Bikemap: Bicycle Route & GPS Reviews

you should be able to choose from routes that work better with the specified settings you chose and with the bike type you chose and have it like curated to you instead of like one standard/default/exclusive one. also, the fall detection is extremely faulty in the sense that it barely works and sometimes the alert doesn’t sound and it should be able to bypass the iphone’s ringer being off and/or the volume being low/down all the way, and it also needs to show an alert on the screen too so there’s an option to turn it off after the fact because all it says now is just “alerted” and doesn’t change after that, nor it there a way to have it reset besides restarting your whole route, especially if you’re in a bad neighborhood, and/or it’s dark, and/or you barely have any type of connection/signal whether it be wi-fi, or service, or what...

Bikemap is crap. I’ve used it twice with my kids in hopes of a good safe trail. The first time it took us to some random place on the side of a street. Literally zero paths anywhere. The second time the parking for the trailhead was on a private county club where we couldn’t access and street parking was NOT an option. So we parked way further down and it literally took us to a dead end instead of a park like we had thought. Had we detoured to the road, which was literally the only other option besides turning around (which is what we did) it would have been along a dangerous road. Ruined our bike ride. Will never use Bikemap again.

Bikemap seems really good at first glance. When you start making routes it seems to get fishy. When you actually know the routes it’s obvious. I am not sure how the algorithm choose what roads you can use to plan a route, but, it’s horrible. For example, foothill expressway in my area is a main thoroughfare for bicycles, Bikemap WILL NOT let you route along it when planning a trip. Instead it takes you through all the neighborhoods. It does the same thing in SF and avoids roads with bike lanes for some reason. Also has weird glitches like the volume can only be accessed in the first 0.5 seconds of starting a navigation.

Bikemap is still showing my rides under “My Activity” 3 days ahead. (Sunday shows Wednesday; Monday shows Thursday and Tuesday shows Friday) The map sometimes freezes up where it does not keep up with my location and does not record my speed. Rebooting Bikemap seems to clear it. Also still waiting for a pause recording during rides when I stop and do not want to include it in overall ride time.
Thanks!

The interface to find and create maps is great, and downloading/accessing them on the road works fine. The navigation, however, had some problems.

I wasn’t able to start at the exact starting location on the map, and was pleased to see that Bikemap has an option to navigate you to the nearest point of your route. Unfortunately, my loop started and ended on the same one mile stretch, so Bikemap began my navigation at the one-mile-until-finished point. Even when I “reversed route” it still left out the other 30 miles.

I rode without using Bikemap until I got to the loop portion of my route. The navigation worked fine until it reversed directions halfway through the ride and started telling me to turn around.

The interface and potential are good, and if it were free I’d muddle through the quirks.

I really think this is a good app. It also is a very good idea. Navigation is helpful, it's nice to get personalized routes based on the bikes you haver. I just think Bikemap would be even better if it could track statistics of how many miles/kilometres you go, etc.

Sadly, location services don't work too well, me recording a route looks totally different than the one I really drive.

Also, I can't follow people like the video indicates, and the interface in the above photos are different than mine.

All in all, this is a great app, sadly lacks some features and needs better location services.

[UPDATE]

I hear a new version of Bikemap will be released soon, I'm very excited for that. I also contacted support, I really recommend them, they are very nice and helpful.

I don’t understand the map downloads. I downloaded a large region and then zoomed IN to street level. Then it asks “do you want to download this area?”. Sure, ok. (I thought I downloaded it along with the larger area?)

But then I zoomed out approx. 10%. It asks again if I want to download then area. So I do. Then I zoom out another 10% and again I’m asked to download the area. Sure enough I ended up with many ~20MB map downloads of basically the same few city blocks. Seems like it allows redundant downloads considering I barely changed the zoom level.

Today, I had ridden the longest ride I’ve done yet and was quite proud of it. After the ride was finished, like normal, Bikemap told me how fast I had ridden, how far, etc. I glanced at these stats and then got off my bike and went about my day. A couple of hours later, I open Bikemap again to see that this ride disappeared! I keep refreshing Bikemap and my profile, but somehow the ride wasn’t recorded even though I pushed record and saw the stats after. What the heck happened? Disappointed and if this isn’t fixed, I will be using a different bike app from now on.

2nd update:
After a fresh start and using a new user name I have the same problem. While I’m paying for the premium edition, I can’t use it. Support has been lacking. Save your money.

I really wanna like it more just needs some work. Here’s what would improve it for me.
•A map legend on the cycle map so you know what the different colors mean.
•better syncing between app and browser use. Bikemap gives a 7 day free trial. Browser only 3.
When I logged in on the browser it wiped the route collection I had from first use of app.
UPDATE: when I canceled my subscription since app usage was wiped out by my browser login, it said I could still access Premium features-Not!! Now I’m supposed to contact support but only way to do that is if I have Premium. But when I go to re-enable it it says it’s already in use by the same login. Pretty messed up. Lowering my rating to 1 star.

I recently started using bike maps to navigate safer bike routes in Las Vegas, and Bikemap does a fine job picking the routes. The only major concern is that Bikemap doesn't give you a heads up when to turn, it only calls the turn as you are right by it. I missed a few of them because of it. If that would be fixed, it could be a great app!

Bikemap has totally made our 3 week bike adventure epic! From tiny back alleys to big roads Bikemap hasn’t steered us wrong in a country that can be a little crazy to navigate! Can’t wait to try this in Europe on my next adventure. Phone battery lasts a full day of riding when you take your map offline.

My sister did a simple google search of my name and was able to find my whereabouts including my address, how often I bike, where I bike, for how long,etc. all on the first page of google!
So inappropriate!
I had no knowledge of my routes being saved much less posted to the public!
And it was hard to figure out how to get rid of that per trail

They don’t even let you delete your account on Bikemap . You have to go on a computer. And best part-
On my computer, it won’t even let me login; it claims my email address does not have an account linked to it! So how am I to delete all the information you have on me?

I feel so scammed and gross about this and how my personal information was used without my consent. BEWARE! Horrible design of Bikemap and just a scammy feel to it. SO DISAPPOINTED!

This is one of the best bike apps by far on apple just wish it gave alternative routes for free!! And let you plan your own route. Other than that it’s great to track your routes and give an estimated travel time

I'm using Bikemap with my bike and scooter to get around urban streets here in Orange County, CA. I compare the routes to Google Maps with bike routing, and find that this app favors side streets, but does not seem to know bike paths and roads with bike lanes. Often Google Map gives better routes.
Also the underlying map is out of date as it shows business which has closed. Google Maps is more up to date.

I suggest Bikemap allow waypoints to be set by touching the map, to force a route I know is better.

With its faults I give it 4 stars because there is such a need for bicycle routes and Bikemap does make an attempt.

It’s so easy to accidentally hit X while navigating, when you mount your phone on the bike and need to do things on the phone.
Bikemap then assumes that you finished riding, without another confirmation prompt. There is no option to resume the ride if I accidentally hit X. Also, shouldn't there be a pause button while navigating? I don’t want to count my breaks (0 mph) towards my avg speed. How can I cycling app miss these essential features!

Do not even bother to download this. The GPS does not work and just turns in circles and no matter which way you are supposed to turn it always shows to the right. Dangerous app if you are trying to follow it on a busy street.

Also customer service won’t refund subscription even after three days - if you paid through IOS device you can cancel but charged until subscription runs out.

Great app! I love how it tracks speed and ascends and decends.

However, I had a question is there an option or will there be an option that tracks how many calories you burned?

I just started using Bikemap and I really really like it except I wish it would announce the upcoming turns sooner.

Shortly after I wrote this review I received a response from the company which was totally unexpected. I think this is an indication of a well run company that is concerned with their customer.

I rode the bike with an intention to capture my progress. However after almost 18 miles Bikemap crashed and I lost all my data. I was trying a new route, faster speed etc and lost all of it! I think it is better to use the default activity app available in Apple Watch. I had no complaints and not sure why I spent money to buy Bikemap

I like Bikemap and have used it to navigate places in the past, but I have an account that I can use on the web page version but the iOS version won’t let me login unless I use Facebook. Every time I put in my account details it says it wants to use Facebook to login and fails to log me is with my email address. Very frustrating.

My work schedule recently changed and I couldn’t ride my normal bus route any more. Bikemap gave me a perfect route to work and good step by step directions and GPS

I love Bikemap. It tracks my bike rides and lets me know my average speed, time, route, etc. Though, the only thing I wish it did is to allow me to create my own planned routes using the trails I know I love, instead it’s just like a bike google maps -which isn’t bad, I just want more I guess.

I bike with headphones and when I use Bikemap I have to constantly look at the map to make sure I’m going the right way. It doesn’t audibly start to tell me what to do until the end of the ride when I’m trying to save my route. It would be nice to be told to “keep left” while I’m actually riding so I don’t have to take my phone out of my backpack several times a trip when I don’t know my route by heart

Why would a bicycle app sort by who-knows-what where “results” that are 2000 miles away are presented before those that are 5 blocks away? Is it common for someone on a bicycle to select a 2000 mile destination?

Glad I haven’t paid for this yet, as I still have to use other apps to actually find destinations and then round trip to this for routing.

Simple app and installed tracking of route, speed, and time.

I haven’t used this yet but im hoping to give it a 5 star review. Just one problem. When I put a route in, how do you cancel the current route and put a new one in. I have to close and start over again. Thanks!

Only improvement would be for earlier signaling of up coming turns ie in 600 feet turn left in a quarter mile turn right.

Who knew? Bikemap was better than Google maps.

Seems a great app for many uses but not the one I intended. There is a canal path that leads from my start to destination and which Bikemap did NOT pick up. Despite this being part of a major renown cycle and walking route.

I signed up for the 1 year trial, with the understanding I’d get a week to test it before getting charged. My account was charged 5 hours after signing up, with no option to report the issue within Bikemap Store/ purchased section.

It gives you routes that best fit whatever situation