App Profile: EggRider

Kody Whitall

Rating: 3/5

The app itself is decent. Good UI but the connectivity is not great. I’ve tried two Eggrider Displays and each one loses connection while riding which changes the battery to none selected and my battery percentage goes way down and I start to get cutouts. I thought it might have been the Eggrider I was using so I purchased another and the same thing happens. So it must be the app. It’s incredibly frustrating. Eggrider, if you see this and have a fix, I will gladly change my review.

JimSubZero

Rating: 5/5

A nice efficiency vs distance graph at the bottom of the speedometer screen was added a while back. Still waiting for the instantaneous values displayed to be averaged over several seconds instead. Amps, watts, and efficiency jump around too fast to read. I like the access to the various parameters of the motor controller, and the user manual is explaining them much better now. Trip data are excellent. One suggestion though. Include the efficiency graph from the speedometer display. Most recent version, 2.6.05, shows a nonsense range value. I don’t care much, but nonsense values are annoying. The app disconnects when switching to another app for more than a minute or so.

tungsten2k

Rating: 1/5

V2.6 now requires sharing of all phone data with any 3rd parties. I used to love my EggRider as it was the best upgrade to your eBike that you could get — period. But as of V2.6, the app now requires you to accept allowing all of your phones full data to be shared and tracked by any 3rd party the company may share with. Many of us in the very active EggRider Facebook group objected and requested they immediately revert to V2.5 until they are able to reasonably limit the amount of data the user is forced to share with the app, but we were met with silence and an empty promise of “we will try better in the future”. This isn’t Flappy Bird or TicTacToe that we can just do without until resolution, this is our primary transportation that you have stripped from us unless we give you access to all of our data including precise GPS tracking location and agree that you can share it with the world. It’s an unreasonable expectation from the developer. I will update this review back to 5 stars once this glaring data privacy and security issue is resolved.