Route planning, free forever. Yes, really.
Click your start, draw a route, see gradients live, export to any head unit. No paywall on the planning, no asterisk, no upgrade prompt at minute three. We do not believe you should pay separately to plan a ride.
The route-planning subscription stack.
The pricing is real and current. We are not exaggerating.
| Product | Price | What you pay for | Neverchill |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subscription route planner | ~$10 / mo | Route planning, voice navigation, offline maps | Planning + GPX/FIT export - free. Voice nav + offline on Pro. |
| Premium mapping app | ~€60 / yr | Sport-specific routing, offline regions, multi-day | Surface-aware routing free. Offline regions on Pro. |
| Social-feed route browser | Subscriber-only | Surface heatmap routes, save to device | Surface and popularity overlays free. Save to device free. |
Click. Draw. Export. Ride.
Click your start.
Tap a town, an address, a saved spot, or "here" if you are on mobile. We drop a pin and start drawing.
We snap to road or trail.
Pick the surface preference - road, gravel, mixed, trail - and the router obeys. Drag a point to reroute, the rest of the line reflows.
See gradients live.
The elevation profile updates as you draw. Climbs are auto-categorized, total elevation gain ticks up. No surprises.
Export to your head unit.
GPX, FIT, or push directly to a connected Garmin, Wahoo, Hammerhead, or Bryton. Turn-by-turn included where the device supports it.
What is in the planner.
Surface-aware
Tell the router road, gravel, or trail and it picks the right edges. Mixed routes flag surface transitions on the profile.
Live elevation profile
Draws as you draw. Distance, vertical, average gradient, and per-climb stats update in real time.
Climb categorization
Cat 4 through HC labels the climbs in your route the same way the analytics page does after you ride it.
Distance + time estimate
Time estimates account for terrain, your historical pace per surface, and (optionally) the pace group you intend to ride with.
Save and share
Routes save to your library. Share with a link - recipients see the profile and can export without an account.
Universal export
GPX (universal), FIT-course (Garmin/Wahoo navigation), and direct sync where supported. No vendor lock-in.
Why is route planning free?
Three reasons, in order of how proud we are of them.
One: we make our money on Pro and Coach subscriptions - the people who use Neverchill as their primary training platform. Route planning being free does not threaten that revenue. If anything, it brings people in.
Two: charging extra for the ability to plan the ride you are about to do is a tax. It is not a real product on its own - it is a feature that should be in any cycling app and is in ours.
Three: we believe athletes should not pay seven companies to do what should be one product. Carving out "planning" as its own subscription is exactly the kind of fragmentation we are trying to fix.
Practical answers.
Do you have voice navigation? +
Voice turn-by-turn is on the Pro plan for routes opened in the phone app. Free tier gives you the turn list and the FIT-course/GPX file your head unit will use for its own navigation.
Offline maps? +
Pro tier. You pick a region (city / county / custom polygon), we cache the tiles for offline use. The free tier works fully online and is fine for most routes - head units do their own offline routing once you push the file.
Which head units do you support? +
Direct integration: Garmin Connect IQ, Wahoo, Hammerhead Karoo, Bryton. Everyone else: GPX export, which every cycling computer made in the last decade accepts.
Can I plan running routes too? +
Yes. The router has a "running" mode that prefers parks, paths, and trails over highway shoulders. Same export options.
How does the routing handle gravel? +
We use OpenStreetMap surface tags plus a community-maintained "rideable" heuristic. Trails marked as MTB-only or hike-only are excluded by default; you can override per route.
Can I import a GPX file to edit it? +
Yes. Drop a GPX onto the planner and we extract the line as an editable route - move points, extend, trim, change surface preference. Re-export when done.
Plan more rides. Pay less.
Free forever. No credit card. No upgrade nag. Join the waitlist.