Cardo Ride User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience53.8% of reviews
Neutral13.5% of reviews
Negative experience32.7% of reviews

~ Based on 370 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Cardo Ride Safe?

Cardo Ride - Motorcycle App appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Cardo Ride is 92/100.

This assessment is based on 3,066 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

88.9% of ratings point to a safe experience
5.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
6.1% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 3,066 App Store ratings for Cardo Ride.

Is Cardo Ride Legit?

Cardo Ride - Motorcycle App appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Cardo Ride is 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Virage

Bon

Needs work

I live 20 miles north of Asheville NC, and when I try to plan a twisty route to anywhere on the other side of Asheville, it take me through downtown. All around Asheville are some of the best twisty roads in the country and the app take me through a stoplight at every block “twisty” route. Choosing winding produces the same route btw.
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The worst routing I’ve ever used

This has to be the worst routing engine I’ve ever used, requiring you to add about a half dozen extra intermediate rides to try and get it to almost go in the right direction, and then there is no promise of it actually working then.

Use a different app, this app will send you bald way too soon

Response from developer

That sounds like a frustrating way to plan a ride—having to add multiple intermediate points just to get close to the route you intended defeats the purpose. We’d like to look into an example of where Cardo Ride sent you the wrong way; please email the route details (without any personal information) to support@cardoride.com so the team can investigate.

Ok but needs improvement

Overall good but needs improvements. Need it to display light, stop signs, etc

Cardo PackTalk Pro is absolutely what I needed and use

I originally had the Freecom 4X, upgraded to the 45mm kit and still felt like I was missing something. THEN Cardo comes out with Crash Detection and had to get to PackTalk Pro for my wife’s sanity and glad I did. Seamless, and the DMC it makes an absolute dream to ride along with new riders without having to worry about who has what Comm, etc. music sounds great, conversations come though clear and everyone can hear what I am saying. Great piece of tech and I’m 52 next week and wonder why we didn’t have this sooner! Great purchase with absolutely no regrets
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Response from developer

What an upgrade story—going from the Freecom 4X to PackTalk Pro and finding the setup that lets you ride with more peace of mind is great to hear. We’re especially glad the DMC experience has made group rides with new riders feel seamless, while music and conversations stay clear. Happy early 52nd birthday, and here’s to many more great rides with no regrets!

Not what I expected.

Used the Google to get me to a location and decided to try this to get back. Lots of turns in towns, but roads were same as if I chose “No Highway “ with Google.

Great Tool but have some suggestions

This app is super useful if you like statistics. It keeps track of your speed distance time as well as little stuff like elevation change which I love to track. It tracks how often you ride and goes super detailed if you pay the subscription however it’s not necessary. Some suggestions I have would be number one rework the mapping part of things when it comes to designing routes. I use this app solely for ride tracking and not route planning as it tends to lag on rides and gets very confusing. Maybe even allow the ability to export to Apple and Google Maps after a route has been planned. Number 2 I would love to see a map blip to pair with the new public mesh feature. Essentially I’m suggesting a little rider icon to appear as it would with the already present pack ride system. The difference being the icon would appear on anyone who opts in. Creating a mini map style hud for riding. Long post but I like the app and can see alot of potential.
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Connectivity is very unreliable

It’s aggravating and a joke amongst many riders that you’ll spend 5-10 minutes prior to a ride troubleshooting the product. It is up to date, connected to phone via Bluetooth and streaming from phone, yet app can’t find it. That says it all right there.

Planning is not as good as it could be

I’m planning a trip in September from Co Armagh to Witton castle and even putting waypoints Cardo says it’s too far and won’t let me plan it so I have to break it down into individual trips between stops, when I have done it for 11 years every year so I know it’s not too far. 👎🏼

Rough start

App continues to freeze upon opening. 😩. Iphone16pro. I'm sure it will get sorted.

Puppy

I like the program for tracking rides and tracking total km just wish when I open on my iPad it would be full screen

Not Worth It

great idea, terrible execution. doesn’t take into account any pertinent information from google or any other service, it will try to take you through impassible “roads” or through completely closed construction areas. not a good app at all, especially since you have to pay for it. complete waste of money.
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Program is not ready for use

Cardo ride is not ready for public use. Even when selecting 3D, it reverts to something that resembles a pencil drawing that is impossible to follow in busy traffic. You should not be charging for this version.

Horrible

Terrible distance, connecting

Good idea, but frustratingly limited

Using the pro (paid) version.

The Cardo Ride app has some useful features, but there are frustrating limitations in the way it manages motorcycle profiles.

I accidentally deleted one of my bikes from my garage in app. There appears to be no way to restore the original bike profile, meaning the history associated with that motorcycle was lost. The only apparent solution is to create the bike again as a new profile.

Even more strangely, once a motorcycle profile exists, there doesn't appear to be any way to change its main/cover photograph. You can add photographs to the bike's gallery, but there is no apparent option to select one of those photographs as the primary Garage image. This is particularly odd because your own user profile photograph can be changed quite easily.

These seem like basic profile-management functions that should be straightforward.

Please add the ability to:

Edit or replace a motorcycle's primary/cover photograph.

Restore or recover a deleted motorcycle profile, including its history.

Properly manage photographs associated with a motorcycle.

Also as others have pointed out - privacy should be on by default for each trip and not be down to the user to manually change the settings for each ride.

The underlying app is useful, but these limitations make managing your Garage unnecessarily frustrating.
Hopefully Cardo can address them in a future update.
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Terrible Location Search

I wanted to like this app, so much, but most of the time I attempt to search an address for navigation the search just times out or doesn’t provide a single choice. I tried different address formats and still nothing. It’s pretty terrible and makes the navigation useless.

Flawless!!

Buy them!!

Son pas terrible

J’ai cru que c’est moi qui n’a pas su régler le son de mon CARDO , finalement non … c’est bien que la qualité n’est pas vraiment au rdv, sans parler des bugs fréquents …

What a waste of money

The unit doesn’t connect to my phone have never been able to take or make a phone call very disappointing for th $800 I spent on it won’t even charge now . I wouldn’t and don’t recommend this unit

Landscape mode

This app wind go landscape and that’s how I have to mount my Quad lock mount.
This sucks and until they support landscape mode like every other I cannot recommend Cardo Ride and I will not pay for the app if it doesn’t support landscape.
Lame!!!!!