Bryton Gardia vs Drafto
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bryton Gardia
Enhance your cycling safety with real-time alerts about approaching vehicles. Receive color-coded, tone, and vibration notifications directly on your phone or paired devices, even when your phone is out of sight. Customize device settings and notification preferences for a safer ride.
- Vehicle proximity alerts
- Color-coded traffic notifications
- Tone and vibration alerts
- Pairing with cycle computers
- Device setting customization
- Light pattern control
- Brake light feature adjustment
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The Bryton Gardia app provides the tools you need to ride with confidence when paired with Bryton Gardia products. Using the Gardia app, you can be warned on your phone when approaching vehicles that are within 150 meters behind you and your bicycle. Alerts are color-coded based on surrounding traffic. Green means you’re all clear, yellow means at least one vehicle is approaching, and red means a vehicle is coming at you fast. Be cautious and then take action if you need. You can also receive tone and vibration alerts with color-coded alerts. Even when you are not looking at your phone, the Bryton Gardia app can still notify you promptly. You can pair your Bryton Gardia device with compatible cycle computers and the app. The Bryton Gardia app can provide extra notifications when you are on the road even if your phone is just in your pocket. Pairing your Bryton Gardia device with the app is easy and simple. Just turn on your Gardia device and slide your phone screen to connect. The app will recognize your Gardia device automatically. You can not only set the notification preference of the app but change the settings of your Gardia device such as the light pattern and brake light feature with the Bryton Gardia app.
Drafto
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Drafto turns every ride into a race. Record a ride and it becomes a Ghost: the exact rider you were that day, second by second. Line up against it on the same road and watch, live, where you gain and where you crack. GHOST — YOUR TOUGHEST RIVAL IS LAST WEEK'S YOU Every ride you record leaves a Ghost behind. Race your own, or take on a Ghost another rider left on the same route. The gap updates in real time — metres ahead, metres behind, and the exact corner where it opened. • Challenge a friend with a link. They race your Ghost whenever suits them. • Ghost Rating: a competitive rating per discipline, earned in Ghost Battles. • Pacers: virtual opponents calibrated in watts per kilo, from 2 to 5 W/kg. A physics model — gradient, mass, air resistance. Nothing here pretends to be a rider it isn't. Racing your Ghost is free, and it stays free. REAR RADAR — FREE FOR EVERYONE Pair a Bluetooth rear radar (Garmin Varia, Bryton Gardia, Magene, iGPSPORT): a bar down the side of the screen, a vibration and a voice warn you of cars closing from behind. Safety is not something we sell. Free, with or without Premium. VÉLO CLUB — A CLUB, NOT A SOCIAL NETWORK Create your club or join one. The weekly ranking, the President's Ghost to hunt down and the club's shared routes are free for every member. A rider never pays to take part. Club Premium (annual, paid once by the committee) adds the president's dashboard, season history and annual ranking, several administrators, your logo and your colours, and export. A ROUTE IN SECONDS Generate a loop from wherever you're standing. Pick your distance (10 to 250 km), the elevation you're after, road or gravel. Not convinced? Shuffle. Generating is free and unlimited. GPS THAT DOESN'T FLATTER YOU • 2D Kalman filter — honest distance and speed • Barometric altitude corrected against satellite elevation data • Dead reckoning through tunnels: up to 45 seconds without signal and the trace keeps going. Past that, Drafto won't invent a road for you — it tells you what it estimated • Records offline, syncs when the signal comes back • If your phone kills the app mid-ride, the ride is recovered, not lost CLIMBS AND SUMMITS, WORLDWIDE 75 legendary climbs and summits built in — Ventoux, Alpe d'Huez, Galibier, Tourmalet, Stelvio — plus every OpenStreetMap climb and summit within 100 km of wherever you happen to be. Detected automatically while you ride. Your time, your rank, and the Ghost of whoever owns it. SENSORS & IMPORT Heart rate, power and cadence over Bluetooth — paired once, remembered from then on. Import FIT, GPX and TCX: one file, a whole folder, or the .zip archive from your old app — up to 50 rides in one go. BIKE GARAGE & DISCIPLINES Several bikes, photos, kilometres counted per bike. Road, gravel, MTB and e-bike each keep their own rankings. FREE TO RIDE, PREMIUM TO DIG DEEPER Free: recording, Ghost duels against yourself and your friends, unlimited route generation, climbs, your club, live tracking (someone can follow you without installing Drafto), the rear radar, your own times on every segment, and your last 30 rides. Premium: Pacers and the route leader's Ghost, full leaderboards, advanced statistics, Bluetooth heart rate, power and cadence, turn-by-turn navigation, offline maps, unlimited history, GPX, TCX and FIT export, multi-stop routes and an unlimited route collection. 30 days of Premium free, with no card up front. After that, a monthly or yearly subscription — your store shows the price in your own currency. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period, from your store account settings. Available in 11 languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Turkish. Ride once. From then on, you have a Ghost to beat. Terms of Use (EULA): https://trace-apps.com/drafto/terms/?lang=en
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bryton Gardia at none against Drafto's 3. Bryton Gardia also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). Drafto's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 4 months). On price, ads and device support 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. Drafto sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Bryton Gardia asks for nothing beyond the download.
Bryton Gardia ships an update every 4 months, Drafto every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bryton Gardia | Drafto |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (323 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 30.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 323 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bryton Inc. | PERCHE Christophe |
Bugs and requests
Bryton Gardia
Reported bugs
5 issues- False positives/negatives
- Missed car detections
- Inconsistent 'all clear' chime
- App blocks screen during active use
- iOS update broke headphone warnings
Requested features
5 requests- Widen radar alert strip on display
- Louder, more distinctive, or longer audio alerts
- Option to disable iPhone auto-lock
- Adapter for horizontal bar mount
- Add speedometer to display
Drafto
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bryton Gardia
No in-app purchases
Drafto
- Drafto Premium — 1 month$2.991 Month
- Drafto Premium — 1 year$17.991 Year
- Club Premium — 1 year$44.991 Year









