Comparison

Bicycle Parking vs COBI.Bike

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

Head to head
About

Bicycle Parking

Easily find and add bicycle parking locations in your city. Mark your own parking spot, discover existing racks on a map, and contribute new spots with photos and notes. Helps cyclists safely lock their bikes.

Highlights
  • Mark your current bike parking spot
  • Discover bicycle parking on a map
  • Add new parking spots with photos
  • Upload parking spots later (offline)
  • View user-generated and external data
Features
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Free bike parking app. Features: - Tap "Park Here" to mark where you park your bike. - Tap the button on the bottom right to toggle between your parking spot and your current location. - Select the "Add" tab to add bicycle parking spots to the public map. Pinpoint the bicycle parking location with drag and drop feature. - Select the "Map" tab to view bicycle parking in your area. -- Parking spots are only loaded for the area that you are viewing! If your city has a lot of bicycle parking, zoom in to where you want to park for the best experience. - Select the "Manage" tab to enable special features such as the "Upload Later" feature. -- Upload Later lets you save parking spots to your phone and upload them later. Ideal if you want to wait for a WiFi connection to send the images or for bicycle parking in locations with weak cell signals. Ever wonder where the nearest bicycle parking is or have trouble finding a bike rack when you are in a rush? The bicycle parking project is taking advantage of modern technologies to help solve that problem for good. All green markers are user generated data with an image of the bicycle parking area and optional notes. All purple dots are from external data sources such as city data, department of transportation or other bicycle parking projects. External data has not been confirmed. It is pretty simple. If you are looking for bike parking, open the app and look at the map in the area where you want to park. If there isn't anything yet you can help by snapping a quick picture and sending it in when you find a bike rack or any other bicycle parking that isn't on the map yet! With this app, and help from cyclists all around, we will never have trouble finding a place to safely lock our bikes again.

About

COBI.Bike

This app transforms your eBike or regular bike into a connected system, integrating your digital life with your ride. Access navigation, music, calls, and fitness data safely and conveniently via a handlebar controller and smartphone integration.

Highlights
  • Dashboard with speed, weather, and fitness info
  • Intuitive wheel menu for feature control
  • Music playback control for media apps
  • Hands-free calling and communication
  • Bluetooth fitness sensor integration
  • Turn-by-turn voice navigation
  • Real-time hyper-local weather forecasts
Features
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Staying connected with your life and your friends - smart connectivity means this is also possible while cycling. The Bosch SmartphoneHub and COBI.Bike app connect your eBike to your digital world. ***Important note: this app works only in combination with the Bosch SmartphoneHub and COBI.Bike hardware (for eBikes and conventional bikes).*** COBI.BIKE – YOUR CONNECTED BIKING SYSTEM The future of bike-based mobility has begun. The COBI.Bike system connects your bike with your digital world. This award-winning product provides smart features to your bike and intelligent assistance using the smartphone. The result: more safety, comfort and fun on any cycling route – a new dimension of biking. DASHBOARD The dashboard gives you quick access to speed, weather, fitness and performance info in a beautiful interface. WHEEL MENU Use the thumb controller to quickly fly through the features – the wheel menu is the smooth interface for your riding experience. MUSIC CONTROL All the control you'd expect, with the simplicity of a thumb controller. Start, stop and pause your tunes with intuitive thumb presses. It works with all your media apps too – from Spotify to podcasts. COMMUNICATE Make a quick call by selecting a contact using the thumb controller. You can also answer calls without letting go of the handlebars, which means no more risky phone action while riding. FITNESS TRACKING The system integrates with Bluetooth sensors to display important data like heart rate zone and cadence – directly on the dashboard. The fitness data collected from COBI.Bike can be easily transferred to your Apple Health profile. VOICE FEEDBACK Even if you don't look at your phone, the optional voice feedback gives you confidence when navigating through the app, including turn-by-turn navigation commands.
 ROUTE PLANNING The blazing fast route selection begins with a tap on the home screen. It takes your current bike location into account, which means setting up the perfect route is done in just three steps. You can choose between fastest, shortest and quietest route. Connect your komoot account to extend the best connected biking system with the best tour planning experience. 3D BIKE NAVIGATION For optimal bike route guidance the app offers a full-size navigation with turn-by-turn voice feedback – based on OpenStreetMap (OSM). Global offline maps included.
 REAL-TIME RIDE WEATHER Working with the world's best data providers, you get a minute precise, hyper-local weather forecast for your ride, indicating chances of rain, felt temperature and other important weather conditions. PERSONALIZED INTERFACE Complete your and your bike's profile and choose your favourite interface color to customize your ride experience. UPDATES AND UPGRADES The app features are continually evolving. In addition wireless hub firmware-upgrades keep the hardware functions up-to-date. So that you always have access to the latest features and improvements, we recommend that you update your app, COBI.Bike or SmartphoneHub to the latest software version. To find out how to update the software on your device, please refer to our FAQ under www.bosch-ebike.com/FAQ

Screenshots

Bicycle Parking4 screens
COBI.Bike4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bicycle Parking at 71% against COBI.Bike's 35%. COBI.Bike's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (1.1K vs 24). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

COBI.Bike holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: COBI.Bike has 1.1K ratings behind it against 24, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 71% of Bicycle Parking's written reviews are positive against 35% of COBI.Bike's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bicycle Parking ships an update every 6 months, COBI.Bike every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Bicycle Parking versus COBI.Bike: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBicycle ParkingCOBI.Bike
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (24 ratings)4.4 (1.1K ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews — better35.3% of reviews
Number of ratings241.1K — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB283 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNathaniel BurnettRobert Bosch GmbH

Customer experience

Bicycle Parking

All ratings22 ratings
Positive77.3%
Neutral9.1%
Negative13.6%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral4.8%
Negative23.8%

COBI.Bike

All ratings1,042 ratings
Positive85.5%
Neutral5.0%
Negative9.5%
Written reviews170 reviews
Positive35.3%
Neutral17.6%
Negative47.1%

Bugs and requests

Bicycle Parking

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

COBI.Bike

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes or freezes during use
  • Compass consistently off by 90 degrees
  • Login/account issues after updates
  • Unreliable Bluetooth connectivity

Requested features

5 requests
  • Customizable data display and layout
  • Integration with more fitness apps and sensors
  • Improved route planning and navigation
  • Battery percentage indicator
  • Ability to manually pause/end rides

In-app purchases

None

Bicycle Parking

No in-app purchases

None

COBI.Bike

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bicycle Parking free?
Bicycle Parking is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is COBI.Bike free?
COBI.Bike is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bicycle Parking or COBI.Bike?
COBI.Bike is rated higher. Bicycle Parking averages 4.0 out of 5 from 24 ratings, while COBI.Bike averages 4.4 from 1.1K ratings.
Do Bicycle Parking or COBI.Bike have ads?
Neither Bicycle Parking nor COBI.Bike shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bicycle Parking or COBI.Bike?
Bicycle Parking ships an update every 6 months, and COBI.Bike every 3 months. Most recently, Bicycle Parking was updated on November 1, 2026 and COBI.Bike on November 11, 2026.

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