Bikemap - Bike Tracker & Maps

I inputted a destination, tap “navigate” and I get a nice beautiful map. I can see all the ‘locked’ features, and I can appreciate them but don’t need them for now. The app shows that tapping “Start” navigation isn’t a locked feature - but then you get to a screen where there are two options to navigate and bother options are ‘locked’ as premium. If both options to navigate are locked, then wouldn’t navigating itself by locked and the developers would want to put a ‘locked’ symbol at start?? Otherwise the developers are promising unlocked (free) functionality that isn’t actually there. This all had me confused (thinking: so I can’t use this app to navigate?). Then I read the bottom “you can change these navigation options in settings”. I go to ‘settings’ and then ‘navigate’ and see three options. The free option is: “allow skip choosing which mode to navigate” - this isn’t a real option but just allow you to make a default setting, and then the other two options are the actually navigating options which are both locked. Confusing, misleading, and then ultimately, useless as a free app. The app looks great but I’d like to try it before shelling out $15/mo I’m left feeling very disgruntled.

Do not use this app for urban navigation. It takes you on routes that are in the opposite direction to your destination, adding extra distance and extra hills (on all bike modes including e-bike). It used to be good but they changed the algorithm. Now it is unusable.

As above

5vstars for me all day, telling everyone 🤙🏽👍🏼😊

Great app for all. Gives you easy to use address points and then plans routes. BRILLIANT

I am using an IPad 9th with IPad os15.2. I tried to install the app but every time when the downloading/installing circle completed, it would be automatically removed, only left the empty icon (with a cloud badge) on my screen. Meanwhile, in the App Store it was showing a ‘cloud’ icon on the install button indicating the app has been purchased but hasn’t been installed.

I’m more than happy to pay for an app (unlike some other reviewers), but if I’m going to purchase an app, it needs to work. Sure there will be glitches from time to time, but I encountered too many in the short time I used Bikemap. In Bratislava, it sent me on the really indirect route that became a muddy path. In Vienna, on the first day, it gave incredibly confusing directions and I struggled to follow the route (perhaps that’s my fault). On the second day in Vienna, it sent me down a dead end street, not once but twice. I’ve cancelled my free 7 day trial and gone back to Google, which is far from perfect, but at least it’s free.

Almost unusable as it just keeps trying to push the paid service.

1. Had just downloaded app 2. Presented page to ‘go Premium’ for $60 3. Closed page. 4. 4 seconds went by in the app. It then presented the page to ‘go Premium’ for $60. 5. Closed and deleted app. What a dumb app. Have some respect, and I might consider using you.

We tried the premium version today on a bike ride for the first time. We tried to use a route from another user and because we started part way on a 35km loop, it stopped providing directions when we reached the start/end point on the saved route. Leaving us with 10kms to our start point and confusion about where the hell we were. Ended up using google maps to get back. The app frequently would provide turn directions off the loop for reasons I cannot fathom and would often get confused and lose our position and direction. We were using iPhone 14s on open paths in Sydney Australia on a clear day with excellent 4G and 5G. Google maps worked just as well for our purposes. Cancelled the trial subscription the moment we finished.