Cyclo Planner

Cyclo Planner is a GPS that thinks like a cyclist. It talks you through the turns, on roads picked for a bike rather than a car — and on the days you have no idea where to go, it finds the loop for you.

Tell it where you’re setting off from and how far you feel like riding, or how long. It comes back with several circuits that bring you home again. Compare them, pick one, go. From there it calls the turns, shows your speed and records the ride on its own.

THE GUIDANCE

• Every turn called out loud: once well before it, once as you reach it

• A buzz as it comes, because nobody reads a screen with their hands on the bars

• The turn ahead on the Apple Watch, and a tap on the wrist as it arrives

• It talks over your music instead of stopping it, and you’ll hear it with the ringer off

• Your speed, big enough to read at a glance, and the limit where the map knows it

• The map sets its own zoom: tight among streets, wide on an open road

• Wandered off? The way back is worked out along real roads, not a straight line across a field

• The ride pauses itself when you stop and picks up again when you roll

• Live heart rate, if a watch or a pair of earbuds is writing it to Health

• The ride in progress on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island

• No signal? The map along your route came down before you left

BACK HOME

• What the ride came to: distance, time actually moving, average, top speed, climbing

• Saved to Apple Health as a cycling workout, route and all, if you want it there

• GPX export to your bike computer or another app

WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE A ROUTE

• Several options per search, each with a score: how closely it matches what you asked for, the reasons one tap away

• Aim for a distance — miles or kilometers, whichever your region uses — or just the time you want in the saddle

• Press and hold the map and the route goes through the spot you pointed at

• Flip the direction of a loop with one tap

• Know where you’re headed? It’ll take you there too, address to address

TUNED TO YOUR BIKE

• Road, trail, or a bit of both

• Electric assist, and how much of it

• Traffic: avoid it, put up with it, or ride right through it

• Climbing: dodge it, take it, or go looking for it

• Terrain: calm, balanced or complex — weighed against the bike you ride

• Countryside: prefer it, or insist on it

THE MAP

• CyclOSM, IGN, OpenStreetMap, Apple Maps light and dark, Satellite

• Elevation profile: run a finger along the curve and the spot lights up on the map

• What you’ll actually be riding on, measured along the route: cycle path, quiet road, busy road, trail

• Distance, climbing, estimated time, calories

KEEPING AND SHARING

• Your rides and favorites, kept without being asked

• GPX import: your own tracks join your favorites, figures recomputed, and they’re navigated like the rest

On devices with Apple Intelligence, describe a ride in a sentence — “Annecy to Albertville through Faverges, quiet roads” — and the form fills itself in, places and all. Or say it to Siri, which takes the whole sentence: “Describe a ride with Cyclo Planner…”

The app is in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, and the language is picked in its own settings rather than the phone’s: handy for riding abroad, or for reading an app in a language you are learning. Unfolded, an iPhone Duo gets a layout of its own: the planning panel stands beside the map instead of over it, and the tabs move to the edge of the screen.

No account, no ads, no tracking. Routing by BRouter, maps from OpenStreetMap and IGN.