Comparison

CrankIQ vs RidePilot

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

Head to head
About

CrankIQ

Transform your iPhone into a GPS bike computer to track rides with speed, distance, maps, and elevation. Analyze performance with detailed ride statistics and history without needing expensive hardware. Optional Pro subscription unlocks Apple Fitness integration and data export.

Highlights
  • GPS ride tracking
  • Speed, distance, elevation statistics
  • Detailed ride history
  • Performance trends
  • Apple Fitness workout saving (Pro)
  • Health data integration (Pro)
  • Ride data export (Pro)
Features
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Turn your iPhone into a powerful GPS bike computer. Track every ride with speed, distance, maps, elevation, and detailed ride history—without buying expensive cycling hardware. CrankIQ helps you record bike rides and understand your performance with clear, detailed ride statistics. No account required. Features • Record bike rides with GPS tracking • View speed, distance, elevation and slope statistics • Review detailed stats for every ride • See trends across all of your rides • Browse and manage ride history • No account or signup required Pro Features Unlock additional features with an optional Pro subscription. • Save rides as Outdoor Cycle workouts in Apple Fitness • Use optional Health data to improve calorie estimates • Export and save all your ride data. Restore your data if needed or run your own analysis on your data. Privacy Your ride history and route data stay on your device. Anonymous analytics are used to improve the app and understand feature usage. Ride GPS coordinates and routes are not uploaded. Download CrankIQ and start building your ride history. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://crankiq.com/privacy

About

RidePilot

This app provides accurate GPS tracking and detailed ride analytics for cyclists. It features a customizable heads-up display, local weather forecasts, and integrated camera functionality to capture moments during your ride. Organize your rides, import GPX routes, and receive speed warnings for a safer, more informed cycling experience.

Highlights
  • GPS tracking and ride analytics
  • Customizable heads-up display
  • Local weather and forecasts
  • Integrated camera with location metadata
  • Route organization and GPX import
  • Speed warnings
  • Battery saving techniques
Features
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RidePilot is a modern GPS bike tracker and e-bike computer designed for riders who want accurate tracking, clean design, and powerful ride analytics without unnecessary complexity. HEADS-UP DISPLAY Shows you only what you need while riding! Speedometer, Distance, Altitude, Elevation, Weather, Cycling Navigation & Maps (satellite and road views available). One tap gives you access to weather radar, alerts, navigation, detailed ride metrics and the camera without ever leaving your ride. Live Activity keeps your ride status and key metrics available when locked. LOCAL WEATHER See current weather conditions while you ride with 1-touch access. Get your cycling forecast, severe weather alerts, and detailed radar with one tap. We also compute a "Ride Feel" temperature based on wind, humidity, cloud cover and riding speed. RIDE SUMMARIES Your ride history stores all map routes and statistics for every ride. INTEGRATED CAMERA Take photos along your ride without stopping your recording. All photos are automatically saved to your Photos library with location metadata. View these photos within each ride summary and collection. ROUTE COLLECTIONS Organize your bike rides around the places, routes, and adventures that matter to you. Group rides into Collections, with optional folders. See combined summaries across rides and optionally compare them against an entire target bike route imported from GPX. Smart map pins identify route starts, stops, turnarounds, and photos, making it easy to find a location and open it in an external map app for directions. Already have rides recorded elsewhere? Import GPX ride history for a complete view. SPEED WARNING Optionally set a speed threshold at which you get warnings when approaching & exceeding. CUSTOMIZABLE Change dashboard settings (auto pause, always on screen), map zoom level, colors & measurement units. SAVES YOUR BATTERY We've added numerous battery saving techniques that work together to reduce unnecessary GPS processing, mapping, and display activity while still providing the information you need during a ride. Battery-saving behavior is boosted even further when Low Power Mode is enabled. Works even when your phone is locked. POOR SIGNAL? NO PROBLEM! GPS and internet connections aren't perfect all the time and RidePilot is designed around that reality. Poor GPS accuracy or gaps, tunnels, noisy elevation data, and spotty internet connectivity all happen while riding. RidePilot does its best to filter out the bad data and recover from gaps when possible. RIDE MANAGEMENT RidePilot handles the details of recording so you can focus on riding. It has automatic pausing for when you stop temporarily, manual pausing & resuming for breaks that last a little longer as well as background saving and background recording (do other things on your phone at the same time). DESIGNED FOR CYCLISTS & EBIKES RidePilot focuses on the information cyclists and e-bikers actually need while riding, with clean, easily readable screens, important metrics, and detailed ride analysis. This ebike computer works especially well as an electric bike companion app or HUD. It works great attached to a phone holder on a Trek, Aventon, Lectric, Velotric, Heybike, Ride1Up and Aipas ebike. It's the perfect ebike GPS tracker. 100% PRIVATE RidePilot stores your ride data locally on your device. We don't require an account and do not upload your rides to our servers (we don't have any!). You can also export your complete ride library as a ZIP file containing all ride GPX files, that can be used to import GPX rides into other apps and services (like Strava, RidewithGPS). ACCURATE & BATTLE TESTED RidePilot has been tested for 200+ miles across varied riding conditions, including comparisons against Garmin and other ride trackers, to validate distance, speed, elevation, and other ride metrics. We've done extensive work ensuring that you see only the most accurate data on your bike computer dashboard.

Screenshots

CrankIQ4 screens
RidePilot4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: RidePilot at none against CrankIQ's 2. RidePilot also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. CrankIQ sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. RidePilot asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for CrankIQ against 5.0 for RidePilot. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RidePilot has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CrankIQ ships an update every 3 weeks, RidePilot every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
CrankIQ versus RidePilot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrankIQRidePilot
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings16 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCWH3 Holdings LLCCagle Online Enterprises, Inc.

Customer experience

CrankIQ

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

RidePilot

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

CrankIQ

Subscriptions2
  • CrankIQ Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • CrankIQ Pro Yearly$29.991 Year
None

RidePilot

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CrankIQ free?
CrankIQ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is RidePilot free?
RidePilot is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, CrankIQ or RidePilot?
CrankIQ and RidePilot are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 6 ratings respectively.
Do CrankIQ or RidePilot have ads?
Neither CrankIQ nor RidePilot shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CrankIQ or RidePilot?
CrankIQ ships an update every 3 weeks, and RidePilot every 2 days. Most recently, CrankIQ was updated on October 30, 2026 and RidePilot on October 28, 2026.

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