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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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.
Great app and back up service.
A wonderful app for planning exciting rides. Very innovative and easy to use. Also great after sales service.
will sign you up regardless
had this app for 5 seconds bc i don’t pay for stuff like this when i can find an app that’s actually free. why do i wake up at 6am to an email that i have 9 days left on my subscription. i would NEVER pay for a subscription to an app. i’m looking everywhere to cancel it before they take my money & the only way i can get it to cancel is to delete my whole account (that’s fine i literally don’t use this and they’re trying to take my money) thing is i don’t even know if that worked & who knows if i’ll get charged regardless. even if you don’t want to use it they will try to take your money. do not download unless you want to go thru that horrendous hassle of trying to unsubscribe from a subscription you NEVER asked for!!!
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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,
Spamming notifications
Taking off a star for every spam notification I get this month. I’m already paying for it; the more you piss me off, the more likely I stop doing so.
You’re on your own
First, even the free trial makes you authorize payment prior to signing up. Considering they have no customer service access through the app or online, it is hard to trust that you can cancel prior to the deadline e if needed. Next you cannot set routes online, you need to do everything in the app so since there is little to no help available it is too time consuming to figure the app out on your own compared to other available apps
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Potential but Limited
Bought for the first time a year ago. Didn’t get on with the A to B route planning as only gave one option. Round trip was expensive and great for local rides and new territory when out on tour.
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.
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.
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Great routes
Used for a couple of years now and really like the variety of routes and ability to keep away from motorway and busy A roads, occasionally puts u on a ‘track’ but otherwise 👍
Good app,
I really enjoyed using Calimoto while it was included with my CHIGEE AIO-6 LTE purchase. Unfortunately, my experience with customer support has completely changed my opinion.
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.
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.
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Navigating is questionable
Ok so using the app first time this week on 2 separate rides.
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
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
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The essential biker app
Plan a point to point route, pick a route already in the app or set a loop just brilliant
Phenomenal!!
Honestly such a great app! Works in US and Europe so far, prolly everywhere. No idea how they get the “windiness” data but “No highway” seems to be my fave for fast swoopy roads. Winding is a bit much tbh… takes you through a lot of slow towns.
Would be AMAZING to be able to adjust the windiness mid trip. Only complaint. Otherwise, money extremely well spent.
Would be AMAZING to be able to adjust the windiness mid trip. Only complaint. Otherwise, money extremely well spent.
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Almost perfect enough
We’ve just done a 4 day tour of the Lake District using Calimoto and it’s been mostly brilliant.
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.
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.
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Not the adventure I want
I’ve used Calimoto four times now, and every single ride has included at least one very long (we are talking miles) single-track lane. Today it really outdid itself by trying to send my cruiser down what looked more like an overgrown farm track than a road. I was half expecting to meet a herd of cows coming the other way!
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.
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.
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Not good
Crashed my phone, very difficult to cancel subscription, overpriced. Avoid this app
No Night time driving mode pity.
Been using the app since last summer it’s brilliant loving the routes it’s created they are fantastic biker routes round Yorkshire Lincolnshire Hull all been brilliant. My only issue is no option for night mode so it’s like having a torch shining in my face with my apple play screen on way home in the dark so have to switch to google maps for night mode but that always puts you on the main A roads. Definitely be a 5 star in it gets a night mode option 🤞
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Not happy
Paid for premium to use offline maps, never worked once for my whole tour of Spain and Portugal luckily I had another route service I could use not happy at all.
