CheckMyRide vs Cycle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CheckMyRide
This cycling app offers GPS tracking, real-time performance stats, and Bluetooth sensor connectivity. Share your rides and data with others, and benefit from live location sharing for added safety. Enjoy a clean, ad-free experience designed by cyclists.
- Bluetooth sensor connectivity (power, speed, heart rate)
- GPS ride tracking
- Customizable dashboard
- Data export to Strava, TrainingPeaks
- Live location sharing
- Ad-free and account-free experience
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CheckMyRide is your all-in-one cycling computer app, built for simplicity and performance. Connect your Bluetooth sensors for power, speed, and heart rate, and see real-time stats on your customizable dashboard. Track every ride with GPS, review detailed data, and share effortlessly to Strava, TrainingPeaks, or directly with friends and coaches. Safety meets freedom with live location sharing—so your rides are not just tracked, but also supported. No accounts, no ads, no clutter—just pure cycling data designed by cyclists, for cyclists. Key Features • Connect to Bluetooth sensors: power, speed & heart rate • GPS ride tracking with performance stats • Export to Strava, TrainingPeaks & more • Share files via email, WhatsApp & more • Live location sharing for safety & fun • Clean, ad-free, account-free experience
Cycle
This bike computer tracks your cycling metrics like speed, distance, and elevation without ads or data tracking. It offers an analog tachometer, navigation light, and an in-app bell. Connect to Health to store trips and display heart rate.
- Speed, distance, average speed, top speed tracking
- Altitude profile and climb data
- Clock, compass, and GPS data
- Metric and imperial unit switching
- Health app integration for workouts and heart rate
- Analog tachometer style
- Camera flash navigation light
- In-app bell
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You are looking for a bike tracker that doesn't force you in to a subscription to be useful? Here you go: A bike computer built with data privacy in mind. No ads, no tracking and no data leaves your phone. It shows the important things: Speed, distance, average speed, top speed, duration and the climb with a nice altitude profile of the trip. It also shows a clock, a compass and the GPS data. Units can be switched from metric to miles/feet. If you want you can connect it to Health and store your trips as workouts and display your heart rate during the trip (if available). You can switch to an analog vintage style tachometer and a button can turn on the camera flash as navigation light in case you are on a race bike in a tunnel. If you have no bell - the app has one for you.A cycling speedometer built with data privacy in mind. No ads, no tracking and no data leaves your phone. It shows the important things: Speed, distance, average speed, top speed, duration and the climb with a nice altitude profile of the trip. It also shows a clock, a compass and the GPS data. Units can be switched from metric to miles/feet. If you want you can connect it to Health and store your trips as workouts and display your heart rate during the trip (if available). You can switch to an analog vintage style tachometer and a button can turn on the camera flash as navigation light in case you are on a race bike in a tunnel. If you have no bell - the app has one for you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Cycle at 96% against CheckMyRide's 31%. Cycle also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). CheckMyRide's advantage is ratings volume (45 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. CheckMyRide sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Cycle sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Cycle holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CheckMyRide has 45 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 31% of CheckMyRide's written reviews are positive against 96% of Cycle's.
CheckMyRide ships an update every 6 weeks, Cycle monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 11, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CheckMyRide | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (45 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 31.3% of reviews | 95.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 45 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MARS New Creations B.V. | Andreas Keldenich |
Customer experience
CheckMyRide
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In-app purchases
CheckMyRide
- 1 month subscription$0.991 Month
- 3 months subscription$3.993 Months
- 6 months subscription$5.996 Months
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- 1 year subscription1 Month trial$8.991 Year
Cycle
- Buy me a coffee$1.99
