Cycling Guide vs SafeCycle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cycling Guide
Discover low-stress cycling routes designed for comfort and confidence. This app helps you navigate your city by bike for errands, leisure, or exploring new places, making cycling accessible for all experience levels.
- Low-stress cycling routes
- Beginner-friendly navigation
- Discover new places by bike
- Easy route planning
- Enhance cycling confidence
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Getting around by bike is easier and more fun if you know how to do so in a low-stress way. Cycling Guide shows you how by providing the best available low-stress cycling-friendly routes that are great for people who would like to get around by bike but perhaps lack the experience, confidence, or knowledge to do so comfortably. Run errands to the store, ride to a park with your kids, and discover new places from the comfort of your bicycle. And have fun while doing so.
SafeCycle
This navigation app helps cyclists find safe and comfortable routes. It uses user-defined 'nogo' areas to avoid dangerous roads, making cycling accessible for all skill levels.
- Comfort-focused route planning
- Avoids unsafe 'nogo' road sections
- Suitable for all cycling abilities
- Works in areas with poor infrastructure
- User-contributed safety data
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SafeCycle is a bike route planning tool and navigation app with a primary focus on finding safe and comfortable bike routes for users. Using a combination of comfort-focused preferences and a unique "nogo" feature, SafeCycle can guide cyclists of all ages and abilities, even in regions with poor cycling infrastructure and high levels of motor vehicle traffic. SafeCycle partners with experienced cyclists and advocates to specify nogos in their local regions. Nogos are sections of roadways that our contributors think most cyclists should avoid due to motor vehicle traffic or unsafe conditions. SafeCycle can then completely avoid these nogos when generating routes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Cycling Guide at 4.7 against SafeCycle's 4.0. Cycling Guide also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). SafeCycle's advantage is review sentiment (50% vs 41%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Cycling Guide holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 41% of Cycling Guide's written reviews are positive against 50% of SafeCycle's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
| Parameter | Cycling Guide | SafeCycle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 41.2% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 134 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cycling Guide Foundation | XYZ Digital Inc. |
Customer experience
Cycling Guide
SafeCycle
In-app purchases
Cycling Guide
No in-app purchases
SafeCycle
No in-app purchases
