Built by cyclists who got tired of planning with five browser tabs

RouteGems is a route planner for rides where the stops matter: it plans the cafés, water, shelter and shops into the route itself.

The story

RouteGems started the way most cycling projects do, with a problem on a ride. Planning a 300 km day meant a routing site for the line, a map site for water taps, a supermarket locator for resupply, a spreadsheet for the plan, and a prayer that the campsite marked in 2019 still existed. None of it talked to each other, and all of it had to be redone when the route changed.

We built RouteGems to be the one place where the route and the stops are planned together: draw or import your ride, see the cafes, water, shops and shelter within reach of your line, and export the whole plan, stops and alerts included, straight to your head unit.

What makes it different

• Cafés, water, toilets, camping, shops and petrol stations near your route, filtered by how far you’re willing to divert and added to the route as proper course points.
• Longest-gap suggestions ("you have 94 km without water"), approach alerts on your head unit, and multi-day projects.
• GPX and FIT exports that survive contact with real devices.
• On Ultra, Ask RouteGems: describe what you need in plain English and it plans the stops.

Who we are

RouteGems is RouteGems Limited, a small independent UK company: two people who ride bikes and build software. We have no venture capital and we don't broker data.

Try it

Weekender is free, and the paid plans start with a 7-day free trial. If it doesn't earn its place in your ride prep, cancel from your account in two clicks, no hard feelings.