# Autio: Road Trip & Travel App — user reviews > 164 indexed App Store user reviews of Autio by AUTIO INC., rated 4.80/5 from 4,259 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/autio-road-trip-and-travel-app/id1300494609/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/autio-road-trip-and-travel-app/id1300494609.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 3,875 · 4★ 208 · 3★ 62 · 2★ 30 · 1★ 84 ## What do users think of Autio? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Interesting and informative stories - 👍 Helpful for road trips and learning about areas - 🎙️ Well-narrated by professional voices - 💡 Unique concept for an app **Cons** - 🐛 Bugs and glitches causing crashes and inconsistencies - 🔊 Inconsistent audio quality and volume levels - 💰 Expensive subscription model - 🗺️ Lack of map integration and location-based features **Commonly reported bugs** - Stories not loading or playing correctly - Subscription issues and difficulty canceling - Inaccurate or mispronounced information in some stories - Compatibility problems on certain devices or platforms **Most requested features** - Ability to pre-download stories for offline use - Option to search by location or plan a route - Improved notification system to alert users of nearby stories - More comprehensive coverage of areas and historical events ## Newest reviews (13 of 164) ### 3/5 — You don’t need my location 24/7 *2026-05-26, version 13.0.0* The good: We’re really enjoying the stories so far and looking forward to many more for an upcoming road trip. The bad: the endlessly nagging pop-up trying to get me to turn on background location. It makes me wonder what they’re doing with this data and why they want it so badly. When I want road stories, I’ll open the app— otherwise it’s none of your business where I am. ### 3/5 — AI readers *2026-05-21, version 13.0.0* If I had known it was mostly AI readers, I wouldn’t have subscribed. The mispronunciations and stilted audio is driving us crazy. ### 3/5 — Disappointed *2026-05-14, version 13.0.0* I saw a recommendation for this app, and thought it sounded like a good idea as I was about to leave on a trip to the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. This was the first time traveling in this area, and I thought getting the audio info while driving would be great. I will admit that the stories and information provided in the app are great, will good narrators. The bad part of the app is the navigation of the app and the overall GPS capabilities. Our rental car had CarPlay, so I was expecting to start driving pull up the app with a map, and either select stories on the map, or have them automatically play as we approached an area. Instead, the app would play one story after another, with not real relation to where we were. The app seems to want to play what is the next closest story that has not yet been played. So after listening to the stories in the Olympic peninsula, it started to play stories on islands, and in Canada that were nowhere near where we were. Selecting what we wanted to listen to was challenging, because it wants you to create and use a playlist which is not viable to do within CarPlay while driving. It was very frustrating to extract the stories we wanted to hear in the places where we wanted to hear them. At the end of the trip, we spent a day in Seattle, and the app is extremely worthless in a big city. The map is plastered with all these markers for stories, that I guess would just randomly play based on gps, and what was close by that was not played, even if it was miles away. We stopped using it out of frustration. I have used other travel info GPS apps that are so much better than this. I think Autio put too much effort into the stories, with very little real world usability testing. The apps that get it right are "Kauai Revealed Drive Tour". It was perfect, because it played the relevant info as you approached a site, not just because it is the closest unplayed story. The other great travel app is "GPSmyCity". Although it does not have narration, just text to voice, it provides a walking tour with a map. For over 1500 cities around the world. This would be a much better experience in Seattle compared to Autio. I purchased a subscription because I expected a great app, but I will say I am extremely disappointed. There needs to be a lot usability work on this app before I could recommend it to anyone. ### 4/5 — No historical markers?? *2026-01-18, version 12.1.0* I just downloaded this app and there are not to many stories around my area. There isn’t a story for Bluebell in Brenham that is crazy! Texas is so rich with stories of things that have happened. Also have the developers considered adding all the historical markers to the app? I believe that would make this even better. Overall the app is really good from what I can tell just lacking stories that could be a great addition. I really hope that the developers see this and add the Texas historical markers. ### 3/5 — Disappointed *2025-06-24, version 11.3.0* I saw a recommendation for this app, and thought it sounded like a good idea as I was about to leave on a trip to the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. This was the first time traveling in this area, and I thought getting the audio info while driving would be great. I will admit that the stories and information provided in the app are great, will good narrators. The bad part of the app is the navigation of the app and the overall GPS capabilities. Our rental car had CarPlay, so I was expecting to start driving pull up the app with a map, and either select stories on the map, or have them automatically play as we approached an area. Instead, the app would play one story after another, with not real relation to where we were. The app seems to want to play what is the next closest story that has not yet been played. So after listening to the stories in the Olympic peninsula, it started to play stories on islands, and in Canada that were nowhere near where we were. Selecting what we wanted to listen to was challenging, because it wants you to create and use a playlist which is not viable to do within CarPlay while driving. It was very frustrating to extract the stories we wanted to hear in the places where we wanted to hear them. At the end of the trip, we spent a day in Seattle, and the app is extremely worthless in a big city. The map is plastered with all these markers for stories, that I guess would just randomly play based on gps, and what was close by that was not played, even if it was miles away. We stopped using it out of frustration. I have used other travel info GPS apps that are so much better than this. I think Autio put too much effort into the stories, with very little real world usability testing. The apps that get it right are "Kauai Revealed Drive Tour". It was perfect, because it played the relevant info as you approached a site, not just because it is the closest unplayed story. The other great travel app is "GPSmyCity". Although it does not have narration, just text to voice, it provides a walking tour with a map. For over 1500 cities around the world. This would be a much better experience in Seattle compared to Autio. I purchased a subscription because I expected a great app, but I will say I am extremely disappointed. There needs to be a lot usability work on this app before I could recommend it to anyone. ### 5/5 — Very Informative *2025-04-22, version 11.1.0* I like to hear the history and stories about the places I travel through and visit. ### 5/5 — Enjoy Roadtrips! *2025-04-21, version 11.1.0* My husband and I travel a lot and we really enjoy the stories on Autio. Learning about the history of places we travel through or too is great. I highly recommend this app for anyone who travels. ### 5/5 — On the road again! *2025-04-20, version 11.1.0* We travel in our RV and get to a lot of different places. This app helps us understand the area and teaches us some local history. ### 5/5 — The miles fly by…. *2025-04-18, version 11.1.0* We took a cross-country trip in the summer of 2023 when we tried Autio for the first time. We traveled from Missouri to California and back, stopping at 10 national parks. Autio was a wonderful, informative, and entertaining companion. We saw many things we would have missed without it. ### 5/5 — Great for Travel *2025-04-18, version 11.1.0* I love using Autio when traveling! This is the best way to learn about the areas that you are driving through while on vacation. You can also listen to a state before you travel there in case you won’t have time to be able to listen while there. I wouldn’t want to be without it. ### 5/5 — Roadie *2025-04-18, version 11.1.0* We Travel So Much Now That We Are Retired. We love listening to the stories and history of the towns and cities we are visiting and going through. We love it so much. And have recommended it too several of our retired friends and our adult children. ### 5/5 — Keeps me awake and focused *2025-04-17, version 11.1.0* Enjoying your app ,I am a solo traveler making my way across the country from Florida to San Diego,thanks for making the trip easier ### 4/5 — Fun on roadtrips! *2025-04-17, version 11.1.0* We enjoy listening to Autio when we go on roadtrips . We have learned so much and it is fun to hear about history of places that we have driven past 100times . Very fun!! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Junk *2026-03-14, version 12.1.0* It’s garbage. Notifications don’t work. There’s nothing automated about it. No integration into anything else. If I kept the app open and watched the map I could click a story. That was it. CarPlay app is even worse. ### 1/5 — Terrible app *2025-12-28, version 12.0.1* This is very good app in terms of your objective, but the apps really sucks. It doesn’t play on time on audio and it just have no idea how the app works. ### 1/5 — Not great *2025-11-10* There are very few stories around me and I find it rarely useful and not worth paying for - I think there are other location based audio apps that are better. **Developer response:** Hi there, thanks so much for sharing this honest feedback. I’m really sorry to hear you haven’t found enough stories in your area yet. We’re adding new content every week, and I’d love to make sure your region is prioritized. If you’re open to it, feel free to reach me at support@autio.com with any story suggestions or questions. I’m always happy to help you find great stories near you or along your route. Thanks again for giving Autio a try — we truly appreciate you. ### 1/5 — Great idea, poor execution *2025-09-01, version 11.4.0* This app is a great idea, however the app does not work most of the time. You constantly have to select each story as you drive, despite location settings being turned on. The app s buggy and not simple to use. I chose not to renew until the app is fixed. ### 1/5 — Travel App that won’t work on mobile *2025-06-20, version 11.3.0* This app service sounds great. Unfortunately, after I purchased the subscription, it locked me out, with no way to reset my password, because their website has a terrible mobile phone interface. So, this is a travel app and service you can’t access on a phone. Great work there Autio. Get it if you like having to deal with travel headaches I guess ### 1/5 — Worst customer service ever *2025-06-11, version 11.3.0* The AP started sending a multitude of alerts many repeat. I estimate 30 notifications in 3-4 hours. Wrote to them for assistance. Response took 3 days and then they wanted more information about the problem. I reiterated the issues. No reply. I’ve written 4 times to find out how to receive a refund and no reply. Awful experience. The app isn’t usable with this many notifications. It’s a glitch that they aren’t willing to acknowledge or fix. Terrible!!! And rude!!! ### 1/5 — Love the idea, love when it works *2025-05-01, version 11.2.0* I jumped at the idea of this signed up with multi year plan just before a trip from LA to northern Oregon. It didn’t work past the oregon line and works so inconsistently everywhere else I forget that I have it. No response from the company. Very disappointed ### 1/5 — Great App *2025-04-16, version 11.1.0* However I was hoping it would give me notifications when I’m traveling but sadly it doesn’t ### 1/5 — Bad *2024-08-14, version 10.0.1* I’m very disappointed with Kevin Costner for recommending this app. I wonder how much money he receives. ### 1/5 — Langue *2024-02-10* Pas interessant. Uniquement pour pour les anglophones. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great travel companion *2026-06-18, version 13.0.0* Also good value, Reasonably priced, enjoyed on several trips but need to use more often just forget sometimes ### 5/5 — Amazing Travel App! *2026-06-05, version 13.0.0* I love the stories! I travel a lot for work and I love learning about places I travel to. I even learned about things I never knew about in my home town. Can’t recommend this app enough!! ### 5/5 — Love it! *2026-06-04, version 13.0.0* This app is great. Awesome companion for any roadtrip ### 5/5 — Best Travel Audio App *2026-06-02, version 13.0.0* Autio is the best! Plays stories about the locations around me and helps me learn so much on road trips. ### 5/5 — Highly recommend *2026-06-01, version 13.0.0* This app really added to our trip as it gave us insights that we would not have known about otherwise and didn’t have to spend a lot of time reading in a guidebook. We could just hear the stories as we were driving from one place to the next. Really cool. Looking forward to using it again with our family. ### 5/5 — Great app *2025-05-18, version 11.2.0* Great app for road trips. Suggestion: auto preload the stories for nearby areas feature would be helpful, since some areas are offline. If the app already has location info while using, pre-loading would be helpful and renders better and smoother user experience ### 5/5 — Love to learn *2025-05-11, version 11.2.0* This is a great way to learn about the places we visit ### 5/5 — Love this app! *2025-05-09, version 11.2.0* I travel a lot for work. I also have a short attention span. The stories & information are always interesting& just the right amount of time. Sometimes, if I’m in an area for an extended period of time, I’ll change my preferences just to squeeze in even more learning. I kinda wish I had to travel more so I use the app more often. ### 5/5 — Great for road trips *2025-04-25, version 11.2.0* There are some routes that we’ve driven so many times that I’d believe there is nothing new to see or learn. Enter Autio to turn that idea upside down. Whether traveling cross country or through a new city, the stories Autio provides are always an interesting window into the culture of an area. I’d highly suggest this app to anyone who travels. ### 5/5 — Interesting stories *2025-04-22, version 11.1.0* We are looking forward to extensive travel in our rv this summer, and can't wait to here the local stories as we move about the country. Very fun to listen to. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-13.*