Ride Spot by PeopleForBikes 4+
GPS rides and routes
blackriver, LLC
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- Free
iPhone Screenshots
Description
PeopleForBikes, the brightest voice in bicycle advocacy in America, created Ride Spot to help you find great routes, track your rides, navigate with free turn-by-turn directions and share ride stories.
FREE turn-by-turn directions.
While other platforms charge you to use their turn-by-turn directions, we offer high quality, free audio and visual turn-by-turns. Go to ridespot.org and create your ride in the route builder or download a route from a friend or brand to follow in the app.
Offline maps keep you on course.
When navigating when you have no cell service, our offline maps will keep you on the route and heading the right direction.
See and share the whole story of every great ride.
You can easily find safe and fun routes, track your rides, add stories and photos and then share. Find and follow your friends, other riders and great cycling storytellers.
Find the right routes, right away.
Ride Spot is a source of cycling inspiration. Search curated routes from local affiliates like bike shops, advocacy groups and clubs as well as routes from other local riders. We’ve made it easier than ever to find the right routes for you.
See Local Events and Challenges.
Discover upcoming rides and exciting route-based Challenges sponsored by local businesses. After completing a Challenge route, you can claim your award from your favorite shops and brands.
App Features
• Track your rides without killing your battery.
• Navigate with turn-by-turn directions and audio cues.
• Download Offline maps to navigate when you don’t have cell service.
• See real time ride stats: speed, distance, time & elevation.
• Easily add power, cadence & heart rate via a Bluetooth connection to your devices.
• View rides and routes from other riders, bike shops and other affiliates.
• Search local routes, events and challenges to ride.
• Profile management: personal profile, equipment locker for bikes & system preferences.
Background Location Notice:
This app uses location services in the background to track users' position during cycling. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
Learn more at www.ridespot.org
What’s New
Version 2.1.2
This release contains various bug fixes and upgrades, including:
- Fixed a crash that can occur when searching for routes in the “Discover” section.
- Enabled an in-app notification for when a user completes a Challenge.
- Fixed a number of issues related to saving a route in low network connectivity situations.
Ratings and Reviews
Add live turn prompts —> better rating
I have been using BikeGPX for years to navigate my way through neighborhoods. It’s not as clean a user interface as Ride Spot, but I get alerts when it’s time to turn or I get off my route. Ride Spot simply traces over your saved route with no feedback, so you need to keep the display on the whole time.
I like how the display in Ride Spot will automatically dim to just your arrow icon and save your battery, but that’s of no use if you are not alerted when it’s time to turn or you stray from your route. BikeGPX is not as sexy as Ride Spot, but you’ll stay on your route easier.
Better searching capabilities needed
A lot of potential here but more precise searching is needed for someone trying to find an interesting ride or route close to their location or a particular address. You can only search by city which returns so many results in a major metro area that you can’t effectively drill down to a closer location.
Too many of the listings have no title other than Imported via Garmin.... which give you no value regarding where the ride may be or include.
A search with a radius from a point on a map would be very helpful. Also some type of text search within the title or description such as “trail”, “beer”, “food”, etc. would help.
The Filter options don’t seem to save between uses of the app.
Great features are:
Ability to upload photos and add description and details
Ability to save routes you find in searches
Listing the number of likes
I haven’t tried the scan feature or used the routing for an existing route but they seem like excellent options.
People for Bikes is a great organization so I hope to see valuable improvements coming in time for this app. Easily and quickly finding safe routes when you are in a new area is not covered very well in other apps that I have tried and I hope this one can fill that niche. Especially where bike share programs are in place.
Still some bugs
App froze part way through a route and then lost all data on the part completed. The ride shows only the last 13 miles out of the 48 that my Garmin shows. The app also seems to use a lot of battery power. The phone was fully charged at the start and is close to 25% or less remaining even though the screen goes into power saving mode. Not happy losing my data as it was part of the Pearl Izumi challenge close to where I live. Now since the app lost my data, I don’t show the challenge completed.
App Privacy
The developer, blackriver, LLC, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Health & Fitness
- Location
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- blackriver, LLC
- Size
- 147.8 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease battery life.
- Copyright
- © 2020 blackriver Systems, Inc
- Price
- Free
Supports
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Family Sharing
With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.