Smartphone apps for cyclists measure speed, distance, average speed, altitude, and distance from your home location. Depending on the type of application, you can also see your location on the map, people following your cycling route, and even connect a heart rate monitor that will measure your heart rate while you ride. There are also programs that have databases of the best bike paths and a bike repair guide in case your gear breaks down halfway. Check out the best free bike apps for smartphones.
Smartphone applications for cyclistsshow all the typical information from a traditional bicycle computer: journey time, distance, speed. All this data is measured in real time. In addition, you can check, for example, the number of calories burned or measure your heart rate using a connected heart rate sensor. Check out other possibilities offered to cyclists by the most interesting smartphone applications.
Bike applications for smartphones
1. Endomondo Sports Tracker - set a distance as a goal and use the guidance of the electronic trainer to reach it
Endomondo is one of the most popular cycling applications - it is the entire portal where you can add friends, compete with them, explore new routes. All data can be compared with previous values or friends' measurements, which is very mobilizing. After registration, all data is automatically sent to www.endomondo.com creating a training diary. It is a place where you can analyze your training and comment on the achievements of others. The application includes a music player as well as an electronic trainer that instructs and mobilizes us to act. The program allows you to connect a heart rate monitor (works with Polar Wearlink + Bluetooth and Zephyr heart rate monitors).
2. Strava Cycling - competition is mobilization
Strava Cycling is the second most popular application for cyclists after Endomondo. Thanks to the use of Google Maps technology, you gain access to a map where you can follow the route you are taking. The application also saves:
- number registeredroutes,
- total sum of climbed climbs given in meters,
- total amount of kilometers traveled,
- total time spent on the bike,
- number of people following us on the same bicycle route,
- list of challenges, the so-called Join that are underway or are about to come. The user decides for himself whether he wants to take part in a specific challenge. This can be, for example, covering as many kilometers as possible in a month or driving 20 hours in a week. If you take up the challenge, you will be kept informed of the number of days remaining until its completion. You can also track the performance of users who have chosen to compete with you.
3. Sport Tracker controls the heart rate
During the ride, we can monitor not only our location on the map on the phone. We also have the option of connecting a heart rate monitor band to the device. Unfortunately, the application does not have a Polish language version yet.
4. iMapMyRIDE Riding Cycling GPS
The application is based on the principle of creating a network of contacts, routes and training. On the iMapMyRIDE Riding Cycling GPS website, as in the Strava Cycling app, you will also find projects and sports challenges that you can participate in.
5. Move! Bike Computer
In addition to standard data such as times, distances and speeds, the application also records, among others the number of ascents and descents, as well as the heights at which you are.
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6. CycleDroid
CycleDroid allows you to track your movements using GPS. It displays parameters such as speed, time, ascent, slopes, calories burned and much more. The application also allows you to create trips and assign the collected data to the selected trip.
7. Bikecomputer will show you the best bike paths
Bikecomputer, like other applications for cyclists, records and provides current parameters of our ride and gives the possibility to review them later on the computer. Bikecomputer allows you to download offline maps, which means that you can use them without connecting to the Internet. The maps contain a large base of bicycle paths, which is a useful "download".
8. Cyctastic GPS
Cyctastic GPS is a cycling training assistant that selects the appropriate routes, calculates training times, calories burned and many other useful information. The program has not only a map with bicycle routes, but also navigation.
9.Bike Repair HDandBike Doctor
These are programs that will help us in a situation where the bike breaks down in the middle of the road. Both applications have extensive manuals for repairing bikes with photos.
10. My Bike
The My Bike application allows you to easily use the database of thousands of bicycle routes of the mojrower.pl website, as well as plan your own routes and record the kilometers traveled. It records road, speed, distance and altitude while cycling and allows you to add markers to the path you traveled.