Bike Citizens – bike navigator for the city
Despite all the enthusiastic mountain bikers, many cyclists in this world are primarily in the city. The bike app Bike Citizens is aimed at them. This has earned the application designations such as “app for urban bike hipsters.”
In fact, Bike Citizens is a well-rounded app for urban cyclists. The application can be used to plan routes as well as record rides and share them with friends. During the ride, you can be navigated with the help of voice announcements. You also get an overview of your rides as a fancy “heat map”.
What makes Bike Citizens stand out are the details. These include the fact that you receive information about interesting environments in your city or that you can tailor the route planning to your type of bike. Maps can be downloaded offline. The underlying map material is based on OpenStreetMap.
Basic Bike Citizens features are price-free on Android and iOS devices. In addition, you can define your personal free premium area once. This may have a diameter of 7 km, in which you can use many premium features without paying.
Apart from that, features like online navigation with voice output, planning routes with as many stops as you want, or offline use of route planning and navigation are only available with a paid premium subscription. For this, you pay a manageable 3.50 euros a month or 28 euros once a year. Also worth mentioning are the campaigns with which Bike Citizens works to increase the share of cycling in cities.
By the way: Bike Citizens is primarily known for suggesting recommended routes to cyclists in big cities all over the world so that they can reach their destination safely, even during rush hour. However, you can also use the bike app away from the city.
Main features:
- Tracking
- route planning and navigation
- helpful additional features for big cities
Operating system:
Android and iOS
Costs:
Free of charge, with a premium version for 3.50 euros per month or 28 euros per year