Comparison

Cycle vs Bike Speedometer

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Bike Speedometer

Features
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Turn your iPhone into a bike computer. Mount it on the bars, tap Start, and watch your speed on a big dial while distance, time, and climbing count up underneath. Everything runs on GPS. There is no sensor to pair, no bike magnet to fit, no account to create. LIVE RIDE SCREEN A large, high-contrast speed dial you can read at a glance, plus the numbers that matter while you are moving: distance covered, elapsed time, elevation gained, average speed, and top speed so far. The screen is dark by default, and you can keep it awake for the whole ride. Start, pause, resume, and stop with one thumb. Pause time is excluded from your elapsed clock, so a traffic light does not ruin your average. RIDE LOGBOOK Name a ride when you finish it and it goes straight into your logbook. Open any entry later to see the full set of numbers from that day. SAVED ROUTES AND CHASING Save a finished ride as a route, then chase it again. While you ride a saved route, Glide shows how far through it you are and whether you are ahead of or behind your best time, second by second. Finish and you get the split: your time, the time to beat, and how much faster or slower you were. Beat it and the route records a new best. Sort routes by most recent, by distance, or by fastest time. Rename or delete them whenever you like. STATS AND RECORDS A weekly goal ring shows how close you are to your distance target. A seven-day bar chart shows the shape of your week against your daily pace line. Totals cover this week, this month, and every ride you have logged. Personal records track your longest ride, your fastest average speed, and your biggest elevation day, each tagged with the ride that set it. GOALS THAT MOVE WITH YOU Set a weekly distance target by hand, or let Glide suggest one based on your last four weeks of riding. It nudges the target up as you ride more, and you approve every change. BUILT FOR EVERY KIND OF RIDING Commuting, road miles, trail time, or an easy weekend loop. Switch between kilometres and miles in Settings and every screen follows. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your rides are stored on your iPhone. There are no accounts, no sign-in, no ads, and no upload of your route data anywhere. Glide keeps tracking while the screen is off or another app is open, so you can navigate or take a call without losing the ride. Bike Speedometer: Ride Tracker requires a Pro unlock to track a ride. Pro opens the whole bike computer: the live speed dial with distance, elapsed time, elevation gained, average and top speed, unlimited rides in the logbook, unlimited saved routes and route chasing with the live ahead-or-behind split and recorded best times, the weekly goal ring, the seven-day chart and all-time totals, personal records for longest ride, fastest average and biggest elevation day, and adaptive weekly goals. Plans: a weekly subscription, a yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal in your Account Settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://pnkl26.web.app/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://pnkl26.web.app/terms-of-service

Screenshots

Cycle3 screens
Bike Speedometer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Cycle at monthly against Bike Speedometer's every 6 months. Cycle also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Cycle sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Bike Speedometer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cycle ships an update monthly, Bike Speedometer every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Cycle versus Bike Speedometer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCycleBike Speedometer
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews95.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndreas KeldenichLinh Phan Nhat Khanh

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Cycle

One-time1
  • Buy me a coffee$1.99
3 purchases

Bike Speedometer

Subscriptions2
  • Elevation & Climb Stats$3.997 Days
  • Adaptive Mileage Goal$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Personal Best Records$39.99

Questions

Is Cycle free?
Cycle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bike Speedometer free?
Bike Speedometer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cycle or Bike Speedometer have ads?
Neither Cycle nor Bike Speedometer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cycle or Bike Speedometer?
Cycle ships an update monthly, and Bike Speedometer every 6 months. Most recently, Cycle was updated on November 3, 2026 and Bike Speedometer on November 7, 2026.

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