Fitmeter Bike Basic - Cycling Reviews

by ScottytheMenace

The in-app upgrade button doesn’t work and developer support is non-existent. You have to add a comment on their blog to get support, which is ridiculous, but they never reply. I left two comments over the past 2 months and they’re both still in moderation with no replies.

Their save limitation is pretty useless too. When you hit the limit, instead of deleting the earliest entry it simply doesn’t save the current one.

Considering they won’t let you upgrade to remove the limitation, such a terribly designed feature is ridiculous. It doesn’t even save it to the Apple Health app. Unbelievable.

Find another bike app. Like I’m going to do. Been using this for several months but no more.

by UnicornDinoCat

Don’t get me wrong I loved FitmeterBikeBasic a lot since it tracks your rides and saves it. (Plus it has a live map). However I had completed my tenth ride and it told me I had to pay for it. I absolutely won’t, I thought I could use it for more than ten ride but I am not going to delete it yet, since I may pay for it since I am forced to so I don’t loose my rides.

by Vadbike

FitmeterBikeBasic is very simple and gives you everything you need for the bike tracker. Interface is easy and friendly. If you can only make it reliable. It worked for me 3 times.
The speed and counter are not working anymore. Very hesitant to get a paid version, based on the reviews.

by Russ & Gwen

FitmeterBikeBasic works great, tracks route on map, gives you time, distance, speed and more. I rated it 3 stars because after 10 uses you are forced to purchase full version. By forced I mean you cannot delete any history and you cannot stop FitmeterBikeBasic without rebooting your phone. As good as it is, I will remove from my phone. Granted it’s only $3.99, however I will not be forced to purchase something I do not need or want. If the developer would allow history to be deleted, or removed when stored to the cloud, I would have given it 5 stars. The fact that you cannot stop FitmeterBikeBasic without purchasing the full version or rebooting the phone to stop FitmeterBikeBasic is ridiculous. Apple should stop developers from forcing users to buy a full version of an app just to use it.

by Clellan56

I really like FitmeterBikeBasic but it limits you to storing only 20 rides, doesn’t allow you to clear any of those out or store more unless you upgrade to the paid Full Version. However, I have tried for many weeks to upgrade but I always get a message the it is incompatible with my iPhone 13 Pro. So frustrating! Now I have to find a different app for tracking my rides.

by Franknhonest

This could be a five star bicycle app, except it freezes and has to be shut down. I was ready to pay for the upgrade because I really liked the history feature, but I lose my current ride data when I have to shut it down because it freezes. This has happened on multiple phones over a course of two months. So this is a good app, but unreliable, so the free price is about right.

by Egoist1973

Overall app provides with all necessary metrics, i.e., speed, distance GPS, average speed BUT the calorie counter is malfunctioning: it jumps from 400s to 300s ccal in a course of a ride at 7.5 mile distance. One other serious con: battery usage is excessive. Once these two “bugs” are fixed, my evaluation will be elevated to “5-star”

by ConCarne

I downloaded FitmeterBikeBasic as I have recently gotten back into riding. The basic version worked great, then after 10 rides, I upgraded to the premium. Ever since then nothing has worked. It will only keep track of time. No routing, no gps track, nothing. Waste of $4.99

by JPrzy

I like FitmeterBikeBasic but expected to see my history when purchasing the full version. Might want to look into that.

by Got RiptOff

The speed is not alway correct. On many rides I have a max speed that seems way too high. At time on the ride it shows I am moving when I am stopped. Also the max speed is never seen on the speed trend chart, even when the max speed is correct. The chart seems to ignore shorter periods of high speed like maybe the 100 yard or so down hill you see after crossing a bridge. It may also ignore short low speeds like slowing for a corner. Maybe that is a good thing.

The calorie counter should probably just be ignored. There is no way it could be accurate. There is no setup for the type of bike. Rider weight is the only user defined parameter that could be factored it. Calories would be way different between a road bike, mountain bike or a fat tired beach cruiser.

by Deddlemonaz

Many times the elevation (how many feet up and how many feet down) doesn’t work correctly. Like today, the map reports a max altitude and a min altitude with a difference of about 50ft but those numbers don’t agree with the elevation chart and the short form report says zero ft up and 0 ft down.

by Watch Training Faster

FitmeterBikeBasic is great. I use all most every day. It has one long standing defect though. When you stop it goes into auto pause which is a great feature. But you would think auto pause means that that stop is not included in your average speed. Unfortunately that paused time is still included in you average speed as of February 2022. You can verify this and easily reproduce the defect by going into auto pause and staying stationary. The longer you stay stationary the more your average speed decreases.

by Docmark63

Had a garmin with so many tiny buttons it was unusable. This is simple and FREE. Company needs to work on iOS compatibility so I can get the cadence going!

by Tenor 66502

This is the best biking app I’ve found so far. It’s simple to use, easy to read and has all the information I need.

by TheCoh

I find FitmeterBikeBasic extremely helpful in both recording live data and saving the history as well-very pleased with FitmeterBikeBasic!!!

by Sba1968

Very nice elegant features. Speed and distance tracking up top. Easy to use and see without my glasses. Nice history of rides to look at with split time.

by DJMartian1

Great free app that does everything I want: accurately tracks speed, distance, time, elevation & history with a clear and easy interface. Occasionally I bump my pull-down screen instead of pushing “pause” or “resume” in the top corner, but I’ll live with that!

by Ndndjakbdbebsosnd

This is not only good for biking this is also good for running as well. FitmeterBikeBasic shows all the details of your biking and shows you different types of stats like the amount of calories you have burned, your max speed, and many more

by Hun Dawg

Map My Ride wasn’t saving rides and couldn’t get details so I down load ride with gps and Fitmeter plus a few others

One use of fitmeter and I think I am hooked. Data is concise, form factor is unpretentious, and yes I need to use it more but one use was enough to tell me I will be using it more.

by ISU70

My son an I cycled our guts out to set a standard to try to improve upon. We used the basic and when we reached the 10 session limit we purchased the upgrade. Immediately lost the 10 sessions as they were not linked to the upgraded version. That stinks! Will stay with it for awhile, but may opt out later as a matter of principle. It is in the Cloud so it should have been continued easily.

by Daveykkkk

I love FitmeterBikeBasic but it is not working right lately on my iPhone X...have paid version and when I start the timer starts but the mph and distance don’t kick in for 3 miles...so all my rides look short. Couldn’t find a real support page. Any suggestions? Otherwise I would give app a 5

by JCBazz

I have been using for about two weeks and this is a great app! Easy to use with a nice interface. I would highly recommend.

by RVtrader

Works well with cell service. What I don’t understand is on my sons iPod it will track him in the map but not record the data like my phone with cell service. Why?

by Coaching By Judith

It’s the greatest app, gives you everything all at once, location, speed, elevation and holds history too. I recommend it to all my clients!!!

by Doug J713

Everything you would want in a bike computer. Highly recommended.

by Mr. Bohemian

I wanted an app to help me track my miles for my electronic Unicycle. All other apps are annoying. This one is simple. All it needs is a sexier interface.