foreground layer.

RWGPS AND TOURING. I have been using it for past two years and I am very impressed with the quality of the product. I have toured in Ontario for 4 and 6 night trips using RWGPS turn by turn feature. Their help line is great,I was having issues with planning a route, not only did I get help she made a video on how to do it and sent it to me. That’s great customer support.

Ridiculously Expensive. This is an app, not a service, so why do the developers expect people to pay monthly? If they asked for a one time fee of $10 I would buy the app, but I don’t want to pay $6 a month in perpetuity!

Strava sucks. This app is so much better because it doesn’t lie to you from the beginning

Live activities. Live the app. I would love to see the programmers make use of the iPhonés « Live Activities » feature. Combined with the always on display of the lastest models, it would make it possible to see ride stats, signals and other info without touching the phone.

Buggy. Tons of bugs, slow, barely works with large maps

Reliable and easy to use. I’ve used it since 2018 … never disappointed and very satisfied !

Instructions en français. Elles sont parfois incompréhensibles. Par exemple «turnrite» au lieu de «tourner à droite», ou encore «turn right » en anglais, qui serait plus claire. Prononcer ici TURNRITE à la façon très francophone. Ça n’a aucun sens. C’est le vocabulaire du traducteur qui devrait être revu.

So Helpful!!!. I am travelling, and using Ride with GPS to plan our rides. Fantastic! It is easy to use, I appreciate the distance and climbing input. And the elevation map interface. Excellent app!

Great trail finder. Use it all the time to find trails to ride when I’m travelling.

Limited segments. Trying new apps in place of expensive Strava. Ride GPS needs to do better segments and leaderboards to really compete.

Great app!!!. Love the app!! Like being able to see friends routes and able to map them. Keep up good work!!

You had 1 job. Downloaded and started a subscription for 1 reason - to find routes where I’m currently staying and send them to my Garmin. Have routes sitting my library. Spent 45 minutes screwing around and googling how to sync to my Garmin from the App (which is very easy via Strava and other platforms). There are great in-depth support articles on how to do this via wired connection from what appears to be Windows 3.1. None of their other resources were helpful, and after 45 minutes I’ve given up. Want more subscribers? Stop trying to be yet another garbage social media app and actually make your App do something useful.

Great app with excellent tech support. Used this app on and off for over a year. I have been so impressed with the immediate support for the couple of problems I’ve had with this app working with other apps. So nice to get that kind of fast, realia le support. Definitely recommend.

Best GPS mapping app. Highly recommend this app for route planning, navigation and logging rides.

not recording full ride. Initially it worked great; well for for 3 weeks, there were no issues, now it only partially records my distances cycled; which is rather annoying, kind of the purpose of the app? so I will stick with my basic bike computer, too bad, because there is a lot of useful data here, but it doesn’t give me full coverage😕

Glitches every time. Unreliable. Wouldn’t recommend

No intuitive. I’m finding very difficult to import routes to my wahoo ,

Message par mail. En anglais seulement!

Ride with GPS. Ive used this app for a few years now,its never let me down when I ride in new areas.Aside from all the features the customer support is amazing,they respond quickly🚴👍

Comment se désabonner. Pas intuitif. Je paye des mois en trop. A éviter

Getting better!. Keep up the upgrades, the app is getting better and better.

VERY ACCURATE & ENJOYABLE. I used another app, I was not pleased almost from the beginning, so pleased I switched.

Totally enjoy this app.. This app.. was introduced to me by my bike club and I have thoroughly enjoyed its use every time I get in the road. I keep track of my progress, I can save my favourite rides and add pictures if so desired. I can even compete (against myself or others), and I always know where I am/going.

Great app. Easy to use

Statistics. It always nice to see how far and how much effort it takes me to cycle!🤭

Perfect. Better than any bike app I have found

Ease of use. Excellent resource for setting up routes for my group. I have a good knowledge of the Victoria area, so l hope others might also benefit from rides and routes l’ve recorded on this site.

Broken…. It WAS an excellent app, but after a recent upgrade, the app will no longer open previously saved (private) rides. Also, it wants to upload my rides even though I have set them to ‘private’. Rides are not private if they get uploaded to the cloud. GARBAGE!!!

Super appli. Super appli et excellent rapport qualité prix. Fonctionne partout dans le monde et accès à des routes partout aussi. Conservation des statistiques d’année en année. Je recommande fortement cette application.

Refund. I want a refund on that one it was an error today I do not want to Purchase it please refund on my credit card and I do not want that subscription anymore

Running feature. I love Ridewithgps! Just wish it could track my running too. :(

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More enjoyment. I love being able to design and ride routes. Not having to look at cue sheets is a big plus and adds much enjoyment to a ride. (Basic membership). Being able to just record a familiar ride is neat plus you get to choose which bike you are riding (or a rental) for comparison. Also, tech support is most responsive.. thumbs up to these folks.

Great app when it works. But I experience frequent freezes and crashes, especially when working on longer routes (Like thousand plus miles). The user interface is friendly and filled with features I didn’t realize I needed so I live that, but the app freezes so frequently in the iPad that its hard to give it anything higher than 3 stars (for now). The web interface is capable of delivering what the iPad version does not.

I like this app.... I think that the thing that I like most is being able to see where you are on your ride, and it integrates well with the iPhone. All the stats are available. One wish for me would for it to integrate with the Apple health app. I have to use it, my MyZone (Polar-esqe) heart monitor strap and Fitbit. It would be good if all the apps would talk to the Apple Health app. Make it a pay feature and you’d have me. This is an awesome free app.

Mostly helpful. Works great for the most part but if you’re trying to follow a predetermined route and go off course it won’t automatically tell you how to reroute, you have to stop, pull out your phone, abd manually reroute. When you do hit reroute, it’s no better than google maps in terms of calling out the street you’re already on. Gets confusing. Overall a great app though.

Sweet App. I am not a fanatic about monitoring all which GoRide is capable of tracking, but I really like the ease of using the app and quickly starting to record my mileage. All it takes is the tap of simply one button; then “hit the road”!! I like reviewing the details of each ride, and comparing the results of recent rides. I particularly like the Total Miles, and the AMS (Average Moving Speed). Thanks GoRide!!

Best navigation site. I previously used a Garmin for navigation, but when it started acting up I tried Ride With GPS and I have never gone back. It is very easy to use, add points of interest, make and find routes and has been incredibly stable. I use it with my bikeAnd my iPhone and for rides more than 40 miles I bring a small additional battery. It’s never let me down.

My go to riding app for almost a decade. When I first started endurance gravel racing, I was told just get a gps computer, why use your phone? My answer? Because you all always have to stop to mess with the thing because it’s not routing, recording, etc. Add an external battery pack, mount the phone, run Ride with GPS and your good to go. Got me through many 200+ miles, 21 hour rides.

My favorite route making and navigation app. Have used this multiple times to make routes and then navigate while offline. The user interface is intuitive and I have found the snapping and editing to be better than in Gaia. Busted used the app on a 3 day mixed gravel/single track bike trip and it worked perfectly. Only small gripe is that you cannot choose which base map to use for offline. That would make the 5 star experience.

Good app, features, and service. I’ve used this for about 2 years now I log not only cycling but cross country skiing and hiking by adding different gear. I’ve found great local bikepacking routes and posted a couple myself. When I had any problem, the response to my email inquiries has been on point and outstanding.

Indispensable. I recently did a 30 mile bike ride along a somewhat complex planned route and would have been utterly lost without this app! It was so nice not having to worry about getting lost with the audio cues letting me know when I was on track or had taken a wrong turn. My one request would be alerts just a little sooner before turns. Otherwise, super easy to use and convenient app!

This app is wonderful. I’m a 60 year old man, who has major health issues, and this app keeps track of my rides, mileage and more for me. It also is proff to provide to my doctors I’m doing my best to get better, and stay that way is all goes well. This app is what I use on my Recumbent Trike, not for speed, but to keep up for a old fat man who refuses to give up.

Love it. Super functional, well built. Way less toxic-social-media than Strava. Always improving with great new features! I don’t go on a long ride without RWGPS. A QuadLock is a great case and mount for your phone. I RideWithGPS and the QuadLock mounting system all over New England and love it - gravel, road, mountain, exploring - all fantastic. No need for an expensive Garmin (just another device to lose/break). Thanks to the RWGPS team for the great enabling product.

Makes Exploring Safer. Great for plotting out training rides close to home, but really provides value when it comes to finding where to ride when you’re traveling to new places. Between the heat maps, road surface information, and being able to see routes made by others, it’s really an essential tool for plotting a route that maximizes both fun and safety. I highly recommend.

Basic subscription has route planning is poor. The Basic subscription route planning is pretty poor. For whatever reason, it will not allow you to go down some streets or access some trails at points you want. To compensate for the app’s deficiencies, you then have to draw straight lines, but this then screws up the cue sheets which are basis of voice turn instructions. But with the Basic subscription you can’t edit the cue sheets, so you have to upgrade to Premium to compensate for errors in the route routine.

Kinda trash app. I had the regular basic plan and honestly that was okay. I then purchase the premium and it’s pretty bad. I found out that in order to edit a route and have all the options I have to use (split, etc) the website because the app doesn’t have all of those capabilities. I’m working on a 30-40 mile loop and the app has also crashed 3 times. So basics of this all is if you are using this app you must have a computer which is extremely inconvenient. I am going to start looking at using a different app instead. $9.99 is not worth it for a useless app that you can really use.

Super support!. I had a problem with getting a recorded ride of mine to upload to my library. I sent in the information to the support group and they immediately worked on correcting the error, and issued an update to the app that fixed the problem. All in only a couple days time! Outstanding! 👍👍

Not for Vermont back roads. Planned a six-day bike packing trip in central Vermont and found the app problematic. I knew there would be no cell service so downloaded all maps prior to my trip. However, several times I encountered road closures and had to rely on paper maps I fortunately brought along. Several times I was directed to bike on private roads and driveways, like through a private campground which led to no outlet and had to ask on numerous occasions for directions. After four days, I lost confidence in the reliability of this app and cancelled the renewal of subscription when I returned home. Very disappointed in this a Ride with GPS app.

Great App, but………. This is a great app much better than Strava. I use it on every ride. However recently I cannot upload photos from my rides. Tried everything. I select the photos, click done and it shows no photos selected. I click update but no photos load. This occurred sometime after one of the software updates. Other than that the app is great. I gave it 2 stars so that hopefully there is a fix to improve the add photos function. I have no interest in a social networking function. Be ware of predators who want to use the app to track others.

How do I see my added photos in the ride?. IPhone 8 with iOS 14.8.1. Select ride photos in the phone’s library snd csn’t get them to attach to the ride. When I remove the app and reinstallled, it worked once then went bsck to the same behavior. Help please. UPDATE: received email from developer saying it sounded like a setting issue. Went to settings and changed access from “selected photos” to “all photos.” That seems to have solved the problem. If the problem reemerges as I use the app, I’ll update further. High marks to developer for a prompt and useful response. 5 stars Would love to see step by step tutorial for novices to this app like me.

Rock solid turn by turn and best route planning. Title says it. The turn by turn is used by my friends and relatives that don’t have a dedicated head unit. I personally use the route planner and love the Google street view integration and the power tools to see multiple routes at once on the planner, and to slice and dice them. Time on route is the most accurate of any system.

Good but could be better. Ride with GPS is great for route planning but I wish the navigation was better. It would be nice to not have to turn on tracking and a stopwatch for every ride to be able to locate yourself on the map. Especially when touring, I don’t want to be thinking about time. Also it drains the phone battery to constantly be tracking. Apps like OnX can locate you on the map without needing to track. If this could be incorporated, Ride with GPS would be so much better.

Expensive for something that crashes. Wow - I see from reviews that this has worked for lots of riders … but my first outing was a disaster. App crashed, lost the ride, then couldn’t access the servers (other apps were fine / not a network issue on my end) finally realized I could reboot phone and then I could connect. But 10 minutes on the side of the road figuring where to go was not something I expected to have to deal with. Also the Apple Watch feature didn’t work for me until the reboot - also frustrating.

Total crap. I subscribed and used this app for our 360+ mile Erie Canal trip. App crashed multiple times every day, would often just freeze (most often when I most needed it to make navigation decisions), and was unbelievably slow to resume. When I first downloaded the navigation set for the Erie Canal the app decided it needed to generate turn-by-turn instructions … a process that got hung in an infinite loop. The difference between a Programmer and a Software Engineer is that an SE actually tests their software. This app was clearly written by amateur programmers. I’m ashamed for them, and appalled they would disrespect their customer’s with this failed product.

Terrific online service, top-notch support. This really works well for road biking. Fine trip-planning tools, and really good routefinding tools when on the road. Support people who understand the road rats' world and care about it. Watch out when you let it plan routes in areas with one arterial road and all sorts of shorter side roads. Like US 1 in coastal Maine. Tell it not to favor side roads and you'll save a lot of turning on and off the artery.

Hearing impairment. Ride GPS integrates with Vaira RTL 515 so I can hear the car back message through my hearing aids and I can control the volume. Great help. It beats a warning and an all clear after all the cars back pass. Doesn’t confuse you with three beeps. Best route planner I’ve ever tried. Also allows you to chose the stats you want to see. Well done Ride GPS. Looking forward to using it on the Cabot Trail in August.

Forget Strava. This is best app for cycling.. I’ve used this app to find new rides, log my favorites, and tap local knowledge while on vacation. Having audible navigation makes route-following so easy. I especially like the filters for paved, trail or gravel and for distance. Fantastic developers are cyclists and they seem to always be on top of adding new features or making improvements.

Impossible to use. Today I gave up trying to use this app and deleted it off my phone. It couldn’t locate my gps position. Google maps could, Ways could, but not this app. I’ve had it for a month now, and every ride has been some kind of problem. One ride, it spent 30 minutes telling me I was off-course, when I was right on the trail. On one ride it told me to get off the trail and ride up a road. It didn’t take long to stop trusting it for directions. Maybe the high-tech bikers have mastered it, but I’m tired of spending a half hour each ride trying to get this app to work.

Best riding app. I tried several apps that offer free to try out and this one is hands down the best. You get the first month free to make sure you like it. And I can see why they would give a whole free month. Because if your seriously looking for a do all riding app you will gladly pay the renewal fee. 50$ for a whole year. You just can’t beat that.

Download this app!. This app has been really great! My wife and I went touring for a week. We planned the routes with this app, then downloaded them and everything worked out really well. One thing I wish was included (or maybe I haven’t seen it yet) was reviews or descriptions of routes. On our trip we wanted to avoid highways so we went on a different suggested route. It worked out okay, but we were surprised to realize it was route more suitable for mountain biking than road biking.

The best way to roll. This is the best routing app I’m aware of, period. I pay for some of the premium features gladly, and get great use out of them - editing routes other have ridden to better suit my interests or adding reminders to eat something BEFORE the big, leg breaking climb, for example. I understand they plan on adding the ability to see data about a road’s surface as well, I’m looking forward to that.

Always improving. I’m going on 14 years as a paid subscriber and RWGPS keeps getting better. They keep up with app and internet technology and adapt to new devices on the market. The global heat map is invaluable to my wife and I when we’re out of town, whether traveling specifically to bike or simply renting bikes to explore the area. Heat maps keep us safer and direct to popular biking destinations. Keep it up RWGPS.

Great tool for creating routes. I have been using Ride With GPS for several years and it is my go to tool for creating routes. It has been extremely useful for creating road, gravel, mtb and even hiking routes, in several different countries. Now some of the newer GPS units integrate directly with the app, allowing you to download routes anywhere as long as you have a data connection. That is also very handy. Overall, I’m very happy with this app!

For the avid cyclist, this is a must have.. With so many workout apps on the market (I currently regularly use 6 tracking apps for various sports!), for my endurance bike workouts, RWGPS has risen to the top of my choices. No app is perfect for all things, perhaps that’s why I use so many, but for pre-programmed routes on unknown roads this app is amazing. Also, for regular routes on familiar ground, the app does a great job with tracking. But the most important feature with this app is their EXCELLENT customer service. I recently had an issue and Dylan, a member of their tech support team, had a fix for me within hours. I really appreciate that and it helps build loyalty. I will likely upgrade to the premium subscription in the next couple of weeks.

Plan, Ride, Review. Great features for planning and editing routes, riding, and reviewing stats (distance, time, elevation, grade, speed, etc.) as numbers and zoomable line charts. UI is consistent and useful across web site, tablet app, and phone app. Your data is automatically synced between them. Mobile apps can run offline. Nice choice of map layers. Automatic route planner tends to divert you from a main road when a side road or path is available, even a brief one. You can drag the route back where you want it, but you need to leave control points in place or the planner may bring the detours back. When I had a question for Tech Support they answered quickly.

Zero Privacy By Default. Beware before mapping or logging ANYTHING using this app. The default settings are for virtually everything to be public including live logging of your location. And there isn’t just one button to turn off all the sharing. You have to sift through multiple settings buried in multiple menus to keep your data private. It’s outlandish that a firm would charge users money then monetize them further by leaving everything wide open by default. I want to like this app, but this incredibly predatory behavior is a huge turn off. Do better.

Rwg Great. I dont use it for riding but for walks. Faithfully records walk. Great rendering as satellite or map or hybrid and its web based implementation seems even better that its ap ver on apple devices. On route photos work well, thought some more comment space be nice. A down side for walk use is it can auto pause too much , particularly when just meandering. Then it rolls distance into what it considers active time and can grossly over estimate avg speed. All good if speed 3 mph or better. Info by week, month, year very nice.

Extraordinary customer service!!!!. Ride With GPS provides the absolute best customer service of any organization I have ever dealt with!! No kidding and no they aren’t paying me to say that. 😃 I have contacted them on a number of occasions, with questions, and they have always responded quickly and with very clear answers and directions. Overall the app is outstanding!! I especially love the audible turn by turn directions.

Very Good - But Needs Tweaking. Love the app, it’s my fav out there. But dang there are some shortcomings (using on iPad Pro). A FEW of which are... 1. Please make t more obvious how to create a new course. If I’;m not in the app for a few weeks+ I can hardly find a SIMPLE way to start drawing up a. New course. 2. How come one cannot actually input a specific address into a search field to set “Home” and/or indicate a route start point? If this exists, I cannot find it. 3. Mapbox is NO BUENO! How come one cannot shift between Google Maps or other providers? There’s more, but that’s a good start.

New to tracking and routing apps. I am new to using this. I selected it after evaluating it and others. My initial use started with a few hiccups and roadblocks. Support was very helpful and once past those snafus find it useful. Compared to buying route map books years ago it is light years ahead and reasonable price. This was day one. Looking forward to seeing its full potential.

Great. I have been using this app for a few years now and I really like it. They do a nice job with updates, the customer service is amazing, and I love that it integrates well with the Garman Varia.I have used all of the other apps and they are all good in their ownway but find this one to be the most complete and have the best overall experience.

Great for Motorcycling. This is an excellent app, and I use it exclusively for motorcycling (and have for nearly 2 years). From route planning to voice-directed route following to trip recording, this app works perfectly. If I have any criticism, it’s that the developer focuses exclusively on it being a bicycling app, when clearly it can be so much more. Easily blows away any other motorcycle trip app, including REVER.

Long time user. Been using it for 10 years or more. Always getting better and more and more features. Havent used the other biking apps but i feel ride with gps has been great. We have used it all over the US and overseas. I recommend to everyone looking for routes in unfamiliar areas.

Yaho doo!. Easy to plot a route on your computer then transfer it to Wahoo bike computer. Turn by turn directions get a bit screwy sometimes if you are using bike paths, but if you have a good overall sense of where you’re going, you can avoid some of it (such as being asked across the street multiple times for no good reason). Excellent mapping tool overall.

Good app, won’t keep iPhone screen awake. This is a good app, comparable to BikeMap (trying them both before I commit) but it has one nagging flaw: it won’t keep my iPhone screen awake! I need to constantly tap my phone screen to keep the display on so I can see my route and stats. This is a deal breaker for me. UPDATE 28JUN2021: the developer sent me the instructions on how to enable Handlebar Mode. No more screen turning off during my ride! Thanks!

Inconsistent GPS Location. I love this app and I got it recently because I was sick of not getting directions while riding. However, the app occasionally has trouble tracking my location and there was one ride when it incorrectly represented my location for most of the entire trip. For example, the app once recorded that I was going 350 mph and repeatedly notified me that I was going the wrong way when I was not. Ridewithgps, Is there a solution for this? I started to ignore the app entirely about halfway through because the directions were so inconsistent. Overall a useful app but needs to be more consistent!

Best biking GPS app hands down. Have been using GPS and various apps to map my biking, hiking, skiing, outdoor recreational activities the last 15 years. This one by far is the best for biking… I use it in town a ton for road biking and general commuting. I also have had great success with it on the mountain bike trails… Check it out, support these guys and pay the premium, they did a great job!

Just what I need. I use this app for all my ride planning and ride tracking. I find it easy to use. I like the variety of base maps - basic street map, aerial, ESRI, and several Open Street Map flavors, not to mention their own map. A lot of my riding and touring friends use it too so it's nice to be able to follow them. I find it worth my money to pay for the app to support them and to keep the upgrades coming.

The Best Way to Create Custom Routes. I’ve tried creating multiple custom routes on each of Strava, Garmin Express, Garmin Connect, and Google Maps with mapstogpx. Ride with GPS is by far the best. The RWGPS maps are the most comprehensive and offer multiple alternative maps and views, including topographic maps which are well integrated. I’ve used it for local US and European routes. The web interface shows grade through the whole route and has the best elevation view. It also requires the least manual routing, doing a great job of picking the best biking route (avoiding busy roads and steep ascents) rather than just the shortest. It integrates well with Garmin Edge and it’s easy to transfer routes through Garmin Connect. It’s the only way

Buggy. If you have to many offline files, bad things happen. What is to many. Twice I got up to a hundred and it bugged out both times. This bug has been around for years. It will refuse to download anymore. No error message just won’t do it. Not real fun deleting offline files. It’s a one at a time slug fest. If you have an event, I have several and click download all because some didn’t download for lots of reasons. It downloads even ones that already downloaded. Plan on waiting 20 minutes if you need to download one file and are trying to do work arounds for the bugs Interface with Karoo 2 /hammerhead to rwgps is pretty much a joke to pathetic

Great unless you have to deviate from route. I don’t ride but support charity rides as a ham radio operator. One position we do is “sweep” or basically a ham in a vehicle will follow the last rider on each ride distance in case of a problem. If you have to deviate from the route because the route enters a section where a vehicle isn’t allowed it’s really difficult to use the software to rejoin the route if solo in the vehicle. I still highly recommend this software & purchase it each year.