App bike routes
In this day and age, outdoor sport is a great way to improve your health and clear your mind at the same time. For many athletes, cycling is an ideal activity for exercising in contact with nature. If you are one of them, now you can find out more about the most useful apps for cycling routes.
Apps for cycling routes
The following is a description of some of the apps for cycling routes. The idea is that you can get to know the best ones.
MapMyRide
It is one of the most widely used apps on the cycling world, especially for amateurs. This app, designed by Under Armour, can be synchronised with MyFitnessPal or Google Fit to measure the caloric impact of the route.
As for the activity, it offers a detailed mapping of the route you are going to do, with distance count, average speed, types of cadence, depending on the slope, among others.
Strava
Strava is most commonly used to record the BIKE ROUTES and it has every reason to be. It's free (although it has a premium mode), has a variety of options and provides very well-formed and intuitive data. If it falls short, it is always possible to pay a little per month and join Strava Premium.
In fact, it has not stopped improving. Recently, it changed its look and feel to make the cycling app more intuitive, and 3D was added to the heatmaps. It features advanced metrics, segments and KOM for increased competitiveness, personal heatmaps and plenty of options to log your ride and then analyse it in detail.
Komoot
Komoot has some similarities to Strava, but it also has its differences. The concept of this app is to help you experience real outdoor adventures based on slow and detailed planning. Before you start cycling, you can create your route and plan your route on this app, which helps you customise your route based on topographical data.
Komoot most of the time it specifies the type of terrain you are going to ride on: asphalt, trail, trial or greenway. Then, it allows you to produce real graphic adventures of your route. It's great if you're adventurous and it's also free.
Relive
In addition to planning the cycling route, With this app it is possible to create a chronology of everything you have done on it, indicating the areas you have passed through, if you have punctured, among others. It also allows you to visualise routes in 3D, as well as add photos and videos as additional information about the different routes.
Wikiloc
This is a complete GPS navigator with which you will be able to generate your own routes or get them from the community. You also have the option to record them in order to store them in favourites or share them in the social section of the app. You should know that these are downloadable routes so that they work without the need to be connected to the Internet.
In the following video that we have prepared for you by the mountaineer and youtuber Pau Calado tells us in detail how we can use the application, which has recently added "Route Planner" and 3D mapping functionality.
Cycling - Bicycle Tracking
A very useful app to record all the routes made by bike, as well as other complementary functions. So you can calculate your Body Mass Index, set goals or complete challenges that the app itself provides you with, based on the physical data you have previously completed. On the other hand, it has voice feedback, which indicates the distance covered or the speed.
ViewRanger
It is useful for other disciplines as well, but for cycling it is ideal. With it you can get routes for both road and mountain biking. Thanks to its Skyline function, you can identify points or areas of interest with augmented reality, using the phone's camera.
Another interesting feature is BuddyBeacon, which with a security system allows you to share your location with family and friends, even in an emergency.
Bicycle Computer
With a very simple and uncomplicated app, it presents a great deal of information on the rutes travelled by bicycle. In addition to GPS tracking of your location, it features a speedometer for first-hand knowledge of how fast you're cycling, which is shown in the Display section.
TrainingPeaks
This app is a coach for the preparation of sporting events, and of course it works for cycling as well. It sets goals to get in the best possible shape, with an integrated calendar for the countdown to the event itself. It also allows you to add more training levels to your plan, which are suggested by the app itself.
Ciclogreen
It is known to many that use the bicycle is a benefit for health and also for the environment. It is a sustainable resource that allows for everyday commuting, especially for short distances.
This app offers incentives for people to use this means of transport more regularly, and not just for sport. For this reason, it is working on the establishment of several agreements with institutions and city councils in large cities.
OruxMaps GP
This application is one of the first that allowed you to transform your mobile phone into a GPS, so it's perfect for making routes with the bicycle. With a very intuitive and easy to use interface, it offers you valuable options such as recording your routes in GPX or downloading a route in advance to your phone to follow it later without getting lost.
It also provides very useful information in real time, such as elevation data, distances, compass, among others. The only thing is that it is a paid application.
GPS Speed Pro
Because of the system it has, it is possible to make routes and routes for all types of transport, whether by bicycle, motorbike or car. All of this can be seen on a detailed satellite map, as well as a speedometer which is very useful for measuring speed if you are riding a bicycle.
Sports Tracker
This is an application that was originally intended for runners, but can be used by road and mountain bikers without any problems. With Sprots Tracker you'll be able to save all your training data and keep track of everything from calories burned to average speed.
You can also use maps, share training data and photos with other users. You can also view and comment on your friends' profiles. Explore the world if you want to discover new routes, trails and adventures.
ProBikeGarage - Bicycle maintenance tracker
It is just as important to plan routes well as it is to plan routes well. preparing the bike the right way before you put in the miles. If you're a Strava user, you're going to want to install ProBikeGarage on your mobile device, as this application integrates with it, being able to monitor the maintenance of your bike, with alerts and notifications when any component of it needs to be checked or changed.
Trailforks
Trailforks is an app with everything about trails, paths, tracks and routes. Plus, comments, photos, unknown routes and emergency warnings. Everything a good cyclist needs.
It is free and contains more than 300,000 mountain bike routes, more than 82,000 eBike routes and almost 8,000 trial routes. All with a high level of detail so that you don't get lost and to know their profiles and the effort they will require. Recently, the emergency option was included, which even geolocates you and sends your coordinates in case of need. This is a marvel for the outsiders.
FollowMee GPS Tracker
Although this is not a purely cycling app, it can even be a life saver, similar to a red button. Press it and the world will start working to locate you and get you out of a jam.
FollowMee is free and, once downloaded, requires you to leave some basic information. Not only access to your GPS position, but also to your speakerphone to talk to you without having to touch a button if necessary.
You can choose emergency contacts so that the app can contact them if necessary. It now also allows you to download the cartography of the area you have travelled through, so that it can even locate you without coverage.
FollowMee is about that, about security in case something unwanted happens. It is often used for aspects outside of sports: tracking work vehicles or family phones of children. But for sport it also has its application.
Zwift
Zwift is, without a doubt, the indoor cycling application that has grown the most in recent months, so much so that it has even managed to organise the first virtual cycling World Championship and it is even estimated that it will soon launch its own roller.
Through Zwift you can connect your trainer and record all your activity in a simulator that at the same time functions as a second reality. In it, you can compete, ride in a group, do individual training, achieve challenges and goals. A large number of functions, all free and with premium plans. It is a great necessity for those who have a roller.
Brujulabike
It is one of the first cycling news apps. The app of Bike Compass has a minimalist construction and everything the reader likes: no advertising or ads, clean and intuitive reading. Simplicity is the priority.
With the app you will have all the news from Bike Compass with just one click and with the possibility of reading them even if you are disconnected from the web. So, if you want to keep up to date with everything that is happening in the world of two wheels that you are so passionate about, you have this app.
TrainingPeaks
This app works like a cycling diary, your personal trainer, your to-do list. TrainingPeaks is yet another data collection application, with the difference that it establishes your training plans and goals so that you can progressively train.
In your plan, you can make revisions, modifications, set your fitness peaks, your seasonal phase schedule, and even your meals during a training session. That's during training, because afterwards you can connect the app to your computer and analyse all this information in even greater depth.
A very complete application for you to become your own manager. Also works great on a tablet.
Rouvy
Rouvy is an indoor cycling app for use on your roller. It has a special feature: more than 2 million kilometres recorded on video, including the most famous roads and mountain passes.
This database is used to make your virtual profile actually pedal along these roads and, by adjusting your speed, go exactly where you would in real life. It also allows you to adjust the resistance of smart rollers in order to make it even more realistic.
The downside is that it's not a free app. It costs 8 euros a month, but if you are a fan of indoor cycling, but want to give it a realistic touch, Rouvy is definitely the app for you.
DotWatcher
This is an application that is actually a web app. This means that you won't find it on the Android Play Store or the App Store, but only on the website of DotWatcher. But it still works very well.
If you are a fan of adventures of days lost in inhospitable places, DotWatcher will be important to you. It includes maps, tracking, and analysis of the most important long distance races. What's more, you can follow top professional runners as well and see these self-made routes.
Red Cross First Aid
It adds a first aid app, which is the best rated app in this field. In fact, it has almost 8,000 ratings on the App Store and the vast majority of them all give it five stars.
It is simple, free and can help you save a human life during an emergency. It is a database on emergencies and first aid, it includes the most common ones and guides you with videos and immediate answers on how to act. It is an application that can save your life.
Saddle Adjust
It is essential to have an app for saddle adjustments or control of your damping. Saddle Adjust works very simply, using your smartphone's gyroscope to tell you step-by-step how to adjust your saddle. Open the app, place your phone on your saddle and it will tell you what you're doing wrong.
