The best mountain biking apps for your smartphone (iPhone and Android)
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The best mountain biking apps for your smartphone (iPhone and Android)

Here's a collection of essential mountain biking apps, from navigation to food, including photo and weather editing.

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Meteo-France

An essential app for cycling in good conditions. There are many weather apps out there, but nothing beats the good weather in our country. On the other hand, if you are going abroad, use Accuweather, which provides good statistics on the arrival of precipitation. Finally, Meteoblue is distinguished by the height of its cloud cover. It is convenient to ride mountain bikes in the mountains.

Price: Free

The best mountain biking apps for your smartphone (iPhone and Android)

MyFitnessPal

For the average mountain biker looking to improve their athletic performance, one of the best things they can do is lose weight. Almost everyone has a few extra pounds, MyFitnessPal is the app to help you get rid of them! When setting up the app, you'll enter your current weight and answer a few questions about yourself. You set a weekly weight loss goal. The app will then tell you how many calories you should be eating each day. The application has an extensive food database, which makes it easy and convenient to keep a food diary. And the app guides you during meals and takes into account your exercises.

Price: Free

Oruxmap

We could have kept it short, but the site members decided to make it long, and UtagawaVTT has an over 30 page topic for this app. We can say that this is pretty good. In fact, the app differs from dozens of other apps on the market in that it offers maps to be used offline, that is, you download your maps (e.g. to Wi-Fi) before going out, you insert your GPS tracks made on UtagawaVTT from Of course, and you are traveling without a mobile data plan. After your hike, you can retrieve the GPX log of your route and upload it to websites or email it. In addition, the application does not consume too much battery, because it does not use the mobile network.

Price: Free Please note, only available on Android.

TwoNav

An ultra complete application that we like because the GUI is the same for the smartphone version and proprietary GPS (for example, sportiva or anima, which we tested on the forum). Ability to dual-guide, roads and streets with access to topographic maps from many vendors including openstreetmap and IGN. Navigation log and GPX to share your routes later on UtagawaVTT. Connect with Comp GPS Land, the most powerful GPS app on the market. In short, it is obligatory.

Price: free / 6 euros (premium)

Alternative:

  • MyTrails: Android app with direct access to UtagawaVTT routes and VTTrack background map.

Diet

It would be unfair not to mention Strava, the app is well done, but the video above summarizes what we think ... 😉

Price: Free / Premium subscription.

OpenRunner

Openrunner's mobile app (French, made in Haute-Savoie) allows you to:

  • Follow the GPX route.
  • Record your activity and get information about your walk, distance, duration, altitude difference, pace, altitude, etc.
  • Find your way among the various topographic maps available, Open Street Map (OSM), Open Cycle Map (OCM) or IGN France.

Price: Free / Premium subscription.

The best mountain biking apps for your smartphone (iPhone and Android)

Komoot

The Germans at Komoot have done a very good job on this VERY complete app. This is especially handy for preparing your routes (when nothing was found on UtagawaVTT 😉) because it allows you to draw automatically by choosing the best routes (and in most cases this works well for mountain biking and mountain biking). The guide is very good (and voice-over), besides, after completing the course, the GPX can be exported to share on UtagawaVTT (with nice photos and nice description that the community will love).

Price: Free / Premium subscription.

Snapseed

The best photo editing tool. Super powerful filters, extremely easy to use and very easy to use, and even more free. This is the app that should perfectly illustrate your GPS toposes before you share them on UtagawaVTT!

Price: Free

The best mountain biking apps for your smartphone (iPhone and Android)

Whatsapp

We no longer present the famous instant messaging app purchased by Facebook. An interesting feature allows you to share your location with the group. This feature allows you to broadcast your location. Convenient when you are walking alone to inform your loved ones.

As an alternative, Glympse is also very good because it gives a group of people access to your position for a specific period of time by sending an SMS with a link to follow your position in real time.

Price: Free

And you ? Offers ? What are you using?

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