Cowboy User Reviews

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Feature rich and intuitive!

So many features for my Cowboy C4 and I love the navigation and linking to Strava as well as Apple Health to track my rides! So many features and a I love the social aspect of the app!

Great Bike and love the App.

Finally an app for the bike that just works and is not complicated!!!

Wow!

Buying these bikes has been one of my favourite purchases ever

Cowboy Bike

This has been a revelation. I bought an E-bike in lockdown. I have rheumatoid arthritis and I was skeptical of it but thought I’d give it a go. So a Cowboy 3 bike.
I’ve not covered many miles (compared to the other Cowboy riders out there). I live in the West of Scotland, and manage 10km once a week (all in one day usually), but it’s increased my confidence, my trust in E-bikes in general and, gotta say, my general demeanour.
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Great bike. Great app

While no company is perfect, the attention to detail that cowboy shows in their bikes and app are exactly why I use them. As a UI designer, the app is nearly perfect. You won’t regret using it.

Last 2 updates have broken activities

The last 2 updates were really bad. The app stoped getting the ride data from my C3, the battery level is wrong on the settings page, and it stoped syncing rides with Apple Health. Because of that is now mostly useless.

Response from developer

Hello, we're sorry to hear this. Could you reach out to us via the chat so we can further investigate your problem and help you out? Thanks in advance

Buggy and impractical

Latest update keeps forcing me to enter login details and will refuse to unlock my bike if I have no signal.
Extra features are nice albeit a little all over the place in terms of UI but the app is essentially broken if it cannot execute the most basic feature of unlocking your bike.

Response from developer

Hello, we're sorry about that Log Out bug you experienced last year. It has fortunately been fixed a while ago. We hope you now feel more satisfied with our app!

Disappointing update

The latest update is glitchy, lights sometimes don’t work, and I have had the Bluetooth connection drop out three times already while riding. The bike is also supposed to connect simply by moving it and that too also fails. Generally I am happy albeit it I will be very very happy when these problems have been sorted. I will try and reinstall the app and keep fingers crossed
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Response from developer

Hello, we've been fixing a lot of issues with the app recently. We hope your experience got smoother and you now feel more satisfied with our app! For Auto Unlock, just be aware that the app must still be running in background for this feature to work. The OS might kill it without you noticing if you're in Low Power Mode for instance. If you still have issues with Auto Unlock and they have nothing to do with this, could you reach out to our support team through the app chat? It would help us further investigate the problem. Thanks in advance.

Great bike, some app problems

Unable to add emergency contacts. Whenever I try to add, I can only call them.

Response from developer

Hello, the bug you describe has been fixed for a while now. Hope it's also resolved in your side and you feel more satisfied with the app! Feel free to reach out to our support team through the app chat if needed

Functionality is decent

Key features of the app for controlling the bike are satisfactory. The bit that is not good is using the map tool to navigate to your destination. The routes don’t recalibrate fast enough or clearly if you make a wrong turn and it gives you confusing directions. Though the biggest problem is that visual directions appear very late! So if you need to make a turn, the arrow will appear at the last moment making it quite dangerous as it prompts unanticipated change of direction. I’ve stopped using it for live navigation as it was getting quite dangerous and had a couple of close calls where I narrowly escaped being run over!
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Response from developer

Good news: the latest version of the app now integrates Google Maps and thus gives you access to the best routes to reach your destination

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