REVER - Motorcycle GPS & Rides Reviews

by Wingman723

I purchased the companion RLink device and Pro subscription for two reasons; first, weather overlays and second, automatic route recording. Weather has not worked since day 1. Oh, it shows radar information just fine, it just never refreshes as evidenced multiple times and most recently on a ride from FL to IL. I’ve reported the issue multiple times and the only response so far is that the weather data comes from a third party and should “update frequently”. It does not.

I am a member of multiple rider groups and have posed the question in three forums so far. Those who’ve used the weather feature side by side with a weather radar app report the same issue. And, well, there’s also the comparison of this app radar info to actual conditions on the ground; it just does not work.

At this point I am greatly regretting the RLink purchase, which charges $15 a month to interface with this app Pro (includes the $5 or so monthly pro fee). If there were a way to return the device, cancel the service, and get a refund on the device, I’d be all over it. Unfortunately, RLink does little on its own, requiring this app to get at the information provided by the device.

by Jmg26

Hello I’ve had REVER since December 2019 or so I have updated my app mini mini times. Anytime I go in to friend request or open the profile tab my app just closes on me and automatically. It’s I don’t believe it’s my phone I turn my phone off anon I’ve updated REVER multiple multiple times and it seems like it’s the same issue over and over a lot of the features on REVER or not working for me. And I didn’t notice that The software that it works with is software 12 for the iPhone but Apple has a software 13 point something that is out and available for use. I have a 12 point something software on my phone so that could be the capability issues and maybe that’s why REVER needs to be updated please advise I love REVER I want to use it but none of the features work for me I am looking into getting a new app. I like all the features on REVER I would read it five star if REVER worked for me all the way around but I can’t at this time.

by The Real Gucci Mane

Edit: so I switched from 3 starts to 1 because you have to pay premium for turn by turn directions? Lmaooooooo I’m good.

For some reason it didn’t show me turn by turn directions. The top of the screen was a white block (I’m assuming inside is where the “turn left here” message goes) and the bottom of the screen just stated where I was going. Wasn’t useful at all and it didn’t help that I only had maybe 3 1/2 inches of view in the map since the top and bottom was covered in white. Not only that but when it marked that I arrived at my destination it was way off. I was 2-3 blocks off my destination. Maybe I should have pulled over and restarted my app but I shouldn’t have to do that since I constantly kill background apps I don’t use. I’m sure this is a good app when it works but I’m going to stick to google maps from now on.

by 690 Enduro R

Do not pay for the “pro” service on REVER as none of the advertised services work! I get so much better service from other free apps, I’ll never use REVER again as it is a total waste of time. Almost every ride I go on, REVER stops working and I lose my tracking, not to mention everything else too. If you try to navigate with it you might get lucky, or it might stop working and leave you stranded. The whole reason I got REVER was so my family could track me while riding alone…. That function might work intermittently at best if you’re lucky. Out of 10 rides, I think it worked once for me. Do yourself a favor and go with a more reliable free app. They’re out there (H-D ride planner) and they work way better than this one!

by D.tour

I used this app for a couple years. I was a premium user most of that time. However, somewhere along the line, REVER stopped working for me. Every time REVER closed, I’d be forced to login again. This wouldn’t be too much of an issue if it didn’t happen when I turned my screen off during a break or a long stretch of road to save battery. When I did this, REVER would log me out, deleting any trip data I just gained. This also ruined the use of the REVERGo thing. If my app is logged out, it wouldn’t auto track my rides. Since REVER seemed to be failing me, I tried the Rlink device out, for about an hour. Since REVER kept hanging or crashing while activating, I was never able to actually get a ride in with it. Luckily, customer service was quick to help me out and let me return it. After that, I cancelled my premium membership and have been looking for alternatives. Still, I try REVER whenever they have an update in hopes that my issues are solved. They’re not.

by Howie Doin 85

I just can’t. I live in Chicago, which is the 3rd largest metropolitan area in the US behind NYC and LA, yet the ‘community’ feature is a ghost town. Moreover, I’ve been unable to find a way to start my own group in the community, so I’ve just given up. Additionally, the navigation feature is a complete joke. It’s not always practical or safe to ride on some of the most heavily traveled freeways/interstates in the country at rush hour, yet this app offers no options whatsoever in avoiding freeways or offering alternative route options. Even if they did, I wouldn’t use the platform for navigation purposes because it feels like taking a step back in time to the early gen 1 and 2 iPhone map feature. Save yourself the headache, download Waze, and move on with life.

by Jevansjr

Great for recording rides, just lacks good direction. Setup navigation to hit up a city in Amish country. First turn out of my subdivision instead of showing a right turn at the intersection, it cut off the corner and wanted me to cut through a yard. No biggie. However, about 30 minutes into the trip, it chamfered the corner about 1/2 mile before the dead end and right turn. I was not about to cut through the corn field, but the line never came back to the road. I drive about 3 miles, and never found the line again, nor did it try to recalculate a new route for me. I fired up another app and that was able to get me to my destination.

by Truehalbie

REVER is very powerful and useful, but I don’t believe the UI designers have ever used REVER for actual rides. If I’m wrong about that, then they need a new UI team.

Simple tasks are hidden in odd places. It constantly resets login between uses. If you switch views from “discover” to any other view (eg, to look at a previous trip to figure something out for new route), it forgets where you were on the map when you were in “discover” and just goes back to current location. It adds some photos from the iPhone photo app, but it won’t add others for no apparent reason (there’s no error message; it just acts like you never selected a photo to begin with).

These are a few of the many things that should be basic and apparent but, instead, call for frequent visits to the FAQ.

by FedEx Drag Guy

So, I love the this app app and it works great for tracking my ride. I don’t use or should say haven’t used the actual gps part of REVER much because I have a hard time finding anything easier and more accurate to navigate with than the Google Maps app. I wish there were a few modifications done. Say I’m planning a 3day ride, I wish when I started a route and and the end of each day I could close REVER out of phone but then the next morning come back to that same round and start a day 2 portion of it with day one still showing and maybe day ones states(mainly miles).
Of sometimes if I accidentally close out REVER on the phone in the middle of a route, that it would let me go back to that route and start where I left off instead of having to start a whole new starting point.

by User Xndh Tdbeishxdh

I'm not sure what to think about REVER yet. I've used it a couple times now, and it has wonky logic to me.

First, when I laid out a route... Point A, B, C, etc... It built the entire route backwards! The whole time, I had to make up my own interpretation of what to do, since it had me going backwards up exit ramps, etc.

Secondly, I'm not sure if this is a setting I haven't figured out, but it cuts corners something terrible. It cuts through fields, entire developments, etc, instead of mapping to the intersection. I have no clue why this would be considered a good thing.

Thirdly, it doesn't remap the route when I'm forced to change the course because I was unable to follow the incorrect guidance.

Fourthly, it doesn't give any heads up about the next turn, which is ESSENTIAL when leading a group of motorcycles.

ILacking these fundamentals, while charging $25/yr for the lack of guidance to ensure a safe ride for all, ales me wonder if REVER, as promising as it is, is really ready for prime time.

On my second ride, I had to revert back to Waze, and keep adding stops, to complete our ride. Waze is free.

by Motorcyclemike75

The weather overlay feature is one of the most desirable for me however it doesn’t appear to update at all. It is showing the same radar picture it had yesterday. When I compare it to weather channel radar it isn’t even close. If I had to guess it is the radar overlay is from yesterday at best case, at worst it is a sample overlay with no connection to real radar data.

Update: Routing when used through Apple car play crashes REVER every time. In addition the car play features over all are lacking. The ability to record would be useful so it can be engaged on screen since my phone is not accessible while riding.

by Skip3459

Can’t see the route your taking. The dark blue route line covers the route numbers road numbers etc. if your looking to a particular route such as devil’s back bone, head of the dragon etc you can see if your on the correct route. Can’t look up routes such as the Moonshiner 28 etc.

Purchased because I wanted Butler Maps, but where are the Butler Routes. You have to ride and record your own route but you will not find the G-1, G-2 routes Butler has put together. So you have to purchase the Hard copy of their maps.

How about the Freeman maps, can’t find any of their routes that motorcycle people live to ride.

If your going to make a map that features routes then do it better and actually make Butler maps work. There are too many apps that you can record and share your ride, but I also want Butler Map rides. What’s up with that

Let’s get back to looking up other rides, you can search and find the tail of the dragon, but other than that good luck.

by MrDaleOG

I got my Grom stolen a couple days before Christmas. I had no security system and stupidly I didn’t chain it down to something being that it’s so small. And being that I live in NY, had no garage to put it in...easy pick up for the thieves.

So upon buying my new bike, I was looking for a security system to put in it. One with gps and alarm. After much searching I found RLink (via Scorpio website).

I think it’s great that it has an actual map that you can see where your bike is. It has tilt sensor and a shock sensor for your added convenience.

My only wish is that it could somehow have a stronger alerting system. I have to leave my phone on its loudest setting so that I can hear if it goes off and I fear it’s not loud enough. What about when I’m sleeping and it sends a one time text? I’d like a blaring alarm sound so I can pop out and get active!!!

Over all is a great app that provides a sense of security. Customer service got back to me whenever I had a question. Just add in a way to have the notifications louder then the phones settings and it’s a 5 star app

by Kenth1957

I’ve been using REVER for a couple of years now and one thing that really frustrates me is REVER freezing. I’ve had a few rides where I have paused for lunch or just a stop and when I select resume, REVER has frozen and has to be closed. Once close, that part of the ride saves, but I have to restart. Naturally, that means the ride is broken up and not continuous. I know I saw somewhere that a resume/continue from previous ride was under consideration for REVER. Oh, and one other person in my ride yesterday using REVER had hers freeze up also. Yes, my iPhone is up to date. Yes, my this app app is up to date.

by Flightguy2

It was amazing to finally have this app come to CarPlay to have an actual bike oriented system available on my bike via CarPlay. It helps to start filling the void that riders have had. Navigating in CarPlay isn’t perfect but it’s also the very first version of it. The single biggest fix needed is the skip waypoint button to appear when navigating via CarPlay. It shows up now on the phone screen when navigating which is nice but why did it get skipped on the CarPlay display? That one update can be a game changer for those of us that want to use CarPlay for navigation when touring which involves a large number of waypoints.

by Gifzen

REVER has made my trip planning infinitely easier. I never could figure out how to use Garmin’s Basecamp. The one thing that would be extremely helpful would be for this app to include the street/highway numbers of major roads on their maps rather than the names of them. For instance, I don’t need to know what a highway is called, but I do need to know the Interstate number, state route number, etc. Also, make it so that those numbers would be visible through the line on the map that indicates the planned route. As it is now, I have to try to correlate the shape of the route on the this app app with another map to try to determine what those route numbers are. This is unnecessarily cumbersome.

NOTE: These issues are encountered only when I use the this app app on my iPhone. But I do everything on my iPhone - route planning, navigating, etc. Thx.

by Kjhsdgfjhhdbvg

REVER is awesome and has a lot of great features that other apps are lacking, it also has a lot of variety of features for various riders.

It just needs one thing, I wish developers would add a search bar so that I can search for local OHV parks in the discover tab or find local trails by me instead of trying to tap all the pins and guessing what trail might get me the results I want. If REVER has a search function for trails and routes then I think REVER would be the most complete one out there.

by Midwest Roamer

As the upgrades continue to come, which is good, the bloat seems to be adding up. REVER continues to get slower, really I have to wait for it to initialize before using it? Google maps doesn’t need to. Resource hog it has become. Even after turning everything off on the phone, in airplane mode & battery save mode I can get about 45 minuets of battery. Thought it was my battery so I had it replaced. No I get about an hour at best. And loosing over 300 miles so far because of dead batteries or because of not tapping start TWICE as now required. Bring back the old simple functionality!

by AmazingGrundy

Have to agree with others comments about in App editing (or lack there of). Not a deal breaker. Used this exclusively for our recent trip around WA, ID, and MT. I had set up several preplanned routes in the weeks before. Was handy to have multiple options as our plans changed. I think if you’re meticulous about your trip preplanning, it’s a pretty decent app for that. For tracking it does alright too. Burns through my battery on my phone pretty quickly (wasn’t plugged in all the way). Had a couple incidents where it kept tracking me but randomly kicked off of the map page for whatever reason. All in all I think I might like it better than Gaia, as it offers the options for Trails, touring, adventure and other filters. A good solid 4 stars.

by Ecrispen1223

This review is from a beginner user, so for what that’s worth... I’m looking for a good motorcycle app that can replace Waze and can be on screen with Apple car play. This update helps with that. Seems like it is a five star app, but I’m not sure yet. So far, so good. One thing I’d suggest, which is minor, is give us a way to permanently block follow requests from obvious spammers. I hit decline but the same one just keeps coming back.

I would love a radar overlay. Seems Apple is Adamantly opposed to radar in Apple car play for some reason. this app is my go to right now. Not enough to convince to buy yet. If I can figure out butler maps maybe I will. Nice job!

by Hamstersoup

Used this for one group ride and promptly uninstalled.
No one in our group could open and follow the path of the planned route, REVER would just go back to home screen when you clicked “ride it”. I, the creator was the only one with a map of the route. It gets worse, I’d tap “ride it” then “Follow route line” because I wasn’t going to pay for REVER before trying it out, and we set off. 1 minute goes by and the phone screen still times out as normal so now I have to enter my 6 digit pin while doing 80mph on the highway to make sure we don’t miss our turn. Unsafe, Useless, glitch filled app. There are plenty of other free solutions you can pair with Google maps for Free, that will have turn by turn directions, for free.

by REMIKUS

Used it as premium for a few months. Not feeling its worth extra money. I can get most of that trough Google Maps. Planning etc. probably its most useful for off road riding (not me). Following blue line after sending directions to cellphone its just nothing but frustration. On top of everything app quit on me couple of times and I lost all tracking data for a half of the day and it happened not just once or twice. Not happy about it 🤬. Turn by turn its VERY LIMITED- keep in mind. I asked for refund for the rest of the unused period of the year (10 months left) and I was charged for half of the year. Being smart now I wouldn’t purchase the whole year ever. They should offer 7-14 days trial first like everybody else.

by Cittyguy

Why does this app reroute my ride onto interstates and off my planned route when I follow wave points? I planed my route I want to ride it. I did choose “avoid highways”, it still reroutes. I tried setting lots of wave pointes and it still find places to reroute. If I follow the planed line it’s easy to loose the route unless you are focused on REVER , and you should not, we are riding motorcycles and we should keep an eye on the road. REVER crashes. Also it always records my route. Just another layer of competition. I don’t need to always record my route. If I did gps that will take me on the fastest route I could use google or Waze. I am a frustrated paying customer. I only keep REVER because it has Butler maps.

by Yammy FJ09

While REVER gave some great suggestions for routes, I couldn’t get it to do turn by turn. Said it was unavailable due to too many waypoints or something like that. I had to set my iPhone to not go to sleep and feverishly with the phone to make sure I wasn’t missing turns. It was a little frustrating as this was my first time using it and I had a buddy with me. We missed turns because REVER was running slow and had to turn around several times. I haven’t tried to crest a route, but from other reviews sounds like I can’t do it on my phone. App could be more user friendly and I would gladly change my review upon improvements.

by Rich Accounts

The overall experience is ok. Maos are great but trip planning from within REVER isn't possible. You have to log on from a desktop or use a browser on your mobile device. Would be nice to be able st scan around a map with a pointer and not leave waypoints all over the map when researching potential rides as well. It would also be nice to see the highlighted sections on the map showing the type of ride as shown in the full version map key after you've planned a trip and are on route.

by Fmfhondafox

This is a great app for motorcyclist. I like that it has courses for dirt and street bikes. It will record distance, speed, time, and elevation change. It allows you to create different bikes in your garage and pick which one you rode while tracking. You can even add pictures of your ride. The only thing I wish this would add is lean angle tracking/ recording. This would be very useful for those of us that ride sport bikes and love to carve up twisty roads.

by Grimmsh0t

There are three ways to navigate:

- follow the blue line (pre created trip)
-- in the above mode you follow the blue line but REVER does not tell you when to turn, not helpful

- turn by turn navigation (pre created trip)
--- first asks you to verify the blue line (pre created trip) 👍.... Don't get off the green line because REVER will take you all the way back were you had to detoir. This happens no matter how much your on the route. Not helpful...

- input an adress:
--- this seems to work and makes adjustments. Which leads me to believe the second navigation option is a bug.

Fix the following:
- blue line should give you turn by turn voice navigation
- if you have to detoir REVER should know when you are back on track

by Dr John 001

It’s a lot of fun to see your path at the end of a ride. A free trial of turn-by-turn directions was offered once, but REVER crashed on me and I couldn’t do the trial. I wish we could update a web map in real time like FollowMee. I wish we got dynamic info like lean angles that some of the track apps offer. As it is, I run 3 moto apps at once to get all this, plus sometimes a gps app as well!

For what it is, it’s great! Wish it was more though.

by Gamedaytx.com

Took me a little getting used to it, but despite occasional shutdowns and reboots, I still like REVER. I’m able to create routes from my laptop and then download the GPX file to my Garmin Montana, able to download maps directly to my phone for out of service use, and best of all... track my rides for recall and reuse. Allows me to upload a few pics to the tracked ride, and share across social media platforms.