Comparison

E vs Loom Cycling

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

E

Customize your e-bike's performance and update its firmware. Adjust assist power, fine-tune automatic shifting for trails or city riding, and personalize your ride.

Highlights
  • Update firmware
  • Customize e-bike assist power
  • Adjust AUTO SHIFT timing
  • Personalize trail ride settings
  • Optimize city riding gear switching
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Maximize Your Bike Performance. With the smartphone app, you can easily update firmware and customize electric shifting in addition to the e-bike assist power program. -Maximize the trail ride with customized settings in your own image. -AUTO SHIFT not requiring any gear shifting operation is comfortable. But to make the shift timing a bit quicker, change the timing to your preference with the app. Ride comfortably even in a city with many traffic lights since it automatically switches to your favorite gear when stopping.

About

Loom Cycling

Features
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Most riders don't forget how to wax. They forget when they last did it. Loom tracks your chain by distance rather than by feel. Every bike carries an odometer, and every wax event saves a snapshot of it. The distance since your last wax, how much of its expected life you have used, and whether you are overdue all come out of those two numbers. IT LEARNS YOUR INTERVAL Loom starts at 186 miles for hot wax and 93 miles for drip lube. After two wax events it switches to a rolling average of your own history, so the number follows your roads and your weather rather than a figure off a bottle. It warns you at 80%, and again at 100%. RIDES WITHOUT THE TYPING Connect Apple Health and your cycling workouts become rides on their own — date and distance, nothing else. Strava is there if that is where your riding lives. Neither is required: type a distance and Loom works exactly as well with no connection at all. MORE THAN THE CHAIN Chains, tires, sealant and service run off the same odometer. Set an interval, log a change, and Loom counts the distance down. TIRE PRESSURE Tell Loom your weight, your tires and your roads, and it gives you a front and a rear pressure, each with a good range either side. It respects hookless rim limits and your tire's printed maximum, says what set the number, and saves setups to each bike. Road, gravel and cyclocross, in psi or bar. ON THE HOME SCREEN A widget carries wax life at a glance, so you find out in the kitchen rather than in the garage. YOUR RIDING HISTORY IS YOURS No account to create, no Loom server, no analytics, no third-party SDKs, and no tracking. What you log stays on your iPhone and, if you use iCloud, in your own private iCloud database — where Loom cannot read it either. Apple Health and Strava are optional and read-only; Loom never writes anything back to either. ALL OF IT, FREE Every part of Loom is free: as many bikes as you own, automatic ride import from Apple Health or Strava, component tracking, the tire pressure calculator, the widget, and the full Statistics tab — averages, the timeline, which product lasted longest, and when the next wax is due. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads. Privacy Policy: https://loomwax.ridetogether.io/privacy.html

Screenshots

E4 screens
Loom Cycling4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: E at none against Loom Cycling's 1. Loom Cycling's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Loom Cycling sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.99 per year. E asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

E ships an update every 3 months, Loom Cycling every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
E versus Loom Cycling: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterELoom Cycling
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.7 (83 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews21.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings83 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size159 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSHIMANO.INCTom Haythorn

Bugs and requests

E

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes on iOS 13 and newer
  • Unable to change password
  • Bluetooth connection keeps dropping
  • Firmware updates fail and brick the system

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add Russian language support
  • Allow custom cassette size selection
  • Integrate with Garmin devices
  • Provide more detailed data and analytics

Loom Cycling

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

E

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Loom Cycling

Subscriptions1
  • Loom Pro7 Days trial$6.991 Year

Questions

Is E free?
E is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Loom Cycling free?
Loom Cycling is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do E or Loom Cycling have ads?
Neither E nor Loom Cycling shows ads.
Which is updated more often, E or Loom Cycling?
E ships an update every 3 months, and Loom Cycling every 9 days. Most recently, E was updated on November 2, 2026 and Loom Cycling on October 22, 2026.

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