Comparison

Backroads vs Gateway Travel

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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!

About

Gateway Travel

This app facilitates seamless collaboration between travel professionals and their clients, allowing for real-time itinerary planning and consolidation. It offers a paperless, dynamic interface for all travel details, accessible even offline, and provides inspiration from past trips.

Highlights
  • Real-time client collaboration
  • Consolidated paperless itinerary
  • Offline access to travel details
  • Archived itineraries for inspiration
  • Integrated Maps for navigation
Features
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Gateway Travel App is a revolutionary scheduling tool that lets travel professionals collaborate, consolidate, and innovate travel plans with their clients. Travel is global, so Gateway is mobile. Travelers may use this app for free, however they must sign up with a travel agency that uses this system to enjoy the app. Notable features: - Travel details are displayed on a shared screen as plans come together in real time, empowering travelers to help fill in the gaps in their schedules with their own ideas. - Consolidates every detail into one dynamic, paperless interface that travelers can take with them wherever they go. From air to theater tickets, hotel to dining reservations, the entire itinerary is at your clients' fingertips. - Archives old travel itineraries to provide inspiration for the future. - Integrates Maps so travelers always know how to get to their next stop. - Allows for offline access, so travelers always have the important travel information they need. Travel is exciting, and planning it should be too. Make conversations more productive, and eliminate last-minute stress with the Gateway Travel App.

Screenshots

Backroads4 screens
Gateway Travel4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Gateway Travel at 5.0 against Backroads's 3.3. Backroads's advantage is ratings volume (69 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Gateway Travel holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Backroads has 69 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Backroads ships an update every 4 months, Gateway Travel every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Backroads versus Gateway Travel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBackroadsGateway Travel
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (69 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews52.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings69 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size173 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBackroadsAXUS Travel LLC

Customer experience

Backroads

All ratings58 ratings
Positive51.7%
Neutral8.6%
Negative39.7%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive52.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative44.0%

Gateway Travel

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Backroads

No in-app purchases

None

Gateway Travel

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Backroads free?
Backroads is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gateway Travel free?
Gateway Travel is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Backroads or Gateway Travel?
Gateway Travel is rated higher. Backroads averages 3.3 out of 5 from 69 ratings, while Gateway Travel averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Backroads or Gateway Travel have ads?
Neither Backroads nor Gateway Travel shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Backroads or Gateway Travel?
Backroads ships an update every 4 months, and Gateway Travel every 2 months. Most recently, Backroads was updated on October 24, 2026 and Gateway Travel on October 16, 2026.

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