Every navigation app I tried optimised for the thing I was trying to avoid: the fastest, straightest, most efficient line. But riders don't chase efficiency — we chase the corner after the corner. So I started building the routing engine I wished existed, on nights and weekends, from a flat in Serbia.
One person, one obsession
Zavoy is a solo project. There's no growth team, no fabricated download counts, no roadmap written to please investors. There's one rider who scores roads by their curves, surface and elevation, tests routes on an actual motorcycle, and writes back to every support email personally.
That also means the app is honest about what it does. It plans the roads worth riding, navigates them for free, watches your lean angle through a corner, and keeps your crew on the same map. The things it doesn't do yet, it doesn't pretend to.
What Zavoy actually does
The routing engine scores every road on curvature, surface and elevation before it ever suggests one — riders see that score in the app as the Fun Score. Turn-by-turn navigation with voice guidance is free and stays free. On top of that sit the things I kept wishing other apps had:
- 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.
- Recap videos. Every ride comes home as a vertical clip of your route drawing itself across the map.
- GPX export. Saved routes load onto Garmin, TomTom and most bike navigation units.
Zavoy is in beta on iOS and Android right now. The core loop — plan, ride, recap — gets tested on real passes, not in a simulator. If you want in early, apply for the beta; if something breaks, tell me exactly how and I'll fix it.
What it stands for
- Navigation stays free.The core of 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 I should know about, or just want to talk bikes? Reach me at [email protected]. Real rider, real replies. Zavoy also posts on Instagram — mostly roads, occasionally progress.
P14 · Durmitor Ring, Montenegro · 43.1489° N 19.0986° E