Every navigation app on that phone optimised for the thing a rider is trying to avoid: the fastest, straightest, most efficient line. Riders go looking for the next corner instead. So the routing engine Zavoy runs on was built for that, on nights and weekends, from a flat in Serbia.
Built by one rider
Zavoy is a solo project. The same rider who writes the code scores roads by their curves, surface and elevation, tests routes on an actual motorcycle, and answers every support email.
The app plans the roads worth riding, navigates them for free, watches your lean angle through a corner, and keeps your crew on the same map. Features that aren't ready yet aren't advertised.
What Zavoy does
The routing engine weighs every road by curvature, surface and elevation before it suggests one. Turn-by-turn navigation with voice guidance is free, always. Around it:
- Lean-angle corner warnings. Your phone's motion sensors watch how deep you go through a corner and flag the ones that bite.
- Weather along the route. Forecasts pinned to the road ahead, hour by hour, where rain actually catches you.
- Group rides. Your crew on one live map, with in-ride chat that queues offline and syncs when the signal comes back. Free.
- Recap videos. A ride comes home as a vertical clip of your route drawing itself across the map. Part of Zavoy Premium.
- GPX export. Saved routes load onto Garmin, TomTom and most bike navigation units. Free.
Zavoy is out now on Android, with iOS coming soon. The core loop of plan, ride and recap gets tested on real passes, not in a simulator. Get the app, and if something breaks, report the bug with the steps that caused it.
What it stands for
- Navigation stays free. Getting where you're going never sits behind a paywall.
- Built for motorcycles only. No car compromises baked into the routing.
- Honest about its limits. Riding aids are aids. Your judgement leads.
Say hello
Feedback, a great road Zavoy should know about, or bikes in general: write to [email protected]. Every email gets a reply from the rider who builds the app. Zavoy also posts on Instagram, mostly roads, occasionally progress.
P14 · Durmitor Ring, Montenegro · 43.1489° N 19.0986° E