Geovelo - Bike GPS & Stats

Geovelo

About this app

Discover Geovelo, the free and ad-free app for all your bike journeys.

- Secure routes with a unique world-class route calculator.
- Customized routes based on your bike type (standard, electric, shared, etc.) and preferred route type (fastest or safest).
- Personalized statistics on your activities and their impact.
- Automatic detection and recording of your bike journeys.
- Civic-minded operation that assists cities in improving their bike infrastructure.
- Mapping of bike parking facilities and bike lanes.
- Collective and individual challenges.
- Catalog of bike routes and rides.
- Weather alerts.
- Dedicated Wear OS app for easy ride tracking.

In Detail:

• CUSTOMIZED ROUTES & GPS
The app adapts to your bike type, speed, and preferred route type. Geovelo prioritizes bike lanes, cycle paths, and low-traffic roads for your comfort, safety, and peace of mind. Geovelo includes real-time guidance with map, full-screen, and compass modes, along with voice guidance and notifications.

• STATISTICS & AUTOMATIC RECORDING
Simply ride with the Geovelo app installed, and your journeys are automatically detected and recorded. You can review them within the app. Please note that you'll need to grant location access when the app is closed or in the background for this feature to work.

• A VIRTUOUS CITIZEN APP
Data generated from journeys recorded with the Geovelo app are anonymized and used solely to analyze and improve bike-friendliness in partner cities.

• BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE AND BIKE PARKING
With its comprehensive mapping, Geovelo also allows you to quickly find bike infrastructure, parking facilities, and bike racks nearby.

• COMMUNITIES & CHALLENGES
Connect with other cyclists in your city or workplace and take part in regular activity challenges. Ride your bike every day or cover the most kilometers to aim for the top of your community leaderboard.

• BIKE ROUTES & RIDES
The app also features bike routes such as La Vélodyssée, Via Rhôna, La Loire à Vélo, La Scandibérique, La Flow Vélo, Le Canal des deux Mers à Vélo, La Vélo Francette, La Véloscénie, L'Avenue Verte London-Paris, and many more. It also offers numerous rides to explore the heritage and its riches.

• CONTRIBUTIONS & REPORTING
Enhance the mapping of parking facilities and infrastructure through our connection with OpenStreetMap, a community mapping project, and help fellow cyclists by reporting issues or dangerous routes.

• MANY PRACTICAL TOOLS
Weather alerts for your favorite routes (to advise you on departure times based on weather conditions), simplified address search, and more.

• SHARED BIKES
Geovelo displays real-time availability for shared bikes, including Bordeaux V3, Vélolib, Vélo'+, Donkey Republic, V'Lille, Velam, VéloCité, Villo, Velo2, Cristolib, Vélo'V, Le vélo, VéloCité, VélOstan'lib, Bicloo, Cy'clic, VélôToulouse, LE vélo STAR, PBSC, PubliBike V1, Yélo, Optymo, C.vélo, Vélib', Vélocéa, Velopop', and more.

• Permissions
Location: Necessary for displaying your GPS location and proper navigation.
Background Location: To save your bike journey locations, speeds, and statistics, access to your location when the app is closed is necessary for activity detection and manual recording features to work.

• Regular updates to continually improve Geovelo and add new features.

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Ratings and reviews

Thanks to the devs for fixing the permissions : manually recording a ride no longer requires excessive permissions! ----- Original comment: Useless, the app refuses to start an itinerary if the background location permission is not granted. I refuse to grant this permission, even more so to an app which states that "location data may be shared with third parties"

I really like the app but I can't use the app if I don't enable "allow all the time" for the location, which shouldn't be the case, I don't want automatic detection and see no reason why I should have the setting enabled to just use the app…

It's a nice free app that does the job of finding cycling paths, I think it suggests better options than Google maps. But it cannot handle well when you differ from suggested paths, it will keep trying to make you u-turn for kilometers rather than adapting to the new path. Very annoying when there are roadblocks the app doesn't know about. Also it plays with the screen lightness settings, but it a very bad way. It dims everything so much I can barely see the screen when riding

What's new

Global improvements to app performance and stability.