CycleMaps

Sends us down roads and paths we wouldn’t have found otherwise. Great for avoiding car traffic and traffic lights. Occasionally the off road options are a bit crowded with pedestrian traffic but then it is easy to reroute. Love this app.

I don’t understand the strategy of saying this app does something when it just doesn’t. I get you want more downloads for the add impressions, but it’s just a frustrating waste of time.

Giving it a go.

Now that Strava has introduced route planning (only currently available online, not within their app), the competition has stepped up the game for everyone else, including Cycle Maps. I've got the paid version because it looked promising and I use routing a lot out on the road and for planning new rides but having tried to use it for a few weeks I've identified some really annoying problems: 1. Once you've built a route, sometimes the app doesn't give you the option to "Ride This" as it does if you load a route from saved routes. I guess that's a bug but the functionality hasn't been thought through as there should be much more control about starting, stopping and pausing routes (a la Strava). 2. The route planning could do with some work. Strava has the benefit of thousands of users so the amount of data Strava can dive into to help build a route along popular bike paths is far better. Cyclemaps does throw up some strange route options but at least tries to stick to established bike paths defined by google. 3. The screen layout, graphics and usability are very 1990's. Thin weedy fonts are used that are very hard to read, graphics and fonts overlap in tacky ways and amazingly, none of the usual iOS layouts/button functionality seems to have been implemented. You do have to press around the screen a bit to select an option as it's only text without any buttons. Perhaps the app is a port from a different OS?

It’s such a shame that this app is unusable because the idea of a dedicated cycling navigation app is such a great one. I even purchased a special bike phone holder so I could navigate on unfamiliar paths using with it. As far as this app is concerned everything about it is fantastic except for one thing. The map redraw rate is so ridiculously slow that the entire app cannot be used. The only reason I haven’t dumped it is that I live in hope that this problem will be fixed in a future update.

Slow, crashes, hard to plot, no navigation, struggles to keep up when riding, bike maps just don't load quick enough. This app needs heaps of work...

The only things that load quickly are the annoyingly animated advertisements. The map loading is very slow, and route selection is no better than google maps .. which is nice and quick

This app is really helpful and easy to use

Despite the numerous "improvement" this is still very clunky. Nothing is easy or intuitive. Redraw takes forever even on 4G. The new version still only get one star.

Downloaded latest update, now cannot open app, just reverts to my home page. Main culprit is in settings, if you attempt to set the app to google maps the only way you can use it is to delete the app and download again. DO Not select google maps.