Velorki: Bike Route Planner
Plan, navigate, record rides
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
Plan bike routes, ride them with spoken turns and record every ride, with no account and no ads, even offline. New with Velorki Plus: describe a ride and get the route.
Velorki plans bike routes, guides you along them and records your rides. Its routing is made for bikes and runs on your iPhone, and the whole app is open source.
PLANNING
• Tap waypoints on the map and get a route for the bike you are on: touring, road, gravel, mountain bike, or the direct way.
• Alternative routes, an elevation profile and a breakdown of the surfaces you will ride on.
• Loops: say how far you want to ride and, if you like, one place to pass, and Velorki proposes round trips that come back to where you started.
• Search for places and save routes to your library.
• Download a region once and plan, search and navigate there without a connection.
NAVIGATION
• Turn-by-turn directions with spoken cues, also with the screen locked.
• Leave the route and choose what happens: a way back to it, a new route to the destination, or nothing at all.
• The map follows you heading-up, with the next turn always in view.
RECORDING
• Records with the screen off, with auto-pause, and shows the ride on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.
• Choose and order the figures you see while riding: distance, speed, time, ascent, heart rate, cadence, power, what is left of the route.
• A battery saver for long days: dark map, dimmed screen and a plain page with the numbers.
• Heart rate from Apple Watch, from Bluetooth sensors, and from Apple Health. Speed, cadence and power sensors work too.
• The Velorki app on Apple Watch shows the ride and starts, pauses and ends it from your wrist.
• Each ride gets a page with its map, elevation, speed and heart-rate charts, and splits.
FILES
• Open GPX, FIT and TCX files from Files, Mail, Safari or the share sheet.
• Export routes and rides as GPX or FIT to use them anywhere else.
FREE, AND VELORKI PLUS
Everything that runs on the phone is free: planning, loops, navigation, recording, the library, offline regions, sensors, and file import and export.
Velorki Plus is a subscription for the parts that need a server:
• The assistant: describe the ride you want in a sentence and get a route. Ask it about the route on the map, have it describe the ride, or let it add a café stop or avoid a stretch.
• Share links: turn a route or a ride into a link anyone can open in a browser.
• Connections to two popular route and ride platforms, to upload your rides and bring your routes in.
Velorki Plus comes as a monthly and a yearly auto-renewing subscription; the yearly one starts with a free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and it can be managed and cancelled in your Apple Account settings. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when a subscription is purchased.
Terms of use: https://velorki.com/terms
Privacy policy: https://velorki.com/privacy
PRIVACY
There is no account and no sign-up. Routes, rides and settings stay on your iPhone. The assistant asks for your consent before any text leaves the device, and the position it sends is rounded to about a kilometre.
CONTINUED USE OF GPS
Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Velorki only keeps the GPS running while a ride is being recorded or navigated.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Source code: https://github.com/orkitec/velorki
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• Route assistant (Velorki Plus): ask about the route on the map, add a café as a stop, avoid a stretch, or get a description of what the ride runs over.
• Turn your iPhone sideways: the planner, recording and library get side panels next to the map.
• Long loops no longer give up early.
• Apple Watch: the ride screen fits on one page and speaks German.
• Velorki Plus: the yearly plan starts with a 7-day free trial.
• Many smaller fixes.
The developer, orkitec, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Health & Fitness
- Purchases
- Location
- User Content
- Identifiers
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- orkitec
- Size
- 49.5 MB
- Category
- Navigation
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Velorki Plus Yearly $29.99
- Velorki Plus Monthly $3.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Orkitec