Backroads vs Pybus Point Lodge
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!
Pybus Point Lodge
Enhance your stay by making pre-arrival requests, ordering room service, booking cabin tours, and scheduling dining or spa appointments. This app streamlines your experience at the lodge.
- Pre-arrival requests
- Room service ordering
- Cabin tour scheduling
- Dinner reservations
- Massage appointments
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With our app you can make pre-arrival requests, order room service, request a cabin tour, make dinner reservations, schedule a massage and more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pybus Point Lodge at 5.0 against Backroads's 3.3. Backroads's advantage is ratings volume (62 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pybus Point Lodge holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Backroads has 62 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Backroads | Pybus Point Lodge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (62 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 62 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 173 MB | 111 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Backroads | Lone Eagle Resorts, Inc. |
Customer experience
Backroads
Pybus Point Lodge
In-app purchases
Backroads
No in-app purchases
Pybus Point Lodge
No in-app purchases
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