Alternatives to cycle.travel
A cycle route planner that favours quiet lanes, cycleways and traffic-free paths. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
cycle.travel
A cycle route planner that favours quiet lanes, cycleways and traffic-free paths.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as cycle.travel.
Komoot
Route planner and outdoor navigation app for hiking, cycling and mountain biking with community routes.
Komoot generates sport-specific cycling and hiking routes with turn-by-turn navigation and a large community library, but requires an account and puts some features behind payment.
Ride with GPS
A cycling route planner and navigation app with a large shared route library.
Ride with GPS adds turn-by-turn voice navigation, a large shared and club route library and sync to Garmin, Wahoo and Hammerhead, with some features requiring a paid subscription.
Bikemap
A cycling route planner and bike computer app with a large library of community-shared routes.
Bikemap offers a large library of community cycling routes, a web and app planner and offline maps, but turn-by-turn navigation requires Premium.
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, route tracing tools and Garmin and Wahoo export, with some features for paid members.
RouteYou
Web platform for finding, planning and downloading cycling, walking and motorcycle routes for GPS devices.
RouteYou is a web platform of cycling, walking and motorcycle routes for printing or GPS download, and it uses personalised ads and tracking cookies.
Mapy.com
Map service with world search, hiking and cycling trails, city maps and route planning.
Mapy.com covers marked cycling and hiking trails with outdoor route planning on web and mobile, with detail strongest in Europe and some paid features.
CycleStreets
A cycle journey planner and cycling photo map for the UK, built on OpenStreetMap data.
CycleStreets is a free cycling planner built on OpenStreetMap with a photomap of cycling infrastructure, but it focuses on the UK and is still in beta.
Outdooractive
An outdoor platform and app for finding, planning and following hiking, cycling and winter sports routes.
Outdooractive is free, covers cycling alongside hiking and winter sports, and offers routes from guides and trail wardens with GPS tracking apps, mainly for Europe.
Also worth comparing
These listings name cycle.travel as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Bikerouter
A browser-based bicycle route planner built on BRouter with many routing profiles and GPX export.
cycle.travel adds Android and iOS apps and favours quiet lanes and cycleways, with suggested circular and multi-day routes, but offers fewer routing profiles for different bike types.
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.
Cyclemeter
A phone-based bike computer and workout tracker for cycling, running, walking and hiking.
RouteConverter
An open-source Java desktop tool for converting and editing GPS routes, tracks and waypoints.
