Cycling Apps
 

Apologies if this may be repetitive, but I was curious as to which apps people are using when riding. I am interested in an app that obtains distance, speed, elevation and HR.

Any recommendations for an app and computers would be greatly appreciated.

Cyclemeter by Abvio seems to be the best to me personally.

Connects to bluetooth sensors by Wahoo with no issues and works great.

It's what i'll use until I get a garmin unit.

Lets just cut to the chase:

Strava is great
Strava promotes dangerous riding
No it doesn't.
Wait, I use something else (MMR, RWGPS, et al)
Nobody uses that, Strava is the bomb!
Just turn off the computers and ride!
No, really I love Strava!
Strava.

Cyclemeter

I was using Map my Ride. I just want to map out all my rides on the website. I like to see elevation data too.

I use the Ride with GPS website to plan out a route I want to ride. It's very easy to do, just clicking points. Map my Ride is more cumbersome. When I rode the perfectly flat bike trail and Map my Ride recorded 300 ft of climbing in 12 miles and then the next day rode 12 miles of roller coaster hills on the road around my house and Map my Ride told me on roads I definitely know are all hills without a flat spot to be found that I climbed 200 feet, less than the flat trail, I decided to try out the app for Ride with GPS.

So far, I like the Ride with GPS app to go along with planning a route on the website.

I don't care about timing myself against other people. I'm slow, I'm not riding a road bike, and there's no one else around riding where I ride so there's no comparing to do. Thus, I don't bother with Strava. I just want to see my riding on a map and basic stats like time, average speed, and climbing.

I used Wahoo Fitness and upload to Strava.

This.

Strava is lots of fun.

I got Strava because it had that cute chick in the commercial.

Strava's nice and easy. It would be nice if they added a "plan your route" feature like Map My Ride or others have.

It's been there for the 2 years I've used Strava. Here's the map the century ride I'm participating in sent out: 100 mile Cotton Ramble | Strava Route

Thanks everyone for your replies. I recently tried Velopal...only problem is I didn't have any pockets and no way to strap my phone up to my bike. Anyone use a specific holder for their phone that they would recommend?

You can probably get an arm band for your phone for cheap, that should be good to get you started, until you feel like dropping some $$ for an official bike pack/bag. When I first started riding last year on my hybrid, I zip tied an old camera case to my stem and used that to carry my phone. Stop by your local dollar store, and get creative if you want to save $$.

+1 for cyclemeter. I am very happy with it, works well and no bugs I have found yet.
I used to use Strava and quit for all the obvious reasons.

Strava gets a bad rep because of the segment chasing users. But if you forget the leaderboard strava is the most complete app out there. It provides options to track mileage on different bikes, year to date mileage, average week rides and mileage etc.

If you don't like racing you can mark your rides private and your name won't appear on the segments but still can track your progress on any given segment/route.
Strava does have the option to create routes but I believe RidewithGPS does a better job at this

I've used Strava, RidewithGPS and MMR and compared with my buddy's Garmin edge 810 with built in altimeter. Strava by far is the most acurate of the 3 when it comes to real altitude and distance.

Ever forgot your phone or gps unit running and got on the car and drove away? Strava is the only app I'm aware of that allows you to crop the ride.

It's simple, clean and the app/website interaction work flawlessly. And no annoying ads like MMR.

I don't get the comments on the annoying ads on MMR. I've been using free MMR since this spring and I don't get annoying ads. I don't notice ads at all whether I'm on the app or the website.

Even researching all the cycling apps, other forums and bicycling sites comment about the annoying ads on MMR.

I use a lot of the Map My xxxxx apps, and they work well. My only concern is not that Under Armour acquired them, that I'm going to start being bombarded with UA ads all over the app.

One more thing based on my unscientific comparison was that MMR seems to be much more of a battery hog than the other apps. However I really like the live voice feature with average time and speed every mile or however long you set up.