Bike Citizens - Bicycle GPS

Bike Citizens - Bicycle GPS Free App

Rated 3.90/5 (2,443) —  Free Android application by Bike Citizens

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About Bike Citizens - Bicycle GPS

Bike Citizens app - the first cycling app designed for cyclists in urban areas + surroundings! Real-time route calculation prioritising bike friendly ways. With precise audio notifications, without an active data connection, saving battery and roaming costs. Available in 450 cities in Europe, Australia and the US. Winner of the Eurobike Award 2015.

CURRENT FEATURES:
• Bicycle optimised map style
• Tracking, visualisation and statistics of your tracks
• Route calculation from every location to every address in town
• Prioritising cycleways, cycle paths and living streets • Precise audio notifications during your ride
• Works offline: no roaming costs in foreign countries!
• Track your speed, distance and time with the bike computer
• Recalculation of route when you leave current route
• Insider cycling tours through the city, created by local cycling couriers • Categorised lists of sights, from which you can create individual tours • Local and international cycling campaigns, like Bike2Work Austria and PING if you care Brussels

CURRENTLY AVAILABLE CITIES:

• Australia: 16 cities, e.g. Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney
• Austria: 9 capitals, Vienna (free), Graz (free)
• Belgium: 8 cities, e.g. Antwerp, Brugge, Brussels, Gent
• Bulgaria: Sofia
• Croatia: Zagreb
• Czech Republic: Brno, Prague
• Denmark: Aarhus, Bornholm, Copenhagen • Estonia: Tallinn • Finland: Helsinki • France: 40 cities, e.g. Paris, Marseille, Lyon
• Germany: 73 cities, e.g. Berlin, Bremen, Munich, Frankfurt, Ruhr area
• Greece: Athens
• Hungary: Budapest
• Iceland: Reykjavik
• Ireland: Dublin
• Italy: 40 cities, e.g. Florence, Milan, Rome, Turin, Venice
• Latvia: Riga
• Luxembourg: Luxembourg
• Macedonia: Skopje
• Netherlands: 24 cities, e.g. Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague
• Norway: Bergen, Oslo
• Poland: 21 cities, e.g. Warsaw, Krakow, Tricity
• Portugal: Lisbon, Porto
• Romania: Bucharest
• Serbia: Belgrade
• Slovakia: Bratislava
• 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
• Ukraine: Kiev
• United Kingdom: 61 cities, e.g. London, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Kingston, Coventry
• United States: 67 cities, e.g. New York, Las Vegas, LA 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€

AWARDS:
• Eurobike Award 2015
• VCÖ mobility award 2015
• Apps for Europe Award 2014
• ISPO Bike 2013 – Brand New Award


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?
As the perfect gadget to go with the app, we have developed our own smartphone mount. With FINN, you can mount any smartphone to any bike. The mount has been sold for over 450,000 times worldwide. Find out more on http://getfinn.com

We love to hear your feedback - 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 feedback@bikecitizens.net

Cycling in the city is fun – convince yourself!

Bike Citizens – Intelligent Urban Mobility

Web: www.bikecitizens.net

How to Download / Install

Download and install Bike Citizens - Bicycle GPS version Varies with device on your Android device!
Downloaded 100,000+ times, content rating: Everyone
Android package: org.bikecityguide, download Bike Citizens - Bicycle GPS.apk

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App History & Updates

What's Changed
New feature before winter is coming: GPX-track export, and of course, bugfixes and improvements
Name changed  Name changed! BikeCityGuide - Bike Navi GPS now is known as Bike Citizens - Bicycle GPS.
More downloads  Bike Citizens - Bicycle GPS reached 100 000 - 500 000 downloads
Version update Bike Citizens - Bicycle GPS was updated to version 3.1.1
Version update Bike Citizens - Bicycle GPS was updated to version 3.1.0

What are users saying about Bike Citizens - Bicycle GPS

K70%
by K####:

Could not calculate route problem

K70%
by K####:

Love it! Makes cycling around the city so much easier if you don't know your way yet. Especially the 3 modes depending on your level of experience!

K70%
by K####:

Solid app. Took me a while to figure out that directions are not given in voice over when the phone is in silent mode.

K70%
by K####:

Keeps saying error code 500 when I try to register please sort it out and I'll give 5 stars EDIT has now started working g I really love this app and the symplicity of it but it has stopped. Response ding on a few occasions but when it works it great and just wot I need and to all the people winjing its free and it works offline go pay a £5er for a different app that gobbles up your data if your not happy keep up the good work devs.

K70%
by K####:

Apart from a few bugs I really love the app. But, why is it 139 mb?

K70%
by K####:

Looking for a city that doesn't yet exist. App says "City not found? Tap here to vote" — loads the browser with an URL that ends in "vote", but you just get redirected to the bike citizen home page. Fix it!

K70%
by K####:

Charges to see maps :/

K70%
by K####:

Nice app - really like the idea of unlocking the city though it's not really challenging. My average rating has two reasons: as a cyclist in my city, altitude difference is THE crucial information. Lacking altogether. Also, I miss alternative routes especially since the proposed routes sometimes involve much longer time and much steeper tracks. Both aspects together make the app pretty useless for me :(

Z70%
by Z####:

I got this app last summer and cykled my city free. It worked and I was perfectly happy with it. Now, when I was about to start the biking season again the app has reset and claims that I didn't free my city map and asks why I didn't make it? What the hell?! Is there a way to make it work again, or is this a way to make people pay for it anyway?

K70%
by K####:

Great app, I use it several times a week, it's really amazing every time you get to know new routes for biking and road cuts within the city where you grew up ...

L70%
by L####:

Is it possible to get more details on the activities? Today only average speed is available. It should be interesting to know the max speed, detailed speed per km or the altitude gain

K70%
by K####:

Useful app and I like the simple map style.

J70%
by J####:

Fair and smooth! recommended.

J70%
by J####:

No maximum speed shown :/

K70%
by K####:

I have invested money in this app, and I am happy. Hoping for some improvements in map actuality and voice navigation, because the competition does not sleep, and it is google maps ...

I70%
by I####:

No map shown. No Updates, feels not very well maintained. Can't use it without the map shown - Hamburg Edit: Fixed, map had to be updated, notification missed

K70%
by K####:

Terrible. Out of date. Far inferior to the free Google Maps app. Ready to uninstall even before the first ride. Overpriced. Avoid.

P70%
by P####:

I was glad that you had Finn I clouded. Made me subscribe. It is impossible to find the voucher and the thing I found out, is that I don't need the app as I have S Health.

K70%
by K####:

Great app for cycling. Yes it was few years ago,not anymore.

K70%
by K####:

Von allen Apps, die ich bisher ausprobiert habe, hat diese die beste Routenkalkulation. Leider werden Hausnummern nicht mehr angezeigt, das macht sie für mich als Fahrradkurier ziemlich unnütz.

K70%
by K####:

color scheme is weeeird

K70%
by K####:

After a couple of years it seems this app simply has not taken off. There are too many issues with it while the competition is getting better and better. Bike Citizens often crashes when tracking is stopped, which is annoying and impairs usability. The map data is hardly ever updated, even though OpenStreetMap constantly changes and improves. As a cyclist, one is fairly dependent on up-to-date information with regards to small roads and paths. Bike Citizens does not offer this.

K70%
by K####:

All what I can see is a black screen a dot and red route but no actual map! Manchester

N70%
by N####:

From all the bike GPS apps, this used to be my favourite, giving almost as good directions as Google Maps. However, although I paid 20€ for all the map coverage, suddenly they ask again, now yearly, to pay 49€ for the same thing. This is where you lose me now.

N70%
by N####:

Useful app. Simple, clear mapping. Fun!

N70%
by N####:

I tried to use it on my road bike with my phone mounted on the stem. The colour contrast of the route compared to the map is so low that it's not possible to simply glance at the phone and see the turn ahead. I needed to spend a couple of seconds to focus in the map in order to read it, which is dangerous. With google maps I only need to look at the phone for half a second and I can clearly read the route and prepare for any upcoming turns.

N70%
by N####:

After a couple of years it seems this app simply has not taken off. There are too many issues with it while the competition is getting better and better. Bike Citizens often crashes when tracking is stopped, which is annoying and impairs usability. The map data is hardly ever updated, even though OpenStreetMap constantly changes and improves. As a cyclist, one is fairly dependent on up-to-date information with regards to small roads and paths. Bike Citizens does not offer this.

N70%
by N####:

I just wish I could manually modify the routes, the 3 options (easy, balanced, fast) would sometimes guide me over cobblestone or through (temporarily) blocked roads that I would like to mark as "off limits" for the routing.

N70%
by N####:

There is no sound after the latest update!! Please fix this as the app is useless now. Was working perfectly beforehand

N70%
by N####:

Is there any way to change the colorsheme?! I have dyschromatopsia and it's very hard to actually see the suggested route in the app... Until this is possible or a more accessible colorsheme is used, the app is unfortunately useless.

U70%
by U####:

Downloaded city map however no streets shown just a black screen. I have no clue from app help either. City is Coventry UK.

N70%
by N####:

All what I can see is a black screen a dot and red route but no actual map! Manchester

J70%
by J####:

Bought and paid for all maps bit they haven't uploaded. Nothing on app to tell me how.

N70%
by N####:

Really like the app, great for route planning, Google Fit integration would be great in the future!

N70%
by N####:

Will give 5 stars if you include a height profile.

N70%
by N####:

Such as contrast, day view, route calculation, compass adjustment,...

N70%
by N####:

No Landscape Mode

N70%
by N####:

Used it in Copenhagen and loved it.

V70%
by V####:

great

J70%
by J####:

Very promising, but is unnecessarily routing me in the wrong way on one way streets. Often the route was completely incorrect and not due to recent changes. Similarly u turns on high traffic roads that are illegal and very very dangerous. I do not hate it, but it is a dangerous app at least for Athens. I would also expect to take into account climbs that could be avoided. I do not think it does,as test routes selected, almost the worst possible climb.


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