How it works
Plan it, pocket it, ride it.
Ridelark does its routing on the phone, from maps you download once. Plan on the phone before you set off, then put it away: the directions come through your helmet, and on the Tripper pod if you have one.
Download the areas you ride
Pick from England's nine regions, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland the first time you open the app. Plan a ride somewhere else and Ridelark fetches the maps it needs by itself.
Plan the ride
Search for a shop, a town, an address or a postcode, or drop a pin exactly where you mean, down to the bike bays in a car park. Add stops along the way, choose to avoid motorways, or import a GPX track to follow.
Put the phone away and ride
Directions come through your Bluetooth intercom, with speed-limit warnings before you need to slow down. With a Tripper pod, the next turn and its distance show on the bars. If you do glance at the phone, the riding screen shows the next turn big, with buttons sized for gloves.
Stop when you like
At each planned stop Ridelark counts down and carries on to the next. Need longer? Press your helmet's play button to stay, and again when you're ready, or simply ride away.
What still needs a connection
Routing and spoken directions work with no signal at all. Today these still go online:
- searching for places, which sends what you type and a rough position to search services;
- the full map when reviewing a route, and placing a pin on it;
- downloading map areas.
Search that works offline, from the maps you’ve downloaded, is on the roadmap.
Needs Android 12 or newer. iPhone isn't supported yet. Join the beta