No matter how, when or where you use your bike, there is a number of smartphone-friendly apps that will make your experience more productive and exciting. At all4cycling, we want our fellow cycling enthusiasts to be safe and happy on their bikes, so we’ve created this informative guide to our favourite biking apps for everyone to enjoy.

Fixing and maintenance

Feedback Sports Bicycle Maintenance Tracker
Price: Free
Available on: iPhone, Android, tablet
Offline mode: Yes

This is a great maintenance and component log for all of your bikes. Though it doesn’t have tips for fixing, you can log all of your maintenance records and keep a list of all of your bike’s components. The maintenance tracker can remind you how much you paid for gear, when you last put new tyres on, or how long ago you replaced your chain.

Easy Bike Repair
Price: Free
Available on: iPhone, Android, tablet
Offline mode: Yes

Detailed and simple, this great app includes 50 step-by-step instructions on repair and maintenance, as well as 26 examples of problems and solutions.

Bike Repair App
Price: $4.99
Available on: iPhone, Android, tablet
Offline mode: Certain aspects

From repair guides, tips, information, maintenance alerts and even what to wear, this app has it all. You can also compare replacements parts online and upload to cloud devices such as drop box. Check the weather from the home screen and get clothing suggestions based on the temperature, as well as creating your own outfit list for different weather and temperatures.

Mapping

Map My Ride
Price: Free
Available on: iPhone, Android
Offline mode: No

Track route, speed, elevation and distance from this popular app, complete with real-time stats, voice prompts and the ability to have music playing in the background. Since you’re using a gps, the program auto-stops if you’ve stopped – great for accurate tracking.

Strava GPS
Price: Free, though premium edition is $5.99/month
Available on: iPhone, Android (HTC Hero, HTC Hero S, Nexus One are not supported)
Offline mode: No

This great app is like a social network for cycling routes – track your ride with the gps, join community challenges, share photos from your escapades and follow friends on their rides or choose routes uploaded by others, viewable on the Strava website.

Bikemap – Your bike routes
Price: Free
Available on: iPhone, Android
Offline mode: Routes can be stored offline

Choose from over 800,000 cycling or mountain biking routes worldwide, with accurate location and an interactive, real-time map. They all show distance, description and rating, so you’ll know exactly where you’re going and how challenging the route will be. You can search for routes near you, or upload your own to the Bikenet community.

Fitness

Wahoo Fitness
Price: Free
Available on: iPhone, Android
Offline mode: GPS function uses mobile data/Wi-Fi

This functional app pairs nicely with a number of training websites and Bluetooth sensors, so you’re able to access a complete data table of your workout history, training information, optimal heart rate and more. This app is also very customisable, with different audio alerts, cycling data, sensors personalised information and data screens available.

Coach My Ride
Price: €4.99 (approx. AU $7.14)
Available on: iPhone, iPad
Offline mode: Yes

Set and follow your own personalised training and performance program, with themed training sessions, data history and over 100 workouts will ensure you are at your peak in no time. This app is all about enjoying training as well as enjoying riding, and features training advice from world-class coach Lionel Reynaud.

Garmin Fit
Price: $0.99 for iPhone, $1.29 for Android
Available on: iPhone, Android
Offline mode: GPS function and uploading uses mobile data/Wi-Fi

For those who prefer to follow their own training regime, take advantage of Garmin’s user-friendly app to monitor speed, distance, route and calories. For a monthly or yearly subscription, the LiveTrack feature is available, allowing those on Facebook, email or twitter to access a link that displays your progress – great for your friends or family to keep up with you during races or training.

As passionate cyclists, we love to find ways to share our passion and enhance our riding, whether it be commuting, racing, training or for fun. Don’t forget to check out our online store for top of the line equipment and apparel – especially the HandleBand, a universal smartphone mount that will make your device easy to see while keeping it secure on handlebars of any size.

Have these apps benefitted you? Do you have others to recommend? We’d love to hear your opinion in a comment below.

Photo credits:
Great fortune! By Kai Hendry, CC-BY-2.0
The map and the woman by Francois Schnell, CC-BY-2.0
iPhone 111 by Glory Cycles, CC-BY-2.0