will sign you up regardless
Response from developer
Hi, we understand why receiving that email was concerning. A subscription is not started without confirmation, and deleting your calimoto account does not automatically cancel a subscription. Please contact us at support@calimoto.com so we can check where the trial was started and help you cancel it correctly before any charge occurs. Best regards,
You’re on your own
Potential but Limited
It crashes too many times and if you have a poor signal it just means you don’t use it for return journeys which kind of makes it redundant for me.
I switched off the renewal subscription on my devices on to find it renewed because I hadn’t switched it off on the website login! Wasn’t impressed by that. Reached out but was told no refund. I’ve been trying to get my monies worth for year two subscription but in all honesty, I want to use it but it really just feels dated for only have one route suggestion and then you have to pray that when you reach the destination that you have a signal to “complete and replan” your journey back home without it just crashing.
What a shame but hope these guys keep on pushing it forward.
Response from developer
Hi Ella, thanks for taking the time to share such detailed feedback. We’re sorry to hear that calimoto hasn’t been as reliable as you expected, especially when you actually want to depend on it while out riding. Regarding poor signal, you can download offline maps in advance with Premium, so navigation can continue even without mobile coverage. The crashes you describe shouldn’t be happening though, and we’d really like to investigate them. If you’re willing, please contact us at support@calimoto.com with some details about your device and the affected rides. We also appreciate your feedback about A-to-B planning and the subscription experience. There’s clearly room for us to do better, and feedback like yours helps us understand where the biggest frustrations are. Thanks for sticking with us and for still hoping to see calimoto move forward. 🏍️
Great routes
Good app,
My subscription renewed automatically after one year, and I contacted support immediately after noticing the charge. I hadn’t intended to continue the subscription and requested a goodwill refund within days of the renewal.
Despite explaining the situation, and despite not intending to use the renewed subscription, my request was rejected with what appeared to be a standard copy-and-paste response.
The app itself is good and for the 12 month I used was great, but customer service and flexibility towards loyal users were very disappointing. I expected much better.
Navigating is questionable
The first ride was a 120klm loop on twisty roads and no dirt roads. So when I arrived at the 70klm mark it wanted to take me on a 40klm dirt road! I had to double back to another town about 20klm back. This area had no mobile coverage at all.
2nd attempt today and 110klm loop with no motorways or toll roads! Guess what it took me onto the motorway/toll road for 35klm?
Real problem if you actually rely on the algorithm to not take you on the roads you’ve explicitly told it too.
More work needed I don’t think I’ll be subscribing
Response from developer
Hi, thanks for sharing your experience. We can understand how frustrating this is, especially when you've specifically chosen to avoid dirt roads, motorways and toll roads. calimoto should of course take your route preferences into account, so we'd really like to take a closer look at what happened on these two rides. Please send us the affected routes at support@calimoto.com so our team can investigate them. Thanks for giving calimoto a try and for taking the time to let us know what went wrong. We really appreciate the feedback and hope we can improve your experience.
The essential biker app
Phenomenal!!
Would be AMAZING to be able to adjust the windiness mid trip. Only complaint. Otherwise, money extremely well spent.
Almost perfect enough
I’d recommend checking your route and ‘via points’ carefully however, to avoid pointless trips up farm tracks and around town centres. This wasn’t the app’s fault, but my fat fingers.
A couple of bits of constructive criticism/feedback.
We needed to get home pretty urgently, so plotted the fastest route back.
However, after a fuel stop the route decided to change itself and before I’d realised, the route had changed from a 130 mile journey, to 179 and we were yet again on a farmer’s track to nowhere.
I then had to reset the route back to the fastest, but it still cost us an extra 20 minutes.
Another thing was when we were navigating through the network of Manchester’s motorways.
Exit or lane information would be a brilliant feature, so missing exits wouldn’t happen like it did with us.
Being instructed to turn left in 100 metres doesn’t help when you’ve passed the slip road that you needed.
Switching over to the likes of *Goggle Maps didn’t help either, as it doesn’t cater for bikes and tries to avoid built up traffic, which we all know doesn’t necessarily apply to bikes.
If Calimoto could improve the motorway exit notifications, then it’d be pretty unbeatable for bike navigation.
Response from developer
Hi there, Thank you very much for your detailed review and for taking the time to share your experience after your tour! 😊 We're delighted to hear that calimoto was mostly brilliant and that you enjoyed using it. We also really appreciate your constructive feedback. The unexpected route recalculation after your fuel stop and the lack of clearer motorway exit and lane guidance are valuable points, and we'll make sure to pass them on to our development team for consideration. Feedback like yours helps us identify where we can improve the navigation experience, especially in more demanding situations such as motorway junctions and route recalculations. Thanks again for riding with calimoto. We hope to accompany you on many more great tours—and hopefully earn that fifth star in the future! 🏍️ Ride safe! 🏍️
Not the adventure I want
The route planning idea is great, but if there was an option to avoid narrow single-track roads, it certainly didn’t seem to work for me. Until that improves, I can’t give it more than two stars.
Update: I did try the fast “Fast” routing setting and that was the day it tried to send me down a single road that was basically a farm track. I went out numerous times trying different setting but every time I took me down some single track lane where you have to pray there’s a passing point if you meet other traffic as being on a motorbike means reversing is extremely difficult.
Response from developer
Hey BBridge, thanks for taking the time to share your experience. We’re sorry to hear your rides included roads that clearly weren’t what you were looking for. If you haven’t already, it may be worth trying the “Fast” routing profile, as “Twisty” is our default and can sometimes favour smaller, more winding roads. We’re also continuously refining our routing algorithm, and we’ll gladly pass your feedback on to the team. We hope you’ll give calimoto another try in the future. 🏍️
Not good
No Night time driving mode pity.
Not happy
Not the adventure I want
The route planning idea is great, but if there was an option to avoid narrow single-track roads, it certainly didn’t seem to work for me. Until that improves, I can’t give it more than two stars.
Mittlerweile die beste Navi-App für’s Motorrad - mit Eigenheit
Was ich auf jeden Fall, wie gesagt, für eine Verbesserung halten würde, wäre gesperrte Straßen gar nicht erst in die Tourenplanung mit einzubeziehen, statt das optional einschalten zu müssen. Die Anzeige ist hervorragend, auch wenn das Handy sich durch Hitze mal abgedunkelt hat, kann man durch die großen Elemente immer noch alles erkennen. Was ich mir noch wünschen würde, wäre die Möglichkeit, statt nur zwei Informationen im rechten Bereich derer vier anzeigen lassen zu können. Aber ohne dass die Anzeige der Abbiegehinweise dadurch kleiner wird, denn das ist sehr gut so wie es ist.
Response from developer
Hey Z.Brannigan – Danke für dein tolles Update und deine langjährige Begleitung! Freut uns riesig, dass calimoto für dich inzwischen zur ersten Wahl geworden ist. Was die Sperrungen angeht, arbeiten wir weiter an besseren Daten und häufigeren Updates – danke fürs Dranbleiben und Mitdenken! 🏍️🙌
Needs A Lot of Work
Additionally, because the app doesn't understand that you are sitting at a red light or a stop sign, it will aggressively urge you to turn while you are stuck waiting in the middle of an intersection. To make matters worse, if you happen to miss a turn, it completely deletes your next via point. You almost have to ignore the audio directions entirely and just look at the map. This is a major design flaw and is highly dangerous.
The second issue—also stemming from the app’s inability to recognize intersections with lights and stop signs—is that it frequently routes you onto major roadways where you end up sitting in traffic for unrealistic lengths of time.
If you still decide to use this app, you have to manually verify your routes based on your own local knowledge to determine if a route is actually efficient. I will not be using this app in any unfamiliar areas; you simply never know if it is going to put you on a heavily congested main road with lights at every intersection or a wide-open country road.
Response from developer
Hey, thanks for taking the time to leave such detailed feedback. We appreciate it, even though we’re sorry to hear about your experience. We’ll pass your comments about the navigation guidance, intersection handling, and routing behaviour on to our team. Feedback like yours helps us identify where we can improve, and we’re continuously working to make calimoto more reliable with every update. 🏍️
Good app needs some improvements
disappointment
Exceptional route planning app
Dated; but has potential (and a bunch of issues I can’t get past)
When I started planning my first ride, I found that the feature required a subscription. That wasn’t a problem for me, so I signed up for the free trial and headed out.
Unfortunately, less than 10 minutes into the ride, I’d already decided to cancel. A few issues stood out:
• The navigation voice sounds incredibly dated and robotic. It genuinely felt like using a GPS from the early 2000s.
• The speedometer is almost useless. Riders know motorcycle speedometers are often inaccurate, which is why I usually rely on Waze’s GPS speed reading. Calimoto includes a GPS speedometer, but it rounds to the nearest 5 mph, making it far less useful than it should be.
• The map refresh rate and navigation responsiveness are poor. I missed several turns because the map felt like it was lagging behind my actual position. Waze dynamically zooms in at lower speeds so junctions and exits are easy to see. Calimoto stays zoomed out, and by the time the map updates, you’ve often already passed the turn.
The route generation itself seemed promising, I would have probably only used it to generate round trips and still be happy to pay the subscription fee, but the navigation experience wasn’t good enough for me to justify the cost.
Response from developer
Hi, Thank you for taking the time to write such a detailed review. We really appreciate constructive feedback like this, even when the experience wasn't what you hoped for. We're sorry to hear that the navigation experience let you down. Your comments about the voice guidance, GPS speed display, map responsiveness and zoom behavior are all valuable and have been shared by other riders as well. Feedback like yours helps us identify where we need to improve. We're glad to hear that the round-trip generation and route planning showed potential. If you'd like to help us investigate the navigation issues further, feel free to contact us at support@calimoto.com with details about your device and setup. Thanks again for giving calimoto a try, and safe riding! 🏍️✌️
