# calimoto Motorcycle Navigation — user reviews > 322 indexed App Store user reviews of calimoto Motorcycle Navigation by calimoto GmbH, rated 4.60/5 from 973 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/calimoto-motorcycle-navigation/id1209129603/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/calimoto-motorcycle-navigation/id1209129603.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 807 · 4★ 64 · 3★ 29 · 2★ 13 · 1★ 60 ## What do users think of calimoto Motorcycle Navigation? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Great for finding new roads - 👍 Easy to plan and customize routes - 🚲 Motorcycle-specific features - 📊 Detailed ride tracking and statistics **Cons** - 🐛 Navigation issues (late turn prompts, incorrect directions) - 💰 Expensive subscription model - 🗺️ Limited map data and road coverage - 🔍 Poor search and address lookup functionality **Commonly reported bugs** - Frequent crashes and app instability - Premium features not working as expected - Syncing and account issues **Most requested features** - Show street names during navigation - Offline map support - Integration with other navigation apps - Ability to block/avoid certain road types ## Newest reviews (15 of 322) ### 2/5 — Mediocre at best *2026-08-24, version 7.22.6* 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. ### 3/5 — Spamming notifications *2026-08-10, version 7.22.5* 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. ### 2/5 — You’re on your own *2026-08-06, version 7.22.5* 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 ### 3/5 — Potential but Limited *2026-08-03, version 7.22.4* 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. ### 2/5 — Good app, *2026-07-30, version 7.22.4* 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. ### 2/5 — Navigating is questionable *2026-07-30, version 7.22.4* 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 ### 4/5 — Almost perfect enough *2026-07-09, version 7.22.1* 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. ### 2/5 — Not the adventure I want *2026-07-09, version 7.22.1* 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. ### 2/5 — Not good *2026-07-06, version 7.22.0* Crashed my phone, very difficult to cancel subscription, overpriced. Avoid this app ### 4/5 — No Night time driving mode pity. *2026-07-05, version 7.22.0* 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 🤞 ### 2/5 — Not the adventure I want *2026-07-02, version 7.22.0* 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. ### 3/5 — Needs A Lot of Work *2026-06-23* The app does not recognize stop signs or stoplights, which causes multiple issues when navigating and following directions. On several occasions, road design combined with app errors led to conflicting guidance: the audio navigation told me to turn one direction, while the visual route on the screen displayed the opposite. For example, the mapped route would show a right turn, but the voice navigation would tell me to turn left. The left turn isn’t visible on the map yet and is actual after the intersection however the app doesn’t recognize the intersection. So it gives directions as if the light it stop sign is the turn. 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. **Developer response:** 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. 🏍️ ### 4/5 — Good app needs some improvements *2026-06-20, version 7.21.2* I love this app for creating quick rides in my area without much planning. I do wish I could pick time instead of distance as a variable. I would love to be able to take a shorter but twistier ride. Right now I have to play around with distance and direction to get it right when I only have a certain window of riding time. ### 3/5 — Good but needs a work. *2026-06-01, version 7.21.0* I found the desktop planning part of the app the most useful. I’m just back from a 4 day tour of Wales in the UK and use an apple car play device on my bike. It’s clear that the app has not been optimised for CarPlay and is instead designed for your phone to be directly mounted on the bike. Some annoying issues included no option to control volume via CarPlay (google maps has this), taking random side roads as ‘twisty’ roads which leave and rejoin the main road which is pretty pointless and after a while a general lack of trust of the apps route algorithm; it felt like we were being pulled off fast winding roads to go down slow green lanes - something which may be more unique to the UK vs the US or Europe but worth considering for any UK based riders. There is also no way to see time to next waypoint in CarPlay - just total time remaining. When you have a full multiple day tour planned this is really annoying as you cannot easily see how much rinsing or miles are left for that day. In the end I resorted back to using google maps which was a shame. I’m sure they’ll get there but I won’t be renewing the free trial just yet. ### 3/5 — Potential is there *2026-05-31, version 7.20.0* Calimoto has so much potential but on recent trip it has taken me and my road bike down gravel track, other times I’ve wanted to use it but the route to my destination was more miles than I wanted to do. I need more control over the type of terrain and length of the route… some say you can do these things but i faffed with for so long and couldn’t change it. So when these things are available and accessible then I’ll come back to Calimoto. Sorry until the I’m out. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Just not as good as less costly options *2026-08-27, version 7.22.6* 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! ### 1/5 — Route generation poor *2026-08-18, version 7.22.6* 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. ### 1/5 — Useless app very buggy *2026-08-17, version 7.22.6* 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 🤷🏼‍♂️ ### 1/5 — Auto-Renewal *2026-08-14, version 7.22.5* 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. ### 1/5 — will sign you up regardless *2026-08-11* 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!!! **Developer response:** 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, ### 1/5 — Great routes *2026-07-31, version 7.22.4* 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 👍 ### 1/5 — disappointment *2026-06-13, version 7.21.1* for how expensive the subscription is, this app should be the best app on my phone. not the case. half the time when you open the app, you get the spinning wheel of death. the other half of the time, you go to generate a ride and the button does literally nothing. like everything else in this world, the app was great when it came out and became junk over time. a shame really. ### 1/5 — Dated; but has potential (and a bunch of issues I can’t get past) *2026-06-05, version 7.21.0* I’ve been riding for a couple of years and often go out with no destination in mind, so finding new routes can be a challenge. I discovered this app through a motorcycle Discord community and was immediately interested by the automatic round-trip generator, especially the option to prioritise twisty roads. 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. ### 1/5 — So far no good. *2026-05-18, version 7.20.0* Not good with Apple CarPlay on my road glide, no sound was coming through for the directions and if the phone screen shut off, the ride would stop and even though no sound was coming through with navigation the. Every time directions came on the screen it would stop my music from playing. Not worth $80 a year if it doesn’t talk to me and integrate with apple CarPlay. My husband had similar issues on his Samsung as well were attempting to share a group ride. ### 1/5 — Beware *2026-05-04, version 7.19.0* Everyone knows that what an automatic annual subscription means. Except that should you be reminded by a charge and you immediately contact support to cancel and get a refund (a courtesy) and they told you can’t, to me, that sounds like extremely poor customer service. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great app and back up service. *2026-08-13, version 7.22.5* A wonderful app for planning exciting rides. Very innovative and easy to use. Also great after sales service. ### 5/5 — The essential biker app *2026-07-28, version 7.22.3* Plan a point to point route, pick a route already in the app or set a loop just brilliant ### 5/5 — Phenomenal!! *2026-07-09, version 7.22.1* 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. ### 5/5 — Not happy *2026-07-05, version 7.22.0* 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. ### 5/5 — Mittlerweile die beste Navi-App für’s Motorrad - mit Eigenheit *2026-06-29* Es ist wirklich sehr vieles verbessert oder optimiert worden in den letzten Jahren. Mittlerweile funktioniert die App fast perfekt und sehr stabil und ist unterm Strich für mich die beste App für (kurvenreiche) Touren. Die gesperrten Strecken wurden nun auch noch besser eingebunden, aber absurd ist, dass default gesperrte Straßen NICHT aus der Planung heraus genommen werden. Man muss es später explizit setzen, LOL… Aktuelle Verkehrsinformationen wären natürlich auch super, aber das kann man wohl nicht auch noch erwarten. 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. **Developer response:** 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! 🏍️🙌 ### 5/5 — Exceptional route planning app *2026-06-08, version 7.21.0* I couldn’t be happier with this app. It has planned out 4 motorcycle rides for me so far in 2 different states. The routes were perfect! Better than anything that I could have planned out on my own. Highly recommend this app if you need some routing ideas. Well worth the money in my opinion. ### 5/5 — Mittlerweile die beste Navi-App für’s Motorrad *2026-06-01* Es ist wirklich sehr vieles verbessert oder optimiert worden in den letzten Jahren. Mittlerweile funktioniert die App fast perfekt und extrem stabil und ist unterm Strich für mich die beste App für (kurvenreiche) Touren. Die gesperrten Strecken wurden nun auch noch besser eingebunden, prima. Aktuelle Verkehrsinformationen wären natürlich super, aber das kann man wohl nicht auch noch erwarten. Was ich auf jeden Fall 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. **Developer response:** 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! 🏍️🙌 ### 5/5 — Awesome app!!! *2026-05-24, version 7.20.0* Great app for twisty roads!!! ### 5/5 — Great app, would like a few more features *2026-05-16* I really like this app for planning routes, the random route generator is great. I also like combining with the webapp. Might be the best of all the route tracking apps. Would love a few enhancements: 1) the map could be more detailed when zooming(stores, gas stations, seems like zooming doesn’t show these things). 2) while in guidance mode, after starting a route, the view of the route is too small, obscured by a large black box with a direction indicator, I’d love to have different views to cycle through or to disable some screen elements with voice commands. 3) Difficult to operate with gloves **Developer response:** Hi Eva, Thanks a lot for the awesome review and for taking the time to share such detailed feedback 😊🏍️ Really happy to hear you’re enjoying both the route generator and the web planner combination. That’s exactly the kind of experience we want calimoto to offer 👍 Your suggestions are also super valuable: • more detailed map information when zooming • customizable guidance UI / different navigation views • voice-controlled UI elements • and better glove usability Especially the feedback about the navigation overlay taking too much space and the difficulty of operating the app with gloves makes a lot of sense from a real riding perspective. I’ll definitely pass your suggestions on to the team 😊 A lot of improvements and new features come directly from recurring rider feedback like yours. Thanks again for your support and enjoy your next rides with calimoto ✌️ Best regards, claire ### 5/5 — Get this *2026-01-29, version 7.17.3* This app helps me find ways but otherwise I likely wouldn't find it and it keeps me on track as I'm riding. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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