Spotcycle™ helps you get the most out of your bike share system!
Spotcycle™ is a free, fast and smart mobile application that maximizes your bike-sharing experience. Created by 8D Technologies™, the brains behind some of the most successful bike-share systems around the world, Spotcycle is one of the handiest apps available on the market.
BIKE stations status and location
- Locate bike stations on the bike share system.
- List the ten nearest bike stations.
- Display the bike and bike dock availability for each bike station.
- Group stations into favorites for quick access.
CREATE personalized bike routes*
- Use your smartphone's GPS feature to record and map out your bike route.
- Annotate points of interest to your bike route.
- Save your bike routes to your Spotcycle account for later use.
- Edit your bike routes or add descriptions to them.
- Add descriptions to your annotations.
- Class your bike routes and annotations into pre-defined categories.
SHARE your routes
- Share your saved bike routes with the Spotcycle community and social network via Facebook, Twitter, or email.
- Or, keep your bike routes private to edit them, and then share them when they're ready!
EXPLORE the city with shared bike routes
- Ride out bike routes shared by Spotcycle members.
- Add your own bike routes to the Spotcycle community.
- Search for bike routes by name, annotations, category or by username.
- Rate bike routes using the star meter.
- Try out Top Rated and Top Viewed bike routes from the Top Path tab.
- Bookmark interesting bike routes to your Spotcycle account and access them from the Bookmark tab.
Key Features
Availability
- Displays bike and bike dock availability at bike stations using pie chart icons.
- Displays the time of the last update below the title.
Search for stations by name, bike or bike dock availability.
Search for stations by proximity to current location or to a point of interest provided
by Google Places.
Nearby bike stations
- Automatically lists the 10 stations closest to your current location, or customize the number of stations to display.
Filtered search function automatically lists the 10 stations closest to your current location
that meet the filter criteria (available bikes, bike docks, or stations); adjusts the list
dynamically as your location changes.
Displays units of measurement in metric or imperial.
Favorites
- Create and group your favorite bike stations within a specified radius or by address.
Bike paths
- Toggle display of bike paths (in supported cities), bike stations or both using the
layers feature.
Local amenities
- Optimize biking directions using an address, phone contact's coordinates, your current
position, a bike station, or a point of interest. - Search for local businesses provided by Google Places.
Bike routes
- Create and save personalized and/or thematic bike routes.
Manage and edit your bike routes: annotate points of interest, add descriptions to bike
routes and annotations.
Share bike routes with other members or with your social media community (Facebook, Twitter,
or e-mail) and try out routes from other members.- Review and revise bike routes during and/or after recording.
Timer and alarm
- Keep track of your bike rental with a timer and alarm.
Additional Features
- Search for nearby local businesses, such as restaurants and shops using Google Places.
- Supports multiple cities.
Customized Display
- Choose and customize your map views and pins.
- Customize order of tabs in the Spotcycle tab bar.
- Supports landscape mode.
- Available in French and English.
Support
- Easy email access to Spotcycle support team and to supported bike-sharing schemes for support.
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