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VOKPIT, the voice motorcycle GPS

Everything by voice, hands on the bars.

VOKPIT is a motorcycle GPS for Android that you drive by voice and with the buttons of your Bluetooth intercom. Guidance, music, calls, alerts and SOS go through your helmet: your hands stay on the bars, and the screen cuts down to a few large targets as soon as you ride. The app is in French and English.

Download VOKPIT for Android

Beta version, free to install, until it reaches Google Play. APK file, Android 10 or later, phone with GPS. iPhone version in the works.

What VOKPIT does differently

It listens to you. "Take me to…", "play Back in Black", "call Alex", "report gravel": you speak in your helmet and the app takes care of it. Even when dictation mangles a title, it is found among the tracks your phone has already played.
Your intercom buttons become a remote. While VOKPIT is on screen, single, double, triple or long press: each does what you choose. By default, three presses mark a hazard at your position, hands on the bars.
Your helmet warns you before you get there. During guidance: a tight bend approached too fast, rain, fog, crosswind assessed against the direction of your route, and the hazards you reported. Nothing piles up: when two announcements collide, the direction goes first, and an announcement that is out of date is dropped rather than said late.
Plan the ride around the sun and the rain. Before you leave, the route preview flags the riding time into a low sun and after dark. Loop rides put first the ones where no rain is forecast.
Safety is not for sale. Crash detection and SOS are free, no subscription: if you don't respond within two minutes, a text with your position goes to the people you chose, and a call to one of them opens. You cancel by voice, gloves on.
Nothing to sell about you. No third-party ads, no advertising trackers, no audience measurement. Commands are interpreted on the phone, and VOKPIT keeps no recording of your voice.

Motorcycle guidance while riding: tilted map, next turn in 1.2 km, speed and arrival time.

Ride screen: GPS speed, lean angle, left and right maximums, G-force, distance and duration.

Menu while riding: four large tiles, Navigation, Music, Calls and Ride, usable with gloves.

SOS screen: two minutes to cancel, then a text with your position to the people you chose and a call to one of them.

Say "take me to…": the route is computed and a voice guides you turn by turn in your helmet, screen off included.
Tight bend, rain, fog and crosswind announced during guidance; low sun and darkness flagged before you leave.
The arrival time adjusts to your pace, learned from your guided rides.
Downloadable offline maps, around a place or along a route, and guidance computed on the phone once the route is received.

Scenic rides, roadbooks and GPX

Scenic tours: a loop drawn to the duration or return time and the twistiness you want, from half an hour to eight hours.
Multi-stop roadbooks built on screen, GPX import and export.

Music, calls and texts from your intercom

Play a track, a playlist or one of the built-in French radio stations, skip, adjust the volume, by voice or with your intercom buttons.
When VOKPIT is unsure of a title, "Not what you asked for?" lets you pick the right track once stopped, and the same dictation finds it next time.
Call a contact by name, have your texts read aloud, dictate a message: it is read back in your helmet and only sent after your "yes".

Speedometer, lean angle and ride log

GPS speedometer, lean angle and G-force measured from your trajectory, with left and right maximums.
Ride log: your rides, their track and their figures, kept on the phone.
Garage and motorcycle maintenance log, with due dates in distance and in months.

SOS, crash detection and live tracking

Crash detection, to switch on in the settings, and SOS button: if you don't cancel within two minutes, a text with your position goes to the people you chose, and a call to one of them opens.
Report a hazard by voice (gravel, oil…) or with three presses on your intercom: you are reminded of it on the next pass.
Live tracking, off by default: your loved ones follow your ride in a browser.
When guidance reaches its destination, a "safely arrived" text can go to them on its own, saying that it is automatic.

VOKPIT does not call emergency services for you and no assistance centre receives its alerts. In an emergency, call 112.

Free, with the MOTO mode

The free version gives you voice remote control of your music, automatic ride mode, hazard reporting, the garage and SOS. The MOTO mode, a monthly or yearly subscription with no commitment, with a 14-day free trial, unlocks the rest: guidance, the ride screen, calls and content chosen by voice. SOS stays free. No third-party ads, no advertising trackers.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need an intercom?

It is recommended: guidance and commands then go through your helmet. The app also works without one, on the speaker or earphones.

Which intercom?

VOKPIT uses the standard Bluetooth profiles (hands-free and media controls) that motorcycle intercoms use to connect to the phone.

Does the GPS work without a network?

Computing the route needs a connection. After that, guidance, voice and arrival time are computed on the phone, and a downloaded map displays without a network. Hazard alerts always work offline.

Does VOKPIT call emergency services?

No. The alert warns the people you chose by text and opens a call to one of them. In an emergency, call 112.

What about iPhone?

The iPhone version is in the works.

Install

Open this page on the phone and tap the download button.
Open the downloaded file. Android asks you to allow installs from your browser: allow it, then go back and tap Install.
Open VOKPIT. Updates do not install themselves: the app tells you about a new version and opens it in your browser.

You bought a subscription

Taken on Google Play or the App Store: it is managed and cancelled in the store (Play Store › Payments & subscriptions; on the iPhone, Settings › your name › Subscriptions).
Beta tester: type your founder code in Store › I have a purchase code (I have an activation code in the Google Play version).
Paid by card in the version downloaded here: your purchase code is shown at the end of the payment and also sent by email. In the app: Store › I have a purchase code.
Page closed or email lost? Get your codes at the address used for the payment.
Cancel your contract online, at any time.
Within 14 days of the purchase, withdraw from the contract here, when the right of withdrawal applies (terms of sale, article 7).

A question, an idea?

VOKPIT is an independent app, published in France by Hugo Martineu. Write to hugo.martineu@gmail.com or use the support page.