Whether it’s your daily commute or a multi-day tour, Bikemap combines millions of community-generated routes with precise, bike-specific navigation. The app thinks like a cyclist, prioritising quieter paths and cycling infrastructure, and offers community reports on things that could affect your journey, such as construction, potholes or road closures.

What we love: The level of detail. You’re not just planning from A to B – each route is truly optimised for cycling, including information on elevation, surface type and bike category. Add to that smart tools, such as Plan a Loop, which can quickly create a round trip, and Plan a Tour, which breaks multi-day rides into daily stages, and this feels like a biking essential.

Quick tip: Turn on the Global Heatmap in Map Settings to instantly see where the Bikemap community rides most – perfect for discovering tried-and-tested routes.

Meet the creator: Vienna–based Bikemap was founded in 2015 by Peter Eich, Helge Fahrnberger and Christof Hinterplattner – people who all genuinely love cycling.