Comparison

Motonav vs PedalPilot

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

Head to head
About

Motonav

This app provides motorcycle-specific navigation, route generation, and ride telemetry. Track lean angles, G-forces, and share your live location with friends. Plan routes, avoid tolls, and record your rides with detailed statistics.

Highlights
  • Loop route generator
  • Favorite roads routing
  • Lean angle tracking
  • G-force telemetry
  • Live location sharing
  • Turn-by-turn voice guidance
  • Ride recording and export
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Motonav is turn-by-turn navigation built for motorcyclists: massive, glanceable directions you can read in a fraction of a second at speed, on a dark high-contrast map that works in bright sunlight. CURVY ROADS, NOT JUST FAST ONES Choose your ride before you go: Fastest, No Highways, or Curvy. Curvy routes you onto the twisty back roads riders actually want - trading a few minutes for a far better ride - while steering clear of interstates and dead-straight slab. You get full turn-by-turn the whole way, and if you wander off, it reroutes onto a fresh curvy line from wherever you are. RIDE-FIRST NAVIGATION - Huge turn instructions with live distance countdown and the road name - Turn arrows drawn from the real shape of the junction, measured from the road itself - a hard right gets a hard-right arrow, a gentle fork gets a fork - A "then" preview so you always know the move after this one - Voice guidance timed for riding, not driving - Automatic rerouting when you go your own way - Current speed always visible, with the posted speed limit shown as a real US speed-limit sign - Arrival time, time left, and distance to go in one glanceable bar WIDGETS, CONTROL CENTER, AND SIRI Put your favorite destinations one tap away: Home Screen widgets in three sizes, Lock Screen and StandBy widgets, and a Control Center button that starts navigation without unlocking. Say "Hey Siri, take me to the diner in Motonav" and you're riding - add a stop, stop navigation, or ask for your ETA, all by voice - and use those same actions in your own Shortcuts automations. LIVE VEHICLE DATA (OPTIONAL) Pair a Bluetooth OBD-II adapter and Motonav becomes a dashboard for your bike or car: RPM, coolant temperature, voltage, and every sensor your vehicle exposes - plus computed gear position, fuel economy and range, and charging-system health, remembered per vehicle. (Requires a compatible Bluetooth LE OBD-II adapter.) BUILT FOR GLOVES Every control is oversized and high-contrast. No fiddly gestures, no tiny buttons - designed to be used on a handlebar mount. LOCK SCREEN + DYNAMIC ISLAND Directions continue on your lock screen and in the Dynamic Island, with a live route progress bar - no need to keep the app open. YOUR RIDE, YOUR RULES - Avoid highways with one tap, recalculated instantly - Rate roads good or bad as you ride, saved to your account - Favorites and recent destinations one tap from the home screen - Give favorites your own names, like "Mom's" instead of a street address RIDE WITH FRIENDS Add riding buddies by the email they use for MotoNav and share your location - all the time, or not at all. Only friends who've accepted you can see where you are, only your latest position, and turning it off drops you off their maps at once. Friends show up on your map at home and during navigation, and you can ride straight to one. PLAN ON THE WEB, RIDE ON THE BIKE Motonav has a companion planner at motonav.co. Draw a route on the big screen - or describe the ride you're dreaming about and let the AI copilot sketch it onto the map - then save it. It's on your phone before your helmet's on. GPX works everywhere: import a track a friend sent you (AirDrop it straight into the app, or pick it from Files right on the Where-to screen), and export any saved route to share back. Saved routes start from wherever you are - join a friend's route partway along and the directions pick up right there. OPTIONAL ACCOUNT, REAL BACKUP Create a free account and your favorites, recents, road ratings, saved routes, and settings follow you - through reinstalls, onto new phones. Or skip it entirely and just ride: navigation never requires an account. Motonav is built by a rider, rebuilt from the ground up around one idea: do turn-by-turn brilliantly before anything else.

About

PedalPilot

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PedalPilot is a free, privacy-first cycling navigation app built for everyday riders and commuters who want genuinely bike-focused routing and guidance. Plan your ride with up to five cycling-optimised route options — balanced (safety and comfort first), fast, flat, or dedicated mountain bike trail and enduro variants. Add waypoints for multi-stop journeys, save home and work for one-tap starts, and see a live elevation preview before you go. Once on the road you get significantly improved turn-by-turn voice guidance that now intelligently combines consecutive turns ("turn right and then immediately turn left") and speaks natural rounded distances instead of random numbers. Voice instructions are fully supported in English, German, Dutch, French, Spanish and Italian. KEY FEATURES Route Planning - Smart place, address, and POI search powered by LocationIQ - Five purpose-built route profiles for different riding styles - Waypoint support for custom multi-stop routes - Quick access to home, work and saved favourites - Live elevation profile before starting Turn-by-Turn Navigation - Clear voice directions with improved consecutive-turn handling - Natural rounded distance announcements - Haptic feedback on every turn - Automatic rerouting when you go off course - Active turn-by-turn navigation with automatic rerouting - Configurable cockpit (speed, ETA, elevation, elapsed time) Personalised Experience - ETAs that learn from your actual riding pace over time - Metric or imperial units - Ride profiles for regular, cargo, MTB, road/gravel and e-scooter use, with a separate e-bike setting - The e-scooter profile helps with planning; local laws and traffic rules always apply - Landscape-optimised docked cockpit Ride History & Insights - Automatic ride recording and statistics - Distance, duration, average speed and elevation gain - GPX export of your actual track - Reorder stops on multi-waypoint routes Privacy by Design - No account or login ever required - Ride history, favourites and settings stored locally on your device - No ads, no advertising tracking and no selling of your data - Location used only for navigation PedalPilot uses specialist cycling routing and OpenStreetMap-based map data. Provider credits and privacy details are always available inside the app. Now available in 6 languages with complete voice and interface support: English, German, Dutch, French, Spanish and Italian.

Screenshots

Motonav4 screens
PedalPilot4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: PedalPilot at 15.1 against Motonav's 26.2. 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Motonav ships an update every 6 days, PedalPilot every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Motonav versus PedalPilot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMotonavPedalPilot
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.215.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndrew FreedMarkus Bergthaler

In-app purchases

None

Motonav

No in-app purchases

None

PedalPilot

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Motonav free?
Motonav is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PedalPilot free?
PedalPilot is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Motonav or PedalPilot have ads?
Neither Motonav nor PedalPilot shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Motonav or PedalPilot?
Motonav ships an update every 6 days, and PedalPilot every 9 days. Most recently, Motonav was updated on October 18, 2026 and PedalPilot on October 24, 2026.

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