Backroads vs BOYO.
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!
BOYO.
Discover travel recommendations from people you trust. Log your trips with photos and ratings, follow friends' adventures, and explore destinations through personalized maps and curated lists.
- Log trips with spots, ratings, and media
- Follow friends and travelers
- Interactive trip maps
- Search destinations and filter by interest
- Bookmark and save spots/trips
- Share trips via link or story image
- Plan future trips
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Boyo is the social alternative to trip planning. Instead of scrolling anonymous top-10 lists, you see where the people you actually know and trust have stayed, eaten and explored — logged spot by spot, rated honestly, and mapped. LOG YOUR TRIP AS IT HAPPENS Start a trip, then add spots as you go: the hotel, the restaurant, the hike, the bar you stumbled into. Give each one a star rating, a straight answer on whether you'd recommend it, a note, and your photos or a short video. Your spots group themselves by day or by city. FOLLOW PEOPLE, NOT ALGORITHMS Follow friends and travellers you trust and watch their trips fill in live. Like and comment on a whole trip or on a single spot. When someone you follow shares a finished trip, you'll know. EVERYTHING ON A MAP Every spot lands on a map with its own photo pin. Browse a trip as a gallery, a grid, a list, or a map. See every place you've ever logged on one personal map — and open any spot in Apple Maps, Google Maps, Waze or Citymapper when you're standing outside it. SEARCH BY DESTINATION Search a city and get the trips, the spots and the people who've been there. Filter to stays, food or activities. See it as a list or straight on the map. SAVE WHAT YOU WANT TO STEAL Bookmark a whole trip or a single spot, and file them into your own lists. Someone's Lisbon dinner spot goes straight into your next trip. SHARE IT ANYWHERE Turn a trip into a link anyone can open, or a story image ready for your Story or a text message — cover photo, spot count and dates included. PLAN THE NEXT ONE Planned trips are for the ideas stage: collect the spots you want to hit, no ratings or dates required, and turn it into a real trip when you go. YOUR TRIPS, YOUR CALL Trips stay private until you publish them. Pin your best four to your profile, archive the ones you're done with, and delete or deactivate your account from inside the app whenever you like. Free. No ads. iPhone. Privacy Policy: https://share.boyo.inc/privacy Terms of Use: https://share.boyo.inc/terms Support: https://share.boyo.inc/support
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: BOYO. at 100% against Backroads's 52%. BOYO. also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.3) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 months). Backroads's advantage is ratings volume (62 vs 6) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.2). 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.
BOYO. 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 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 52% of Backroads's written reviews are positive against 100% of BOYO.'s.
Backroads ships an update every 4 months, BOYO. every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Backroads | BOYO. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (62 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 62 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 173 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Backroads | BOYO INC |
Customer experience
Backroads
BOYO.
In-app purchases
Backroads
No in-app purchases
BOYO.
No in-app purchases
