Polly Track

Routes for enduro, adventure and road bikes

Tell the app where you want to go and how much dirt you want. You get up to three routes, each with time, km, km of dirt and climb. The phone does the routing, with no signal.

What it does

It plans the route from A to B for the surface you chose: Road stays on tarmac, Mixed uses dirt when it makes sense, Offroad looks for it. Results come in a table with the "Recommended" row on top.

Three routes from La Spezia to Varese Ligure with Offroad surface and Medium dirt: Dirt recommended 1 h 25, 64 km, 9.3 km of dirt and 1,673 m of climb; Balanced 1 h 09 and Fastest 48 min below, the note "dirt including 1.5 km uncertain", the surface strip and elevation profile.
Three routes to Varese Ligure.
Ride somewhere form: My location, Varese Ligure, Add stop, Offroad surface, Medium difficulty and the Find routes button.
The form, with "Add stop".
  • "Dirt" looks for more unpaved road. It can take up to 1.8 times the fastest route (1.6 with Mixed) and must add at least 2 km of dirt.
  • "Balanced" and "Fastest" have less dirt and take less time.
  • "Scenic" only shows with the Road surface and looks for bends, passes and viewpoints. See the Scenic route.
  • Under the table you get the surface strip (tarmac yellow, dirt brown, restricted magenta), the elevation profile, the steepest gradient, km of motorway and km of restricted road.
  • Time on dirt uses cautious speeds: 30 km/h on gravel, 25 on earth, 15 on paths.

When it helps

When you need to get somewhere and want to pick how much dirt to ride. On a loaded big adventure bike you might choose Mixed and Easy. On a light enduro, Offroad and Medium. On a road bike, Road. Compare the three routes and take the one you like.

If the trip crosses regions, the app joins the maps by itself. You only need every region on the way downloaded. If one is missing, it tells you which.

How to use it

Home screen › "Ride somewhere" or "Where shall we ride?" › "Find routes".

  1. Pick a start (GPS or a place) and a destination.
  2. To ride through other places, tap "Add stop". Drag stops to reorder them.
  3. Choose surface and dirt difficulty, then "Find routes".
  4. Tap a route, then "Ride", or "Save to My tracks".

Default surface and difficulty are set in surface and difficulty. With a bike profile they are already filled in.

Good to know

  • The "Recommended" row follows the surface: Offroad recommends "Dirt", Mixed "Balanced", Road "Scenic". If that row has at least 0.5 km of restricted road and another has less, it recommends the other one.
  • No live traffic.
  • It only plans inside downloaded regions.
  • Under 8 km in a straight line it offers the direct route.

How does it compare with Calimoto, Kurviger, OsmAnd, DMD2 and other apps? See the feature-by-feature comparison.