MotoNavigator

Offline navigation: the loading bar at 2000 metres

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There’s this moment, and if you’ve been riding a while, you know it.

You’re up top. The engine ticks as it cools, the helmet hangs off the mirror, the valley lies below in the haze. You just want a quick look at whether the hairpins on the north side are better than the ones you came up. You pull out the phone. And there it is, that little grey circle, turning.

Getting started

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Installation

MotoNavigator comes from your device’s app store. Install it, open it, ride.

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Your first tour

Open the app — the map centres on where you are.
Drop a waypoint with the crosshair — the main button already offers whatever comes next.
Add more waypoints, drag them into order in the route panel until the line looks like a ride.
The button top right → Start navigation. The recording runs along with it, automatically.

That’s it. No wizard, no tutorial videos, no account.

Three ways to be guided

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A tour south. Two and a half days of tarmac down to the coast, then a morning in a dune field where no map on earth knows a road, and tarmac again in the evening, right up to the hotel. Three completely different ways of being guided. One plan.

The app never asks which mode you are in. It asks one thing only: what are you following right now?

Following roads

The ordinary case, and the one everybody manages. Mapped ways, turn instructions, a fresh route when you miss one. It only gets interesting at the question of which roads.

What the app costs: all of it, until the cut-off

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Short and without the run-up: until 31 October 2026 inclusive, everyone has the full package. Pro, all of it, for everybody. No credit card, no tick box, nothing that quietly renews later.

There’s no trapdoor in this.

Why it’s like that

Because we got finished at a stupid time of year.

Wherever the season is shutting down right now, batteries are coming off and covers are going over the bike. We’re unpacking.

Understanding waypoints

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A waypoint is a decision, not a dot. There are two of them — and each one comes with a second question attached.

Ride through, or stop

Ride through. The route picks the point up and carries straight on past it. This is how you say “over this pass, not the other one” — you are pointing the line, nothing more.

Stop. Here you get off the bike. The route splits into two stages at this point, and you can hang a waiting time on it that counts towards your arrival — fuel, hotel, the café with the view.

Privacy zones: the circle around home

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Every ride starts in the same place. Your driveway, your yard, the garage with the oil stain that was already there when you moved in.

That’s the part nobody mentions with tracking apps. Corners, altitude, lean — everyone likes talking about those. That every recording starts at a spot where you probably sleep isn’t in anybody’s ad copy.

A circle, and inside it nothing happens

In MotoNavigator you draw a circle around home. Inside it, nothing is recorded.

Garage and profiles

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Every tour belongs to a machine. So the garage keeps the ones you actually ride — and the app stops asking.

Your vehicles

A vehicle has a name, a kind, a range and a routing profile. Every new tour picks up the vehicle you rode last, on its own.

There are two kinds: two-wheeler and four-wheeler. Four-wheeled vehicles can hold their measurements as well — height, width, weight.

Routing profiles

The profile decides how your route gets built. Five come with the app:

Recording and data sovereignty

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A recording is the raw material of every story you tell afterwards — the archive, the memory, the proof. Two principles: it belongs to you, and it stays raw.

What gets recorded

Where you are — as often as the phone hands it over (on an iPhone roughly once a second), unsmoothed, with nothing quietly nudged onto the road afterwards. Stand 2 m off the tarmac and the dot stands 2 m off the tarmac. Honest data, no makeup.
How you move — acceleration, rotation, magnetic field. Raw, the way the sensors hand them over, not pre-chewed into a heading. 25 times a second, always. No winding the rate up and down with the mood of the road: the dull second is captured as finely as the one where it gets interesting.
Air pressure — if the phone carries a barometer, about once a second. We work the altitude out of the raw pressure ourselves instead of taking the finished figure from the operating system.

Taking a break

You pause it yourself. Nothing decides on your behalf that the ride is over — a traffic jam is not a break, and a long coffee is not a ride.

Group rides

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Riding out with friends, without the group chat catching fire at the first fuel stop. Group rides are a dedicated mode that solves exactly this — and nothing else.

Opening a group

The host sets how long it lives (today, or a number of days) and puts a QR code on screen. Whoever’s coming scans it. Done. No invitations, no phone numbers, no app-store evangelism at the kickstand.

Anonymous, with a name you pick

The group runs on an identifier of its own, and every rider gets a fresh one that lives no longer than the group does — neither has anything to do with your device ID. Want a name in the list? Pick one; it’s a label on the identifier, nothing more. Apple login, Google login? Nobody needs one. The group lives anonymously — and expires once the tour is over.

Voices and announcements

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The announcements come from your system’s own voices — MotoNavigator doesn’t ship its own speech computer, it uses the platform’s text-to-speech engine. That has an underrated upside: the voices get better with every system update, and the good ones work fully offline.

Premium voices on iOS

Apple ships voices in several quality tiers for many languages — up to premium voices that sound remarkably natural and, once downloaded, work without any network at all. Out of the box usually only the standard tier is installed; here’s how to get the better ones:

Imprint

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Provider information pursuant to § 5 DDG (German Digital Services Act)

Provider aditrix UG (haftungsbeschränkt)

Address Hauptstr. 62, 97717 Sulzthal, Germany

Represented by Managing director: Adrian Immler

Phone +49 151 646 541 68

Email contact@motonavigator.app

Register court Amtsgericht Schweinfurt (local court)

Register number HRB 6327

VAT identification number pursuant to § 27a UStG DE266508840

Responsible for journalistic-editorial content pursuant to § 18 (2) MStV

aditrix UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Adrian Immler, Hauptstr. 62, 97717 Sulzthal, Germany

Privacy

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Last updated: 13 September 2026

Prefer plain language over paragraphs? Read how we handle your privacy — same facts, no legalese.

1 · Controller

aditrix UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Hauptstr. 62, 97717 Sulzthal, Germany Email: contact@motonavigator.app — full details in the imprint.

2 · The principle first

MotoNavigator works without an account. No registration, no email address, no profile. The app identifies itself to our servers with a pseudonymous device UUID that is not tied to a person — and most of our servers never even get to see that (§ 5). Ride data stays on the device — only what the rider explicitly opts in to is uploaded.

Support

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A question, a problem on tour, or something we should hear straight? We read everything ourselves. MotoNavigator is built by a small crew, and rider feedback is the shortest road to a better app.

Contact

Email: support@motonavigator.app

Reporting a problem? Give us the essentials: iPhone model, iOS version, app version, and what happened. We usually answer within two working days — often faster, unless the weather is very good.

Help yourself first

Plenty of answers already live in the manual — from getting started through waypoint types to group rides.

Terms of use

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Last updated: 12 September 2026

1 · Scope and contracting party

These terms govern the use of the MotoNavigator app and the associated services (together “the app”) between you and aditrix UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Hauptstr. 62, 97717 Sulzthal — full provider details in the imprint. How we handle personal data is set out in the privacy policy; it is information, not part of the contract.

2 · What the app is

MotoNavigator plans and guides motorcycle tours, records rides and provides maps for use without a network. It works without an account: the device identifies itself with a randomly generated identifier, not with your name.

Your privacy

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Most apps ask who you are before they do anything. We built MotoNavigator so that question never comes up. Not out of politeness — out of architecture. The principle behind everything: as anonymous as technically possible. Here’s what that means, in plain words.

We don’t know who you are

No account. No registration. No email, no name, no profile photo, no “sign in with anything”. When you first open the app, your phone rolls a random ID — a long string of dice throws, a purely technical, quasi-anonymous identifier. That number names nobody — and most of our servers never even get to see it.