Fitmeter Bike Basic - Cycling

Map My Ride wasn’t saving rides and couldn’t get details so I down load ride with gps and Fitmeter plus a few others One use of fitmeter and I think I am hooked. Data is concise, form factor is unpretentious, and yes I need to use it more but one use was enough to tell me I will be using it more.

The speed is not alway correct. On many rides I have a max speed that seems way too high. At time on the ride it shows I am moving when I am stopped. Also the max speed is never seen on the speed trend chart, even when the max speed is correct. The chart seems to ignore shorter periods of high speed like maybe the 100 yard or so down hill you see after crossing a bridge. It may also ignore short low speeds like slowing for a corner. Maybe that is a good thing. The calorie counter should probably just be ignored. There is no way it could be accurate. There is no setup for the type of bike. Rider weight is the only user defined parameter that could be factored it. Calories would be way different between a road bike, mountain bike or a fat tired beach cruiser.

The app works great, tracks route on map, gives you time, distance, speed and more. I rated it 3 stars because after 10 uses you are forced to purchase full version. By forced I mean you cannot delete any history and you cannot stop the app without rebooting your phone. As good as it is, I will remove from my phone. Granted it’s only $3.99, however I will not be forced to purchase something I do not need or want. If the developer would allow history to be deleted, or removed when stored to the cloud, I would have given it 5 stars. The fact that you cannot stop the app without purchasing the full version or rebooting the phone to stop the app is ridiculous. Apple should stop developers from forcing users to buy a full version of an app just to use it.

This could be a five star bicycle app, except it freezes and has to be shut down. I was ready to pay for the upgrade because I really liked the history feature, but I lose my current ride data when I have to shut it down because it freezes. This has happened on multiple phones over a course of two months. So this is a good app, but unreliable, so the free price is about right.

Many times the elevation (how many feet up and how many feet down) doesn’t work correctly. Like today, the map reports a max altitude and a min altitude with a difference of about 50ft but those numbers don’t agree with the elevation chart and the short form report says zero ft up and 0 ft down.