COtrip Planner Reviews: Is It Legit?

COtrip Planner
COtrip Planner
Colorado Department of Transportation

Customer Experience

Positive experience14.2% of reviews
Neutral8.9% of reviews
Negative experience76.9% of reviews

~ Based on 169 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about COtrip Planner

Is COtrip Planner Safe?

COtrip Planner has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for COtrip Planner is 56/100.

This assessment is based on 786 user ratings, with an App Store average of 2.8/5.

Safety Analysis

40.3% of ratings point to a safe experience
6.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
53.7% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 786 App Store ratings for COtrip Planner.

Is COtrip Planner Legit?

COtrip Planner appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for COtrip Planner is 88/100.

Based on 88 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Used to be wonderful

This used to be an extremely helpful and straight foreword app when it came to checking road conditions ahead of a drive. As a local trucker with multiple mountain passes on my weekly route I used it almost daily. Unfortunately, with the current version it’s pointless for me to use it at all. The app no longer allows me to save specific cameras on my route and seems to be entirely focused on the I-70 corridor. The new layout is also extremely messy and even with me limiting layers hard to read at a glance. As well it no longer starts with my current location and instead assumes I’m somewhere in Denver. I suppose it could be helpful for a tourist trying to get to Vail, but for a native not on the eastern slope it’s almost useless.
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Non functional

This app is non functional with the newest update. It continually reloads, not allowing user to view cameras, conditions, etc. The old stripped down app was more functional. This is a poorly made app. Get it together, take responsibility and make it professional not something a high school freshman would create for their first app!
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Used to be good

New version is much worse than previous version. Fewer cameras and camera views. Map by default opens zoomed out to the whole state instead of the last location viewed. I check the same area regularly so now I have to relocate it on the map every time I open the app. There is a “save default map view” button, but it only works until you close the app. WTF. Layers open to app’s default every time. So now you have to select layers EVERY time you open the app. ANNOYING.

The problem is that CDOT took over the app from a third party and made it worse. Stay in your lane CDOT. I appreciate the info the app supplies. But in 2026 we should not be going backwards.
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Crashes

App constantly refreshes/screen blanks while clicking and looking at anything.

Come on do better

For the way the CDOT guys tirelessly take care of our road conditions the programmers need to step it up. This app is so glitchy I can barely view the cameras without a 30 second wait. I can barely click on anything. I only downloaded because the website is effectively unusable with this new version and the app is a pathetic excuse of a travel essential in Colorado. Do not release something that the public can’t use. God forbid I had one bar trying to go up vail pass it would be impossible to use PERIOD
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Missing cameras

Still unusable, camera on Berthoud Pass missing, unable to go full map with no list.

New version awful

The new version is completely unusable. It is incredibly glitchy and I have had to force quit it 2 or 3 times in the 2 minutes I had it open because it just kept flashing and wouldn’t let me do anything once it started to do that. It’s missing cameras that used to be there. Please bring the old version back.
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Update is nearly unusable

Used to be functional and easy to use at a glance (like on the side of the road making route decisions.) Now it’s so busy it’s like playing a video game. Takes twice as many taps to do anything. Simple was better for this app.

This week’s specific complaints:
1. Starts with a busy screen and makes me select the info I want, rather than remembering the last used setting like before.
2. Map starts out completely zoomed out to show the whole state. Again, I’d rather see the zoom I was previously using.
3. After every camera, alert, etc, I tap Done, THEN have to swipe down on the “what are you looking for” screen to get back to the map… which is always what I was looking for.
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Perhaps next update will be better

I wa just wanting to find out when Floyd hill was shut down. Thaw app told me to sign up for texts

It also locked up hard and had to force close the app to get started over. Keep trying

Pop up bar needs to go!

New update and still that annoying “what are you looking for” bar that pops up every single time you click on a different camera. Please please get rid of this!

App is useless

This app needs some serious upgrades.
It doesn’t save the chosen layers on the default map after choosing them and saving them. Needs a way to hide the info box on the left-hand side.

Getting worse

This app continues to get worse with every update. The latest update - the bottom half of the map is blocked, the top 1/4 is blocked with an alert banner that cannot be closed, and worst - the app dumps all your map layers selections every time you close out. Very frustrating to use.

App is on usable

The app has progressively gotten worse and worse throughout the years. Now when I open it, it says please update through the App Store, no update is available.i

Clunky

This app has the potential to be great but is mediocre at best. You’re better off just using the website.

It keeps telling me there’s a new version available even though I’ve updated it and the alert box keeps popping up. The alert banner at the top covers up the map layer selection button. When you look at a camera, it is slow to go to it and then forgets you want to see the camera layer and you have to reselect it each time.

I tried deleting the app and reinstalling it and continue having the same issues.
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Response from developer

Thanks for the feedback. The latest update should fix the alert box that keeps popping up. We’re also working on the other issues you mentioned and appreciate you bringing them to our attention.

Used to be great before the update

Terrible update, please go back to the old version

Update is nearly unusable

Used to be functional and easy to use at a glance (like on the side of the road making route decisions.) Now it’s so busy it’s like playing a video game. Takes twice as many taps to do anything. Simple was better for this app.

Has potential

This version of the app has two major problems. 1) The sidebar bar menu can’t be collapsed on my iPad. This is because the permanent top bar covers up the toggle. This huge sidebar severely shrinks the map size. This is the case no matter which direction I orient the iPad. Get rid of the red alert banner at the top of the app, it covers up the need items. Or have a way for the user to get rid of it. 2) Even when logged into my account, I can’t save my layers selections. Every time I use the app I have to reset the layers to my favorites so I can see the ones that I prefer on the map. This is such a waste of time and very annoying have to do this every time I use the app. If there is a way to save the layers, it is not obvious.
Developers should take more care in testing new releases of the app before releasing new versions. Older versions were more user friendly.
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Unsafe!

Keep the app simple; like it was 2 years ago. Now it is so complicated that it will surely cause accidents. No longer can you choose your settings and let it run in the background during a trip. Now it resets itself and I spend 5 minutes trying to wade through thousands of options to simply see what I was looking at before. Ridiculously complicated to use while driving.
Another CDOT failure!
This is not an app people use sitting on the couch at home, this is intended to be used while driving, why would you make it so complicated to use when someone is driving. Seriously Dangerous App!!
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Update is Terrible

Please revert back to the old app. This updated version is impossible to navigate, difficult to use, oversized fonts and images, it’s just awful. I use this app religiously in the high country where I live, PLEASE FIX IT BEFORE WINTER

New Update is Massive Downgrade

The functionality of this app, with the new update, makes it almost unusable. Layers don’t remember, closing camera resets view. It’s incredibly noisy. I don’t know who approved this.