hanakool

Now, with the development of mobile apps, many useful cycling apps than ever appear to support users. With a smartphone, you can install these apps free to experience more your travel. This post is written to share with all of you best android and Iphone apps for cycling I have been collected:
1. Wahoo Fitness:
The most impressive feature of this app is that it can play with others such as Bluetooth sensors for heart – rate monitors, speed sensors and progressive power meter. Moreover, Wahoo Fitness uploads to many good sites include strave, MyFitness Pal, etc. Certainly, you can push your data in your choice of five file formats via email or dropbox.
2. Cyclemeter:
It is similar to Wahoo Fitness in its wealth of customizable options during the ride, but you also get a smorgasboard of post-ride analysis. In addition, you don’t have to log in to any site: the data stays on your iPhone. You can also start or stop rides with earphone remote button and intergrated google maps can assist you in unfamiliar areas.
3. Google maps:
Undoubtedly, this is indispensable app for your device. With this app, we can go to any place as we wish much easier. The latest Google Maps app is the world’s best navigation tool for your phone. You can read reviews, and then go to the one you selected. The gps connected with google map will make your movement more accurately.
4. Viewranger:
If you are climber, this app is more appropriate for you. Free to download and comes with a very useable and free OpenCycle base map of the entire world, you’re able to free yourself from ‘navigational uncertainty’ whenever the need arises. The maps are stored on your phone and it uses your phone’s GPS, so it doesn’t need a signal or data connection to work.
These apps above are top of best apps for cycling. Choose the best one for you to get more experience. If your device is not available for google play, you can download apk file.

bwilli88 

You missed a few, I particularly like Strava

Runner13.1

I use Map My Ride.
Good for biking and running

ahanulec

MapMyRide should be on the list.

fietsbob

shut them all off and just ride.

prj71

SportsTracker.

S-Health which is built in on Samsung phones.

Gaelen

I like Urban Biker.

jefnvk

For those with Windows Phone, I use Cyclometer. It works well enough, although I notice the resolution isn't all that great now that I have started uploading the GPX to Strava.

Kevindale

One nice thing about many of these apps is that you can do both. My wired cycling computer recently died when I stretched the cable during a bar retape, and I haven't replaced it yet. Instead I started using Map My Ride on my phone more regularly, but I don't look at it during the ride. I start the app at the beginning of the ride, zip the phone up in my Fuelbelt, and when the ride is over I stop the app and see how I did.

Having real-time data is great for pushing yourself in a workout, but it also turns every ride (at least for me) into a workout. Being in 'just ride' mode is nice, but since I'm going to have my phone with me anyway, I might as well have a record of the ride. Best of both worlds.

Milton Keynes

I used that for a while in addition to my regular biking app, but I think it was draining my phone battery even while not active or even running. I thought the battery in my phone was going bad. I hadn't used Urban Biker in a while so decided to delete it off my phone. The very next day my battery usage was back to normal.

Milton Keynes

I like to use the Runtastic road cycling app to keep track of my mileage & performance. If I don't want to pay attention to it, all I have to do is blank the screen and turn the sound down.

SpeshulEd 

Strava
Garmin Connect
Trailforks
MTB Project

Those are about the only bike apps I ever bother to look at.

canklecat

Google Maps has been almost, but not quite, totally useless in my area. It likes to suggest killer routes. Literally, routes that would kill an unwary cyclist. I prefer to discover routes on my own, or see what routes other folks are riding locally.

Wahoo and Cyclemeter for iPhone each have pros and cons. I've used only the freebie versions (I think Wahoo is totally free anyway and works even without sensors).

Wahoo starts up quickly and has no splash screen. The freebie version of Cyclemeter is slower to load with a splash screen delay.

Both GPS track about equally -- not always accurately, but close enough for my purposes. Occasionally both miss some stuff.

Wahoo has auto-pause/resume. Only the paid version of Cyclemeter has that feature. Pretty nifty. But I have to remember to disable Wahoo when I stop for grocery shopping or any walking errands, otherwise it'll look like I've been bicycling verrrry slowwwly through Kroger. With Cyclemeter I sometimes forget to restart and miss some routes.

Cyclemeter offers a lot more granular info. Wahoo may record it, but if it does I can't find it.

Cyclemeter breaks down info into months and segments of routes more intuitively. If Wahoo does this, again, I can't figure out how.

I've mostly used Wahoo the past couple of months because it's set and forget, which is handy for local casual group when we stop a few times to regroup and at pubs. But for rides where I really want to see more data, I'll switch to Cyclemeter.

I've installed Strava, Map My Ride and other popular apps but never used 'em again after the first try. They weren't intuitive or were geared toward a type of riding that doesn't interest me. I'm mainly interested in recording routes I like and a rough gauge of my progress over a period of time.

idiotekniQues

That's too bad. I just discovered that around NYC Google Maps will take into account all local bike lanes and route you that way. It's fantastic. I suppose where there isn't much mapped bike infrastucture that would be an issue. Do you map your ride as a Bicyclist on Google Maps and it still takes you on highways and super busy roads?

kcjc

IpBike, android only. Actually like it more than my Garmin Edge 520 except for the battery life and touch screen (phone's fault).

Jean3n16

RideWithGPS wasnt mentioned.

Google is useless here.

canklecat

Yup, I've tried Google Maps with the bicycling option. In my area (west Fort Worth), it suggests taking Southwest Boulevard to the Trinity Trails MUP, rather than the much safer Williams Road bike lane. I tried that once before I was familiar with the route. Good thing I tried it in daylight. Southwest Blvd has some dangerous on/off ramps at highway speed, and storm drains with bicycle-swallowing grates running parallel to wheel travel, wide enough to trap anything narrower than a fat bike or motorcycle tire. Guaranteed head-over-heels crash and probably head/spine injury. The alternate route suggests Business Hwy 183, almost as dangerous.

I do consult Google maps and street view often to plan new routes, but I've never yet found it to suggest the best bicycling routes for the Fort Worth area. I suppose there's a lack of communication between Google and either the local governments that plan and designate bike lanes and sharrows, or Google doesn't do anything with user input.

With Google's sophisticated use of data, it seems they could make use of info publicly shared by cyclists who use Strava, Map My Ride, etc., to recognize popular routes and incorporate those into Google Maps with the bicycling option checked.

therealjoeblow

I've tried (on Android):

-Runtastic Road Bike Pro
-Strava
-Map My Ride
-Endomondo Sports Tracker

IMO, Runtastic Road Bike is hands-down the best. It is reliable, feature rich, and is the only one of the 3 that includes both aerial photo view, and the open street maps (OSM) cycling layer on the mobile app. IMO these are very useful features when in "explore" mode trying to find new routes and linkages between various paths. All of the other apps (as far as I can tell) just include the "cartoon" look standard map views which are not nearly as useful if you are trying to find your own routes.

Other than that, they all pretty much all do the same thing. But having tried them all, I find the Runtastic app and its UI to be the best of the 4 (frankly, I don't see why so many people like Strava - it's not even close in terms of UI and functionality IMO). Also, you can use just "Runtastic", Runtastic Road Bike, or Runtastic Mountain Bike. They are all the same app and do exactly the same things, just different UI primary colors (blue, red, or brown respectively, take your pick).

Cheers
TRJB

therealjoeblow

Actually, Open Street Maps (OSM) is much better for that. It's community based and has a dedicated cycling layer that blows Google's away in terms of completeness and accuracy, at least in my city (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada).

Cheers
TRJB

FXjohn

sounds like good advice for never getting any better

Jean3n16

Im not better because of my app. Im better because i get tips and help along the way. The only thing i really care about on my app is the distance I went and how fast i went.

SpeshulEd 

I think the point he was trying to make was that analyzing your ride data allows you to make adjustments and improvements to your riding style based on the data.

Not everyone cares, others do.

one4smoke

While apps aren't exactly a necessity for "getting better," they can be motivational ...which can help.

idiotekniQues

agreed. speed and distance - that's all the data I need. speed to keep me pedaling fast and hard and distance so i meet certain goals. whether you use that info and more, whatever anyone needs to perform and enjoy cycling go for it. if you don't want any info just don't use a computer or an app. that simple.

once i'm done with my fitness riding when i just boink around the city checking stuff out, i don't even look at my computer anymore.

Dirt Farmer

This. It should be mentioned first and foremost.