Backroads vs Auri Adventure Co.
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!
Auri Adventure Co.
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Auri Adventure Co. plans private, tailored journeys through South Africa and beyond. This app is where your journey lives once it is booked. EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE Your itinerary, day by day. Every booking with its time, its location and its confirmation number. The activities you have chosen, and the ones still ahead of you. TODAY, AT A GLANCE Open the app on the road and the first thing you see is today — where you are going, when you are being collected, what has been arranged. No scrolling through a PDF at the airport. ASK, AND GET AN ANSWER The in-app assistant knows your itinerary. Ask what time the transfer arrives or how far the lodge is from the airstrip, and it answers from your actual trip rather than in generalities. Anything it cannot answer goes to your travel designer. YOUR DOCUMENTS, OFFLINE Passports, visas, insurance and vouchers, stored securely and readable when you have no signal at all. Protected behind Face ID. PHOTOGRAPHS Share the photographs from your journey with the people travelling with you, in a gallery that belongs to the trip rather than to a group chat. BEFORE YOU GO Complete your traveller profile once — passport details, dietary requirements, emergency contacts — and we will have what we need without another email thread. NOTIFICATIONS THAT EARN THEIR PLACE A note the evening before an early start. A change to a booking. Nothing else. Access is by invitation. If you are travelling with Auri Adventure Co., your travel designer will send you an invitation to join.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Auri Adventure Co. at every 6 days against Backroads's every 4 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Backroads ships an update every 4 months, Auri Adventure Co. every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Backroads | Auri Adventure Co. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (69 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 52.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 69 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 173 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Backroads | Auri Adventure Company LLC |
In-app purchases
Backroads
No in-app purchases
Auri Adventure Co.
No in-app purchases
