Everything between you and a great ride
Plan it, find it, share it, ride it. Here's everything Byker does, in detail, and which parts are free. (Nearly all of it.)
Plan the roads you actually want
You choose the roads; Byker joins them up. Tap the red +, then tap the map or search for a place or UK postcode to add points. The route follows the roads and re-plans in a moment every time you change it.
Drag points on the map to fine-tune, reorder them in a list, or reverse the whole route
See the miles, the riding time and the total climb as you go
Mark points as a stop, fuel, café, photo opportunity or overnight, so you and anyone you share with know what's there
Finish where you started turns any route into a round trip in one tap
Every point gets a proper name from the map, like "A57, Snake Pass"
Avoid what you don't want
Switch on "No motorways" to keep to the good stuff. With Premium you can avoid toll roads and ferries too.
Multi-day tripsPremium
Add overnight stops and Byker splits the trip into days, each with its own distance, time, start and finish.
Bring routes with you
Import a GPX file from another app or a mate, and it lands in the planner ready to edit and save. Duplicate your own rides to try a new version, or save a copy of one a rider shares with you.
Save it your way
Give it a name, a description, up to 2 photos (10 with Premium) and tags like Winding, Scenic or Coastal. It stays private until you say otherwise.
See every ride, and everything along the way
The Map tab shows your rides and everyone's published rides as red lines, right where they are. Search for a road or a tag, filter with a tap, and open any ride from its card.
- Switch to Places to see fuel stations, cafés, bike parking, viewpoints and bike shops, or to Events to see what's on and where
- Tap a place for directions, to look it up on Google Maps, or to add it to your ride as a fuel, food or photo stop
- Light, dark and gentle-colour maps, drawn by Byker for riders
- Great Britain and Ireland in full detail, refreshed from OpenStreetMap every month
Know what's on the road before you set off
Switch the Map tab to Speed cameras or Alerts to see what riders know about the roads right now. Every report comes from riders, and riders keep it honest.
- Speed camera
- Average speed
- Camera van
- Road closure
- Biker down
Speed cameras
Fixed and average-speed cameras across Britain and Ireland, from OpenStreetMap and riders' own reports
Camera vans
Shown for 2 hours from the last time a rider confirmed one. Going to an event, or sharing your location? Byker tells you when a van is reported on your way
Road closures with the reason, how long for and any diversion, and biker down, so riders behind know to take care
Tap any alert to Confirm it's still there, or say It's gone
Free for every rider. Reports only count from riders who are near the spot, and Byker never shows who reported anything. Biker down is no substitute for 999: call it first.
Ride first, plan later
Found a great road by accident? Press record and ride. Byker draws your track as you go, and turns it into a ride you can save, describe and share when you get back.
Press record
From the red + in the app.
Ride
Screen off, phone in your pocket.
Save it
Name it, tag it, add photos.
Share it
Or keep it to yourself.
- Keeps recording with the screen off or the app in the background
- Pause and resume from the notification on Android, without unlocking the phone
- Shows distance, speed and moving time (stops for fuel and tea don't count)
- If the phone closes the app, your ride is kept and waiting when you reopen it
- No signal when you finish? Save it anyway. It waits on your phone and uploads when you're back online (up to 5 rides waiting, or as many as you like with Premium)
- Hide exact start and finish is on by default when you save, because most rides start at home
Your track stays on your phone while you ride. It's only sent to Byker when you choose to save it.
Byker plans. Your sat nav navigates.
There's no fiddly turn-by-turn in Byker, because you already have something better for that. Send any ride to the navigation you trust.
Open in Google Maps
One tap opens the ride in Google Maps with its start, finish and shaping points. Quick and easy for a ride you know roughly. Google may pick different roads between points, and Byker always says so.
Export GPX, exactly
A GPX file with the full line and your points, ready for the Garmin app, BaseCamp, TomTom, OsmAnd, Kurviger and other apps and devices. Your sat nav follows exactly the roads you planned.
Honest times
Distances in miles and times you can plan a day around. Prefer kilometres or a 12-hour clock? Change it in App Settings.
Maps that keep going when the signal doesn't
The best roads tend to be where the phone signal isn't. Download your part of the country and every map in Byker keeps working: quicker to load, and still there on the moors.
- Choose from Great Britain & Ireland, or a region: Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland, North of England, Midlands & East, South East & London, or South West England
- Byker tells you how much space it needs first, and resumes if the download stops
- Maps are updated every month, and Byker lets you know when there's a new one
- Free riders keep one region on the phone; Premium riders keep as many as they like
Planning a new route, search and loading rides still need a connection. Recording doesn't.
Sizes at a glance
- Wales186 MB
- South West England224 MB
- North of England351 MB
- Scotland436 MB
- Midlands & East of England490 MB
- Great Britain & IrelandPremium1.9 GB
Your rides can say where you live. So we're careful.
Byker is built so you choose what other riders see. Every privacy control is free, for everyone, always.
Private by default
A ride only you can see until you publish or share it
Hide exact start and finish
Other riders see the route without its first and last stretch, so your front door stays private
Photo locations removed
Every photo is stripped of its hidden data, including GPS, before anyone sees it
Your location stays on your phone
It's rounded before it's used to find rides nearby, and never stored. If you choose to share where you are, Byker keeps only your latest position, and deletes it when you stop
Your data, your call
Download everything, or delete your account and all of it, from the app
No adverts. No tracking.
There are no adverts in Byker and no advertising trackers, and we never sell your data. Byker runs on its own server, with its own maps, routing and search, so your rides aren't passed around other companies.
Sign in your way
Continue with Apple, Google or Facebook, or use email with a password. Log out of every device at once whenever you need to.
For riders who plan big
Premium never holds back safety, privacy or your own data. It raises the limits and adds a few extras.
Multi-day trips
Add overnight stops and Byker splits the trip into days, each with its own distance, time, start and finish.
Bigger routes
Up to 50 points on a route instead of 10, and avoid toll roads and ferries as well as motorways.
Every offline map
Keep as many regions on your phone as you like, or the whole of Great Britain & Ireland in one go.
Folders and unlimited private rides
Keep as many private rides as you like, sorted into folders, with up to 10 photos on each.
Start a club
Start up to 5 clubs for your mates, your marque or your town, and join as many as you like (free riders join one).
Ride together, live
Share where you are with your friends, a club or nearby riders. Sharing with an event you're going to is free for everyone.
Your riding
Your monthly miles and a year in review.
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Premium pays for the server and new features, for everyone. Thank you, if that's you.
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Those bills usually end up in your subscription or in adverts. We run our own map server, our own route planner and our own place search, built from open map data on our own server in Europe. Showing you a map costs us next to nothing.
Riders who choose Byker Premium pay for the server and for new features, for everyone. Thank you, if that's you.
Free, for every rider
- Plan, save, publish and share rides
- Discover, rate and comment on rides
- Join and organise events
- Friends, chats, and joining a club
- Speed cameras and map alerts
- Share your location with an event you're going to
- Record your rides
- Google Maps and GPX export
- One offline map region
- Every privacy control
New subscribers can have a 7-day free trial, once per App Store or Google Play account. If you don't cancel before it ends, your subscription starts.
Miles better together!
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Byker is coming soon to iPhone and Android. Create your free account in the app.
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