MotoRev 2.0 Is Here: What We Learned From the First MotoRev and What Changed for Riders

MotoRev 2.0 is out now for iPhone, Android and Apple Watch, with the same account on the web at motorev.app. It is a new app, a new server and, in a lot of places, a new way of thinking about what a riding app owes the people who use it. This is the long version of what changed, why, and what the first MotoRev taught us.

Where MotoRev Came From

MotoRev started as a promise. Bryce Raiford founded 47 Industries and cared about two things more than anything: motorcycles, and riders getting home. We lost him on December 17, 2022. His friends kept building, and MotoRev 1.0 launched on the App Store on December 17, 2025, three years to the day.

The first version did a lot. It had group rides, a feed, crash detection, a garage, voice between riders and a few things that never quite worked the way we wanted. It also lived only on iPhone, and it carried every shortcut a small team takes to ship a first product.

What the First Version Taught Us

We kept a list. Some of it came from App Store review, some from riders, and some from watching the app in the real world.

Review taught us about respect. The first app went through months of App Store rejections between October 2025 and January 2026. The reasons were not exotic: a vague camera permission, no way to delete your account from inside the app, a phone number required to sign up, no way to block another rider, a confusing age rule, no Restore Purchases button. Each one was a place where we had asked riders for something without giving them control back. To get approved we also cut things, including iPad support, HealthKit and some background modes. 2.0 brings iPad back and uses HealthKit on Apple Watch, and every one of those review items is simply how the app works now: delete your account yourself, block anyone, sign up with an email, restore a purchase in one tap.

Peer-to-peer voice does not survive a group ride. Version 1 ran ride voice as a mesh, every phone talking to every other phone. A six-bike pack over LTE cannot upload five audio streams each. It fell apart exactly when it mattered. 2.0 runs voice through our own voice server. Each phone sends one stream and receives one mix, which is why it holds up at highway speed, reconnects on its own, cancels echo and suppresses wind.

Everything has to work everywhere. Riders asked for Android from the first week. They also expected a post made on a phone to be there on a laptop, and a comment left on the web to show up on the phone without a refresh. The first app was built for one platform, and the backend behind it was not built for live updates. That is the single biggest reason 2.0 is a rebuild and not an update.

Privacy has to be a design, not a setting. The first app treated location like any other field. The second treats it as the most sensitive thing you give us.

Some things were right the first time. The safety score formula and the 75 mph line come straight from 1.x. The wording of the crash alert text message is unchanged. The Normal crash sensitivity is the first app’s calibration. We kept what worked.

What 2.0 Is Built On

2.0 is a new app for iPhone, Apple Watch and Android, on a new server. Three rules shaped all of it.

Every feature works across devices. One account works on iPhone, Android and motorev.app. Articles, posts, bikes, routes, events, crews and your profile are the same everywhere.

Everything persists and updates live. The app keeps a local cache, and ride points are buffered on the phone and uploaded in batches, so a ride survives a dead connection. Live updates run over one connection per app, and rider markers on the map animate smoothly between position fixes instead of jumping.

Nothing is public by accident. Every shareable thing in MotoRev has an explicit visibility: Everyone, Followers or Only Me. There is no implicit public.

The first app’s riders came along. Every 1.x account, bike, ride and post was imported once, and a rider who signed up with only a phone number can still sign in. The old backend has been retired.

Protect: Crash Detection That Tells Someone

Protect is the reason this app exists, and it is free and on by default.

Once you have been riding above 20 mph, your phone’s motion sensors and GPS watch for a hard impact, a tumble or slide, or an abrupt stop. If Protect sees one, it starts a countdown, 30 seconds by default and adjustable from 10 to 60. Tap I’m OK, or ride off, and it cancels. If you do not, your emergency contacts get a text, a phone call and an email with your location.

Two things to be clear about. Protect cannot detect every crash. And MotoRev does not call 911 or any emergency service. It tells the people you chose, with the information they need.

Around the detector, 2.0 adds the tools riders asked for:

• Medical info for first responders is saved on your phone only. MotoRev’s servers never receive it. When the countdown runs out, a responder card shows on screen and on the lock screen.
• Black Box keeps motion and GPS from 30 seconds before an impact to 10 seconds after.
• Back By is a return-time timer. Miss it, and your contacts are told.
• Share Trip Progress gives someone a live link to your ride.
• Apple Watch SOS works from your wrist.
• Ride Detection starts logging when you ride off, so the ride you forgot to start still counts.

Riding Circle: The People Who Can See Where You Are

Riders wanted to share their location with a few people and nobody else. In 2.0 that group has a name. Your Riding Circle is the small set of people you trust with your location. It is private, separate from your followers and from Crews, and capped at 150 riders. You can add mutual follows, people you have done a group ride with, or someone you meet in person with a ten-minute code.

Outside your Riding Circle and your group rides, nobody sees your real position. Other riders see you moved by up to about 2 km, in a way that cannot be walked back to where you are, and nothing shows at all from inside your privacy zones. You can set up to ten of those.

Group Rides and Voice

Group rides have invite codes, Leader, Co-Leader and Sweep roles, fall-behind alerts, Rider Down and Quick Signals. Live group voice runs through the headset you already own, with Open Mic or Push to Talk, and 1:1 calls that ring like a normal phone call. Ride channels and calls are live audio only. They are never recorded or stored.

Routes, Rides and the Ride Log

Route Studio builds scenic, curvy and loop routes, with weather along the way. On the ride you get rerouting and turn cues. Afterwards, Ride Insights shows estimated max lean, hard braking and a safety score for each ride, with GPX export and a Year in Review. The first app guessed sharp turns from heading changes. 2.0 measures lean.

Social, Crews and Articles

The feed, comments, reactions and profiles came across and got faster. Two things are new.

Crews are public groups for riders who ride together, a local club or a brand group. A Crew can be Open, Approval or Invite Only, and has its own posts, events and Crew Talk.

Articles are long-form, with a real editor, and readable on the web by anyone. You are reading one. Reviews, guides and ownership reports now have a home that a search engine can find.

Discover was rebuilt as one screen: search on top, type filters, and one set of results with For You picked for each rider. Events take Going, Interested and Not Going, and can repeat.

Garage

Your Garage holds your bikes, mods, service intervals and costs, with NHTSA recall checks, a documents vault and service records signed by verified shops. Shops, dealers and regions have pages of their own, and Fuel Finder shows real prices.

Pro, Ads and the Rules We Hold Ourselves To

MotoRev is free, and Protect is free for everyone. Pro removes ads, keeps unlimited ride history (free keeps 90 days), adds route analytics, more offline map regions, the Verified badge, longer live shares and priority support. Prices are shown in the app.

Free riders see Google ads, as in the first app. They are not personalized unless you opt in, and never for anyone under 18. Pro riders never see ads.

The promises that matter most are written into the policies in plain language, and each policy opens with a short summary:

• Protect tells your contacts. It does not call 911 for you.
• Medical details stay on your phone.
• Riders outside your Riding Circle see you moved by up to about 2 km. Nothing shows from inside your privacy zones.
• Ride channels and calls are live audio only, never recorded.
• You can delete your account yourself. It is immediate and permanent.

What We Left Out

MotoAI is gone. Music and group listening are gone. Neither made a ride better, and both got in the way of the things that do. We would rather ship a smaller app that is right than a larger one that is almost.

Where to Get It

MotoRev 2.0 is on the App Store and Google Play, and at motorev.app on the web. If you rode with the first version, sign in with the same account. If you are new, it takes a minute, and Protect is on from the first ride.

Tell us what is wrong and what is missing. The first version taught us to listen. The second one was built to make listening easier.

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