I loved this app until you put it behind a paywall. Now it’s unusable. I don’t have unlimited money to subscribe to every single app I want to use. I don’t know if you need to bring in ads or something, and let the paid version remove ads, but it is absolutely ridiculous that you can only get 2 routes a week. I guess I’m going back to Google maps. 🙄

I don’t have a car so bike commuting is necessary and finding safe routes is super Important. This app only allows 2 routes to map out per week. I am not paying $79/year for my safety.

It is frustrating supporting the early development of freeware only to have it switch to an overly expensive paid model. I helped enter route info for the free version of this software only to watch it become an expensive software with almost no free functionality. You are competing with free software google maps. SUCH a disappointment. Nothing wrong with paying for a good software, but Pointz still needs lots of work to match up to pro apps like the ones from Google and Apple (and those are free.) Dissapointing!

Subscription only is not a good model for crowd sourced apps

Pointz was a great app a few months ago. Then they went to a payment based app. Fine. But for $60 for a full year? No, thank you. The data that Points uses comes from two sources; Google and YOU! The User of the app! So all of my suggestions for Shortcuts to be used on the app was done by me, the user! And now that I have given information on new paths and routes and suggestions, they begin charging money for how I made the app better…. And other people did the same thing as I did too. Pointz you had a good thing going. Sure, I would love to pay you for the app! But a monthly or annual subscription payment? No, thank you. Deleting this app off of my phone.

I’m used to being able to try the basic features of an app but the upgrade popups block the screen and I can’t get rid of them even temporarily. Not ready for prime time. Needs more testing.

I’ve been using the app for around 2 weeks to great affect, it’s helped me see nearby routes but now for some reason the second I input a destination it says “directions not found” even though it was working perfectly fine prior. The app is great but if it fixes just this one problem it’d be 5 stars

Interesting idea but the route colors are not accessible to me (red/green colorblind), and every time I try to put in a destination it says “No directions were found”. The app should have a colorblind mode using alternate colors (blue/green for example). Also, the tutorial for the layers button pops up out of nowhere. There are three different tutorials: the onboarding, the one you can skip, then the layers button. Hopefully that can be cleaned ip so when I press “skip tutorial”, it can work for all three of those.

This app is amazing for cyclists that worry about getting pancaked by distracted drivers. No other apps come close to letting you not only adjust how safe you want your route to be, but also allow you to adjust said route manually. My only gripe is sometimes the app will launch on its own. You know how when you’re navigating somewhere, iOS will give you a blue bubble over your clock in your status bar indicating you’re on route via gps? Pointz does that even if you have forced the app closed. It does this even if you aren’t on your bike. It’s a little creepy. I only want to use this app if I have deliberately opened it. I emailed the developer about it a week ago and still haven’t heard anything. My quick fix, even though it isn't ideal, is to uninstall the app when I’m not using it.

I really like this app. The concept of the slider for comfort vs directness is truly a game changer that shows deep understanding of what bike riders want to have available. The biggest problem is the data source underlying it all, which is good in some places and bad in others. If you know your city well, it’s possible to fix the issues directly, but that takes additional effort. (At least there is a way, other mapping apps have seemingly abandoned their bike information)