Bike Citizens Cycling App GPS
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navigation | Free | Bike Citizens Mobile Solutions GmbH | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
CURRENT FEATURES:
• Route calculation from every location to every address in town, prioritizing cycle ways, cycle paths and living streets
• Precise audio notifications
• Works offline: no roaming costs in foreign countries
• Categorized lists of sights, from which you can create individual tours
• Tracking via GPS: biking time and distance overview
• Bicycle optimized map style
• Summary and heat map view of recorded tracks
• Local and international cycling campaigns, like Bike2Work and road safety campaigns
CURRENTLY AVAILABLE CITIES:
• Australia: 16 cities, e.g. Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney
• Austria: all 9 capital cities, Vienna, Graz
• Belgium: 8 cities, e.g. Antwerp, Brugge, Brussels, Gent
• Croatia: Zagreb
• Czech Republic: Brno, Prague
• Denmark: Bornhom, Copenhagen
• Finland: Helsinki
• France: 40 cities, e.g. Paris, Marseille
• Germany: 73 cities, e.g. Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Bremen/Bremerhaven
• Hungary: Budapest
• Ireland: Dublin
• Italy: 40 citiers, e.g. Florence, Milan, Rome, Turin
• Luxembourg: Luxembourg
• Netherlands: 24 cities, e.g. Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague
• Norway: Bergen, Oslo
• Poland: 21 cities, e.g. Warsaw
• Portugal: Lisbon, Porto
• Slovenia: Ljubljana, Maribor
• Spain: 55 cities, e.g. Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Málaga
• Sweden: 21 cities, e.g. Stockholm, Malmoe, Gothenburg
• Switzerland: 7 cities, e.g. Basel, Bern, Geneva, Lausanne, Zurich
• Turkey: Istanbul
• United Kingdom: 61 cities, e.g. London, Manchester, Birmingham, Kingston, Coventry
• United States: 67 cities, e.g. New York, Las Vegas, LA
COSTS:
Cities which aren't already for free in the app can be unlocked by:
• "Cycle to Free": When installing a new city, chose the option "Cycle to Free". All you have to do is cycle 100km within 30 days and track your routes.
• Voucher code
• In-app purchase: 4,49€
• Bike Citizens Flatrate: All cities for only 19,99€
• Bike Citizens PRO subscription for 4,99€/month: Unlock profile customization options, unlimited city pack downloads, with even more features coming soon! The subscription will be charged monthly to your iTunes Account and renews automatically every month unless you disable it at least 24 hours before the end of the subscription period from Account Settings. The currently active subscription period cannot be cancelled.
AWARDS:
• Eurobike Award 2015
• Apps for Europe Award 2014
WHAT MAPS ARE USED?
The Bike Citizens app (former BikeCityGuide) is a navigation app based on the great OpenStreetMap (OSM), the "Wikipedia of maps". We invite everybody to take a look at wiki.openstreetmap.org in order to learn more about OSM, how it works and how you can contribute. The insider tours were created by local bike messengers, the sights descriptions are from Wikipedia.
HOW TO GET MY SMARTPHONE ONTO MY BIKE?
With the smarthpone mount "Finn" you can mount any phone easily onto the handlebar. Developed by Bike Citizens the mount “Finn” comprises a voucher to download a city of your choice for free. Find out more on http://getfinn.com
If you have questions, suggestions, troubles, please don't hesitate to contact us in order to make this app even better! Just send a mail to [email protected]
What are you waiting for? Enjoy your ride and experience how pleasant and relieving it can be to discover your city by bike!
Bike Citizens – Designed for Cyclists, by Cyclists!
Web: www.bikecitizens.net
Please note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Bike Citizens keeps GPS on in the background only while navigating.
Reviews
Disappointing, buggy, nice try
mdifranc
Downloaded the app and was hoping for a good experience. Managed to avoid the misleading purchase requests and got it working to try before buying. Did one ride, worked great. Tried to use it again, but kept getting GPS position is unknown error. Google Map had no such problem with my GPS position, and since it also does bike routes for free, I’m not seeing the point of this app. I did try to make a big report through the app, but I also got an error. Oops! Seems like my GPS position isn’t recognized when I choose to only share my location when I’m using the app. I love irony, but not from navigation apps.
Works great in NYC
paydaddy
This app felt safer to me than google maps in real time on the road. But I would love to be able to add multiple destinations on my routes & I am disappointed that I can’t automatically set my current position as a starting point. Otherwise I’m very happy with this app in place of a bike computer. Get more NYC people on here! I want more from the social aspects of this app! It has great potential for biking communities.
Routing algorithm needs improvement
BNT1554
Even after the recent overhaul, the biking directions this app produces often make no sense. They route me down side streets with tons of stop signs. They tell me to cross busy streets at unsignalized locations. They take me way off course just to ride on random paths on the sides of busy roads.
Doesn’t work
m2-6?
After you pay for it, then you find out it won’t do what you thought it would do.
Works great in DC
Nathan736
Ive used this app for almost 2 years and it’s really never let me down. The directions do a good job of finding the beat route, and it does a really good job of keeping me off of dangerous roads. I recommend it for anyone looking for a safe bike ride.
Simply the best cycling navigation app for cities
Bevanski
Confidence. That’s what using the Bike Citizens app has given me. In my home town, or any of the 450 cities it covers, I know can load it up and it will get to my destination on a nice ‘quiet’ route (my preference vs ‘fast’). The increasing availability of shared bicycle schemes such as Santander in London or Citi Bikes in New York, etc, has made cycling a viable and exciting way to explore cities while travelling. So far I’ve used it in 9 cities and it’s been excellent (I paid for the global map upgrade). Is it perfect? No. Is it significantly better than Google Maps? Yes. Google Maps is 90~95% there for cars but only 50% there for cycling; our routing needs are different. If you want to reduce the risk of a car accident, be on roads where there’s less cars. Simple. Even for cities I ‘know’, Bike Citizens helps me do that. As an additional bonus, I’ve gotten to know my home city that much better! Highlights - the loud audio ‘turn by turn’ navigation prompts mean you can often navigate without the screen (just place the phone in a top pocket) - once you’ve downloaded a city you can keep the phone in airplane mode, saving both data and battery usage, and the audio navigation STILL works. This has been INVALUABLE - this app introduced me to the Finn handle bar navigation aid which is extremely affordable ($10~), portable, and doesn’t require a special phone case (unlike, say, Topeak’s $40+ products) Quirks (none of which are deal breakers) - unlike the UK’s CycleStreets app it doesn’t show any bicycle parking. This data is also available in OSM and would be a very useful addition (a small blue dot on the map would suffice) - while you can select between three routing options, you can’t ‘edit’ the route in app... - ...so when you divert from the app’s chosen course (because you know a better route, say), you have to listen to it saying ‘recalculating route’, over and over and... - the app will say ‘take the first to the left’ when really it means ‘take the second left’. - you can’t search for ‘100 5th Avenue’, only ‘5th Avenue’, which can be annoying for such long streets (solution: find a short street near your destination and use that instead) - The Komoot app will navigate using street names, not just with ‘turn left’, which can be confusing when faced with multiple options It’s not often you find an app that genuinely makes your life easier or better; this is one of those gems. ‘Thank you’ to the team who put this together! (June 2019)
Trying to purchase Bay Area South Map
DonHN
Downloaded the app but was unable to install the “Bay Area South Map”, it says “City Pack not found.” And I’m not willing to purchase the entire world pack for $18. As of right now the app is useless to me, I wanted better bike routes but I can’t even find out if they’re any good before I buy it.
Does exactly what I want, but not well
BNT1554
I have been waiting for someone to create an app that draws on the extensive bikeway data recorded in OpenStreetMap to offer an open-source, bicycle-specific alternative to Google Maps. This is the first and only app I have found that does that. But it has much room for improvement. For one thing, the bikeways map overlay only displays when zoomed in to a small area. This makes it impossible to view the overall bike network and determine whether the directions the app gives actually make sense or not. Secondly, the directions the app gives often don’t make sense. It seems their routing algorithm is not as good as Google’s. Whereas Google takes into account the delays created by going down neighborhood side streets with lots of stop signs, this app assumes these streets are fine for biking and that you will have no trouble making it across major roads. Another big issue is how old the routing data is. It looks maybe a year old in my area, completely missing the fact that major trails have been removed and others have opened up, even though this information has been up to date in OpenStreetMap for months. I diligently keep bikeways on OpenStreetMap up to date in my area; I do not understand why nobody can make an app that makes full use of it.
