Top 5 applications for cycling and mountain biking

If smartphones have revolutionized the world as it is known, mobile applications have become small gadgets capable of doing almost anything. There's an app for everything: keeping a menstrual calendar, nutrition and diets, adjust a bike correctly or even check the latest cycling news.

For all the above, Infobae brings a summary list of the 5 most useful apps for cyclists from a smartphone. Of course, it should be noted that the top will not be influenced by an order of importance, or download, or anything like that.

1. Strava

Strava is the app that the vast majority of cyclists use to share their routes, analyze road sections and brag about being the local legend of their city. But is that all?

Strava provides great functionality to create your own routes, then upload them to the GPS device. In addition, it can also be shared so that friends can run them and you can see who has done each route faster.

You can also use it directly as an app to save your itinerary without secondary GPS.

In a very minimal way, Strava has passed its many features to the paid version, such as viewing the top 10 rankings for each route, analyzing the efforts that were made, or seeing the highest lifting performance options.

For $7.99 per month or $59.99 per year, you can have all the tools and functions of the application. In addition, it provides a free trial time of 60 days.

2. Wikiloc

One of the best route apps in the world of hiking and adventure. It is an application with a variety of different sports modes to plan and create endless routes.

With this app, in addition to its own routes, you can search for cycling routes all over the world. The routes that can be found have detailed descriptions of the entire route, as well as several photos so that you can get an idea of each route.

You can adjust the route according to the level of difficulty you want to face, which makes it a great app suitable for any type of user. Keep in mind that all these capabilities provided by Wikiloc are completely free and you don't need to have a premium account to take advantage of all its features.

The price of a paid Wikiloc subscription is $4.99 every three months or $9.99 per month. This option allows users to take advantage of unique features such as downloading routes and sending them directly to GPS, sharing live location, checking weather conditions, and more.

It is a versatile application for cyclists, explorers or runners that allows detailed planning and optimal tracking of the route on all types of terrain. Before leaving, the route can be created and customized with maximum precision using terrain data.

From lanes to walk quietly around the city, to the most hidden roads in the nearest mountains. In addition, if the route is preloaded, you will not need an internet connection to be able to know the routes, nor will you have to worry about losing coverage.

Komoot has a blog where you can upload photos with the most incredible experiences and share them with other users. It can also help you discover new routes and have more realistic ideas for upcoming routes.

4. Google Maps

Google Maps is a great application for most people, to approach any position by car or to draw a cycling route through cities less discovered in the country.

With this app, you can fully plan your trip before you leave. It has a very useful font for planning routes, satellite images, bicycles and even the view image function that you can see exactly where you want to pass.

A very important reality of Google Maps is that you can easily send the direct location so that other users (or friends) know what might happen at any time at any time.

5. Follow Me Sports

This application is completely different from the others. It doesn't offer any functionality for planning or creating routes, but it can literally save lives.

It is an application that locates users when they play outdoor sports and answers 911 calls (in case of Peru) in the event of an accident. It is an application that will bring security and peace of mind to those who know when you are doing sports.

Follow Me Sports is activated as soon as the user's movement has not been recognized for a certain period of time and the user has not paused.

In this case, an alert is triggered which, if the user does not deactivate it, is received by the Follow Me Sports service, where technicians will check if it is an error or if it is an accident. The service for this application is available from 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m.

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