Type kurviger vs calimoto into a search box and the answer comes back fast: Kurviger is the cheaper one. That much is true. What the pages answering the question mostly leave out is which Kurviger. Of the seventeen editorial pages ranking on that search and its two cousins, eight talk about “Kurviger Tourer”, three mention “Tourer+”, and not one says the thing that decides the purchase: the plan called Tourer does not navigate. Buy it expecting a satnav and you have bought a route planner.
I build a motorcycle app, so I read other people’s pricing pages more than any rider should. On 15 September 2026 I opened all three — Kurviger, Calimoto and Scenic — with their help centres and App Store listings, and wrote down what was there.
Three price lists, one day
| Kurviger | Calimoto | Scenic | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Yes | Yes (“Standard”) | Yes |
| Cheapest paid option | Tourer, €14.99 a year — planning only | Weekly, €9.99 — in the app only | Monthly, €14.90 |
| The plan that navigates, per year | Tourer+, €29.99 | Premium, €59.99 | Premium, €59.90 |
| Shorter terms | Tourer+ €6.99 a month | €9.99 a week, or the Season Pass: €39.99 for three months | €14.90 a month, €29.90 a quarter |
| Free trial | 7 days, card required | 14 days, on the yearly plan only | Newcomers only |
Prices are what the three storefronts show in Italy. Kurviger’s website says the same €14.99 and €29.99 as the App Store; Scenic’s website says “$4.99 a month billed annually” and adds that the local price follows the region of your Apple ID. Treat the numbers as local and the structure as fixed.
The arithmetic is short. Kurviger’s navigation year costs exactly half of the other two: 59.99 and 59.90 against 29.99. Three weeks of Calimoto at the weekly rate come to €29.97, a year of Kurviger Tourer+ costs two cents more. One quarter of Scenic, €29.90, is nine cents short of that same Kurviger year. And Kurviger’s own pricing page claims its annual plan saves 64% against paying monthly: twelve months at €6.99 make €83.88, and €29.99 is 64.2% less. For once the marketing number is right.
The Kurviger plan that does not navigate
Kurviger’s help centre puts it in one sentence: “The navigation is only available with the Kurviger Tourer+ subscription.”
What Tourer buys, at €14.99 a year, is a better planner. Adjustable avoidance strength on a scale from 1 to 5 instead of the fixed defaults; round trips up to 600 km instead of 300; road closures, unpaved stretches and speed limits shown along the route before you leave; a different curvature for each section; all three route profiles on the map at once; no ads. Good things, all of them, and all of them happen on the website or in the app’s planning view.
On the bike, Tourer gives you what Free gives you. The pricing table has three rows in its “App” section that matter: voice-guided navigation, offline maps and ride recording. All three are ticked for Tourer+ only. Free and Tourer get mobile planning and Follow mode — the route drawn on the map, and you do the turning.
That is why the search results are a mess. One comparison prices “Kurviger Tourer” at about €29.99 a year, which is the Tourer+ figure. Another lists Tourer at about $14.99 as if it were the only paid tier. A third still calls Kurviger Android-only with an iPhone version “planned”; the iPhone app is on version 3.6.6, updated on 6 August 2026, with Apple CarPlay in its description. Nobody is lying. They are quoting different years, and different plans, under one name.
What each free tier does once you are on the bike
This is where the three apps stop looking alike.
Calimoto Standard plans worldwide with the twisty-roads algorithm, generates round trips, shows points of interest and closed roads, and imports GPX, KML and ITN files. On the bike it does nothing: no navigation, no offline maps, no ride recording, no export. It has been a kitchen-table planner since July 2023, when recording moved behind the paywall. I went through the whole list in what Calimoto costs in 2026.
Kurviger Free plans curvy routes, caps round trips at 300 km, limits route transfer and locks avoidance strength at the defaults. On the bike it gives you mobile planning and Follow mode. No voice, no offline maps, no recording.
Scenic’s free tier is the odd one out. Its comparison table puts the route planner, the public routes database, search by area, dirt-road visualisation, follow-the-line navigation, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, POIs, map styles and route folders in the free column — and, further down, ride recording, rider insights, vehicle management and photos. Premium is where turn-by-turn voice navigation, round-trip generation, offline maps, safety-camera alerts, road closures, curvy routing modes, route import, sharing and GPX export live.
Two consequences follow. Scenic is the only one of the three whose free tier records a ride, and the only one where importing a GPX file costs money. Calimoto imports for free and does not record; Kurviger imports with limits and does not record. If “free” has to mean “remembers where I went”, one app qualifies.
Three trials, three different contracts
Kurviger gives seven days, and its help centre is candid about the mechanics: “you already have to enter a means of payment to complete the trial”, and after the seven days “the amount will be deducted from your payment method”. The subscription runs monthly or yearly, renews on its own, and can be cancelled at any time with the features staying on until the end of the term. Web billing goes through Paddle, app billing through the stores, and one subscription covers both.
Calimoto gives fourteen days, but only on the yearly plan, and it has to be cancelled at least 24 hours before the end. Its support pages state that a refund of the first payment after the trial is not possible, and that deleting the account does not cancel the subscription.
Scenic gives newcomers a trial and bills “in the 24 hours before the end of your trial, unless cancelled at least 24 hours before”. The line worth reading twice is the next one: “If you used the trial before you will be billed immediately.”
“Offline” is not the same word in the three apps
Kurviger’s documentation draws the line precisely: “The route calculation requires you to have an internet connection, but the navigation itself does not require an internet connection, when using offline maps.” Offline maps are Tourer+ only, they serve navigation and not planning, and after 30 days the app offers an update. So a Kurviger route planned at home survives a dead zone; a route recalculated in the dead zone does not.
Calimoto’s Premium downloads maps and navigates without a connection, per its pricing page. Scenic’s Premium promises offline maps “with global coverage”. Both are paid tiers, both stay quiet about recalculation, and only Kurviger states the limit.
Which one, then
- You plan on a laptop, ride from GPX files and care what a year costs → Kurviger Tourer+. The cheapest navigation year of the three by half, with the best-documented limits. Accept that the web planner is the star and the phone app is the passenger.
- You want a loop from wherever you are standing and the most polished app on the bars → Calimoto Premium, and pay double for it. The Season Pass at €39.99 covers a riding season without an annual commitment.
- You want a free tier that records and follows a line, and CarPlay without paying → Scenic. Its Premium year costs the same as Calimoto’s, but the free tier gives more back.
- Whatever you choose, do not buy Kurviger Tourer to navigate. That is the €14.99 that turns into €29.99 on day eight.
What I built, and what it will not do
I make RideLog, and it exists because the navigation apps leave the boring half of owning a motorcycle to someone else:
- It detects rides on its own, from motion sensors and GPS, with no record button and no subscription to switch recording on.
- It logs fuel and works out real cost per kilometre, and it reminds you about servicing, tyres, insurance and road tax.
- It has a route community — share your roads with photos, find rides near you, filter by distance and rating.
- Statistics by day, week, month and year, with PDF and CSV export.
- Nothing leaves the phone. No cloud, no server, works offline. Kurviger’s help centre explains that a recorded ride is saved to the Kurviger Cloud; in RideLog it is saved to your phone.
The limit matters more than the list: RideLog is not a turn-by-turn navigator and never will be. It runs next to Kurviger, Calimoto or Scenic — the navigator gets you there, RideLog remembers what happened, whether or not you renewed.
Download RideLog free — iPhone and Android, motorcycles and scooters, as many bikes as you own.
If you are still choosing a planner rather than a price, I compared the routing engines in the Calimoto alternatives guide, looked at what a third navigator hides behind its paywall in Detecht vs REVER vs Calimoto, and covered the wider field in the best motorcycle apps roundup and the motorcycle route apps guide.
Frequently asked questions
Is Kurviger cheaper than Calimoto?
For navigation, yes, by half: Kurviger Tourer+ costs €29.99 a year against €59.99 for Calimoto Premium, as sold in Italy in September 2026. The €14.99 Kurviger Tourer plan is cheaper still, but it only adds planning features and does not navigate.
Does Kurviger Tourer include navigation?
No. Kurviger’s help centre states that navigation is only available with the Tourer+ subscription. Tourer buys advanced avoidance, 600 km round trips, closures and speed limits shown on the planned route, and no ads. Voice navigation, offline maps and ride recording are Tourer+ features.
Is Kurviger free?
There is a free tier that plans curvy routes, generates round trips up to 300 km, saves routes and favourites, and offers Follow mode in the app, where the route is drawn on the map without voice guidance. Turn-by-turn navigation, offline maps and ride recording need Tourer+.
Kurviger vs Calimoto vs Scenic: which free tier gives the most?
It depends on what you want for free. Scenic’s free tier records rides, offers follow-the-line navigation and CarPlay. Calimoto’s plans worldwide and imports GPX but does nothing on the bike. Kurviger’s plans and follows a line, with round trips capped at 300 km. Scenic is the only one of the three that records a ride without a subscription.
Does Kurviger work offline?
With Tourer+, navigation works offline on downloaded maps, but the route calculation itself needs an internet connection, per Kurviger’s documentation. Offline maps are for navigating, not planning, and the app offers an update after 30 days.
Is there a Kurviger alternative that tracks rides without a subscription?
For tracking, yes: RideLog detects rides automatically, logs fuel, cost per kilometre and maintenance, and keeps everything on the phone, free on iPhone and Android. It is not a navigator, so it sits alongside Kurviger, Calimoto or Scenic rather than replacing them.
