Detecht - Motorcycle App & GPS 12+

I love this app! Easy to use/user friendly, great features like crash notifications to next of kin/emergency contacts, notifies friends when you are out riding so they can track your live progress and position (if it is turned on), and automatically pauses the ride when you’re sitting at a light or stop somewhere, so it is only tracking actual ride time and statistics. Lets you save routes and rides, and gives you a ton of information about your speed, elevation, acceleration, etc. Great concept for an app and would definitely recommend!

Hi Jdog, thank you for your feedback and recommendation to other fellow riders! Just let us know if you have any feature requests or improvement suggestions, we're all ears to create the best user experience for riders. Have a great day and ride safe // The Detecht Team

I’ve used this app with great success around the house on shorter trips. I finally took a longer trip to the mountains and this app let me down every time I used it. On the way up it closed after a rest stop and I didn’t notice and got way off course. I’ll put this on the phone for closing the app but my phone has never closed it like this before. The next day I had a great round trip planned and after less than 10 minutes it added unreachable waypoints that caused the navigation to run in circles. This effectively ruined the planned route since you can’t bypass waypoints. I never got more than 15 minutes or so without it doing this and since I had no idea where I was I’d have to stop and try again. I started picking destinations without waypoints and it seemed to help but it would put me on roads no street oriented bike should ever go on, creating some stressful and unpleasant situations. I’ve lost all faith in this app’s ability to get me where I want to go and have canceled my premium subscription since the extra features aren’t worth the money. On the way home I used Google maps which worked flawlessly even in areas where Detecht had problems.

Hi Joe, thanks for the feedback! The problem with the app adding new waypoints during your planed round-trip seems like a bugg we haven't been able to find and reproduce. The app shouldn't add new waypoints even do you make a re-route. Could you please reach out to us at support@detecht.se with some more information about this problem so that we can try to identify it and solve it. The problem you had with the routing putting you on gravel roads is probably based on that those roads miss information about surface type in the OSM-database used for route-calculations, sorry for this but it's the same for every app using OSM-data, thats why google maps could have been better on these particular roads. If you send us the information about this roads we can send a update suggestions or you can do it yourself on the osm website. Best regards and enjoy the roads // The Detecht Team

The Detecht app has quickly become my goto for tracking and directions. It’s easy to use and like other riders I prefer to pay attention to the roadway and traffic. That said, I’ve found the placement of my phone on the handlebars is very important as I now actually have my head up more. I do not have to look down at the speedometer at all as my driving speed is displayed on the screen. Speed limits are not always accurate but it’s all good. I feel very confident with the apps’ performance for wherever I choose to ride. Stay safe out there!

Hi LO, thank you for your feedback and great review! Enjoy the roads and ride safe // The Detecht Team