My go-to mountain bike app
MTB Project is an awesome resource for ride planning, whether in a new area or one I’m already familiar with. There are a couple quirks that I have learned to live with, but I would love to see improved.
First, elevation change always seems to be at least 10% less than what my Garmin or Strava on my iPhone indicates. I’ve had rides with more than a 20% discrepancy between MTB Project, my Garmin, and Strava.
Second, I wish I could leave a comment or add a trail photo without doing so through my computer. Often I would like to make a helpful comment after riding a trail, but it’s too much effort to go login through a computer later—so I just don’t bother. Ditto for uploading photos. I almost always take a few photos when I ride and upload to Strava, but it’s way too much effort to get those photos from my phone, to my computer, and into MTB Project. Sure, maybe I’m lazy. But that’s why I use MTB Project to make sure I hit the best downhills in the right direction!
First, elevation change always seems to be at least 10% less than what my Garmin or Strava on my iPhone indicates. I’ve had rides with more than a 20% discrepancy between MTB Project, my Garmin, and Strava.
Second, I wish I could leave a comment or add a trail photo without doing so through my computer. Often I would like to make a helpful comment after riding a trail, but it’s too much effort to go login through a computer later—so I just don’t bother. Ditto for uploading photos. I almost always take a few photos when I ride and upload to Strava, but it’s way too much effort to get those photos from my phone, to my computer, and into MTB Project. Sure, maybe I’m lazy. But that’s why I use MTB Project to make sure I hit the best downhills in the right direction!
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Auto zoom WAS a deal breaker
Update. Tech support was great. They told me about what to me looks lijecc BD a hidden feature. Turn off location lock by tapping on the location triangle. It stops the auto zoom that I hated. Spent hours looking for this button.
Frustrating as it keeps zooming out while recording. It thinks it knows what I want to see. It does not. Give an option to turn auto zoom off.
Frustrating as it keeps zooming out while recording. It thinks it knows what I want to see. It does not. Give an option to turn auto zoom off.
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Site for MTB riders from MTB riders
Folks I love it and appreciate the great intuitive nature of the site. The trails are easy to follow and “need to know” information is listed. All this and with navigation, stellar!!!!
You are continuing to keep MTB fun especially is places that are new to us. Keep the MTB world connected no matter where your from...we can ride everywhere thanks to MTB Project.
Well done and thanks,
Justin Loxley
You are continuing to keep MTB fun especially is places that are new to us. Keep the MTB world connected no matter where your from...we can ride everywhere thanks to MTB Project.
Well done and thanks,
Justin Loxley
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Recording rides and adding trails needs work.
It lets you record a ride but it’s buggy.
Sometimes it will stop recording and you have the start it a second time then it seems to work so long as you don’t switch apps.
The sample rate need to be improved. Winding trails can’t be captured well and will show a shorter distance than reality.
You can’t change the view on the map while it’s recording.
If you’re recoding while riding an existing trail it doesn’t help with forks or directions and again you can zoom to check on the map your self.
The app needs a way to take pictures while recording a ride and the ability to add a note and a way to submit that photo and note as a trail issue or a correction to a trail or route.
Even if you can get a clean trail recorded even then there is no way to export the ride in the app or make it in to a trail or anything. If you try and add a trail it just dumps to a website that can’t pull any info from the app. Even if you try and use the website it doesn’t use the same map layers / sat view as the app so it will not line up right or may show in one and not the other. Disappointing.
At this time It’s better to not use the recording feature at all.
This app should be fixed so trail makers can upload an in progress trail system and update as it expands. This is a primary suggested use of the app based in the name in the first place after all and should be a focus for further development.
Sometimes it will stop recording and you have the start it a second time then it seems to work so long as you don’t switch apps.
The sample rate need to be improved. Winding trails can’t be captured well and will show a shorter distance than reality.
You can’t change the view on the map while it’s recording.
If you’re recoding while riding an existing trail it doesn’t help with forks or directions and again you can zoom to check on the map your self.
The app needs a way to take pictures while recording a ride and the ability to add a note and a way to submit that photo and note as a trail issue or a correction to a trail or route.
Even if you can get a clean trail recorded even then there is no way to export the ride in the app or make it in to a trail or anything. If you try and add a trail it just dumps to a website that can’t pull any info from the app. Even if you try and use the website it doesn’t use the same map layers / sat view as the app so it will not line up right or may show in one and not the other. Disappointing.
At this time It’s better to not use the recording feature at all.
This app should be fixed so trail makers can upload an in progress trail system and update as it expands. This is a primary suggested use of the app based in the name in the first place after all and should be a focus for further development.
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LOVE finding new MTB trails while traveling
This has been one of the best apps I’ve found for MTB trail locations that other apps trying to map “everything” seem to miss. My one complaint, and NOT with the app, is there should absolutely be 2 different ratings for any trails (MTB, hiking, etc) cause as a 40something YOF trying to get back to riding and in shape, that 20something year old’s rating is WAY too much for me 😀😅.
So MTB, here is your chance to reach those of us working at getting back to 20something (ok...maybe 30something!) shape and start the next big trend! (But you can’t make the trail rating markers chubby women in spandex...cause I know someone there was thinking it 🤣)
Oh and thanks for the great app too!
So MTB, here is your chance to reach those of us working at getting back to 20something (ok...maybe 30something!) shape and start the next big trend! (But you can’t make the trail rating markers chubby women in spandex...cause I know someone there was thinking it 🤣)
Oh and thanks for the great app too!
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Needs Updating
It’s a nice app, but in the area that I live, there are a ton of trails that aren’t even listed? And I don’t mean a little bit, but a lot! Just really out of date. The layout is nice, but if you want accurate trail data, you’re going to have to use the Trail Forks app. It’s definitely more current, complete, and it’s worth it to pay for the pro version. But I’m rooting for this app and hope they will just bring it up to date - and I will definitely update my review to reflect that.
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Great for a newbie
I have found this app invaluable in my foray into mountain biking. I’m not a newbie to biking but I’m just getting started at MTB so I really needed help picking trails and staying on them. After picking a suitable trail, the gps keeps me from getting off track (I pull it out constantly on more complicated trail systems) and also helps with the difficulty that is either behind or yet to come. I highly recommend both this app and the sister app for hiking.
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I will only be using this to find the trails
This is only useful when researching areas to find trails. Unfortunately, the in-app functionality while riding is pretty useless. First, it’s impossible to zoom in on the map. This becomes a problem when coming to multiple intersections and you need to zoom in to see which turn to make. Nope. Won’t do it. Second, the elevation/distance reading is WAY off and changes after you save the activity. I’ll be using Strava to record all my activities again.
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Very well documented
This app has saved my bacon a number of times. I have come to rely on this thing for all of my out of town rides.. the description is very detailed and and right on the money! The GPS sync is a life saver! Used it on a ride in Durango 3.7 miles away from civilization. Brought me right back home. Just finished a ride in Sun Valley ID and once again it served me well. Recommended the app to my brother in law who has just started getting into Mountain Biking. He just took it on a trip to. We Mexico and Colorado and also raves about the details. Thanks for such a great app!
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Was great until they changed the update...
Update: the newest update has alleviated my issues below, I now use the app again for searching and planning (vs website before). Back to being a great app and easy to use for what you need. Thanks!
Do your self a favor and use the website... it’s what the app use to be. It’s so hard now in the mobile app to select the trial / ride you want. Your scroll horizontally which means you only see 1 at a time, and it never selects the most popular/common ride now (it use to). How it automatically goes to the trail main screen when you select one vs “view on map” is not as good.
Please bring back the old version, or at least bring back vertical scroll/select of the trails (when looking at a map, because realistically, I’ve never known anyone use the list/search view. I ride with 10+ people who use this)
Do your self a favor and use the website... it’s what the app use to be. It’s so hard now in the mobile app to select the trial / ride you want. Your scroll horizontally which means you only see 1 at a time, and it never selects the most popular/common ride now (it use to). How it automatically goes to the trail main screen when you select one vs “view on map” is not as good.
Please bring back the old version, or at least bring back vertical scroll/select of the trails (when looking at a map, because realistically, I’ve never known anyone use the list/search view. I ride with 10+ people who use this)
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Response from developer
Stay tuned, I think you’ll like the next update.
