I made an app for planning bike tours and wanted to share it with you amazing people!
Hi all!I'm a cyclist myself and I mostly ride long distances on weekends but I've also done a couple of bike packing trips. Each time I started planning a new ride or a long trip, despite there being some great apps like Komoot, Ride-With-GPS, Strava etc to plan a route, I just wasn't satisfied with them, especially their mobile app experience of creating new routes.
Being an app developer, I thought I'd solve this myself. So I built my own take on creating new routes on the mobile. I present to you - Maplocs - A cycling route planner! You can get the app here (only on Android right now..)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=abhiank.maplocs
What you'll find different in this app from all others is that its purely built just for planning cycling routes; a pure experience with no fluff. It's powered by data from OpenStreetMaps. You can find routes for all kinds of bikes. The app comes with a slew of powerful route editing tools, like undo, reversing a route, drag and change point location, delete a point, closing a route loop, adding points in between and more!
However, I feel that finding a good route is just the tip of the iceberg. We all just want to have a great time riding our bikes and I feel that wind and rain often ruin that. Maplocs has just the thing to help plan around that. You can view weather along your entire route. The app shows temperature, rain and wind. Additionally, you can see the weather for any time in the future within the upcoming 7 days! This is one of my favorite features in the app.
My second favorite feature is one which I'm sure you all will love as well is - hills on the route. We all have a love hate relationship with hills. Wouldn't it be awesome if an app could show how many hills are there on the route? Well, look no further. The app shows hills categorised from Cat 4, Cat 3, ..2..1 and HC.
Now that you have the perfect route, you can share it to directly to the Garmin or Wahoo apps or export a GPX file. Also, all your routes are saved safely offline so thats its available to you even if you have no internet.
More than anything else, I just want to help my fellow bike packers and weekend riders to find great routes and just have an amazing time on their bike which is why I want more people to use this app. I shall be more than happy to receive any feedback and share any promo codes if anyone wants to try out the premium features.
Thank you for reading :)
Abhi
EDIT - Thank you all for such a wonderful response. I got some great feedback, new ideas and feature requests and most of all, I got to connect so many awesome fellow cyclists. Thank you all very much! I still have some 50 promo codes left so please don't hesitate to reach out to me to ask for one.
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