calimoto motorcycle navigation Reviews

by MaraLeeTM

I’m a fairly new rider and tried Calimoto for the first time on a solo night ride. I was not very impressed.

First, each and every time I open calimotomotorcyclenavigation , I get a splash screen saying, “Recovery. Calimoto was forced to shut down.” I had merely closed it like any other app.

Second, the navigation doesn’t give road names on the map for the upcoming turns. I don’t have Bluetooth to hear the audio turn by turn. On at least one occasion I turned onto a road that was about 30 feet from the correct route. Ordinarily not a big deal, but I’m an old woman and trying to wrestle my bike around in the dark for no good reason is irritating and tiring.

Third, the navigation doesn’t follow in proportion to speed. The measurements to upcoming turns are not calibrated accurately, causing me to have to ride slow or miss the turns. Which happened three times. 🤬

Fourth, and probably most notable, it led me to a dead-end road that turned to gravel. Not good. Again, I had to turn around and backtrack. 🤬

Fifth, when having to choose another route, instead of rerouting, the navigation nagged me to do a U-turn and return to the dead-end road. I finally had to close calimotomotorcyclenavigation and use my own mapping app.

All in all, not a good experience. I see where others have had good luck with it, so maybe it depends on location. I’m in Georgia, btw.

I’m deleting the Calimoto app and trying another.

by Brendanp_1964

I been using calimotomotorcyclenavigation for a few weeks. When it actually feels like working, it works good. But it almost never works good. Very quirky. Everytime i open calimotomotorcyclenavigation , its a blank black screen. I have to close app and reopen. If you create a round trip route, god forbid you take a wrong turn, it will recalculate and start heading you back to where you started from. Half the time when i click on my rides, the little wait while its thinking thing just keeps spinning, mean while, you cant do anything till it finishes thinking. Then you get the dumb “its kinda empty in here message bla, bla bla....
And no, its not my phone. I have a new iphone XR. I have contacted support. They asked me for screenshots of my issues. I sent them, have not even heard back. And mind you, i spent money on premium upgrade. Do yourself a favor, dont waste your time on calimotomotorcyclenavigation.

by GRM20150703

calimotomotorcyclenavigation is a huge piece of steaming dung! I know of and have ridden several great rides in this huge country of ours and when I go to build them in this crap app more times than not it tells me it cannot find the road! WHAT! I’ve been on that road, I’ve enjoyed the twists and turns of that road and a biker ride app cannot find it! What crap calimotomotorcyclenavigation is! I want my money back and you can keep this crap. Couple of examples: Laughlin NV to Kingman NV, app says no road! BULL! I’ve driven it! I look for a specific address, the crap app cannot find it. What the people built it and then hide it, come on crap app, get real. Super let down. A bike app that can’t find a twisty road? Crap app!

by Jpjohnson1985

I want to love calimotomotorcyclenavigation, it’s a great idea and looks very good. I am having several issues with it though.
1. Don’t count on calimotomotorcyclenavigation to reliably track your ride. Most of the time I will look down to my black iPhone screen because calimotomotorcyclenavigation has crashed. When I reopen calimotomotorcyclenavigation , it says recovery, and draws a straight line between where it crashes and where I reopen it.

2. Navigation prompts do not line up to the map at all. I hear turn left in 100 feet, nothing but a cornfield for 2 or 3 miles. Just to look down at the map and it did not have a turn designated at that point.

3. Other apps similar have friend functionality, challenges, and have built a better social experience in their app.

I have not paid for the premium yet because anyone who would pay for an app when the “demo” or “free” version is this buggy.

by Coneyrampant

Tried this on a ride home from work last week. I don’t care how curvy the roads are, calimotomotorcyclenavigation shouldn’t route me through a 25mph business park full of stop signs. Especially when it spits me out on the same road I was on before entering the business park.
Also, I need more than 25ft of warning for a turn. I don’t have my phone mounted anywhere, I’m relying on audio cues only, and several came too late to matter.

by Cody867563

Once you have a ride going the navigation works well, however if you don’t have a phone charger and you’re doing a long ride, it will destroy your battery. Planning trips yourself I have found to be very tedious and frustrating having to replan trips several times (could be operator error but either way I’m not a fan). And lastly, you cannot plan rides outside your state line without going premium which is kind of a bummer, especially for me because I live close to the MT and WY border and there are several ride in WY I’d love to track but cannot.

by JakeJonez

The concept is great, I really like the design of calimotomotorcyclenavigation and it is fast and stable. There’s just enough there that it doesn’t feel like they didn’t throw in the kitchen sink like some competitors. HOWEVER, the navigation is a dealbreaker. Voice cues are severely too late, recalculating takes too long, and it seems to recalculate before a wrong turn even occurs. I wish an app like this would just send waypoints to Google Maps to let it handle the nav, while continuing to track the ride.

by Chris_Haus_84

I used calimotomotorcyclenavigation a couple of times.

I like the idea and they way calimotomotorcyclenavigation looks.
The navigation works well and I like the roads they find for me BUT

There are some things that are not great.

1. The search for cities and locations when I try to plan a route is not good at all. I’ve been looking for a city and had to search for it 5 times before it even showed up.

2. It would be good if the navigation tells you the street names when on which you have to turn. This way you wouldn’t have to look down all the time.

3. The display should show the name of the streets you are turning on.

Overall calimotomotorcyclenavigation is good and I hope that they will fix some of the issues in the future.

BTW... I bought the yearly subscription on commodes to calimotomotorcyclenavigation because the overall is good for riders.

by John Visco

App is great for finding routes and tracking your ride, however,If you are trying to find a business to be routed to, it can’t find them. Other than finding addresses, the search function is pretty weak.

by DashboardDJ

So far I have found the route planning pretty easy and I like the navigation!

The only problem I have and it’s a deal breaker is that it won’t let me select level 3 roads, which in my area are Forest service 3 digit roads that may be dirt or gravel.. so when I know I want to link a section together on my adventure bike it will not allow me to select the road and auto snaps point to a longer more maintained route.

I wish there was an option to be able to select any road you want.

by Dhoudyshell

Love calimotomotorcyclenavigation so far. Couple short rides. I love the explore option I’m just creating a random route the the location you’re at. I really enjoy the way you can build routes even within calimotomotorcyclenavigation , very simple and picks good scenic routes. I wish you could search for locations like in other map apps & drop a pin, but that’s minor. I can’t wait to test out the off-line maps option, which if it works will be worth the premium price tag. More to follow.

by Motoxnate

calimotomotorcyclenavigation is awesome not just for moto guys but also for car lovers like myself, I use it to find fun new routes in my car when I want to go for a drive! The roads I’ve found so far are awesome and I had no idea they even existed.

My only complaints are
1) The map itself lags a little behind, so I missed a few turns my first time out until I realized this.

2) The planning system is not yet perfect and for some reason places don’t show up when I search them sometimes but I believe the team is already working on this.

Overall a great app with a huge audience!

I might recommend looking into a weather radar overlay in the future if you guys have time! It matters less for me in a car but on a bike I would not want to ride into a storm!

by Tnt31

I absolutely hate the new update. It’s too chunky. When wanting to move via points around instead of seeing 5 at a time now you can only see 2.

by Indian Jim H

Finds the best roads anywhere. Just pick a direction, level of desired turns, and it works great. For me that means hours of roads that are semi-turn with speeds between 35-55 mph. Not sure how it finds these roads in such and endless fashion, but I am very happy it does.

by Cookkkkieckliker1122

You guys killed calimotomotorcyclenavigation! I don’t own a bike yet (hopefully soon) but use it for driving in my car. Works amazing, i’ve tried a couple other apps to generate routes. calimotomotorcyclenavigation is packed with so so many useful features, i’m still finding out awesome things you can do with it. The round trip planner is my favorite part, especially because you can set the compass direction (for me always west towards mountains). Keep up the great work, premium is absolutely worth it but a monthly option would be good to have for me, I don’t use it in the winter so paying for the whole year is annoying.

by Amiantos

There’s a lot of Strava-like and wannabe Facebook apps for motorcyclists, and to be honest, I’m pretty over “social media”. I need an app that’s actually going to do something for me, not just feed my data into a hivemind under guise of “community”. Luckily, there’s also Calimoto, which is an actual tool for me to use when I feel like riding. The route planner tool is pretty awesome, and as a new rider I love being able to just pick a direction, the length, and have Calimoto find me a great round-trip route. Even without the route planner, the map view with twisty roads highlighted makes deciding on a rough route way easier than just using Apple Maps or similar. Also kudos to devs for making what feels like a pretty “solid” iOS app when some of the other motorcycle apps I’ve used seem pretty janky.

by Lasolov

Discovered this after a move. Didn’t have to wait to find out all the best local routes. Calimoto had them all. Easy to create and explore new routes. Love the ability to adjust curve level by route. Insanely good app built by riders.

by Hbhvg,iottr

Gives great route suggestions. I especially like the round trip capability! So flexible, you can tweak the route to customize to taste.
And then, during the ride, great turn by turn navigation!
The tracking is also a great feature, to create a route!
Very impressed with the Calimoto app!

by Jason Goldstein

Used the free version to plan a ride, and was very impressed with the continuous location to location feature. Google doesn’t have a very intuitive way of doing that, and in my experience makes you start the next leg of a multi-stop journey. Calimoto for the win!

by Wake Me Up!

I have spent more hours than I care to count researching and trying out apps to help me plan long motorcycle trips as well as casual weekend rides. This is by far the absolute best, the navigation is really good, and the routes it finds are spectacular.

The only issue I ever have is when searching for directions with the trip planner web app. I often have to find the addresses in google maps and then manually drop a pin in the trip planner. I’ve been using the free version for a few months and just bought premium for a year.

One feature I would like to suggest is some ability to organize, sort, and filter Planned Tours. I only have about 20 Planned routes and they get hard to find as I scroll through.

Bottom line, calimotomotorcyclenavigation is awesome and I’ve been recommending it to all my friends. If you’re reading this, you should get calimotomotorcyclenavigation :)

by Vhills02

Downloaded and tried app today for a short test run. Live in northern NC so wanted to have VA, since that’s 98% where I ride. Cost to add that one state and just the map w non services...$90! I’ll live w free google maps and set option to avoid highways.

by Gustavo Ciabata Bread

Gonna stick with regular google maps or Waze. Thought this was gonna be a better option.

by JohnMcCo

I have used calimotomotorcyclenavigation a couple of times. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to know about roads in parks that are closed over the weekend.

2 SUGGESTIONS. FIRST, ALLOW TO DRAG A ROUTE to reroute. SOMETIMES calimotomotorcyclenavigation PICKS A ROAD I DONT LIKE AND I WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO EASILY CORRECT. SECOND, FIND A WAY TO BLOCK OFF A ROUTE. I LIVE NEAR BALTIMORE AND DONT WANT TO DRIVE INTO THE CITY TO GET HOME. THANKS!

by Gruffid

I’m not sure what the developer did (if anything), but the error has gone away and I had a great ride with using calimotomotorcyclenavigation. calimotomotorcyclenavigation was just what I was hoping it would be.

Old review:
When I start a route, calimotomotorcyclenavigation pops up a window that says “error: we are deeply sorry.” I need your app to work, not to be deeply sorry.

I look forward to an update that fixes the error for which it is deeply sorry.

by BetaCHZ

What a waste. Keeps telling me to buy it after i bought it!

by Kingofgtmo83

I calimotomotorcyclenavigation and finding new roads. Just wish it had a tracking option, encase of accidents.

by Reed5063

It is easier to plan your routes. etc... on the pc and it syncs to phone automatically. So far it has kept me off the dirt roads and sent me on some great roads that I would not have traveled otherwise. I wish I could afford to be a premium member.

by Source58

I use Calimoto to explore new roads, even in my home area.
Adding via points allows me to select the degree of curves in each segment.
A perfect way to design my ride.