Ship Sticks vs Backroads
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ship Sticks
This service simplifies travel by offering door-to-door shipping for golf clubs and luggage. Easily get quotes, schedule pickups, and track your items to destinations worldwide, ensuring a hassle-free journey.
- Door-to-door shipping
- Golf club and luggage shipping
- Get quotes
- Schedule shipments
- Track packages
- Print shipping labels
- Bag Sizer
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Ship Sticks is a door-to-door shipping service designed to make traveling with golf clubs and luggage hassle-free. With just a few taps, customers can get a quote, schedule a shipment or track a package from pick-up to delivery. With service to popular worldwide destinations, Ship Sticks can pickup and deliver your golf clubs and luggage to wherever you're staying or playing. Every shipment comes with an on-time guarantee, complimentary insurance, real-time tracking and white-glove customer service. - Create quotes for golf clubs and luggage shipping. - Schedule shipments directly from the mobile app. - Print shipping labels. - Real-time shipment tracking - Bag Sizer, scan your bag to get its dimensions
Backroads
This app provides detailed information and daily route options for active travel adventures like biking and hiking. It offers helpful tips and regional information to enhance your journey. Your trip leaders are also available through the app for guidance.
- Daily route options
- Trip schedules
- Helpful tips
- Regional information
- Trip leader access
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Backroads is the leader in active travel, offering Biking, Hiking and Multi-Adventure Trips in 55+ countries worldwide. This Trip Companion app, and a unique log-in code, will be available to you just before your trip starts. You’ll find daily route options, schedules, helpful tips and other regional information. Of course, your incredible Trip Leaders are available every day of your trip to guide you through some of the most beautiful places in the world. We look forward to seeing you out there!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Backroads at free against Ship Sticks's paid. Backroads also leads on review sentiment (52% vs 42%). Ship Sticks's advantage is ratings volume (226 vs 69). On price, rating, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Backroads holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 226 and 69 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 42% of Ship Sticks's written reviews are positive against 52% of Backroads's.
Ship Sticks ships an update every 2 months, Backroads every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ship Sticks | Backroads |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (226 ratings) | 3.3 (69 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 41.7% of reviews | 52.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 226 — better | 69 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 93 MB | 173 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Global Sticks Express LLC | Backroads |
Customer experience
Ship Sticks
Backroads
Bugs and requests
Ship Sticks
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes and loses user input
- Inability to print shipping labels
- Login and account issues
- Orientation problems on tablets
Requested features
4 requests- Add ability to use gift cards
- Improve app navigation and usability
- Provide more transparency on shipping status
- Enhance tracking and delivery updates
Backroads
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Ship Sticks
No in-app purchases
Backroads
No in-app purchases
