# Ride with GPS: Bike Navigation — user reviews > 683 indexed App Store user reviews of Ride with GPS by Ride with GPS, rated 4.70/5 from 36,745 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ride-with-gps-bike-navigation/id893687399/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ride-with-gps-bike-navigation/id893687399.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 31,430 · 4★ 3,167 · 3★ 661 · 2★ 395 · 1★ 1,092 ## What do users think of Ride with GPS? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Usable worldwide - 👍 Easy to use - 👍 Reliable - 👍 Robust and versatile - 👍 Excellent customer support - 👍 Essential cycling app - 👍 Great for navigation and planning - 👍 Fantastic app for planning, navigation and logging rides - 👍 Consistently the best cycling app - 👍 Great directions - 👍 Awesome app - 👍 Great for planning routes and navigation **Cons** - 🐛 Route planning/navigation issues - 🐛 Unreliable recording of rides - 🔋 Battery drain - 💰 Expensive subscription - 🤔 Confusing/unintuitive interface - 🤔 Limited free features - 🤔 Lacks integration with other apps - 🤔 Navigation issues when off-route - 🤔 Difficult to edit routes - 🤔 Buggy after updates **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes when opening large routes - Issues syncing routes to Garmin devices - Problems with auto-pause feature - Inaccurate route tracking - Unreliable turn-by-turn directions **Most requested features** - Dark mode option - Better integration with Apple Watch - Improved route planning and navigation - Ability to edit recorded rides - Better integration with other apps like Strava - Improved offline map support - More customization options ## Newest reviews (10 of 683) ### 3/5 — Clunky *2026-08-25, version 4.4.8* The app is not consistent for routing, nor function. The app is not intuitive and requires more learning than it should. ### 3/5 — Poor design *2026-08-21, version 4.4.6* Hard to change routes after they are made ### 3/5 — My go to *2026-08-15, version 4.4.6* Overall it’s very good but there have been a few glitches and lockups which require a restart. But considering the miles I have used it over, these are minimal, just annoying at the time. ### 4/5 — My dog loves this App *2026-08-14, version 4.4.6* Kia loves to run, so I had to figure out how to take him for a workout that I could maintain his youth and pedigree. My gravel bike-to harness him to my seat post so I can control him (+ a leash/collar). He’s doing well after a few weeks and won’t let me not take him out. Ride with GPS has been with me many years. I don’t even Remember Strava??? What’s that, Ride with GPS is awesome! ### 2/5 — Great routes, terrible UI/UX *2026-08-09, version 4.4.4* I really trust this app to give me routes on proper bike lanes. That said it’s really hard to use. It takes a billion clicks just to get to navigating a route. It’s not even clear to me how to start a new route. I kept getting stuck in a loop with routes I’d taken previously. Also, it asks you to save the ride everytime you end a ride. The form is clunky and just gets in the way. Not intuitive. I like the alerts. But there’s no way I could justify paying for the app considering how difficult it was just to plan a route. It’s a bummer because the routes themselves are spot on. ### 2/5 — Hidden fees. *2026-08-07, version 4.4.4* Free use for one week only then automatic fee charged. Not good. ### 5/5 — Find your way *2026-08-07, version 4.4.4* This app helps me find my way no matter the motivation 🚴🏼🚴🏼 ### 4/5 — A request *2026-08-02, version 4.4.4* PLEASE allow trip editing on a portable device, like a phone or a tablet. I don’t own any windows anything and nothing else seems to work. Otherwise, RWGPS is AWESOME and a constant companion! ### 4/5 — Strava for Smart Humans *2026-08-01, version 4.4.4* Many APPs begin their lives as equal parts Excitement and Experimentation. Ride with GPS have evolved a brilliant platform for normal humans who may be tired of hearing “if it didn’t happen on Strava…” which is rather stupid. Anyway, if you enjoy accurate mapping, brilliant simplicity, and Cogent yet complete lack of Competitive Fake-Book style one-up-man-ship… Then RWGPS is your APP. If you prefer to follow another faker, on your way to false results and Motorized superlatives, then this is NOT your APP. Enjoying this for many years. ### 1/5 — Expensive *2026-08-01, version 4.4.4* Do you really need this app? ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Inaccurate data *2026-08-23, version 4.4.7* Map data for Ottawa is terribly inaccurate. No way in hell is this worth a monthly subscription. ### 1/5 — Terrible. Don’t waste your money. *2026-08-20, version 4.4.6* Meaningless beeps. Kept taking us the wrong way. Screen fades so you can’t see it and then goes to lock screen. Absolutely ruined a bike ride in Tuscany. ### 1/5 — Taking me backwards *2026-08-19, version 4.4.6* H ### 1/5 — Nagging app *2026-08-19, version 4.4.6* Even if you disable notifications by email it does not register and they send you spam anyways. Also nagging you to evaluate the app at every opening. Here is the review you wanted. ### 1/5 — This App Sucks *2026-08-18, version 4.4.6* Audio turns late cost up front even with free trial, doesn’t sync with garmin GPS s wonky. Not worth it ### 1/5 — Not finalised *2026-08-11* It looks really fancy but it’s a clumsy overly complicated application build upon openstreepmap. Map is not clickable on the non-mobile version. GPS coordinates are incorrect. I am very unsatisfied with this application. ### 1/5 — Not user friendly *2026-08-10, version 4.4.4* Even got the premium upgrade, but it’s garbage software ### 1/5 — Hopless *2026-08-07, version 4.4.4* Doesn't work and cant upgrade ### 1/5 — Subscription *2026-08-07, version 4.4.4* Used to be good before they started charging a subscription for the basic planning features. Garmin connect is free. Bye. ### 1/5 — Impossible to cancel *2026-08-06, version 4.4.4* Tried it, didn’t use it enough. It might be great but just not for me and now I’m struggling to unsubscribe. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Swiss Army Knife *2026-08-24, version 4.4.7* Find rides, navigate routes, record your rides. This app does it all. Another cool feature: Follow your friends’ rides. ### 5/5 — O melhor *2026-08-22* Para ciclistas de verdade ### 5/5 — Best money I’ve ever spent *2026-08-19, version 4.4.6* It must be a decade I’m paying annual subscription. Or 5 years? But it is such an amazing experience to ride with GPS. It helps me find routes I’d never know. Smooth roads with bike lanes 🤤 One of my disappointment with any app is that the updates kill it. Not this one. Years ago you couldn’t plan a route on mobile. My workflow included garmin laptops and a usb cable. Now you can. One can totally plan and ride the route without touching computer. Or even garmin. Although for longer distances I recommend garmin so your phone battery is preserved for emergencies UI is getting better and better ### 5/5 — MBGil94 *2026-08-18, version 4.4.6* Love it! ### 5/5 — Too many software updates *2026-08-16, version 4.4.6* I used to love RideWithGPS, until the last 12 months or so. Now that the marketing dudes and product managers keep encouraging the software developers to add myriads of new features, attempting to mirror features from competitors’ outdoor mapping and navigation tools, the essence of RideWithGPS is being lost. Please, no more upgrades! Please keep our favourite route planning and navigation tool simple and easy to use. That was why we loved it. ### 5/5 — 1st Time User *2026-08-15, version 4.4.6* It was great to hear the navigation and a huge help with so many turns. Suggestions to give left hand turns a bit earlier ### 5/5 — Great App *2026-08-15, version 4.4.6* Easy to work- great interface and reliable control ### 5/5 — Très bonne application *2026-08-12* Parfait ### 5/5 — Great app *2026-08-08, version 4.4.4* Great App! Accurate with my Apple step counter. Wish they would show nearby traffic, almost killed by a white jeep at the north round about A guy in another white suv with bicycles on the back was in the south bound lane and waited before entering the roundabout, thank you for waiting and yielding, unlike the other Driver. I did manage to give them the finger. I will be bicycling with my drones above me. From here on out . ### 5/5 — Essential! *2026-08-08, version 4.4.4* I had used the free version for years, but finally upgraded after moving a couple years ago so I could find some safe routes in my new area and for cycling out of town. I love planning my own routes and the fact that so many organized rides use it now. I did RAGBRAI last year & they and all the charter groups use it. Essential to find your campgrounds. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-30.*