Alternatives to Bikemap
A cycling route planner and bike computer app with a large library of community-shared routes. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Bikemap
A cycling route planner and bike computer app with a large library of community-shared routes.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Bikemap.
Komoot
Route planner and outdoor navigation app for hiking, cycling and mountain biking with community routes.
Komoot plans sport-specific routes for cycling, hiking and mountain biking with turn-by-turn outdoor navigation and community routes, and it requires an account with some paid features.
Ride with GPS
A cycling route planner and navigation app with a large shared route library.
Ride with GPS adds a detailed web route planner, turn-by-turn voice navigation and route sync to Garmin, Wahoo and Hammerhead devices, with some features on paid subscription.
cycle.travel
A cycle route planner that favours quiet lanes, cycleways and traffic-free paths.
cycle.travel is free and routes along quiet lanes and cycleways, suggesting circular and multi-day routes, but has fewer social features and targets leisure rather than training.
Plotaroute
A web route planner for walks, runs and bike rides with auto-routing and GPS export.
Plotaroute is a web-only planner for walks, runs and rides with auto-routing and export to Garmin and Wahoo, without mobile apps, and some features are for paid members.
RouteYou
Web platform for finding, planning and downloading cycling, walking and motorcycle routes for GPS devices.
RouteYou is a web platform with cycling, walking and motorcycle routes to print or download to GPS devices, and it uses personalised ads and tracking cookies.
Cyclemeter
A phone-based bike computer and workout tracker for cycling, running, walking and hiking.
Cyclemeter works as a phone bike computer with more than 250 statistics, turn-by-turn navigation on planned routes and no account needed, but has no web or desktop planner.
Mapy.com
Map service with world search, hiking and cycling trails, city maps and route planning.
Mapy.com shows marked cycling and hiking trails with route planning on web and mobile, and its trail detail is strongest in Europe.
Locus Map
An outdoor navigation app for hiking, cycling and geocaching with offline maps and route planning.
Locus Map offers offline cycling and hiking routing with surface and elevation information in the planner, though iOS gets a Lite version and it runs only on mobile.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Bikemap as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
CycleStreets
A cycle journey planner and cycling photo map for the UK, built on OpenStreetMap data.
Bikemap offers a worldwide library of user-contributed cycling routes and offline maps, but turn-by-turn navigation requires Premium and route quality varies.
Outdooractive
An outdoor platform and app for finding, planning and following hiking, cycling and winter sports routes.
Bikemap focuses on cycling with a large library of community routes and a web and app planner, but turn-by-turn navigation requires Premium and it does not cover hiking.
Trailforks
A crowd-sourced map of mountain bike trails with trail conditions and ratings from riders.
Bikemap offers a large library of community cycling routes with offline maps in its apps, but turn-by-turn navigation requires Premium and route quality varies.
Wikiloc
A trail-sharing platform and mobile app for finding, recording and following outdoor routes with GPS.
Bikemap focuses on cycling, with a large community route library and phone bike computer, but turn-by-turn navigation requires Premium.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
BRouter
An offline OpenStreetMap routing engine with configurable profiles, aimed mainly at bike routing.
gpx.studio
A free online editor for viewing, creating and editing GPX files with route planning tools.
myWindsock
A web tool that forecasts wind and weather along cycling routes and analyses rides.
VeloViewer
A web app that analyses and visualises your Strava activity data with goals and maps.
Bryton Active
Companion app and website for Bryton GPS bike computers, covering activity tracking, training plans and route planning.
