CycleStreets journey planner

However the setting and editing of routes is rather clunky, and I can’t work out how to add remove way points after you’ve pressed plan route, or edit their order.

I’ve cycled in London for 15 years. And I found this app to be consistently better than any alternatives. I have always been super impressed by the quality and safeness of the suggested routes. The option to move between fastest, balanced, and quiet route is great. Best to use the base map as Apple vector map for navigation. It takes one or two goes to get used to it, especially placing the start and finish points and saving the waypoint.

The idea is great but the map is impossible to look at - how anyone can navigate using this is beyond me. The interface is incredibly unintuitive. The base idea is terriffic so I am rooting for you guys and the next version

It doesn’t play nice on iPad for planning, and it feels quite outdated on iPhone. Will apple remove it in the coming cull?

Not much in life is free, and things as useful as this are hardly ever free (air is about the only thing I can think of), so I forgive it it’s little quirks. In short: excellent (once you get into the mi dart of the designer).

I’ve checked a fair few apps and this is the best for routing (in London at least). No other routing service incorporates purpose built Quietways, LCN, CS routes as well as CycleStreets. It’s so good Citymapper apparently uses CycleStreets routing! I prefer using the CycleStreets app at the moment as it shows an overlay of wider cycle network (if you select the OpenCyclemap graphic display in settings) so it’s easy to start exploring outside of a routed journey. Wish list: -on the iOS app the choice of map graphics is cool, but it’s a shame the overlay of the cycle network (LCN, Quietways, CS etc) only appears on the OpenCyclemap style. It would be great if the overlay could be toggled on/off for all map styles. -Apple Watch app 🤞🤞 -or lobby Apple to use CycleStreets routing on Apple maps 🥳

I’ve cycled in Edinburgh for decades but this app has helped me find routes I would never have come up with on my own. The interface is maybe not the best but still, I love this app!

This is an app developed by UK cyclists and for UK cyclists. It’s true that the main effort has gone into getting the routing right and less into the interface. You need to practice a few times before using it as your sole guide. It is just a route planner. If you want to have turn by turn instructions I recommend generating a gps track in the web version and uploading it to a GPS cyclecomputer or Bikemap on your ‘phone. Your device may generate its own routes, but they will be worse and sometimes ludicrous compared with this app. This app deserves to have a good manual built in. For example, it wasn’t until I contacted the developers that I discovered how to route through intermediate destinations. (Just add them in turn before choosing “New”)

This seems like a good app but it’s missing a major feature - there is no in journey mode so you can have it open as you cycle. If I have this open on my phone on the handlebars of my bike after a few mins my phone just goes to sleep because there is no way to tell the phone you are using it. Needs a ‘go’ button you could press that then puts app into sat nav mode

I’m a big fan of the website and am generally very happy with the routes that are generated. However, the iOS app misses out a crucial feature. It doesn’t allow for downloading or exporting .gpx files of the route for using on navigation devices or other apps such as ViewRanger. Likewise, the mobile website is similarly nobbled. Shame, because the routing is excellent.