I just started riding again, mostly for pleasure, with the added bonus of running a few quick errands throughout the week. All of my biking is on city streets in a modestly busy city, at least in terms of traffic. This can be difficult at times, especially in area where sideshows and lack of traffic enforcement have become the standard. Therefore, avoiding some of the main streets is not so much an option as it is a necessity if you plan on arriving home alive. This app has been especially helpful when planning out rides to the grocery store, or just for fun, as it tracks all the data I find beneficial, while providing an easy route planner and tracker. For the most part, it’s rather easy to navigate through the app, however, there is definitely room for improvement. Added unexpected bonus was the social media/app community aspect, which allows you to setup a profile to connect with other bikers in your area, publish/share routes and pictures, etc. As of now, there’s not much participation, but I’m hopeful with time, and some app updates, this could grow into an amazing app and community.

I’ve been using Ride With GPS for three years now, and it’s the app I spent several years looking for by trying all sorts of other bike navigation and tracking apps and moving onto a different app every year. So I did my own survey on several social media apps and the hands down winner was Ride With GPS from bike touring riders all over earth. I used the free version of Ride With GPS the first year for 5-6 months or so and went to the full on top of the line subscription version because the free version was awesome, but I needed all the paid version tools and since the free version was great I figured the full suite would not disappoint and it hasn’t. If I were going to knit pick anything about the app it would be that I use Avast Secure Browser, but Ride With GPS doesn’t fully work on the Avast browser so Ride With GPS Support told me to try Mozilla Firefox on my PC, and everything worked great. So when doing 99% of all my bike tour and ride planning. It’s so much easier to build routes on the PC use the Ride With GPS webpage via Firefox than on my iPhone.

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.