Top 10 Android Bike Apps
We recently complied a great top 10 iPhone and iPad Biking app list which has proved to be immensely popular. We didn’t want all our Android friends missing out, so we have put together the Top 10 Android Biking Apps too – take a look at these, and get downloading.
B.iCycle
The popular iPhone biking app now available on the Android platform! B.iCycle – GPS cycling computer for Road & Mountain Biking is a next generation cyclometer for your phone.
– Accurate values for current speed, average speed, maximum speed, total distance, trip distance, current altitude, climbed altitude, burned calories as well as trip time. Units can be set to US or metric.
– Watch your bike automatically move on the map and zoom in on your trail
– Receive your trips via email (KML and GPX) and review them at home (e.g., with Google Earth) or share them with other bikers. You can send the data after each ride or anytime later from your track history (e.g. when there is no cellular network available).
– Suspend, pause, and resume for trips allows you to receive calls or take a break
Based on countless test rides and refinement we calculate all values with maximum precision of the built in GPS. In contrast to standard cyclometers you do not have to calibrate B.iCycle to your bike. It just works – out of the box. For the full experience we recommend to use a bike mount.
My Tracks
My Tracks allows you to record and share your GPS tracks, including statistics. Use My Tracks while you run, bike, hike, or do anything else outdoors, and it will use the GPS sensor in your phone to record the path you took. It will also gather useful statistics such as time, speed, distance, and elevation. You can review all of this data live, or you can save it for use later. While you’re out, you can mark relevant waypoints, and can ask to hear automatic voice announcements about your progress.
My Tracks can record data from external sensors:
– Zephyr Technology Consumer HxM Bluetooth heart rate monitor
– ANT heart rate monitors (*)
– SRM power meters, speed, and cadence sensors (*)
– More sensor support coming soon
* ANT and SRM support requires an ANT-compatible phone)
My Tracks can share your track data:
– As a GPX, TCX, KML, or CSV file
– Using Google Maps, Google Docs, or Google Fusion Tables
– Via Twitter or Facebook
Free
Biketrack
Biketrack is fully ready for bike-lovers.Dashboard,Graph,Tracking,etc.Must have!
Biketrack is fully ready for bike-lovers.
-Dashboard with numerical value of driving information
-courses tracked by GPS on a google map
-Graph of driving status
-Attaching memo, photos on any location
-No need to deal with PC! up&download by one-click
-Following other courses!(with false following alarm function)
Free
Move! Bike Computer
Analyze and optimize your training with Move!
Bike computer and GPS logger. Can be used in any activity where speed and distance matters (running, skiing, walking etc.). Save your tracks for viewing, analyzing, geocoding.
Log your tracks, view them in Google Earth or similar application.
Free
Velox
Velox is a bike computer featuring:
– current, average and max speed
– daily and total distance
– driving time and total time
– altitude, heading
– maps (Google, OSM)
For recording GPS tracks install the Velox Pro Add-on.
Free
Bike Repair
Version 2.0 now has 42 highly detailed photo repair guides and 58 problems explained, including common aches and pains while on the bike (there are simple things to do to get rid of that knee pain). Bike Repair is the most simple and complete bicycle repair app on the App Store. It has over 160 studio quality photos explaining you step by step what to do.
Fixing your shifting problem, derailleur noises, brakes rubbing on the wheel, flat tire, broken chain, pedal removal, etc has never been easier. Bike Repair demystify every basic repairs and maintenance routines, plus some intermediate to advanced ones. The most important thing is that you can have these guides everywhere you and your bicycle travel.
Written in plain English, the easy to understand 42 instruction guides are perfect for casual and serious riders alike. Most of the repairs don’t require any special tools. Repair instructions are straight to the point, without unnecessary text that distract users from the problem at hand.
Bike Doctor
Bike Doctor is helping 1000’s of cyclists like you repair & maintain their bikes. Bike Doctor helps you to keep your bicycle in perfect condition. It is like having a little bike mechanic in your pocket ready to spring to action whenever your bike needs a repair!
– 24 of the most common bike repairs you’ll need.
– Clear instructions for complete beginners to the more experienced in bike maintenance.
BikeRoute
BikeRoute is the ‘almost satnav’* for cyclists, live turn by turn route guidance and cycling specific routes all over the world. If you find a route plan fails, please send us the start and end addresses so we can investigate!
If you are riding a CycleStreets route and you aren’t happy with it, please use the feedback option to report it to CycleStreets. BikeRoute does not do any route planning – routes are planned by Google, CycleStreets.net or MapQuest.
Features:
Back to bike navigator
Cycle parking locator
Plan a route to a contact
Elevation profiles for routes
Cycling specific routes in the US(Google/MapQuest), UK (CycleStreets/MapQuest) & worldwide (MapQuest)
Step by step text/spoken directions
Route replanning
Route plans from CycleStreets.net, Google & MapQuest
Saved routes
Export to GPX
Share with other BikeRoute users
Share via twitter/facebook (CycleStreets.net only)
Bug reports: http://goo.gl/Rnkh
Donations: https://www.cyclestreets.net/donate/
Twitter: @kidnoodle
*By ‘almost satnav’ they mean that you can enable spoken directions and ‘satnav mode’ in preferences, which will result in directions being spoken as you cycle along, but at present the app will not automatically replan your route if you stray. You can manually replan the route based on your current location by choosing replan from the menu.
Free
AllSport GPS Pro
Track workouts–runs, walks, bike rides–on maps. See 25+ fitness stats. Reach your fitness goals faster with AllSport GPS PRO. Track workouts–runs, walks, bike rides and other sports–on a map. View 25 heart-pounding stats as you sweat: time, speed, calories, distance. Privately store and analyze training sessions at allsportgps.com. Find places to train and share your weight loss workouts with our fitness community and on Facebook.
AllSport GPS PRO uses the GPS in your Android phone. No cell or data signals are required to see where, how far, how fast, or how many calories you burned.
SpeedView
An advanced speedometer application that offers lots of useful features.
SpeedView uses the phone’s built-in GPS system to show your current, maximum and average speed, as well as direction, total distance and time traveled. Suitable for running, car driving, biking or hiking.
* High accuracy
GPS-based speedometer that is more accurate than the one in your car.
* Linear compass
Shows your direction of travel. Compass mode is also available.
* HUD mode
Mirrors the numbers so you can place the phone under your car’s windshield and see the speed reflected on it in the dark.
* Speed graph
Displays a graph chart covering the last several minutes.
Free
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]
22 Comments
4fthawaiian
Any recommendations for a hardware solution that doesn’t use GPS? Ideally this would be useful for a stationary bike (bike on a stand, etc).
justacyclist
Found anything? thats exactly what I am looking for.
cj
I’m also looking for exactly this. Did you find anything in the end?
Dutchy
It is definitely something that a lot of people would enjoy. But how would this work? With the camera? That’ll use a lot of battery (you could charge your phone while cycling tho).
YellowApple
Yeah, if something like this exists, then I’d be all for it. I’m imagining a device that plugs into the mini-USB port of an Android phone (or just has a regular USB port and can have any smartphone with the appropriate app plugged in). The device would attach to a wheel to serve as a dynamo and supply the 5V needed to charge the device, plus send the device data regarding how fast the wheel is spinning – and thus how fast the bike is travelling with certain input variables like the rim size.
That would be slick.
Buck Johnson
This looks like a great training aid. Thanks for drawing attention to it.
I do wonder sometimes if a rider can get more focused on numbers and computations than good old steady riding. How did the old Tour riders do what they did without all the current technology?
UX-Guy
Sports Tracker is the best that I’ve found…. http://goo.gl/B5wKZ
JuanHirosi
I think BikeMateGPS for iPhone is the best application for the one who are looking for cycling computer but, based androids, it doesn’t seem to be the same as iPhone version.
however, still not bad!
Brian
Great review! Thanks for compilation of all the apps.
SteveO
Actually, I think a great app for cyclists I use a lot is the Cycling Calculator on Android. I am a time trialer and I can estimate power and speed real easy. Check it out here:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.cycling.caclulator&hl=en
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Mark ezrin
I can’t find BikeRoute on Google play. Who makes it? I need an app where I can create my route and have turn by turn or cue sheets for the trip. Mapmyride let’s me map but not get directions.
Thanks.
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21fred
Are these listed in order of 1-10 – best to worst or worst to best?
marcin
Does anyone know which of these or if any other app stops the timer (and all other functions) when you stop? The reason is, when I take a bike trip in the city and have to stop at the traffic lights, my average speed and time of the trip are affected. It is not handy at all to be pausing the app and starting it manually.
Tom Leverenz
As a former military pilot I was taught to orient the map in the direction of travel. My car does that but do any of the trip tracking apps for Android?
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