Long rides don’t just challenge your bike and your patience-unpredictable weather, struggling to find gas in an unknown town, getting separated from your ride group at a fork in the road, or not being able to tell which of three routes is actually worth an extra 40 km. The proper app on your phone can solve most of these issues before they start. Here are five that make long-distance riding much more enjoyable.
Top 5 Motorcycle Riding Applications in India
1. Riding Verse
Because Riding Verse is designed as a motorcycle riding app for India’s long-haul journeys, you can see it in the app design. It integrates long-distance riding tools into one centralized app so that you can confidently explore, plan, and experience every trip with friends and community by combining the precision and planning of route-building with the updates that matter once you’re hours away from home.
- Create and navigate detailed routes, plot stops, and compare distances before you even leave your garage
- Plot alternate routes on the fly if construction, traffic, or bad weather turns your planned route into a detour
- Stay in touch while riding with live updates about your riding and route changes – when conditions change mid-ride, we keep you up-to-date
- Find rides and events on your route so a solo trip turns into a spontaneous rendezvous
- Keep a record of your bike’s ride history and statistics in your profile “garage” so each long trip adds to the collection you can revisit and reflect on
The best part is, Riding Verse doesn’t require 3 apps to do it all – your navigation app, riding community, and ride tracking app are all rolled into one in Riding Verse. That way, you have everything you need when you’re on the road and conditions change unexpectedly.
2. REVER
REVER also makes the cut on long rides thanks to its huge route database and safety-first extras, both of which become more important the longer and more remote your trip gets. It has more than 3,000 curated routes for motorcycle touring worldwide, so you can research and plan your trip instead of wondering if the route is really going to be any good.
- Pick from more than 3,000 curated motorcycle routes from around the globe to help you plan your trip before you leave instead of wondering if the routes you’ve selected are going to be any good
- Run rings around yourself with a GPS track of a road you’ve already ridden, so you’re not the first person to test that road and discover that it’s a dead end
- Track all your ride data, like distance, time, and average speed, automatically while you’re on your trip
- Use Live Friend Tracking to track your riding buddies, or let someone back home track your progress if you’re riding solo
- Count on Safety SMS, which automatically texts your emergency contacts when your ride starts and ends. It’s a small feature that becomes a really big one on remote mountainous tracks
- Save maps for offline navigation with the Pro subscription so you don’t have to worry about dead zones on that remote stretch of highway
If you’re someone who plans multi-day trips well in advance and wants to have the route pre-checked, REVER takes the hassle out of figuring it all out.
3. Scenic
Forget navigating: in Scenic mode, all you need to do is specify your route preferences (curvature, surface, mixed, or paved) and then let the app plan a ride around exactly what you’d like to ride.
- Follow a route in Scenic mode with on-screen cues and audible instructions, so you’re not constantly checking your phone.
- Pilot a bypass or a longer route, then let the app route you around it.
- Download routes for offline navigation, so you can ride through remote areas with no data signal.
- Pin a route, then without it forcing you to return to your original route, select a scenic replacement to traverse with a tap of your finger.
This is the app for riders for whom long rides are about the ride, not just the destination (weekend escapes through hillier roads or along the coast, where everything is secondary to the ride).
4. Detecht
Detecht is a worthwhile app to install for what comes after a long ride goes wrong. It’s designed as a single app for motorcycle navigation, trip planning, and, most importantly, crash detection.
- Get turn-by-turn navigation and a route planner to plan your rides before heading out
- Benefit from automatic crash detection that examines your riding style and raises red flags for anomalies without you having to lift a finger
- Trigger automatic alerts to your emergency contacts and other nearby app users with your location and crash severity
- Use the social feed to share routes you’ve completed and create a rider profile over time
You can use most of the core features for free, making it an easy addition as a background safety net no matter what app you’re using to get around.
5. Royal Enfield App (with Wingman)
The real value for Royal Enfield riders, especially newer riders with connected bikes like the Super Meteor 650, is the company’s own app. It’s quite useful, and nothing third-party can really match because it’s talking directly to your bike.
- Track fuel level, battery level, and service alerts with a graphics-rich dashboard in the app
- Monitor engine on/off and GPS location with a “walk-to-my-motorcycle” feature that lets you track where you left your bike at a stop
- Review detailed trip data, max speed and avg speed, and alert notifications for sudden braking or acceleration after each leg of your big ride
- Contact Royal Enfield’s GRID support directly from the app if you get mechanical issues on the road
- Work with a group to organize and register for company rides and events, and connect with other riders on similar trips
No matter how many times I use it, this smart-phone app just feels a little like strapping a tablet to the digital dash of your motorcycle. It’s a handy thing, even if you never have to use it.
Which One Should You Actually Use?
Build a bit of a side-hustle: The reality is there’s not a single app that can do everything a long ride throws at you, which means most longtime long-distance riders end up running two apps anyway (see the end of the list for how they combine). Now, for the best all-rounder for the Indian rider, the natural first install is Riding Verse, since it is your one-stop-shop for route planning, real-time alerts, and community discovery – which is why it was the one to beat this list. Then use REVER or Scenic if you want richer offline route libraries, scenic preferences for a trip, add Detecht if you ride solo and want to leave crash detection running out of sight, and your RSA provider’s app if your vehicle can talk. The combination of these will leave you wondering why you didn’t install them the last long ride.