Ride App—automatic ride mapper Reviews

Your app is crap

ZombieNinjaSquirrel

I think my title says it all. I just ride a bicycle, and yet at times it will say I took a train. There aren’t any trains on the routes I ride! At other times it will say I drove. I don’t own a car and I don’t even have a drivers license anymore! OMG!

GPS use is too invasive

BradyDale

I don’t know why when you pause the app it doesn’t just completely drop out of GPS use. That’s what I want. I want to pause it and for the app to go basically dead. I only bike on certain days and I don’t want it on when I’m not. It really seems like it’s use of GPS could be less invasive Also: stop it with the push notifications every time I close the app or pause the app. That’s absurd.

Super easy to use

Cameron Bracken

I love that it’s completely automatic, I would never remember to turn it on otherwise. It’s pretty darn good at figuring out when you are riding, not perfect but you can submit when there was a mistake, hopefully to make the tracking better. Highly recommended if you want to track your ride but have a bad memory.

Thinks that everything is a ride

Sick of nagware

Anything faster than a brisk walk is counted as a ride. You hit traffic in a car, how was your ride? You take the train somewhere, how was the ride? You mow the lawn, how was the ride? Look, if biking is your ONLY form of transportation this is a good app. If you use any other form of transportation then this isn't worth it, especially since it uses and reports your location the entire time

Tried again after a year, still too inconsistent to use.

1000 Needles

The easiest and most frustrating way i’ve found to mess up my ride tracking is to take a 5 minute break in the ride. This typically results in either the second half of the ride not being logged or a large segment of the ride being missed. i’m mostly trying to use this app for the Bike More Challenge, and Ride Report is currently syncing a 29-mile ride as only 10 miles. Whether this fault lies with this app or the LoveToRide site, it’s too frustrating to recommend to anyone else. I sympathize that they are attempting to solve a difficult problem, but the benefit of rides being automatically tracked is lost if you have to check every ride to ensure that it was correctly tracked.

Rarely gets a trip right

meyerev24

I love the concept and purpose of this app, but it logs every single one of my car/bus trips (and sometimes even walks) as a ride. And then sometimes doesn’t even get the rides as rides! Takes away the hands-off purpose if I have to go in and correct it every time.

Great concept, but under-records mileage

Scootrrrr

I like the idea of passive tracking, but just after the first several hours of using the app it massively drains battery. Not to mention that the few rides I’ve done it under-recorded the cumulative mileage by .50 mile, which adds up over time. I’m turning off the location services and might come back to the app if these issues can be corrected.

Walking around my house is a ride?

YoureAllDoomed

After about a week of use, I started getting daily reports of rides that were 0.1 miles or less - sometimes as short as 28 feet! That sends like a no-brainer to be able to filter rides shorter than a certain distance. This is not really ready for prime time and the criteria for a ride needs serious refinement.

Cool app, not great for electric bikes

jadeforrest

This is a great app for finding routes and love the Apple Watch integration. Nice workflow and cool auto-recording of bike rides. However, it records workouts as bicycle workout, which overestimated the calories you burn by about 100%.

Mileage tracking inaccurate after iOS 11 update

Pdx.weedy

I’m a daily bike commuter. I’ve used this app for almost a year and loved the way it tracked all my rides... until iOS 11 update and now it shorts my rides by up to a mile each trip. I’ve sent examples to the developer, but still broken. Please fix. UPDATE 4/27/2018: I’ve deleted and reinstalled the latest version today and the app is still not tracking correctly. My rides are reported 1-2 miles LESS than my actual distance. Please fix.