Android v1.2 out now · Updated Sep 1, 2026 · iOS in review

Ride Together.

Record rides, roll out as a group, message your crew, plan routes worth riding—and send an SOS if the road turns on you.

Bykrs is a motorcycle-first ride companion—not a generic fitness tracker. GPS tracking that keeps running with the screen locked, group rides where everyone moves on one shared map, live sharing for the people back home, and a community route library with no cap on stops.

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The app

Five tabs after you sign in

Sign in with email, Google, or Apple—then Feed, Plan, Track, Discover, and Profile. The wheel in the middle is where recording starts; everything around it exists to plan the ride, ride it with people, and relive it afterwards.

Home

Feed

Rides, photo posts, and your weekly snapshot at a glance.

  • Day streak, weekly rank, and distance ridden this week
  • Ride cards with route preview, difficulty and terrain tags, distance, duration, top speed
  • Like, comment, bookmark, and share; photo posts alongside rides
  • Notifications bell, rider search, and direct messages from the header
Routes

Plan

Browse community routes or build your own with unlimited stops.

  • Community, Personal, and Saved route libraries
  • Create routes with start, end, and as many waypoints as you need
  • Segment times, elevation profile, and a road-following preview line
  • Bookmark routes and Start Ride to load them onto the map in Track
Core loop
Center wheel

Track

The core loop. Tap the wheel and pick how you're riding today.

  • Solo ride — full-screen map, live speed, distance, and elapsed time
  • Group ride — invite followers or share a join code, everyone on one map
  • Live ride — pick who can watch you move in real time
  • Keeps recording with the app backgrounded or the phone locked
Compass

Discover

Find riders, see who's out there now, and check the leaderboard.

  • Search by rider name, username, or bike model
  • Riders Map — nearby riders, live sessions, and active SOS alerts
  • Leaderboards by Day, Week, Month, or All time
  • Rank by distance, total rides, average speed, or top speed
Person

Profile

Your stats, ride history, garage, groups, and photos in one place.

  • Garage with multiple bikes—make, model, year, nickname, and a primary
  • Rides, Stats, Groups, and Photos tabs, plus unlocked and locked badges
  • Commutes and Trips to collect rides into routines and tours
  • Settings for SOS contacts, blocked riders, and account deletion
Plan tab

Plan your journey

Discover community routes or create your own. Unlike Google Maps' roughly ten-stop cap per trip, Bykrs lets you add as many waypoints as you want—fuel, food, scenic views, overnight stops—for long tours and multi-day rides.

Three libraries

Community

Routes shared by other riders—open for details, bookmark, or Start Ride.

Personal

Routes you created, kept private or shared to the community when you choose.

Saved

Community routes you bookmarked to ride later.

Start Ride

From route detail, Start Ride opens Track with the route on the map—a guide banner and waypoint names, plus a dashed path alongside your live GPS track. Pick the same route when you set up a group ride and everyone rides it together. This is route context on the map, not turn-by-turn voice navigation (planned for later).

Create a route

  • Name, optional description, and difficulty: Easy, Moderate, Challenging, or Extreme.
  • Required start and end, with unlimited optional stops via Add a stop.
  • Geocoding and map preview with markers and a road-following line when maps are configured.
  • Owners can edit, share to community, mark completed, or delete from route detail.

Waypoint types

Stop
General waypoint along the path
Fuel
Petrol stops on your line
Food
Meals and breaks
Scenic
Views and photo-worthy pulls

Route detail shows distance and duration estimates, an elevation profile for the climbs ahead, stop count, a toggleable map polyline, per-segment times between waypoints, and a bookmark for routes you don't own.

New in the app

Nobody rides alone anymore

The part of Bykrs that isn't about stats. Roll out as a group and watch each other move, share a live ride with the people waiting at home, and reach every rider around you the moment something goes wrong.

Group rides

One map, everyone on it

  • Name the ride, attach a planned route, and invite followers—or hand out a join code.
  • Every member's position relays to a shared map, each rider in their own colour.
  • See who's Riding, Paused, or Stopped, plus their distance and time, without pulling over.
  • Group history lives on your profile under the Groups tab.

Live rides

Let the right people watch

  • Start a live session and choose exactly who can see it—defaults to your followers.
  • Watchers get a notification and open a live map of you moving in real time.
  • Nothing is public by default; sharing is a decision you make per ride.
  • Your live session shows up on the Riders Map for the people you shared it with.

SOS

For the ride that goes wrong

  • Press and hold SOS, confirm, and your exact location goes out immediately.
  • Riders near you are alerted, along with up to 10 SOS contacts you pick from people you follow.
  • Active alerts appear as pins on the Riders Map so help can navigate straight to you.
  • Mark it resolved once you're safe and everyone gets the all-clear.

Riders Map

Nearby riders, live sessions, and any active SOS—on one map, centred on you.

Join codes

No account graph needed. Share a code and anyone can drop into the group ride.

Stationary alerts

Stop moving mid-ride and Bykrs checks in—a nudge in case something went wrong.

Feed & Discover

Social layer built for riders

Community first: rides and photos in a feed, comments and follows, direct messages, and leaderboards you can slice four ways. The feed shows all public activity today so early riders always see something; a follow-only feed comes later.

Feed

Home tab

  • Time-of-day greeting and quick stats: day streak, weekly rank, and km this week.
  • Ride cards with a route preview, difficulty and terrain tags, distance, duration, top speed, photos, and weather.
  • Photo posts too—share the bike, the view, or the roadside repair without recording a ride.
  • Honest empty state when no public rides exist yet—no placeholder posts.

Discover

Find riders & climb the board

  • Search riders by name, username, or bike model.
  • Riders to follow—cards with avatar, bike, ride count, total km, and Follow.
  • Leaderboards over Day, Week, Month, or All time.
  • Rank by distance, total rides, average speed, or top speed—pick the board you're actually good at.

Likes & comments

Comment threads on rides and photo posts, with likes on comments too. Tap a like count to see exactly who showed up.

Direct messages

One-to-one chat with photos, replies, reactions, copy, and read receipts. Message a rider straight from their profile.

Push notifications

Likes, comments, follows, group invites, live rides, and SOS alerts arrive as real push notifications and open the right screen.

Mobile app

Built for the road

Native iOS and Android app (Expo / React Native), rebuilt on the BYKRS design system: matte ink surfaces, one decisive Signal Red for everything you can act on, liquid-glass panels, and haptics on tabs and start/stop ride. Android is downloadable now; the store release is in progress.

Who it's for

  • Weekend and touring riders who want to relive trips and share with friends.
  • Clubs and riding groups who roll out together and want everyone on one map.
  • New riders looking for community, stats, and route ideas.
  • Commuters who want simple logging, streaks, and a Commutes collection for the daily run.
  • Solo riders who want someone watching their line—live sharing and SOS.

Not the focus for v1: Racing teams, delivery fleets, or non-motorcycle vehicles.

Tracking today

  • Ready to Ride, then record with pause and resume—live distance, speed, and elapsed time.
  • Keeps recording with the app backgrounded or the phone locked, via a foreground service on Android and background location on iOS.
  • Tag the ride with difficulty and terrain—highway, city, twisties, offroad, dirt, snow, desert.
  • Saved rides carry avg and top speed, elevation gain, weather, and a GPX export you can keep.
  • Use tracking responsibly—built for logging and community, not distracted riding.

This is not a fitness tracker.
It's your riding resume.

Profile is where identity and history come together: avatar, display name, @username, bio, garage, follower counts, and four tabs—Rides, Stats, Groups, and Photos—with your badge wall underneath.

Garage

Manage multiple bikes with make and model pickers (including an Indian market catalog), year, nickname, and a primary bike. Tap garage from the header or menu anytime.

Rides, groups & photos

Ride history you can filter by bike, every group ride you've been part of, and your photo posts. Stats totals distance, time, streaks, and a weekly bar chart by weekday.

Badges

Unlocked and locked badges with titles, descriptions, and progress bars—awarded server-side off the rides you actually recorded, so nobody can pad the wall.

Still on the list

We'd rather be clear about what ships today than over-promise. Comment threads, push notifications, direct messages, and group rides have all landed since we last wrote this. Here's what hasn't.

Area
Today
Navigation
Planned route on the map, waypoint names, segment times
Turn-by-turn voice guidance
Feed
All public rides and photo posts
A following-only feed
Group rides
Start now, invite followers or share a join code
Scheduled rides with RSVPs
Offline maps
Maps and geocoding need a connection
Offline packs (likely premium)
Distribution
Direct Android APK download
Play Store and App Store listings
Our story

Born from a broken clutch lever

January 1st, 2026. I was ringing in the new year in Munnar with friends—misty hills, winding roads, the kind of ride you remember forever. Then came a call from home. Family emergency. I had to leave. Now.

Just as I was gearing up, my friend's wife wanted a quick photo on my bike. In a split second, it slipped. The bike went down. The clutch lever—snapped clean in half.

520 kilometers. Half a clutch lever. New Year's Day—every shop closed.

Somewhere around Coimbatore, exhausted and running low on fuel, I remember thinking—“What if I could just... ask for help? Post somewhere that I'm stranded? Find a rider nearby who knows a mechanic? Anyone?”

There was nothing. No app. No community. Just me, a broken lever, and the longest ride home of my life. I didn't know where to stop for fuel, where to grab food, where it was safe to rest. I made it home—but that ride never left me. By the time I parked, I knew what I had to build. A place where no rider ever feels that alone again.

That's Bykrs. Built by a rider, for riders. Because the road is better when we ride together.

Never ride alone

Stranded? Post it. Riders nearby can see it. Real help from real people, when you need it most.

Plan without limits

Google Maps stops at 10 waypoints. We didn't. Plan fuel, food, scenic stops—as many as your ride needs.

BYKRS

The app riders open
before and after every ride.

Grab the Android build and start riding today, or create an account now so your garage and profile are waiting when the iOS release lands.

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