VeloPlanner vs GlowMap

Plan the ride first. VeloPlanner is a bike route planner built for cyclists — plan a route, check the surface, export the GPX, go. And most of it is free: the planner, maps, GPX import and export, and 100+ official routes cost nothing. PLAN FROM SCRATCH Routing profiles for road, gravel, and touring. Surface data on the map, so you know what you're riding before you're standing on it. Multi-stage planning for longer trips. Save everything and pick it up on any device — the app syncs with veloplanner.com. VIEW AND EDIT ANY GPX Import a GPX file from anywhere to see it on a real cycling map — surfaces, elevation, what's nearby. Edit it in the planner. Export GPX for any route to Garmin, Wahoo, or any bike computer. MAPS MADE FOR RIDES, NOT DRIVES POI layers that answer trip questions: where to sleep (campsites, hotels, B&Bs), what to see, and which train station gets you home from a one-way ride. RIDING IN EUROPE? Browse 100+ official cycling routes — the full EuroVelo network, Alpe Adria, Rhine, Danube and more — each with guides, elevation profiles, accommodation, and reviews and photos from cyclists who've ridden them. Open any route in the planner and make it yours: shorten it, add a detour, reroute around that gravel section. PREMIUM Weather forecast along your route with wind direction, satellite and terrain maps, offline routes, and no ads. Coming soon: turn-by-turn navigation. Terms of Use: https://veloplanner.com/terms

Your Strava history, painted across Apple Maps. Sign in once and pull every activity you've ever logged on Strava. Each ride, run, hike, swim, and ski overlays as a translucent line on the map; where your routes overlap, the lines stack into a personal heatmap that quietly tells the story of where you've been. — FILTER BY SPORT — A glass sidebar lists every sport type present in your history with its activity count. Toggle running on, cycling off, or solo any sport with a tap. Counts and totals update live. — TOURS: GROUP YOUR RIDES YOUR WAY — Build collections of activities that belong together — a multi-day bikepack, a training block, a weekend trip — and call them Tours. The filter lets you show only the activities in a tour, or layer several tours at once. Tours sync back into Strava as #tags in each activity's description, so they're portable: edit them in StravaHeat, or in Strava itself, or in any other tool that respects #tags. Nothing is locked in. — DESIGNED FOR LIQUID GLASS — Built natively for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe. The sidebar adopts the system's Liquid Glass material; the map uses realistic elevation on iPhone and iPad. NavigationSplitView on every screen size — sheet on iPhone, split view on iPad and Mac — sharing one codebase, one sync, and one history. — PRIVATE BY DEFAULT — Activities and Tours sync between your devices through your own private CloudKit database. Strava tokens live in the device Keychain. There are no analytics, no third-party SDKs, and no servers in the middle. Your route data goes from Strava to your devices and stops there. — REQUIRES — A free Strava account. iOS 26 / iPadOS 26 / macOS Tahoe or later. iCloud is recommended for cross-device sync but not required — the app falls back to local-only storage if iCloud is unavailable. StravaHeat is not affiliated with Strava, Inc. "Strava" is a trademark of Strava, Inc.