Backroads vs Freewheeling Adventures
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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!
Freewheeling Adventures
This travel companion app provides all necessary tour information, including GPS directions with multimedia, direct customer support via chat or call, and real-time itinerary updates. It allows users to view all activities and book future adventures.
- GPS directions with photos/videos
- Tap-to-chat customer support
- Real-time itinerary notifications
- Activity viewing
- Tour booking
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The Freewheeling Adventures application highlights and details everything your tour has to offer - And More! • Whether your tour is one day or multiple days, everything you need is at your fingertips, and our attentive team is always just a tap or call away! » Easy to follow GPS directions with photos and videos. » Tap to chat, or call our customer support team. » Receive up-to-the-minute itinerary notifications. » See all of your activities. » Book your next Freewheeling Adventures tour!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Freewheeling Adventures at 100% against Backroads's 52%. Freewheeling Adventures also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.3) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Freewheeling Adventures holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 62 and 21 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 52% of Backroads's written reviews are positive against 100% of Freewheeling Adventures's.
Backroads ships an update every 4 months, Freewheeling Adventures fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Backroads | Freewheeling Adventures |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (62 ratings) | 5.0 (21 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 62 — better | 21 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 173 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Backroads | Freewheeling Adventures |
Customer experience
Backroads
Freewheeling Adventures
In-app purchases
Backroads
No in-app purchases
Freewheeling Adventures
No in-app purchases
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