The best free motorcycle GPS apps in 2026

“Free” does a lot of heavy lifting in app store listings. Nearly every motorcycle navigation app is free to download, free to plan a route in, and then asks for money at exactly the moment you want to ride it.

This is a straight guide to which ones are actually free at the point you need them, what each is genuinely good at, and how to choose. No affiliate links, no scores out of ten.

MotoRidez plans scenic, curvy or gravel routes for a motorcycle, a car or a 4WD. Pick your road type, and the routing follows.

First, work out what you actually need

Riders lump four different jobs under “a nav app”, and no app is best at all four:

1. Planning — building a route worth riding, in advance, at a laptop or on the couch.
2. Navigating — being told where to turn while wearing a helmet at 80 km/h.
3. Recording — keeping a trace of where you went, for the log, the map, or the story.
4. Riding together — not losing the group, and knowing when someone has stopped.

Decide which two matter most to you. That does most of the choosing.

Where the paywall usually sits

Before the list, the pattern to look for. Free tiers across this category are broadly generous with planning and stingy with these four things:

• Turn-by-turn voice guidance. The single most common paid feature. You can build the route, but you cannot be told to take the next left.
• Offline maps. Storage and bandwidth cost real money, so this is the most defensible paywall in the category — though downloading just the route you are riding, as we do, keeps it cheap enough to give away.
• GPX import and export. Locking the door on your own routes, and the reason a route library can become a hostage.
• Round trips. “Give me a two-hour loop from here and back” is often premium, despite being the thing a rider wants most on a Sunday morning.

Check those four against the free tier before you invest a weekend building routes.

What the paid tiers cost

Read from each app’s own pricing page on 11 October 2026. Prices change and vary by region, so check before you buy.

App	Free covers	Paid plan	What the paid plan adds
Kurviger	Twisty route planning, 300 km round trips	Tourer €14.99 a year; Tourer+ €29.99 a year (7-day trials)	Tourer: advanced avoidances, 600 km round trips. Tourer+: navigation, ride recording, offline maps
Rever	Ride tracking, route discovery, route-line navigation, GPX import	Pro US$39.99 a year after a two-week trial	Twisty routing, turn-by-turn, offline maps, live location sharing, GPX export
Scenic	Route planning, ride recording, follow-the-line navigation, CarPlay and Android Auto	Premium US$4.99 a month billed annually (monthly and quarterly cost more)	Turn-by-turn, offline maps, GPX export, route import, advanced routing
EatSleepRIDE	Ride recording, route discovery, group rides	CRASHLIGHT US$49 a year	Crash detection
OsmAnd	A limited number of free map downloads	Paid plans for more	Unlimited map downloads and updates
MotoRidez	Curvy routing, voice navigation, offline maps for a planned route, ride recording, GPX export, group rides	None

The apps worth your time

MotoRidez — free curvy routing, and a map that remembers

Ours, so read this with an appropriately raised eyebrow, but the specifics are checkable. Curvy route planning, turn-by-turn voice navigation, round trips, ride recording, GPX export, group rides and rider-reported hazards are all free with no premium tier holding them back. It plans for a car or a 4WD as well as a motorcycle, so a mixed household can share one app.

The distinctive part is what happens after the ride: every recorded ride is map-matched to the actual roads you rode, so your map fills in with the roads you have GPS-confirmed. You can then ask for a route that avoids roads you have already done, which turns a familiar hometown into somewhere with roads left in it.

Offline is covered by downloading the map for a route you have planned, free. The gap against the paid apps is whole-region downloads, so improvising a brand-new route from a no-signal valley is not something it does today.

Best if: you ride day rides and weekends in coverage, you want curvy routing and voice guidance without paying, and you are bored of your usual loop.

Kurviger — the planner’s planner

Kurviger’s web planner is superb, and the free plan is more usable than most: twisty routing and round trips up to 300 km at no cost. Riders who enjoy the planning as much as the riding tend to end up here. The limit is on the riding side. Navigation, ride recording and offline maps are in the €29.99-a-year Tourer+ plan, so on the free plan you plan in Kurviger and export the route to something else to follow it.

Best if: you plan tours meticulously at a desk and are happy to export a GPX to something else for navigating.

OsmAnd — offline, free, and not remotely friendly

OsmAnd is the outlier: a map-first navigator that works fully offline, with deep configurability. Its free version caps how many maps you can download (seven, according to its docs), then asks you to pay for more. It is not a motorcycle app, its interface is a menu tree written by engineers for engineers, and setting it up is a project. But within the free allowance it will navigate you through a national park with the phone in flight mode.

Best if: you ride outside coverage and you are the sort of person who enjoys a settings screen.

Google Maps — fine at the wrong job

Free, reliable, everyone has it, and it is optimised for arriving quickly. It will put you on the motorway. It has no concept of a road being enjoyable, no curvy routing, no round trips worth the name, and it will happily route a motorcycle onto a gravel goat track without telling you the surface changed. Perfectly good for finding the pub afterwards. We have written more on where Google Maps falls down for riders.

Best if: you need to get somewhere, not enjoy getting there.

Rever, Scenic, EatSleepRIDE and the rest

Each has a real following and a real free tier, and each puts a different thing behind the paywall. Rever leans social and route discovery, and keeps turn-by-turn, offline maps and GPX export in Pro. Scenic is well made and includes CarPlay and Android Auto in its free tier, with turn-by-turn, offline maps and GPX export in Premium. EatSleepRIDE is a free ride-recording and group-ride app that sells crash detection separately as CRASHLIGHT. All three are worth a look if their particular emphasis is what you care about.

A comparison you can act on

If your priority is…	Start with	Because
Free curvy routes, voice guidance and offline	MotoRidez	All free, no trial clock
Never riding the same road twice	MotoRidez	GPS-confirmed ridden-roads map and avoid-visited routing
Meticulous tour planning at a desk	Kurviger	Twisty routing and 300 km round trips on the free plan
CarPlay or Android Auto	Scenic	Included in its free tier
Riding a planned route with no signal	MotoRidez	Free offline download for the route, POIs included
Holding whole regions offline	OsmAnd	Region downloads, genuinely free
Riding in a group	MotoRidez	Free group rides, live position, hazard reports
Just getting there	Google Maps	Already on your phone

Three things riders wish they had checked first

Does it record while the screen is off? Phone operating systems aggressively suspend background apps. An app that stops logging when your screen sleeps will show you a ride full of holes. Test it on a short ride before you trust it with a big one.

Does it export GPX? If the answer is no, your route library is not yours. This is the single best insurance policy against an app changing its pricing on you.

What does it do with your location data? You are handing an app a continuous record of where you go, at what speed, and when your house is empty. Read the privacy policy. We wrote up what a ride-tracking app should and should not do with your data, and you can hold every app on this list — including us — to it.

How to try one properly

Do not judge an app on a lap of the block. Plan one real route you already know well and ride it. You will learn more in ninety minutes than in a week of reading comparisons, this one included:

• Does the route it picked match what you would have chosen?
• Do voice prompts arrive early enough to act on in a helmet at speed?
• What does the battery read when you get home?
• Did the recorded trace survive a stop for coffee?

Whichever app answers those four best is your app. Everything else is marketing.