# Road Ranger: Trip Planner — Travel Like a Local. Anywhere.

> Travel Like a Local. Anywhere. (iPhone/iPad app by ARNOLD JAGT.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/road-ranger-trip-planner/id6796512651 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [ARNOLD JAGT](https://appshunter.io/developer/1895940459)
- Category: Navigation, Travel
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 3 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2026-09-03
- Data updated: 2026-09-20
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/road-ranger-trip-planner/id6796512651/reviews.md

## What is Road Ranger?

Road Ranger helps you prepare for a road trip with practical route comparisons, a personal traveler and vehicle profile, and a Ranger Report that distinguishes known facts from conditions that still need checking.

PLAN YOUR TRIP

Choose your starting point, destination, departure, and Trip Style: Fastest, Safest, Relaxed, Lowest Cost, Scenic, or Balanced. Compare available routes on a map with estimated driving time, distance, and explained tradeoffs. Keep your 20 most-recent starting points and destinations on your device.

YOUR RANGER REPORT

Review trip-specific advisories and a preparation checklist. See your planned departure and estimated arrival with explicit break and overnight assumptions. Review counts show what you have acknowledged; they are not a safety score. Planned departure is not an optimized departure recommendation.

Find named fuel, charging, lodging, and rest options along the route and save selected stops to your trip. Reviewing an advisory is separate from adding a stop. Saving a place does not make a reservation or verify opening hours, charging compatibility, availability, or permission to sleep there.

PERSONALIZE YOUR PLANNING

Quickly set up your vehicle type, driving limits, rest preferences, towing, and pets. Add optional vehicle details when useful. Enter full-tank or full-charge range and see the separately calculated range at your current fuel or charge level. Vehicle naps and overnight vehicle rest require a separate choice for each trip and verification of local restrictions and conditions.

INSPECT YOUR ROUTE

Expand the map to pan, zoom, and inspect available alerts. Compare route alternatives before choosing a navigator. Reported work zones from participating public transportation feeds and National Weather Service information are shown when available. Missing or unverified route-level evidence is disclosed, not treated as an all-clear.

ASK YOUR ROUTE

Ask by text or optional voice about route distance, driving time, fuel calculations, weather, road work, and places to stop. Known route facts and deterministic calculations run on the iPhone, show their scope or arithmetic, and do not require an AI purchase. Live-source answers depend on service availability.

CONTINUE WITH YOUR NAVIGATOR

Choose Apple Maps, Google Maps, or Waze for turn-by-turn guidance. Apple Maps and Waze recalculate from supported destinations; Google Maps can receive limited shaping checkpoints. Road Ranger explains these limits before the handoff and does not promise to transfer an exact route.

No account is required. This release does not sell AI credits, subscriptions, or other digital purchases.

Road Ranger is a planning aid, not a guarantee of road safety, fuel availability, lodging inventory, cellular coverage, pavement quality, or current conditions. Estimates may exclude additional stops and delays. Follow posted signs, official instructions, and local laws. Never interact with your phone while driving.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.2 — 2026-09-15

A clearer, more useful Road Ranger for your next trip.

• Faster planning with compact Trip Styles and an easy-to-reach Build Ranger Report button
• Real place selection for planned fuel, charging, lodging, and rest stops
• Saved trip-specific stops and review progress
• Clearer evidence status, planned departure, and arrival estimates with rest assumptions
• Expandable route maps and easier alternative-route comparisons
• On-device answers for known route facts, with improved keyboard behavior
• Simpler traveler and vehicle setup, larger-text layouts, and clearer dark-appearance controls
• Improved route-change freshness and route-area place searches

### 1.1 — 2026-09-03

No release notes.

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