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Plan your next
adventure

Ride is a friendly open-source app for planning routes, sharing rides, and keeping a crisp trip journal. Privacy-first by default, collaboration when you want it, and development shaped in the open with the community.

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Ride app — map view with waypoints and route

Features

Everything you need, nothing you don’t

Plan, ride, document, and share with less friction. Friendly UX, open-source direction, and no bloat.

Waypoint Planning

Drop pins on the map, search for places, drag to reorder. Build your route visually and intuitively.

Trip Journal

Log notes, discoveries and memories at every stop. Attach photos and keep a private or public record of your journey.

Share & Collaborate

Generate a short link and share your ride plan publicly. Friends see your route, waypoints, and journal on a clean read-only page.

Turn-by-Turn Routing

Automatic road-snapped routes between your waypoints powered by self-hosted OSRM. Real roads, real distances.

Private by Default

Your trips are yours. Nothing is public unless you choose to share. No accounts scraped, no data sold.

Export & Backup

Download your trip as JSON anytime. Your data is portable — take it wherever you want.

How it works

From idea to open road in minutes

No tutorials needed. Just open the app and start.

1

Sign in

Use your Google or Microsoft account — no new password to remember. You’re in immediately.

2

Create a trip

Tap New Trip, give it a name, and you’re looking at a map. Add a cover image to make it yours.

3

Drop waypoints

Click the map or search for a place. Drag waypoints to reorder. The route updates instantly with real road geometry.

4

Journal the ride

At camp, at a lookout, after a great piece of road — add a journal entry with notes and photos. Build a story as you go.

5

Share or keep it private

Toggle your trip to public and get a short link. Or keep it completely private — your call.

6

Hit the road

Enable Ride Mode for real-time GPS tracking along your planned route. The map follows you.

The story

Built by riders, open to contributors

Friendly ride planning, easy trip sharing, and useful journaling — with a community-first approach.

Ride started with a simple goal: make route planning and ride sharing feel calm, clear, and enjoyable. It is designed for practical journeys and memorable adventures, without the upsells and distraction-heavy interfaces common in mainstream map tools.

The project has grown from a personal build into a friendly open-source app. Feedback is welcome, and improvements are shaped in the open so the experience keeps getting better for everyone.

Explore the code on GitHub, read build notes on the blog, and support hosting if the app helps your rides.

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Under the hood

Solid foundations

Ride is built on open-source foundations, with edge-first infrastructure.

Leaflet
OpenStreetMap
OSRM
Cloudflare
D1 + R2

Maps rendered by Leaflet with tiles from OpenStreetMap. Routing powered by a self-hosted OSRM instance. Data lives on Cloudflare D1 and R2 at the edge.

Ready to plan and share your next ride?

Friendly open-source experience, practical ride sharing, and your data stays yours. Open the app and start building your route.

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