Ride together.
No one left behind.
A group riding companion for the roads that lose signal before they lose altitude. One live map for the whole convoy, gaps, rally points, last-known positions, and a crash alert that reaches the riders next to you first.
A group ride is fine until the group isn't a group.
One rider stops for chai. One takes the wrong fork. One is twenty minutes back and out of coverage. The WhatsApp group is thirty messages of "where are you" and nobody has an answer.
Set up once, before the first ride.
Four screens, ten minutes, done for good. Licence, RC, insurance, PUC and permits live in Documents, stored encrypted and restored on any device when you sign back in.
Blood group, allergies, conditions, emergency contacts. It sits behind a lock screen and rides with you. If you go down, the riders who reach you first can read it without unlocking your phone.
Three permissions, and the real reason for each.
Setup ends with a warning, not a welcome.
The last thing the app shows you before Home is a caricature at a petrol pump. E20 is the mandated blend at most pumps now, and twenty percent ethanol corrodes fuel lines and knocks older engines. It is the single thing most likely to end a Himalayan ride, so it gets the one interstitial we allow ourselves.
Name it, date it, and the plan builds itself.
One code brings the whole crew in.
Legs, stays, rally points. Ten days, drawn out.
A rally point is the plan for when the plan fails. Agreed before you leave. If comms drop, everyone rides to the next one and waits. No phone required.
Stays are scoped to nights, not days.
A base you keep for three nights is one booking, not three. Rest days are marked. Who paid and what each rider owes carries straight through to the money.
Drag the amount. Watch it settle.
For the technically curious +
Amounts are held as integer paise, so a six-way split of ₹100 never loses a rupee to rounding. Twenty categories, each with its own default payer.
The dull things that end rides when they are missing.
Your personal list stays private.
Remind me to fill up when I am 10 km from Sarchu.
Inner Line permits tracked for every rider, and shared documents any crew member can open at a checkpoint.
Written on one phone. On five phones by the next stop.
Notes carry a day tag, a pin, photos and a seen-by list, so you know who has actually read the change of plan. Written offline, delivered when a bar comes back.
The app knows the road. It mostly keeps quiet about it.
Fuel, food, viewpoints and workshops along the corridor you are actually riding, not a city guide. Nudges are rare by design, and one switch reduces them to essentials only for the rest of the trip.
The lobby tells you who is actually ready.
Medical card filled, offline map downloaded, fuel, permits. Rows go teal as they land. One rider stays amber, and everyone can see who.
One person calls it. Everyone's phone knows.
Roll out only works when you're actually at the start. If GPS can't confirm it, the ride leaves anyway. A bad fix should never hold up a convoy.
Not "share my location." The whole group, on one screen, all the time.
Positions ride their own lane so they arrive even when everything else is queued. A rider who joins late still sees where everyone is, not an empty map.
For the technically curious +
Positions publish over MQTT on a channel separate from application traffic, with a retained snapshot per rider, so a late joiner receives the current state of the convoy on connect rather than waiting for the next beacon.
Who is rolling, who is stopped, who is resting.
The nearest help is the rider behind you, not a call centre.
A crash alert goes to the riders closest to you first, with your position, your bearing and your blood group. If there is no signal, it queues and fires the moment any rider in the convoy gets a bar.
Tap, hold the overlay, or flip the phone. Three ways in, because gloves and adrenaline are real.
Crash detection is on unless you turn it off. The default protects the rider who never opened settings.
A rider can post a resting notice and rejoin. A coordinator can take a rider off the ride without anyone raising an alarm.
Offline is not a degraded mode. It is the mode this app was designed in.
Every screen reads from disk first. Every action you take is written locally and syncs when the road gives you a bar back. Nothing you do is lost because a mountain got in the way.
For the technically curious +
Reads are cache-then-network. Writes are idempotent and queued with a client-generated key, so a retry after a dropped connection can never double-post an expense. Conflicts resolve on a per-record version counter.
You can turn the safety net off. We would rather you didn't.
Every safety default is on, and every one of them is yours to change. Location sharing is scoped to the trip and ends when the trip does. Your data can be exported or deleted from inside the app, without emailing anyone.
Answers, then a human.
Where can I download Qafilaa?
Qafilaa is free on the App Store and on Google Play, for iOS 15.5 and Android. The store links are at the end of this page.
Is there an app to track a group of bikers on a ride?
Yes. Qafilaa shows every rider in the group on one live map for the whole trip, not just a one-off location share. You can see who is rolling, who is stopped and who is resting, how far the convoy is stretched from lead to sweep, and each rider's last known position and how fresh it is.
Does Qafilaa work where there is no mobile signal?
Yes. Every screen reads from the phone's own storage first. You download the route corridor as an offline map before you leave, and navigation steps down gracefully: live route, then cached route, then stored geometry, then a straight-line bearing to the next rally point. Anything you do offline is queued and syncs when a signal returns.
Does the app detect motorcycle crashes automatically?
Yes. Crash detection reads the phone's motion sensors and is on by default. When a hard impact is detected a countdown starts so you can cancel if you are fine. If it completes, an alert goes to the riders closest to you first with your position, your bearing and your blood group, and it queues and fires the moment any rider in the convoy gets a signal.
Can I plan the Manali-Leh-Manali circuit with fuel and rest stops?
Yes. You build the trip day by day with legs, distances, altitudes and passes, mark rest days, and pin rally points where the group regroups if comms drop. Stays are scoped to nights rather than days, so one base kept for three nights is a single booking. Inner Line permits are tracked per rider.
How do riders split trip expenses?
Log any shared cost against the trip, choose who paid and how it splits, and Qafilaa keeps a running balance for every rider. Settle-up clears all debts in the fewest transfers. Amounts are held as integer paise so a split never loses money to rounding, and expenses logged offline reconcile later.
Does Qafilaa work outside India?
Yes. It is built for rides across India, Nepal and Bhutan. Trip money supports Indian Rupee, Nepalese Rupee, Bhutanese Ngultrum and US Dollar, with foreign spends auto-converting to your home currency at the day's rate.
What is a rally point?
A rally point is a place the group agrees on before setting off. If communications drop, everyone rides to the next rally point and waits there. It needs no phone signal to work, which is why it is the fallback the whole app is built around.
Does live tracking drain the battery?
Battery mode reduces how often your position is published on long straight legs and restores full frequency near passes and rally points, where knowing exactly where the group is matters most.
Every query gets a ticket and a timeline you can follow inside the app.
The card writes itself.
