Review before you allow me to see the app?
Very pleased
Needs to work the bugs out
No carplay
Please add Apple CarPlay
The one thing it’s missing is CarPlay connectivity. I keep my phone in my pocket and I’m tired of running two apps all the time.
5 stars once implemented.
PS. I emailed the dev team.
Best motorcycle app
Limited App
Cardo, good! Route directing, awful!
Cardo ride
Doesn’t find curves
Fake 30 day trial
Good maps, poor connectivity
Garbage
No Yamaha XT225?
No CarPlay = useless
Good route planning, but poor navigation.
The navigation aspect of the app, however, featured some quite big issues.
1. Missing address/postcode. I was not able to search for my home street using either postcode or even by manually typing the address. I had to search for a nearby supermarket and manually drop a pin. I also can’t seem to find a way to set this as my home location, so I have to do this every time. This is a pretty basic thing that most free apps get right.
2. Roundabouts. The instructions for roundabouts are really inconsistent. Several times I would come up on an unfamiliar roundabout and the only information the app would give me was the street name that I needed to exit on. For example, I might need to take the third exit on the A1234 for Newcastle and all the app would tell me is “Green Street”. That isn’t helpful! Tell me the road number so I can follow the road signs, or, better yet, tell me which exit to take! (Or maybe even both at the same time!) This problem was exacerbated by the default zoom level (which the app constantly insisted on reverting back to) being way too close in to see where the route was going before I was already on most large roundabouts and by the next problem:
3. Location Accuracy. Probably the biggest problem with the navigation was that the app was always at least 30-50 yards behind my road position. I missed several turns because they hadn’t yet appeared on screen by the time I was going past them! When there were multiple turns within a hundred yards of each other, I might as well have flipped a coin to pick a turning. At one point where I had missed several turnings in a row, I thought it could have been an issue with the phone’s location services, so switched over to Waze and found that the location on there was extremely accurate, so it is definitely an issue with the app. Again this is a basic thing that most free navigation apps do to have an issue with.
4. Fuel Stops. I don’t know if this is a feature that is in there somewhere and I just haven’t been able to find it, or if it is actually absent. Whenever I was getting low on fuel I had to switch over to Waze to find a fuel station because there were no results for services/fuel/petrol that came up when I searched on the Edit Route screen of the app. Given the type of app this is, there really should be a quick and easy way to search for the nearest fuel station, divert to that, and then return to the preplanned route.
5. Speed limits. I know not to rely on an app for speed limits, but there were multiple occasions this app told me I was in a 60 limit, and it was actually a 40. These weren’t temporary speed limits, and from the looks of the roads and signs they weren’t terribly new either.
Overall this app has some great potential and is great for logging, planning, and sharing my trips but the app’s navigation was probably the most frustrating part of an 850 mile wet and windy trip!
Personally I’m not overly interested in the social media side of it, but I can see why many people would be. That said, the live sharing/tracking of my location is good, and I’ll be using it to plan my next trip. Just *please* sort some of these basic issues out!
Pas mal
Response from developer
Bonjour Horus39, Merci beaucoup pour votre note de 4 étoiles ! Nous sommes ravis de voir que l'application vous plaît. Concernant votre remarque, nous souhaitions vous préciser que le français est déjà entièrement supporté par notre application. De plus, depuis notre dernière mise à jour, toutes les descriptions des Challenges sont également disponibles en français. L'application s'adapte normalement de façon automatique à la langue de votre smartphone. Comme nous aimons beaucoup les retours constructifs de notre communauté, pourriez-vous nous aider à mieux comprendre ce qui vous manque ? S'agit-il d'une section spécifique qui s'affiche encore en anglais chez vous ? N'hésitez pas à nous envoyer un message avec plus de détails (et idéalement une capture d'écran) à support@cardoride.com. Nous serions ravis de vous aider à basculer l'application entièrement en français et à décrocher votre 5ème étoile ! Bonne route ! 🏍️
Disappointed
Great but…
Unfortunately, I have not been able to access riser from CarPlay, so it can’t use it on my bikes with a phone-fed displays.
