RouteDraw vs PlacePlot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RouteDraw
Plan your trips with this app that allows you to draw routes directly on a map. It calculates route length, elevation changes, and estimates travel time. Features include GPS positioning, a compass, track logging, and deviation alerts with offline map support.
- Route drawing on map
- Length and elevation calculation
- Time estimation
- GPS positioning and compass
- Track logging
- Deviation alerts
- Offline maps
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RouteDraw is a utility mobile app suitable for short trip route planning, supporting route drawing, route length/gain/loss calculation, time estimation, GPS positioning, compass, track logging, deviation alert, offline maps, and etc. Of course, the main function is route drawing, you can draw a route along a way easily by moving your finger over the map. RouteDraw should be very useful to you, if you like to plan your route before your trip. Based on the Mapbox mapping services, the route drawing function should work on all places on the Earth besides the poles. But note that the drawing logic is based on the map display data, which is simplified and does not preserve junction info. Therefore, if you draw while zoomed out, the route will have a higher degree of simplification. And whether two ways are connected is based on estimation, and therefore may not be correct. Also, a map object may show slightly different coordinates at different zoom levels. You can pay for one-time purchase or annual subscription to unlock the trial features or remove the ads in the app. Functions: https://www.routedraw.com/home.en.html Usage: https://www.routedraw.com/help.ios.en.html Information about the auto-renewable subscription: • Title: Annual Subscription • Length of subscription: 1 Year • Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. • The subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. • You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your App Store account settings after purchase. • Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription. • Terms of use and privacy policy: https://www.routedraw.com/policies.en.html#ann_sub About App Privacy: • We will collect Purchases Data. • Mapbox's iOS SDK will collect Coarse Location, Precise Location, User ID, Product Interaction, Other Usage Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data. But users can choose to opt-out. • Google Mobile Ads SDK will collect Coarse Location, Device ID, Product Interaction, Advertising Data, Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data. This does not apply to paid users.
PlacePlot
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PlacePlot is a trip planner that works the way you actually plan. Pin every place you want to see on one map, then turn it into a day-by-day itinerary you can follow. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Pin places on a Google map and see the whole trip at once - Add a place by name search, a dropped pin, a Maps link or coordinates - Tap search for sights worth visiting near your part of the map - Make your own categories with colours and icons - Measure the distance along a chain of places - Build a day-by-day itinerary by dragging places onto it - Add blocks that are not places, like travel, meals and rest - Set each trip's own start and end hours - Write notes and addresses on any place - Share the whole trip as a PDF - Export as GPX, KML or a JSON backup, and import it back - Back up and restore your whole library - Light and dark, kilometres or miles - Open any place in Google Maps for turn-by-turn directions PUT THE WHOLE TRIP ON ONE MAP Everything you have been saving up goes on one map, so you finally see the shape of the trip. Type a place name and pick it from the list, or paste a Google Maps link, and the place lands where it should. Your own categories and colours keep the beaches, the food and everything you promised the kids apart at a glance. KNOW WHAT IS WORTH DOING ON THE SAME DAY A list of place names never tells you which two are ten minutes apart and which are across the city. Pick a few pins and PlacePlot draws the line and gives you the distance, in kilometres or miles, so a day stops being guesswork. When you are ready to actually go, hand the place off to Google Maps for real directions. THEN GIVE EVERY DAY A SHAPE Drag a place onto a day and it becomes a block you can slide to a new time or stretch to a longer visit. Add the things that are not places at all, a train, a nap, dinner with someone. Set your own hours so an early start or a long evening fits. Days are just days, so a trip works before you have booked a single date. SHARE THE PLAN WITH WHOEVER IS COMING One tap turns the trip into a PDF: the places, the categories, and every day laid out hour by hour. Send it in a message, print it, or keep it for the flight. Nobody needs the app to read it. If you want the raw data instead, a trip also exports as GPX, KML or a JSON backup that carries the itinerary too. WHO ACTUALLY USES IT Families planning a week abroad, road trips, city breaks and group holidays. Travel agents, guides and planners use the PDF to hand a client a finished itinerary, with no app to install and no login. NOBODY ELSE SEES YOUR TRIP There is no account to make and no email to hand over. We do not store your trips, your pins or your day plans, and there is no server of ours behind this app. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is synced, and nothing is shared unless you send it yourself. No ads, no analytics, no tracking of any kind. PlacePlot is free to start. An optional one-time unlock lifts the trip limit and adds your own categories, with no subscription and nothing that expires.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: PlacePlot at none against RouteDraw's shown. PlacePlot also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. RouteDraw sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.49 per year and PlacePlot sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
RouteDraw ships an update every 3 months, PlacePlot every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RouteDraw | PlacePlot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yat Shing TSOI | Pradipta Das |
In-app purchases
RouteDraw
- Annual Subscription$3.491 Year
- One-time Purchase$36.99
PlacePlot
- PlacePlot Unlock$1.99






