Backroads vs Travel Portal
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!
Travel Portal
Organize and manage all your upcoming and past travel plans in one convenient location. Share travel proposals, itineraries, and guest portals directly with your travel advisor.
- Share travel proposals
- Organize itineraries
- Manage guest portals
- Centralized travel management
- View past and upcoming trips
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Your travel advisor can share travel proposals, itineraries, and guest portals directly within your Travel Portal app. This allows you to organize and manage all your upcoming and past travel conveniently in one place.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Travel Portal at 4.1 against Backroads's 3.3. Travel Portal also leads on review sentiment (82% vs 52%) and update cadence (every 11 days vs every 4 months). Backroads's advantage is ratings volume (62 vs 17). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Travel Portal holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 62 and 17 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 52% of Backroads's written reviews are positive against 82% of Travel Portal's.
Backroads ships an update every 4 months, Travel Portal every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on August 31, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Backroads | Travel Portal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (62 ratings) | 4.1 (17 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.0% of reviews | 82.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 62 — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 173 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Backroads | Safari Portal LLC |
Customer experience
Backroads
Travel Portal
In-app purchases
Backroads
No in-app purchases
Travel Portal
No in-app purchases
