Remap vs Ride with GPS: which route planner should you use?

Pick Remap if you want routes built for you from the roads around you, through the scenery you choose and matched to a style you set for rides and runs, with planning free and without limits. Pick Ride with GPS if you plan your own cycling routes point by point, need offline maps or cue sheets, or ride with a Garmin or Hammerhead, because Ride with GPS offers all of these and Remap doesn’t.

Every Ride with GPS figure below links to the page it came from, checked on 16 October 2026. What we say about Remap describes its web and iPhone apps on 17 October 2026, from our help pages, pricing page and the apps themselves.

How each one makes a route

Remap builds the route for you. It reads every road for its surface, traffic and terrain, then builds routes through the roads that suit the style you chose. A road you like can lose out when it’s busy, rough or steep for that style (How routes pick roads).

Ride with GPS builds the route you draw. You “set your start and end points”, its cycling routing engine suggests “bike-friendly roads and paths”, and then you drag the route, add waypoints and check elevation and surfaces (route planner). The engine steers toward “bike lanes, shared-use paths, and roads with lower traffic” (route planner). In the app, QuickNav gives directions to any spot, with up to three routes to choose from and paved, unpaved or any surface (App Store).

What Remap already knows about every road

Before you ask for a route, Remap has already read every mapped road and path in the world and worked out what each stretch is like to ride or run:

Scenery: whether it runs along the coast, beside water, through a forest or a park, or through a quiet part of town.
Traffic: how much traffic it carries and how fast that traffic moves, modelled for every road, not only where traffic counts exist.
Comfort: bike lanes and separated paths, mapped cycle routes, surface, hills and lighting.

When you ask for a ride or a run, Remap joins the best of these stretches into a route that fits your distance or time. In Explore you choose the scenery you want more of, free: coastal, waterside, parks, forest, cycle networks or quiet streets, with only the kinds your area has on offer. Before you go, the route shows the scenery it passes along its elevation profile and flags any busy, fast or rough stretches.

Side-by-side comparison

	Remap	Ride with GPS
Plan routes	Free, without limits, by distance or by time: 10 to 200 km (5 to 125 miles) for rides, 2 to 30 km (1 to 20 miles) for runs (pricing)	Free Starter plan plans routes on the website; creating and saving routes in the app needs Basic or Premium (pricing)
Paid plan	Remap Pro, $59.99 a year in the US, with a 7-day free trial (pricing)	Basic listed at $9.99 and $59.99, Premium at $12.99 and $79.99 on the US App Store; the listing doesn’t show billing periods (App Store). Free for 7 days to try Premium (pricing)
Sports	Rides and runs, each with its own styles	“Built exclusively for cycling” (route planner)
Tune the routing	Styles you refine: road comfort, speed limits, bike lanes, surfaces, hills, intersections, turns, ferries, traffic and lighting for rides; surfaces, turns and lighting for runs	Paved, unpaved or any surface (App Store), then your own start, end and waypoints (route planner)
Voice navigation	Pro, in the iPhone app; turn tones stay free	Basic or Premium (pricing)
Directions as you ride	Just Go, in Pro: Remap follows your direction and adjusts the route as you move	QuickNav, for upgraded subscribers, updates “if you stray off-course” (App Store)
Offline maps	None to download; Remap needs a data connection to plan	Basic or Premium (pricing)
Cue sheets	None; the iPhone app shows your next turn and offers a way back if you leave the route	Generated for any route (route planner); custom cues are Premium (pricing)
Trips over several days	Not offered	Stages, overnight stops and resupply points in one collection (route planner)
Wahoo	Pro: rides come in, saved routes go out as courses (Wahoo)	Route library syncs to ELEMNT devices and rides upload (integrations); device sync is in the free Starter plan (pricing)
Garmin and Hammerhead	No direct sync; export any route as a GPX file for a device that takes one (home page)	Both sync routes and rides (integrations)
Route files	GPX export of any route or recorded activity, free with an account; no TCX, and no import	GPX and TCX export (route planner)
Account	Not needed to plan; a free account, with Apple or Google, saves, shares and exports (Your account)	Free Starter sign up (pricing)
Where it runs	Web and iPhone (iOS 26 or later); navigation and recording are in the iPhone app; no Android or Apple Watch app (App Store)	Web (pricing), iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch (App Store), and Android (app)
Community	No feed, followers or library of shared routes	Over 3 million riders (app); over 1 million cycling routes (pricing)
Rating	New on the App Store, with no US ratings yet (App Store)	4.7 from 40K ratings on the US App Store (App Store)

The real limits on both sides

Remap

Voice guidance, Just Go, Explore Focus, unlimited saves and Wahoo sync are Pro. Planning, GPX export, sharing by link and Bluetooth sensors stay free (Remap Pro, pricing).
A free account shows up to 3 saved routes and favourite activities. The rest are kept, not deleted, and come back with Pro. Recorded activities aren’t capped.
Remap Pro is sold on the web and in the iPhone app (Remap Pro).
Navigation and recording are in the iPhone app, which needs iOS 26 or later. The web plans routes, shows your history and exports GPX. There’s no Android or Apple Watch app.
There are no offline maps to download, so you need a data connection to plan a route.
Remap doesn’t import route files, and Wahoo is the only device it syncs with. Any other bike computer or watch takes a GPX file you export.
Courses you make in Wahoo don’t come into Remap. Older ELEMNT, BOLT and ROAM models keep only your latest course, and the older ELEMNT companion app doesn’t list Remap courses. Indoor workouts stay on Wahoo (Wahoo).
Wahoo sync pauses while you’re not on Pro (Wahoo).
A road you like can lose out when it’s busy, rough or steep for your style. Change the style, or report the road if it came out wrong.
There are no cue sheets and no planner for trips over several days.

Ride with GPS

The free Starter plan doesn’t include creating routes in the app, bike-friendly directions, turn-by-turn voice navigation or offline maps. Those start at Basic (pricing).
Advanced Map Layers, editing and joining several routes, points of interest with custom cues, the Trace tool and private segments are Premium only (pricing).
You place the start, end and waypoints yourself (route planner).
It is “built exclusively for cycling” (route planner).
The iPhone app requires iOS 17.0 or later (App Store).

Who should pick which

Pick Remap if you:

Want the route built for you rather than drawn, from the roads around you.
Care how the roads feel: traffic, surfaces, hills, bike lanes and lighting, all set in your style.
Want more coast, water, forest or parks on your rides and runs.
Ride and run, and want each to keep its own style.
Ride with a Wahoo and want every saved route to arrive as a course (Pro).
Want to plan without an account or a subscription.

Pick Ride with GPS if you:

Like to plan every turn yourself, with waypoints, cue sheets and points of interest.
Need offline maps, for example riding where there’s no signal.
Want routes synced straight to a Garmin or a Hammerhead, or device sync without paying.
Plan tours over several days with stages and overnight stops.
Use Android. Remap runs on the web and iPhone.

How to move from Ride with GPS to Remap

Open Remap on the web or on iPhone. You don’t need an account to plan (Your account).
Pick a style. In Explore, tap Style and choose the one closest to how you ride. Rides and runs keep their own styles (How routes pick roads).
Refine it. On the web, open Style and choose Refine beside it; in the app, tap Style, then the edit button. If you chose paved or unpaved in Ride with GPS, set paved and unpaved surfaces here, then hills, traffic and the rest (How routes pick roads).
Sign in to save. Sign in with Apple or Google to save routes and keep your history (Your account).
Move your Wahoo over (Pro). In Remap, open Settings and connect Wahoo under Devices. Every route you save goes to your Wahoo as a course, and your recent Wahoo rides come in, back to the day before you joined Remap (Wahoo). Ride with GPS connects Wahoo from Connected Services in its account settings (integrations).
Keep copies of your favourite routes. Ride with GPS exports GPX and TCX files (route planner). Remap doesn’t import route files, so build them again in Remap from the same start.
Tell us where a road comes out wrong. Choose Feedback at the bottom of the Explore panel on the web, or Settings, then Feedback, in the app (Report a road).
Check what you’d give up before cancelling Ride with GPS. Offline maps, cue sheets, multi-day planning and Garmin and Hammerhead sync stay with Ride with GPS. Remap Pro can be cancelled any time (Remap Pro).

More comparisons

Sources

Ride with GPS figures, each checked on 16 October 2026:

US App Store listing, apps.apple.com/us/app/ride-with-gps-bike-navigation/id893687399: 4.7 stars from 40K ratings; in-app purchases Basic $9.99 and $59.99, Premium $12.99, $79.99 and $9.99, Basic Non-renewing $3.99, 7 Day Subscription $3.99; QuickNav with up to three routes and paved, unpaved or any surface; requires iOS 17.0 or later. The listing does not show billing periods.
Plans, ridewithgps.com/pricing: Starter, Basic and Premium feature lists and comparison table; over 1 million cycling routes; Premium free for 7 days; monthly or yearly billing. The prices on this page appear only once its scripts run, so we quote them from the App Store instead.
Route planner, ridewithgps.com/route_planner: how a route is planned, multi-day tours, GPX and TCX export, cue sheets, device sync.
Mobile app, ridewithgps.com/app: over 3 million riders; iPhone and Android.
Integrations, ridewithgps.com/integrations: Garmin, Wahoo and Hammerhead Karoo sync, connected from your account settings.

Remap figures, checked on 17 October 2026: the pricing page, the home page, our help pages, the App Store listing (no ratings yet in the US; requires iOS 26.0 or later) and the Remap apps themselves. Remap makes Remap. Corrections are welcome at the address on our support page.