Just not as good as less costly options
I got a subscription as a deal with a CarPlay unit I bought. It wasn’t really worth the £5 I paid for it. Certainly not worth the full price. I don’t know how they do business, perhaps it’s through trapping buyers that buy it at a special rate into renewal without warning, and then refusing to stop the subscription, even if you stop it on the same day as it renews. Crooks. Avoid like the plague. If the app was any good they would need to use these tactics. Despite saying I can contact them, they still create a subscription trap. Hollow words!
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Mediocre at best
Some of the route planning functionality is handy, but can be a bit hit and miss route wise. The navigation is poor and as a premium only option is expensive and poorly executed. Particularly unhelpful if you rely on the audio prompts only without a map display while riding. For example “continue straight ahead” or “turn left” may be the same thing depending on road layout. Plan your routes yourself and stick with Google Maps for navigation.
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Route generation poor
Takes you down bumpy narrow single track roads, regardless of what setting you apply. Tried this app a few times now and experimented with every option and it still takes you down poorly surfaced farm roads just because they look curvy on a map. How this yet to be fixed yet is beyond belief, I’ve tried it multiple times since release to same avail.
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Useless app very buggy
Well had high hopes for this, subscribed to the app and went on holiday, the app was very buggy and consistently routed us incorrectly to find the nearest petrol station - it sent us 20 miles in the wrong direction when it had several garages within 1 mile of our location. Then upon me adding all the photos of the trip within the app it crashes upon saving the end of the ride and now the app I locked up and calimoto cannot recover the ride or end it sucessfully. So have lost all the photos and after the first day of a 7 day adventure and nothing can be done other than delete the app and lose the photos. Won’t be using this again after the expirience. Will try a different app that does work I guess 🤷🏼♂️
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Response from developer
Hi Pete, thanks for taking the time to explain what happened. We’re really sorry your first day ended like this, especially on a 7-day trip. The petrol station routing and the crash while saving the ride both sound like issues we need to investigate. Please contact us at support@calimoto.com with the details of the ride and your device, and we’ll take a closer look.
Auto-Renewal
I used the App on a trip to Spain 2 years ago. I found it OK, nothing beyond that. I noted last week that the subscription had been auto-renewed. This despite no notification from Calimoto. They are refusing to refund the amount, despite the account and App not having been used in 14 months.
