Crowd-sourced road-defect survey
Map the roads.
Make them better.
Every ride you take tells us something about the road beneath you. Tap your lap button on a defect and it becomes an observation — plotted, timestamped, yours. Enough riders tapping the same spot and it stops being one person's opinion and starts being evidence.
No account to start · works off any bike computer, watch, or .fit / .tcx / .gpx / Strava
Ride. Tap. Confirm. Improve.
The lap button you already have your thumb on is the whole interface. Independent riders crossing the same ground are what turn a tap into evidence.
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Ride
Go about your normal journey. No app to open, nothing to remember.
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Tap
Feel a defect underneath you? Press your lap button. That's the observation — logged, located, done.
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Confirm
Other riders cross the same ground. When enough of them tap the same spot, one observation becomes a confirmed defect.
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Improve
Confirmed defects show communities and local authorities exactly where the roads need attention.
One rider’s tap is an observation. Three independent riders tapping the same spot make it a confirmed defect.
Your ride writes itself back.
Link Strava a single time. Every ride after, the holes you tapped plot themselves on the map the moment you finish — and the count posts straight onto your activity. You never lift a finger.
- Auto-detected the second Strava syncs
- Auto-plotted against the crowd
- Auto-noted on your activity description
Built by road users.
Every journey can help build a better picture of our roads. plotholes gathers observations from riders as they ride — not surveys, not forms, just the lap button you already have your thumb on. Put enough of those observations together and a single tap becomes a signal, and enough signals become a live map of where the roads are struggling. Your commute can help map your city, and every rider who joins makes the picture sharper for everyone using it.
Example cards — your real ones come straight off your own rides.
Find your people
Built for riders to compare maps, name the worst roads, and chase local authorities together.
Community channels coming soon.
Built by road users.
Useful to the people who maintain them.
Local authorities inherit thousands of miles of road and a fraction of the budget needed to inspect them all. plotholes turns everyday journeys into continuously updated road-condition intelligence: which defects have the strongest evidence, which roads are deteriorating fastest, where an intervention has already worked. It's the same map riders see, read a different way — built by the people who use the roads, useful to the people who maintain them.
plotholes for organisations →plotholes isn't a pothole-reporting app, a council complaints line, or a cycling campaign. We're not trying to replace the inspectors who walk these roads for a living, and we're not just another map of pins anyone could submit. plotholes is independent road-condition intelligence, built from journeys people were already making — evidence, not opinion.
Be the first to flag your road.
The map starts empty — that's the honest part. Tap a lap on your next ride and watch your holes land where they actually are.
We keep the holes you flag, never your route.