# Open Road - The best driving experience for Maps Navigation, Music, and Calling in the Car > Unified car interface for navigation, music, and calling with one-tap shortcuts. (iPhone/iPad app by Backcountry Studios LLC.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/open-road-the-best-driving-experience-for-maps-navigation-music-and-calling-in-the-car/id1024118140 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Backcountry Studios LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/884591437) - Category: Navigation, Music - Price: $1.99 - Rating: 3.00/5 from 7 App Store ratings · 29 written reviews indexed - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 8.2 · 90 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2015-12-08 - Data updated: 2026-08-27 - Monetization: paid - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/open-road-the-best-driving-experience-for-maps-navigation-music-and-calling-in-the-car/id1024118140/reviews.md ## What is Open Road? Open Road is the one driving app for your iPhone. One tap music, one tap navigation and one tap calling. Enjoy driving more. Open Road does not use advertising or in app purchases. You get access to all premium features for the store price. Open Road allows you to stay focused on the road by giving easy access to navigation, music and contacts. It offers a safer and easier driving experience to do the things you want to do in the car, and it can be used in any car. The beauty of Open Road is the ability to add one tap shortcuts to Playlists, Contacts, Locations, Map Searches, and your favorite driving apps that are already on your device. You also get one unified experience for driving directions & music. Finally! Open Road has it’s own turn-by-turn navigation (IAP) or you can use your external navigation apps, like Google Maps and Waze. The Open Road music player plays music from your existing Spotify or iTunes Music library. Open Road also accepts Voice Commands for eyes free driving and offers a Global Search button fixed on every screen so that you can quickly search maps, music and contacts. Once you have set up Open Road with your locations, contacts, playlists, and apps you will instantly benefit from fast access to everything you do while driving. The app utilizes a combination of clean design, large buttons and one touch Interactions to let you use your phone screen as little as possible. It works especially well when you have a car mount or car dock on your dashboard. Key benefits • 1-Touch Interactions - Single taps and swipes to control music, maps, navigation, and calling. • Multi-function Apps - Navigation and Music are meant to be a unified experience in the car. • Driving Shortcuts - Create shortcuts to your Playlists, Contacts, Locations, Map Searches etc. • Safety - no more interacting between multiple apps or tapping through deep menus to do things in the car. Tap once for music, once for navigation and once for calling. Features all included in the price: • Integrated Voice Commands to perform basic functions • Bluetooth integration • One Touch Dashboard for instant access to navigation, playing music, calling or opening an app • Customize your apps’ colors • Global Search which allows you to find any location, playlist or contact in one interface • Music Player for iTunes or Spotify that uses tap and swipe gestures for eyes free driving • Maps App for easy searching and navigating to your desired location • Daily Commute Notifications which provides destination times and traffic information with one touch to open into navigation mode • Find My Car App to set your vehicle’s location and get directions to find it • Drive Recorder App to record your driving - very beneficial if ever you are involved in an accident • Statistics App that gathers things like your average speed, number of cities visited and distance travelled We’re continually updating new features to Open Road. Please join our Facebook community if you have any feedback or questions, we would love to hear from you! Here is the link: https://facebook.com/theopenroadapp. Please Note: Open Road uses GPS in the background to provide turn-by-turn navigation directions. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. ## Key features - One-tap shortcuts for music, navigation, and contacts - Unified navigation and music experience - Voice commands for hands-free operation - Customizable app colors - Global search for locations, music, and contacts - Integrated music player for Spotify/iTunes - Drive recorder and find my car features ## Recent user reviews (10 of 29) All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/open-road-the-best-driving-experience-for-maps-navigation-music-and-calling-in-the-car/id1024118140/reviews.md ### 1/5 — Not supported *2021-07-20* App not working Email address bounceS FAQ site is a vacant domain name ### 2/5 — Not working *2019-07-06, version 1.2* To the developer: Spotify error can't load content. Maps error can't load location. Anyway of getting a refund? Thank you for trying but this app will not work for me. Supposed to make things easier to use not harder. Without these features it's not usable. ### 1/5 — Great app, ruined by Always Active location setting *2017-05-17, version 1.2* Great app, ruined by Always Active location setting Always active location tracking is a deal breaker for IOS. I don't know if you expect to sell our location data in Addition to the cost of the app but this is B S. There needs to be a way to toggle "Only While Using". Even Google Maps, GOOGLE MAPS allows for "Only While Using". Why should I use my data and battery while you track me for no reason? ### 4/5 — Very good *2017-05-04, version 1.2* Love the app! It has very good map and music integration the ui is clean, easy to navigate, and attractive. I'm giving four stars only because it has to missing features that are important to most drivers, landscape mode which most people use when driving, and a night mode that uses a dark ui so the phone screen does not blind you at night (for safety reasons). If these features are implemented, I will change my rating to five stars. Good job guys! ### 3/5 — Please please please add landscape mode *2017-04-22, version 1.2* When I ride my motorcycle my mount is sideways and having this not allow landscape mode was a huge disappointment. Can you please integrate the ability to do landscape?? ### 2/5 — No horizontal view *2016-11-12, version 1.2* Can't use it as no horizontal option and I can't use my phone in portrait in my car so has been a waste of money for me. Also does not integrate with tomtom uk maps, only us ### 1/5 — Poor *2016-11-04, version 1.2* The concept is a great idea. Because it cannot be customised I have found it a complete waste of money. It may work for the US market but a big NO in the UK ### 3/5 — Nice, but room for improvement *2016-10-25, version 1.2* Interface is beautiful and perfect for use in a car. Lack of landscape orientation support and only a few limited apps can be added significantly limit usefulness of this app. ### 3/5 — Great Idea but has technical problems *2016-09-12* Amazing app, but I am noticing that the App crashes every time I open Spotify and try to play a song, making it impossible to play music with it. My Spotify recognizes that someone is trying to play a song, Spotify-PC pauses but it does not start playing on iPhone. If needed I may help to solve the issue replicating it, just get in touch. Thank you. ### 3/5 — Much Left to Perfect *2016-09-01, version 1.2* The app's marketing is beautiful, but wish the app matched. You currently can't use the app with your phone in horizontal orientation, which is the most common way I use GPS app's. The map app is hard to use. Waze exaggerates their UI but its much more glancable. I find myself squinting at the Open Road Map a lot. ## Frequently asked questions about Open Road ### What is Open Road? Open Road is a driving app designed to provide one-tap access to navigation, music, and calling functions, aiming to create a safer and easier driving experience. ### Does Open Road have ads? No, Open Road does not contain advertisements. The app offers all premium features for the store price. ### What devices does Open Road support? Open Road is available for iPhone and iPod devices. ### How does Open Road handle navigation? Open Road includes its own turn-by-turn navigation and also allows integration with external navigation apps like Google Maps and Waze. ### Can I use Open Road with my music streaming services? Yes, the integrated music player in Open Road supports playing music from your existing Spotify or iTunes Music library. ### What is the age rating for Open Road? Open Road has an age rating of 4+. ### How often is Open Road updated? The app was last updated on July 6, 2016, with version 1.2. The developer states they are continually updating new features. ### What are the key benefits of using Open Road? Key benefits include one-touch interactions for music, maps, navigation, and calling, a unified experience for driving directions and music, and the ability to create custom driving shortcuts. ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.2 — 2016-07-06 This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included. Ability to use Vinli with Find my Car function ### 1.1 — 2016-05-17 We've been listening to all your requests: - All features now FREE - Removed Store - Removed Ads If you like our app, please take a minute to leave a positive review. Cheers! ### 1.0.0 — 2015-12-08 No release notes. ## More apps by Backcountry Studios LLC - [Fresh Air - Hyperlocal Weather & NOAA Radar Map](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fresh-air-hyperlocal-weather-and-noaa-radar-map/id933439687) - [Ski Resort Trail Maps](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ski-resort-trail-maps/id1071311413) All apps by Backcountry Studios LLC: https://appshunter.io/developer/884591437 ## Related topics [open road](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/open-road) --- *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 2026-08-27.*