Smart pedal-powered control and ride insights for urban cyclists using the Copenhagen Wheel. The app integrates with the wheel hardware to tailor assist and share access with friends, with 1,000+ total downloads and 4 in the last 30 days showing ongoing interest.
Pros & Cons
Strong hardware integration for adaptive pedal-assist
Easy sharing of Wheel access with friends and family
Free to download and use
Not ranked in any top lists
Lacks gamified features or fitness-centric modes seen in some competitors
Rating of 2.71 from 97 ratings suggests room for improvement
About Copenhagen Wheel
Copenhagen Wheel was a lifestyle app developed by Superpedestrian. It was removed from Google Play Mar 22, 2024 and is no longer available for download.
Download Statistics
Copenhagen Wheel had been downloaded 4.4 thousand times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
Copenhagen Wheel was rated 2.71 out of 5 stars, based on 97 ratings.
App Information
Copenhagen Wheel was free to download. The APK download size was 25.16 MB. The last available version was 2.14.1. The last update was on July 9, 2019.
Technical Requirements
Copenhagen Wheel required Android 5.0+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play December 2015.
Description
Wheel allows you to control and customize your Copenhagen Wheel - the new device from Superpedestrian that transforms your bicycle into a smart electric hybrid. Named one of TIME Magazine’s 25 Best Inventions of 2014.
Superpedestrian is focused on urban mobility. Our mission is to help people move through cities more seamlessly.
The Copenhagen Wheel contains a motor, batteries, multiple sensors, wireless connectivity, and an embedded control system. The Wheel learns how you pedal and integrates seamlessly with your motion, multiplying your pedal power 3x—10x. It makes hills feel flat and distances shrink, so you can cycle just about anywhere.
The Wheel app works with the Copenhagen Wheel to give you:
SMART CONTROL All actuation of the Wheel happens automatically via the pedals through sensing and control algorithms. When you pedal harder, like when you're going uphill, the Wheel provides more assistance. Using the Wheel app, you can vary the level of powered assist.
TRENDS AND INSIGHTS Get more from your Wheel through the Wheel app by tracking personal usage statistics including time, distance, calories burned, power, elevation climbed and more, all of which can be compared and shared with friends.*
YOUR KEY TO THE WHEEL When you own a Wheel, the Wheel app gives you control of your Wheel, and allows you to give your friends and family access to your Wheel so they can share in the fun too.
**The bicycle revolution is coming to your streets.**
“New tech turns regular bikes into hybrids" -The Guardian. “Helping people move through cities in a seamless way” - Forbes. “Aimed at encouraging alternative methods of transportation” - CNN. “It’s rare that a company comes along and reinvents the wheel, but it looks like that is about to happen” - The New York Times. “Instead of adjusting your speed using a throttle or button, you'll simply pedal faster” - Engadget. “Cycling is limited to the scale of the city, but we want to help people overcome the city” - Wired. “The Copenhagen Wheel does for electric bicycles what Apple did for mobile computing with the smartphone and tablets” - Smithsonian.com.
*Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
Recent changes: Hey Superpedestrians! The team has been hard at work improving things for you:
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★★★★★
Love the wheel, and the app works well. Would give it 5 starts, but the app really drains my phone battery while riding, especially when I leave the screen on to adjust Ride power while riding. Perhaps a dark control screen would use less battery.
★★★★★
Good app and product The app provides useful data during my rides and the product is great, it's the tesla of bikes!
★★★★★
Works pretty well, but updates can take a long time to download and must be done standing near your bike with the wheel turned on, so long periods standing in the garage to have wi-fi and trying to get updates.
★★☆☆☆
I love my Copenhagen Wheel, but I hate this app. It freezes regularly and
has trouble connecting to my wheel. Once it freezes I have to restart my
phone before the wheel is detected again. Please fix this app!
★★☆☆☆
Update 3/26/23: The app is forcing me to log in to use the wheel, but keeps giving me errors, so now the wheel is totally useless. Devs are incompetent or just don't care. The app is completely unreliable, and the wheel won't work without it. The app constantly disconnects from the wheel, or doesn't connect at all. I'm frequently opening and closing the app or restarting my phone to get the wheel to connect. If you're in the market for an electric bike, stay far away from Super Pedestrian.
★★☆☆☆
I have a pixel 2 xl and to use this app I have to restart my phone before
every ride. It's bad.
Technologies used by Copenhagen Wheel
Copenhagen Wheel is requesting 17 permissions and is using 25 libraries.
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Trust & Safety: The app requests location (coarse and fine), network state, Wi‑Fi state, Bluetooth and Bluetooth Admin, account access, Internet, read/write external storage, receive boot completed, vibrate, wake lock, and push messaging (C2D_MESSAGE). These permissions are typical for hardware-connected cycling apps that pair with a device, track usage, and deliver updates. Users should review permissions and data usage to understand how location, device access, and notifications are handled.
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