Best app?

[Lpoolck]

Endomondo for me. Nice clean app. Map my ride kept turning off and missing last 15 miles of my ride. SportyPal is pretty good too.

 

[User6179]

Endomondo , some users say it drains the battery but I found as long as you turn everything else off I can get over 6 hours with it.

 

[John_c]

I've used Endomondo, Strava, Run keeper and garmin. Tbh I prefer strava as it gives me the most accurate data for each ride. It's also the least battery hungry.
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[stephen.rooke]

strava all the way

 

[Cringles]

+1 for Strava. I still use Map my ride & Strava, but Strava gives the more accurate reading. I just prefer the website layout of map my ride which is why I still continue to use it.

 

[Fran143]

Map my Ride but leaning more towards Strava now......for the encouragement of course!

 

[Mike Alexander]

I'd highly recommend Cyclemeter, but I think it's only available for iOS (iPhone).

 

[Col5632]

I've used both mapmyride and strava and both seem really good

 

[Trail Child]

I use Mapmyride on my iPhone with success in urban and rural settings here in Canada.

 

[GentlyBenevolent]

Been using endomondo last year and just started with strava. I ran them both last night in an unscientific test for a ~25minute ride using a galaxy s2 phone (no HRM or any other sensors). Strava used about 3% battery, endomondo was up at 14%.

Stat Strava Endo
Time 22:55 23:26
Distance 5.5mi 5.47mi
maxspeed 33.1mph 31.6mph
avgspeed 14.4mph 14.0mph
Elevation 199ft 212ft
Calories 197 382

Given that my weight was set 20lb lower in endomondo I'm surprised the calorie count is so different (I'm not putting any stock in that figure though).

To do this properly I should restart the phone, then see if there's a difference if one app starts first vs the other, and repeat the tests. I'll probably just stick with the strava app and export the routes to endo though.

 

[on the road]

I use Locus, it uses a lot of battery power but it's more accurate than Strava, and you can adjust the tracking accuracy.

 

[KateK]

I think these calorie readings are all a bit weird: I use cyclemeter on iphone (used mytracks on android because it gave me a speed plot over distance and altitude and average moving speed which was all I really need at the moment to see what I need to work on) and it tells me I used 1400 calories on a typical 35mile, 16.5 mph ride, which seems very large.
My tracks just plots gps it doesn't try to map the route and doesn't upload it unless you ask, so it's quite kind on the battery, cyclemeter seems the same.

 

[Sittingduck]

Strava

 

[KateK]

I'm trying to keep away from strava... I'm bad enough at road junctions when some pimply lad parks his bike in front of me without a whole app telling me how much faster some one else has done this road.

 

[Chilli]

I'd started with RunKeeper since it was free, but then moved onto Xtrail (iPhone) when it was promoted in the App Store. It's okay, but could do with a few additional features. I might try a couple of the ones mentioned in this thread.

Those having issues with unreliable tracking - have you tried switching off wifi during your ride to force your phone to use GPS?