# GCN — Global Cycling Network > Global Cycling Network app for road cycling news, live races, and documentaries. (iPhone/iPad app by Play Sports Network Ltd.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gcn/id1455822746 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Play Sports Network Ltd](https://appshunter.io/developer/1296247942) - Category: Lifestyle, Sports - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Rating: 3.60/5 from 1,080 App Store ratings · 56 written reviews indexed - Age rating: 17+ - Requires: iOS 14.0 · 212 MB - Languages: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian and 11 more - Released: 2019-07-26 - Data updated: 2026-06-10 - Monetization: subscription - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gcn/id1455822746/reviews.md ## What is GCN? Welcome to the GCN app! Brought to you by the Global Cycling Network – the world’s largest online cycling channel – our app is for anyone interested in the world of road cycling. Sign up for an account to join our community and subscribe to GCN+ to watch live racing and exclusive cycling documentaries and films. With the GCN app – now fully compatible with iPad as well as iPhone – you can: Subscribe to GCN+ GCN+ is a better way to watch the best bike racing from across the worlds of road, cyclocross and track as they unfold live, uninterrupted and ad-free. On GCN+ there is no off-season: we keep all the action going through every month of the year. On GCN+ you can catch up with all the key moments from the races you love with our on-demand highlights, and go deeper with our analysis show, The Breakaway, where we relive all the action, with expert insights after every stage of the season’s biggest races. Plus get up to speed with all the racing and everything that matters in our weekly cycling magazine show, World Of Cycling, packed full with even more analysis, news, special guests, chat, challenges and more. Discover a world of epic new documentaries that you can watch anywhere, anytime for a big screen experience on any screen, including iPad. Immerse yourself in incredible adventures from across the globe. Get inspired and entertained by epic challenges. Keep on cycling’s cutting edge with the latest advances in science and technology that promise to take us into the future, today. Meet the sport’s greatest legends and see them like you’ve never seen them before. Learn about the history of the sport, brands and bikes that you love. Explore new corners of the cycling world from the comfort of your home, and much, much more. GCN+ is everything cycling, all in one place: thrilling races + inspiring films + a full-gas experience. Share Upload photos and details of your bikes, the places you love to ride, your latest bike hacks and upgrades, or anything else related to cycling. Enter competitions and have a chance to be featured on our GCN and GCN Tech shows. Stay up to date Find the cycling news stories that matter in "Home" feed, check out our daily racing news and read detailed event previews. Get all the latest info on the pro cycling teams in the "Pro" section. Vote Sign up for an account in order to have your say on everything our community is sharing. Has someone uploaded your dream bike? Spotted a fantastic location that you have to go and ride? Seen a brilliant bike hack or an enviable upgrade? Vote for your favourites and join the conversations about them. Explore Interact with other cyclists like you, find out more about the bikes they love and discover the amazing places around the world they love to go and ride. About GCN The Global Cycling Network (GCN) is the largest and fastest-growing online cycling channel in the world, bringing together a global community of road cyclists to celebrate everything that’s great about the world of cycling. By downloading and / or registering for the GCN app, you are agreeing to the GCN App Terms of Use: https://www.playsportsnetwork.com/gcn-app-terms-of-use/. For more information about how we use your personal information, please see our Privacy Notice: https://www.playsportsnetwork.com/privacy-notice/. This app uses tracking technologies to understand how users interact with our content and to help personalise our content for you. You can learn more by reading our Cookies & Tracking Technologies Notice: https://www.playsportsnetwork.com/cookies-and-tracking-technologies-notice/. By downloading the GCN app, you agree to the use of tracking technologies as described in the Cookies & Tracking Technologies Notice. Your Californian Privacy Rights: https://www.playsportsnetwork.com/privacy-notice/us-en/#10 Do Not Sell My Personal Information: https://privacyportal-cdn.onetrust.com/dsarwebform/50417659-aa29-4f7f-b59d-f6e887deed53/4111531c-bd1c-4385-9c51-7e3bb0952ceb.html ## Key features - Watch live road, cyclocross, and track racing - Exclusive cycling documentaries and films - On-demand race highlights and analysis shows - Weekly cycling magazine show - Share photos and details of bikes and rides - Cycling news and event previews - Connect with a global cycling community ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Monthly Subscription Package | $8.99 | per month | | Yearly Subscription Package | $49.99 | per year | ## What do users think of GCN? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Great content and coverage - 👍 Positive and interactive community - 🚀 Affordable subscription compared to competitors **Cons** - 🐛 Buggy and unstable app performance - 🔍 Difficult to navigate and find content - 🔍 Lack of device support (no Apple TV, Roku apps) - 🔍 Inconsistent availability of races in certain regions **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes and freezes - Airplay/casting issues - Login/authentication problems - Inconsistent video playback **Most requested features** - Add Apple TV and Roku apps - Improve search and content organization - Implement resume playback functionality - Add spoiler controls for race results ## Recent user reviews (10 of 56) All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gcn/id1455822746/reviews.md ### 1/5 — Hides important content *2023-09-10* We watch the downhill races on the app, often the morning after the races since we are not in the same time zone as many of the race events. The app makes it impossible to find the event half the time. The search doesn't work. Keywords such as DHI or downhill or the location of the race don't pull up the event but pull up other events lacking all keywords. The event is often not in the recent event page despite being only a few hours earlier. It can take 10-15 minutes to search around different listings to find the right activity. We use the app on our smart TV. I hope the races contract with another company that can make the event findable. If they find they have low views this season, maybe that will encourage them to have the event actually come up on searches in the future. Very disappointing. ### 3/5 — Give us the data you have access to! *2023-08-29* Cheers to good and even GREAT racing coverage. EXCEPT the stream of ICI World Series XCO (and XCC) SHOULD MOST DEFINITELY INCLUDE a scrolling ticker at the bottom of the live coverage (and replays, of course). We know you have the data. We see it in your streamed cyclocross races. We see that you consistently display the placement of the top 3-5 racers and sometimes up to 10 on the left side of XCC / XCO races. We see the RFID timing stations on course. We know all racer pass these stations multiple times each lap. So give it to us! Pretty pretty please?? You know we are now paying for your stream of UCI World Series XCC and XCO whereas in the past we were streaming it for free elsewhere. That free stream included a fantastic scrolling ticker at the bottom of the broadcast. We should expect AT THE VERY LEAST, the same now that we are paying. Don’t you agree? Please, oh please start adding this ticker to the next race coming up in Loudenvielle. Thanks for your consideration and your pretty good show! Just make it excellent for us, please. ### 2/5 — World Champs Tab Causes App Crash *2023-08-05* I’m in the USA, so I don’t get to watch any of the World Champs. I was surprised to see a new tab in the Apple TV app for the World Champs. When I selected that tab to see if maybe I would get some highlights or something, the app froze and then crashed. This is repeatable and also occurs if I try those steps immediately after rebooting the device. Sadly, I see this as yet more evidence of the overall poor quality of this app. The app still does not remember the language I have selected when I watch a race replay, and it still locks up and does not respond to the remote after streaming a race for a while. I reported both of these issues months ago, and the developer apparently hasn’t made any progress in resolving them. ### 2/5 — Tour de France? Not really… *2023-07-10* First time subscriber for this product - was hoping to watch extended recaps/replays daily for the tdf. There’s a couple things wrong here with this product - the biggest issue is very poor navigation in the site - it’s laid out so pourly, all races are just uploaded to the same location. Nothing is broken down by race…. Massive issue because it’s messy, and it’s honestly very easy to organize or create a better file tree/structure…. And yet no one has? - when I looked today and could not find any replays longer than 3-6 mins. For the Tour de France. I can get short replies on any competitors sites for free. - search feature is terrible - if you type in “tour de France” - nothing shows up related to the tdf. - cost is $10 US monthly - however peacock is $5 For same race - and it’s a waaayy more professional and user intuitive product -navigating to the replay I want daily is simple. Good luck with your product a maybe I’ll check back in the future - right now it’s a good start/prototype platform for cycling, I like the vision- just need a better user interface and structure that’s more intuitive. ### 3/5 — Good content, difficult to use app *2023-06-19* I subscribed solely to watch the World Cup XC mountain bike racing. I watch only on Apple TV. The app has been reliable with no crashes of freezes. The fast-forward function during race replays is terrible though. I know the developers said in responses to other reviews that they will address this in future releases, but as of June 2023 the fast-forward function is useless. The UI to find past races is also very difficult to use. My one major complaint is with the actual race presentation. There are too many slow-motion replays thrown into the race. I know that sounds trivial, but the frequency with which they appear is way beyond annoying. Normally I would simply click the remote once or twice to advance 15 or 30 seconds, but that’s not possible with the app due the current fast-forward function. Not being able to skip the slo-mo segments is by far the most annoying part of the GCN+ experience. Good grief, please stop with the slow motion replays! **Developer response:** Hi there, thanks for the review! We're still working on updates for the Apple TV app which will improve the fast-forward function. We'll pass your feedback about replays on to the relevant teams. Thanks, Tom ### 3/5 — Great content, faulty app *2023-03-12* First of all, for a cycling fan it is terrific to have the race coverage that GCN+ offers. For me, it is the only reason to subscribe. In terms of content, the version with commentators should be left in the replay. Especially in cyclocross races, I will watch the women’s race live with someone like Helen Wyman commentating and it’s Greek at and insightful. If you watch the replay, there is no comment. The app on the Apple TV often becomes “non responsive” to the remote. You cannot stop the video and, after pressing the “menu” button on the remote repeatedly, you can exit the app but if you go back in, it is stuck. This requires a reboot of the device. Very annoying. It is a clunky app. **Developer response:** Hi there, that's strange, commentary should be available for these replays. It may be that your app is defaulting to ambient sound when watching a replay, but you can change this to a commentary option via the icon that looks like a speech bubble. To help with the 'non responsive' issue, can you uninstall and reinstall the app please? This will ensure that you're using the latest version, but if you still get the issue, please contact us at gcn.eu/apphelp and we'll look further into this for you. Thanks, Tom ### 3/5 — Good *2023-01-05, version 1.593.1* I have two main problems with the Apple TV version of the app. First, it does not remember my chosen language, so every time I watch a race, I must reset the language to English. It seems quite stupid to me that the app cannot remember a selected language. Second, the app sometimes locks up, and will not return to the menu. Restarting the device does not always fix this, sometimes two restarts are required. Other than these issues, watching GCN coverage of bike races on my big screen TV using my Apple TV is great. 5 January 2023 Update: how about this as a New Year’s Resolution for the GCN programming team? Commit to having the app remember my preferred language by the end of February, and commit to preventing the app from locking up by the end of April? These problems are long-standing, and it seems to me that it’s past time they should have been fixed. ### 2/5 — Okay app, some features need review *2022-10-10, version 1.553.0* UPDATE Finally just had to delete since a sort feature couldn’t be implemented. Frustrating because this feature is the barest of bones of *any* app or platform that uses scrolling and time-based info. Ultimately not a loss since the thing is made as an ad anyway —— The functionality of the app is pretty decent, but can you please enable the ability to sort content by date in some sections? In hack/bodge, for example, I see content that is 3 months old, followed by content that’s 2 hours old, then 2 weeks old, etc. ### 3/5 — Apple TV still not as good as iOS app *2022-08-22, version 1.525.0* I have very little negative to say about the iOS app. Apple TV isn’t quite there yet. The initial release this spring wasn’t usable because there was no way to FF, only 5 sec jumps forward. The new version took away the ability to jump forward 5 sec and added the ability to FF. Both functions are necessary and are present on every other streaming app I use. The Apple TV remote can handle it. Please update the GCN+ app so both functions work. As it is, I’m still having to airplay from an iOS device. ### 1/5 — Hopeless *2022-08-16, version 1.518.0* ***15 Aug 2022*** app fails again. I watched short highlights of stage 1 the women’s Tour of Scandinavia”, and when I went to watch stage 2, I have a spinning circle and the text “We’re just getting your content ready.” Except it’s not. Been like this all day, can’t watch anything. Quit the app, deleted the app, reinstalled the app - same problem. AppleTV a1625/tvOS 15.6 ********************** Such promise, such an exciting prospect. Utterly useless. Constantly fails when sending from iPad to appleTV. Support is garbage - never reads a troubleshooting email thoroughly, constantly asks the same question over and over and often replies to questions that haven’t been asked or are completely irrelevant. Been trying to send helpful emails about what’s going on, in the hope that it can be fixed, for most of the year I’ve been subscribed and still no nearer to getting an answer (latest support email asked me to tell them - again - what device I was using “if” I was trying to cast. I’ve been writing for a year that the problem is with the casting). Works fine on the iPad itself and on desktop computers, but this situation is intolerable, frustrating and utterly demoralizing Interesting that the day after writing that, I am suddenly locked out of my account on the desktop computer **Developer response:** Sorry to hear you're having this issue. Can you contact us at gcnapp@playsportsnetwork.com please and we'll look into this further for you. If you have a ticket number from your previous email exchanges, can you also quote this in the email please. ## Frequently asked questions about GCN ### What is the GCN app? The GCN app is brought to you by the Global Cycling Network and is designed for anyone interested in road cycling. It allows you to subscribe to GCN+ to watch live racing, exclusive documentaries, and films, as well as stay updated on cycling news and connect with a community of cyclists. ### What kind of content is available on GCN+? GCN+ offers live and uninterrupted, ad-free coverage of road, cyclocross, and track cycling races. It also features on-demand race highlights, analysis shows like 'The Breakaway', weekly cycling magazine shows like 'World Of Cycling', and a wide range of inspiring documentaries and films about cycling adventures, science, technology, and legends. ### How much does GCN+ cost? GCN+ is a subscription service. While the exact pricing is not detailed in the description, it is presented as a subscription model to access its premium content, including live racing and exclusive films. ### What devices is the GCN app compatible with? The GCN app is fully compatible with both iPhone and iPad, allowing for a big screen experience on any screen. ### Can I interact with other cyclists on the app? Yes, the app allows you to join the community by signing up for an account. You can upload photos and details of your bikes and rides, vote for your favorites, and join conversations with other cyclists, discovering new bikes and riding locations. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.803.0 — 2023-11-09 This week, we've changed a few components and adjusted the gears so that you'll get a smoother ride while using the app. This includes bug fixes and performance improvements. Love the app or have any feedback? Don't forget to rate us! You can also message us at support@globalcyclingnetwork.com with any app-related questions. ### 1.797.0 — 2023-11-02 This week, we've changed a few components and adjusted the gears so that you'll get a smoother ride while using the app. This includes bug fixes and performance improvements. Love the app or have any feedback? Don't forget to rate us! You can also message us at support@globalcyclingnetwork.com with any app-related questions. ### 1.789.0 — 2023-10-24 This week, we've changed a few components and adjusted the gears so that you'll get a smoother ride while using the app. This includes bug fixes and performance improvements. Love the app or have any feedback? Don't forget to rate us! You can also message us at support@globalcyclingnetwork.com with any app-related questions. ### 1.783.0 — 2023-10-16 This week, we've changed a few components and adjusted the gears so that you'll get a smoother ride while using the app. This includes bug fixes and performance improvements. Love the app or have any feedback? Don't forget to rate us! You can also message us at support@globalcyclingnetwork.com with any app-related questions. ### 1.778.0 — 2023-10-10 This week, we've changed a few components and adjusted the gears so that you'll get a smoother ride while using the app. This includes bug fixes and performance improvements. Love the app or have any feedback? Don't forget to rate us! 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