Plan motorcycle routes, discover the ones other riders have made, and find the stops worth making along the way. All in one place.
On the way
ROADEN puts the planner, the shared routes and the places that actually matter on a ride into the same screen.
Drop the points and the engine draws the road between them — but the style is yours leg by leg: twisty up to the pass, fast on the straight home. On Google Maps, so the bars, the petrol stations and the viewpoints are still where you look for them.
The ride that came out well is not lost: it is saved with its photographs, its notes and its stops, ready for the day you want to do it again or show it to somebody. And you can take it away as GPX.
The ones that start near you, with what actually matters: kilometres, hours, climb and what the people who have ridden them said. And if you like how somebody draws a route, follow them.
Set the ride up on one of your routes and decide who comes. On the day, each of you turns their location on if they want and you see each other on the map while you ride — only among those going, and only while it lasts.
Roaden UI
How Roaden works once the helmet is on.
Explore
Routes other people have actually ridden, with the numbers that matter: kilometres, hours, climb and what is worth stopping for. Search by area or look at the ones that start near you.
Plan
Drop the points you want to ride through and the engine draws the road between them. And every leg goes the way you want it: twisty up to the pass, fast on the straight after. All on Google Maps, with its bars, its petrol stations and its viewpoints where they always were.
Keep
Each one with its photographs, its notes and its tags. Private for as long as you like, public when you feel like it, and as GPX the day you want to take it somewhere else.
Join in
Organise a meet-up on one of your routes and decide who comes. Everybody shows how they ride and what they ride, so the group sets off at a pace that suits all of it. And every meet-up comes with the weather for the day.
On a computer
A route needs room to think about. It works in the browser today, with nothing to install — and what you save here is waiting on the phone.
A sat-nav gets you there. An ordinary planner gets you there down a slightly nicer road. Both of them decide for you what the road is like, and both decide it once for the whole route.
Roaden turns what riders already know into something useful: routes, stops and advice from the people who have been there.
Roaden is built by riders. If something is missing, if something gets in your way, or if you can see how it ought to work — write to us.
We read every email and we answer. If what you are asking for can be done, we tell you when; if it cannot, we tell you why.
info@roaden.appNo plans, and nothing sold separately. There is one subscription, and it gives you everything Roaden can do: planning with our own engine, Explore, meet-ups with their weather, GPX, and whatever comes next — the app's navigation included, at no extra cost.
Fourteen days free to try the whole thing. If it is not for you, cancel and you are never charged.
And if it is: it genuinely means something to us to be adding something to the motorcycling world. But the maps, the routing engine and the servers that work out your corners come out of our pocket every month, and we would rather say so to your face and keep this working than give it away today and have it fall over in a year. Less than a coffee a month, and we keep riding.
One subscription, both places. The app carries turn-by-turn navigation and the notifications; the web is the big screen where you plan properly.
Spain only, for now. Roaden is on the Spanish App Store while we open the rest; if your account is elsewhere you will not find it yet — write to info@roaden.app and we will tell you the day it reaches you. Fourteen days free, and you cancel from your phone settings in two taps. Android is on the way too.
The eight things everybody asks, answered straight.
No, and both are worth having. The browser has all of it: the planner, Explore, your routes and the meet-ups. The iPhone app also has turn-by-turn navigation and CarPlay. The Android one is being written. Same account, same subscription, nothing else to pay.
The whole of Europe and North America: from Lisbon to Istanbul and from Alaska to Mexico, without stopping at the borders. It is our own map, rebuilt every week, and it keeps growing — Africa, Asia, South America and Oceania are on their way. Every area that goes in comes with its terrain and its tiles behind it, not just the line.
Nothing. Fourteen whole days with all of Roaden in them. We warn you before the first charge and it cancels in one click; cancel before then and nothing is taken. Stripe holds the card, not us.
No. Every route is born private, and publishing one is a step you take yourself, route by route. What you see on Explore is what somebody chose to share.
Only the people on that meet-up who are also sharing theirs — and you see them. Nobody else: not the rest of Roaden, and not us on some dashboard. You turn it on, you turn it off whenever you like, and if you forget it switches itself off twelve hours after the start.
Yes, as GPX, whenever you want and without asking. It is the format Garmin, TomTom and everything else understands. The other way round — uploading a GPX you already have — is not possible yet, and it is on the list.
Say so and it will not take you: “no tracks” is an instruction, not a preference. And where the road really does run out, the unpaved stretches are drawn on the route before you leave, not counted in a figure at the end. When the map is wrong we fix it and send the fix back to OpenStreetMap.
Two, each for what it is good at. For planning and finding places, Google Maps, with its bars and petrol stations where they have always been. For the routes, the meet-ups and the navigation, OpenStreetMap served by us: that is what makes it possible to navigate on it and take it where there is no signal, which somebody else’s map does not allow.
