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DISCOVERCreate a cycling magazine app
Cycling magazine app: races, bike tests and monthly routes for your subscribers
Readers follow the season in your magazine's own app; paying readers get the in-depth pieces, the tests and the mapped routes, still readable when the signal drops.
Bring your cycling magazine to iPhone and Android as a native app, code-free: race coverage, gear tests and route guides for paying readers, a monthly or annual plan billed by the stores, and routes plotted on a map.
Free 30-day trial - No credit card required
Pioneers of no-code
15 years of experience building native apps for businesses and content publishers. And the numbers to prove it.
25 000+
Daily downloads for apps built with GoodBarber*
30 000+
Clients have brought their app projects to life with GoodBarber
2011
The year GoodBarber was born: no-code, before anyone else
* Source: internal download tracking, App Store and Google Play, April 2026.
What subscribers unlock
The stage analysis, the bike test, the route guide: you pick what's reserved
Race results and short news stay free; the stage-by-stage analysis, the long-term test of a gravel bike and the monthly route guide go to subscribers. For each reserved piece, you choose how much a visitor reads before the subscription screen. Subscriptions open once at least ten pieces are reserved, and they give every subscriber the same access.
Routes of the month on a map, for subscribers
Start, climbs, café stop: each point reserved, each route readable off the grid
Publish each route as points on a Map section: the start, the climbs, the café stop, the water refill. Like your articles, map points can be locked for subscribers. A route opened before setting off stays readable without a network, and the start point launches the directions on the rider's phone.
One tap to subscribe, from the phone
Monthly or yearly, settled by the phone's store account
Riders subscribe from their phone with the store account it already knows, typing nothing. Monthly price, yearly price, a different amount per store if needed, and a trial month to sample the routes: you set it all. Web readers are sent to the app to take out the subscription, and can log in on the web afterwards.
Opening subscriptions: the three settings
What you prepare in the back office before the first subscriber.
The sections
Racing, gear, routes, training: sort your articles, and mark at least ten as reserved.The prices
Two prices, monthly and yearly, entered separately for Apple's and Google's stores, and a trial period if you choose.The notifications
Automatic push for each new issue, and a scheduled push on the mornings of the big races.
Your app, the print subscription or a paid newsletter?
Three ways a cycling title sells its content today.
| Your app with GoodBarber | Print subscription | Paid newsletter | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Routes on a map | points on a Map section | printed maps | links to route files |
| Readable on the road without network | pages already opened | the paper copy | depending on the email app |
| Paying | a tap, through the store | form and card | card on the platform |
| Commission | GoodBarber: zero; store fees apply | printing and postage | depending on the platform |
| Race-morning alert | scheduled push | no |
Also in the magazine's app
Race calendar
The season's races in the Agenda, so readers know when to expect your analysis.
Bookmarks
Readers save a route or a test to find it before the ride.
Reader photos
Readers submit photos of their rides in the Submission section, and you pick the ones worth publishing.
Videos
Road tests and filmed descents, in a Videos section you can reserve.
Search
A search field to find a test or a route in the archive.
Complimentary access
A subscription granted by hand, for a partner bike shop or a local club.
AI in your magazine
Three uses for the editorial team, price included.
To answer
Tests and routes, on request
“Which of the gravel bikes you tested takes the widest tires?” The Chatbot builds its answer from your articles and map points, in the reader's language; non-subscribers only get what the free pieces say.
29€/month
To extend
A gear ratio calculator
The AI Extension Builder creates it from a description you type in the back office: “a calculator that shows the distance covered per pedal turn from the chainring, the sprocket and the tire size”.
Free
To publish
The route of the month mapped from Claude or ChatGPT
With the MCP server, Claude or ChatGPT creates the route's map points from your notes and drafts the article's push; nothing goes live without your go-ahead.
Included
Ads for free readers, clean pages for subscribers
Sponsors stay visible to non-subscribers; one option removes ads for subscribers
A bike brand's banner through your internal ad server, or Google AdMob and Google Ad Manager: ads fund the free part of the magazine. With one option, subscribers read without them, one more reason to subscribe. GoodBarber's cut of your subscriptions is zero; the stores keep theirs.
Extension Store
Extensions for a cycling magazine with a paywall. Memberships is an add-on to Premium and part of Pro; Map, Bookmarks and Agenda are free.
How much does a cycling magazine app cost?
Paid access runs through the iPhone and Android apps, so start from Premium plus Memberships, or from Pro, which bundles it. Hosting, updates and notifications are covered, and readers' bandwidth is never billed.
| Premium · magazine on iOS, Android and web | 55€ /month, billed yearly |
| Memberships, on top of Premium | 49€ /month |
| Pro · Memberships already included | 105€ /month, billed yearly |
Apple and Google deduct their fee from every subscription, usually 15%. Apple's rate is 30% during the first year of each subscription unless you've joined its small business program. GoodBarber deducts nothing. Apple and Google also bill their developer accounts.
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Reviews from GoodBarber customers, posted on all kinds of projects.
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Responsive support and usually quick.
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Cycling magazine app: questions from editors
Can a subscriber read a route without network?
Yes, if they opened it once with a connection: articles and map points already viewed stay readable offline. Videos need a network.
Can I reserve map points for subscribers?
Yes: map points lock for subscribers just like articles, events and videos. Photo galleries are the exception.
What happens to my print subscribers?
Your print subscription stays as it is; the app sells its own subscription through the stores. A subscription bought elsewhere isn't recognized automatically, but you can open access by hand from the back office.
Can readers record their rides in the app?
No: the app is a magazine, not a ride recorder. It shows your routes and opens directions in the phone's map app; readers record their rides with the tool they already use.
Can I make the yearly subscription cheaper than twelve months?
Yes: you set the monthly price and the yearly price freely on each store. There is one level of access, but several durations are possible.
How much does a cycling magazine app cost?
A native app is the prerequisite: Memberships comes on top of Premium, or inside Pro. Nothing extra for hosting, notifications or updates; the developer fees are settled directly with Apple and Google.
GoodBarber turns your cycling magazine into a subscription app, routes and tests included, with no GoodBarber commission
Reserved articles and map points, a preview you size yourself, monthly or yearly plans with a free trial, offline reading of opened pages, no ads for subscribers.