Bikemap - Bike Tracker & Maps 4+

Using Bikemap to cycle from Cape Sata in southern Japan to Cape Soya in the most northerly point. 3,000km. We have seen some amazing things we would never have seen due to bikemap taking us off main roads. It’s allowed us to plan and execute the whole thing over the last 20 days. Thank you Bikemap! Good work, please keep it up. Premium is well worth it.

Dear Vaportrail2019, thank you so much for your kind review of Bikemap. We are super happy to hear that you had a great time exploring Japan on your bike. Enjoy your rides! Best wishes from Vienna & Happy Cycling 💙 Astrid & Your Bikemap team

Buyer beware: This app is good but glitchy. It could be so much better. It has an excellent user interface (when it works). But don’t totally rely on the offline maps. They take forever to download and then they can randomly disappear from your library when you most need them out on the road. The inefficient gps connection in the app will often drain your battery. In the route planning bit, sometimes things stop working. Routes may just stop magnet attracting to roads. These glitches are often fixed by quitting out of your work unsaved and refreshing your cache a few times. The latest glitch was the kilometre overlay stopped working, but upon being alerted to it, this was fixed. If you send a help message, they will tell you that they are just about to rollout another upgrade, and thank you for the tip. They will refer you to the community forum. But I couldn’t create an account in this because of another glitch. In it you can read comments by some unsatisfied customers complaining about how good the app could be if the creators put more effort in. It is still a much better app than most of the bigger, data mining and privacy breaching alternatives out there.
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Response to developers reply: I don’t want my money back, I still have love for this app, I just want you to persist and do better for us.

Hi RetroPad2, we are very sorry to hear that the app did not meet your expectations. We are constantly working on improving performance, download speed and battery consumption. Offline maps disappearing should not be the case and seems to be a bug which will be fixed asap. Regarding the support we never send auto replies. Every request is answered personally by Christin or myself. Please don't hesitate to reach out if the answer was not helpful for you. For a refund please contact support@bikemap.net. We would like to make up for your bad experience. 😢📨 Best regards, Astrid & Bikemap team

BikeMap is lacking in a few core features: namely there should be a lifetime distance travelled metric, and then also a ‘This year’ and ‘This Month’. Currently, it only shows week by week.

Also, they made it so you have to buy premium to access OpenCycleMap which should NOT be allowed. OpenCycleMap is open source and I can access it by going on openstreetmap. Therefore, it should be available on the free plan. Otherwise it’s just stealing the publics work. That has the equivalent of copying Wikipedia and charging people to view it.

Finally we need LOTS OF STATS on recorded rides. There also should be a daily, weekly, monthly, this year & lifetime distance leaderboard to encourage people: and riding challenges that you can invite friends to. And this should be all part of the free plan so people can compete. Allow pro users to create their own cycling groups to invite people to join. Etc, etc.

Optional (but fun): a race feature. You will race others in real time on similar terrain, across the internet. Whoever completes their 1km first wins. To stop cheaters you must select the route first to show the slope of the land, and if you go off track you will be disqualified.

For now I’ll use Strava. When these new features are implemented this will be fun.

Hi ItzScallywag_Y, thank you very much for your valuable feedback.

We are happy to let you know that we are already working on some of the features that you mentioned. We will let you know once they are released.


Please note that we pay a license fee for the OCM. With your membership you directly support this valuable open source cycling map. Via the integration with Bikemap, you can use many features in the app with the OCM that the OCM alone does not include in the free version (plan routes mobile, record, navigate, etc.).

Feel free to drop us a message at support@bikemap.net if you have further questions or additional feedback.

Best regards from Vienna & happy cycling! 💙