Urban Rider is free to start on iOS and Android. The two apps are built separately and carry their own version numbers, but they are developed in parallel, so the same features arrive on both, just under different numbers. The entries below are labelled with their iOS version; the matching Android build carries its own number, and Android is currently on 1.39.0.
iOS 4.22.1
Flag a road that does not belong on your route
While navigating, tap the flag button to mark a stretch you should not have been sent onto: a road instead of the bike path, a rough surface, or somewhere your vehicle is not allowed. After the ride you pick what was wrong and send it. Urban Rider adds a public note to OpenStreetMap so the map itself gets fixed, and sends us the details so routing improves. Nothing leaves your phone until you send it, and as you do you earn badges from Route Contributor up to Route Legend.
Switch from a subscription to Lifetime
If you already subscribe, Settings now offers Buy Lifetime under Subscription, then helps you cancel your old plan so you do not keep paying for both.
Also new
- Much better e-kick scooter routes in Europe. Routes now stay on bike lanes, cycle paths and quiet streets instead of footways and pedestrian zones, and no longer get pushed onto fast main roads. In our tests they came out about 10% shorter.
- A sensible default kick scooter speed per country (20 km/h in Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Italy and Japan, 24 in the US, 25 elsewhere), with a one-tap way back to it.
- Heavy quadricycles that reach 90 km/h (L7e) now route properly, using their real speed while still staying off motorways.
- The orange that marks faster stretches on your route now fades in smoothly instead of stopping with a hard line.
Reliability: your stats and saved trips
- New rides now count once in your lifetime stats, not twice, so milestones and service reminders keep the right pace.
- Updating the app, reinstalling, or setting up a new iPhone no longer resets your stats, Trip Log or speed cap, and a change you make on another device is no longer undone.
- Changing your starting point, or reordering stops, now keeps every stop on a planned trip when you save it.
- Fewer pointless speed-zone announcements on a kick scooter, while real slow zones are still called out.
iOS 4.21.9
One tap to avoid fast roads
When a moped or microcar route still uses a stretch posted above 80 km/h, the preview now offers a button to recalculate around it, and shows how much longer that is. It is your choice per trip, and it appears only when a calmer route actually exists.
Also new
- Urban Rider now speaks Lithuanian, interface and voice guidance, using your iPhone's on-device voice.
- Calmer Roads for 125 cc and light motorcycles, an off-by-default toggle that keeps you off the fastest main roads when a calmer route exists, without routing as strictly as a moped.
- Fast mode for mopeds in Sweden, so routes stop wandering onto gravel to avoid perfectly legal Swedish highways.
Smarter reroutes and longer battery life
If you go your own way, for example around roadworks the map does not know yet, Urban Rider notices sooner and stops sending you back onto a road you keep refusing. Navigation also uses less battery on a long ride. Live road closures are avoided more reliably, and your app language and map centring no longer slip after a language change.
iOS 4.21.7
Set Urban Rider as your default navigation app
On iPhones in the EU (iOS 18.4 and later) and Japan (iOS 26.2 and later), you can now pick Urban Rider under Settings, Apps, Default Apps, Navigation. Tapping an address in another app then opens directions straight into Urban Rider.
Also new
- Favourites remember their stops. Save a route with stops and riding it again takes you the same way through each one, including from Siri or a home screen widget.
- Two on-device voices, Nova and Leo, that work fully offline and use no data. The online voices stay the default.
- A turn instruction is no longer cut off by a spoken speed warning; it finishes first.
iOS 4.21.6
Reset a vehicle when you get a new one
In the Garage, "Replace or reset this vehicle" starts that vehicle's odometer, service schedule and ride stats fresh, without touching your other vehicles or your all-time badges and heatmap. You can clear its tax log at the same time, with a CSV export offered first.
Also new
- "Switch to Fastest" when a moped route detours a long way. On Efficient, if a genuinely quicker legal route exists, a one-tap card shows how much time it saves. It never routes you onto motorways, and applies to that trip only.
- The ride preference tabs now read as a calm-to-fast spectrum, Scenic, Efficient, Fast, with the moped "Fastest" option renamed "Fast".
- Speed-camera warnings now measure distance along your route, so you are warned about cameras on your path, not on a parallel road.
Fixes
Long moped routes that could fail to plan, including trips across a border, now work reliably, and moped routes no longer take absurd detours to avoid faster roads. Bicycle, scooter and motorcycle routing is unchanged.
iOS 4.21.4
Introducing the Garage: stay on top of your maintenance
Urban Rider now tracks when your vehicle is due for service. Set up a Garage for each vehicle, tell it how yours is powered (petrol, electric or pedal), and get a tailored checklist: tyres, brakes, oil, chain, battery and more. Reminders follow how far you actually ride, so you are nudged at the right time, not too early or too late. Switch on notifications, snooze anything you are not ready for, and tap a due job to route straight to your saved mechanic or the nearest fuel and air. Everything stays private on your device.
Also new
- Ride on cycle paths. If you ride a light 25 to 30 km/h moped that belongs on the cycle path, turn on the new option under Speed and warnings and your routes will follow cycle paths.
- Microcar profile (beta) for light quadricycles, with routing tuned to where they belong.
- Find a public toilet nearby, with a list, map pins and directions.
- Report a routing problem right from your ride summary.
- More polish and reliability fixes throughout.
iOS 4.21.3
Relive your ride, then share it
- Watch it back in the app. Ride Replay plays your recorded trip right in the app, so you can watch the whole route play back from your ride history.
- Share your ride as a video. Turn any recorded ride into a clean, shareable clip with your distance, top speed, and a map that follows the route. Pick the length and format (portrait or square) before you export.
Your favourites, now on the map
- Saved places appear as pins on the map when you are not navigating. Tap one to route there instantly.
- For a custom saved place, choose your own icon so each pin is easy to spot at a glance.
Smarter reroutes
Reroutes now remember the closures on your trip, so the app stops sending you back into a road it already knows is closed.
Voice search polish
Voice search now understands your language wherever you ride, and the microphone and speech permission prompts are fully localised.
iOS 4.20.7
Now available in Polish
The full app and voice guidance are now translated into Polish, from turn-by-turn navigation down to every setting.
Your savings, in the local currency
Estimated savings now show in the currency of the country you are riding in, so the numbers make sense wherever the road takes you.
Smoother long routes, and polish
Long routes into the Baltics are smoother now, alongside reliability improvements and refinements across the app.
iOS 4.20.3
The route overview tells you what you are riding into
Set a destination and the overview now gives you the three things that decide whether you take the route: the time, the distance, and how many speed cameras are on it. Camera warnings already fired as you approached one; the count now arrives before you pull away, which is when it can still change your mind.
The screen stays on
Navigation used to let the display sleep more often than it should. It no longer does, which matters most on a handlebar mount where waking the phone means taking a hand off the bars.
Visual fixes and refinements
A pass over the smaller rough edges across the app.
iOS 4.20.2
Bike types
The bike profile now asks what kind of bike you are on, and the routing changes with the answer:
- City: smooth roads and cycle paths, for everyday trips.
- Road: fast tarmac, skipping cycle paths and rough surfaces.
- Mountain: seeks out tracks, trails and gravel, and takes on the climbs.
If you have read the free bike route planner guide or the cargo bike piece, this is the setting those articles were reaching for: one profile could not sensibly serve a road bike and a gravel bike at the same time.
Better routing on hills
Hilly terrain used to send you the long way around a short steep stretch. It no longer does. Hill tolerance stays a separate control, so you can still tell the router how much climbing you are willing to accept.
Android
The Android app has its own release train and its own version numbers, and is currently on 1.39.0. Because the two apps are developed in parallel, the features listed above are in the current Android app too, under Android's own version numbers rather than the iOS ones. The full per-version Android history is on the Google Play listing under “What's new”.
Before this page
Urban Rider first shipped on 27 May 2025. This page begins at iOS 4.20.2 because that is when it was written. Notes for earlier versions are in each store's own version history, under the app listing.
Updates arrive through the stores like any other app, and no account is needed to start. Get Urban Rider for iOS or Android.