The details
Setup, permissions, your data, and the notes behind each feature.
About the features on this pageDescriptions and screens come from the September 2026 preview build (RIDE 0.7.0). The closed-beta build may differ, and the invitation will say what it includes. Nothing here promises a date, a device or a result.
First run · settings · your data
A short guided setup, then you are on the map. Everything else lives under the You tab, in a few short pages.
Setup is short and skippable. Before your first recorded ride, RIDE asks you to calibrate the mount: park upright off the stand, bars straight, and hold steady for three seconds. You can also ride with GPS only; lean angle is not recorded then.
Road preference and route options (avoid highways, tolls or ferries), voice guidance with its own volume, miles or kilometres, theme and map look, screen orientation, music and edge-knock, your watch link, an emergency contact, and Help & about. An access page shows what RIDE may reach, with a shortcut to Android’s app settings.
Share location can text your location, open live sharing in Google Maps, or call your emergency contact, and you press send or call yourself. RIDE does not detect crashes or call for help on its own, and it is not an emergency service.
No RIDE account and no ride-history cloud sync: rides and saved places stay on your phone. Online map, routing, search and weather requests go to the providers described in the Privacy Policy, and exports go only where you send them.
Optional. RIDE can time a standing launch or a rolling speed range from your phone’s GPS. Every result is a labelled phone GPS estimate, never certified timing. Under the Terms, performance features are for a lawfully operated closed course with permission and suitable safety controls, and not for timing or documenting speeding, racing, stunts or unlawful riding on public roads.
Settings pages and wording shown in the preview screens can change before the closed beta.
01 / Plan the ride
Type a place or drop a pin, then choose the kind of road you’re in the mood for. Fast heads for the quickest roads. Balanced sits in the middle. Twisty trades a little time for more curves, and Extra twisty goes all in: the scenic way, not the quick way. RIDE scores each route for twist, so you know what you’re getting before you set off.
The Twist score is RIDE’s own measure of how much of the road is spent in bends, weighted by how tight they are. It describes a route; it does not make a road safe, and a suggested route never replaces your judgment of the road.
02 / Ride
One glance card with speed, trip, ride time and lean angle. A turn banner that also names your next stop. Flip to landscape on a wide mount, and pick Light, Dark or Automatic for the light you’re riding in.
Set up and adjust RIDE while parked, and mount the phone securely so it never blocks your controls, instruments or view. Read the rider safety notice.
03 / Remember the ride
Tap record before you set off. Pause at the café, resume before you roll off, hold to end when you’re home. Every ride is saved on your phone with its route, distance, time and how far you leaned, and you can replay it on the map to find the good bits. Want the track somewhere else? Export a GPX and choose where it goes.
Replay peak pins were still in testing in the September preview. An exported file can reveal where and when you rode, so share exports with care; the Privacy Policy explains what stays on your devices and what is sent to services.
Places on the map · United States only
Browse the map and the stops riders care about show up as you zoom in: fuel, charging, food, cafés, viewpoints, a bed for the night, somewhere to park. Tap one to ride there, add it as a stop on the way, or save it under your own name. Favorites stay on the map at any zoom.
Places cover the United States for now. Map pins show names and categories from OpenStreetMap through the map tiles, and nearby search uses Stadia Maps place search, so coverage varies from town to town and can be incomplete. There are no reviews, photos or opening hours. Map screens carry the Stadia Maps, OpenMapTiles and OpenStreetMap attribution, as in the app.
Weather · In the beta scope
A Weather tab sits beside Ride. It shows current conditions, the weather at points ahead on a planned route, a small map, and an hourly outlook with a rain-probability strip and a Low, Elevated or High weather-risk line. An optional Avoid rain setting can look for a drier road when the forecast says rain is likely ahead.
Weather is part of the closed-beta scope, but how it behaves on real devices is still being qualified. Forecasts can be wrong, late or unavailable, so treat them as a helpful estimate, not a guarantee. The weather screens on this site show the live forecast at the time of the September capture; the Avoid rain screens use simulated rain from a test fixture.
Wear OS companion · Optional Preview
The next turn, how far it is and when you’ll arrive, on your wrist. A buzz before each turn, at the distance you choose, so you rarely need to look down. A dim face when your wrist is down. The watch only shows what the phone knows, and when the phone drops out, it says so instead of guessing.
Watch features need a paired Wear OS watch and matching phone and watch builds. They are previews: pairing, heart rate and wrist controls are still being verified on real watches, and complete Wear OS qualification is pending. Every watch screen on this site comes from an emulator preview with demo data.
Before you set off
A regular navigation app gets you there fastest. RIDE lets you choose how twisty the road should be and scores each route for curves, shows lean angle and ride stats while you ride, records the ride so you can replay it, and keeps your recorded rides on your phone, with no RIDE account.
No RIDE account or purchase is needed to plan or record rides in the closed beta. Maps, place search and routing, including reroutes, need a connection; recording a ride does not. Google Play testers install with their Google account, as with any Play app.
Standard builds are described as including 250 free route plans per calendar month, and the Terms describe a one-time full-version unlock through Google Play. Invited closed-beta testers get unlimited route planning and do not need to buy anything; that exception does not carry over to public builds. No price, purchase or store link is announced yet.
Yes: a Weather tab beside Ride with current conditions, an hourly outlook, a rain-probability strip and a weather-risk line, plus optional Avoid rain route planning. Weather is part of the closed-beta scope, but its behavior on real devices is still being qualified, and forecasts can be wrong or unavailable. See the weather section.
Yes, in the September preview: places appear on the map as you zoom in, and nearby search finds fuel, food, parking or cafés. Places cover the United States for now, come from open map data and Stadia Maps search, and have no reviews, photos or opening hours. Coverage varies from town to town.
Recorded rides stay on your phone in an encrypted database, with Android cloud backup disabled for them, unless you export one. Online routing, search and map requests go to Stadia Maps, and weather requests go through RIDE’s weather service to Open-Meteo. The Privacy Policy lists what is sent and what stays on your devices.
Not yet. Showing posted speed limits, starting with the United States and using open map data, is in development, so there is nothing to try. Limits can be missing or wrong, and road signs always come first.
Plan, set up and adjust RIDE while safely stopped, then ride. Readings are estimates, and a suggested route never replaces your judgment. Read the rider safety notice.
