Backroads App vs ApexDrives
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Backroads App
Discover and create scenic driving routes with this GPS app designed for car enthusiasts. Join or host rallies, share your vehicle collection, and follow friends to see their adventures. It's a community-driven platform for exploring the open road.
- GPS navigation for scenic routes
- Create and host driving rallies
- Discover user-generated routes
- Build a virtual car garage
- Follow friends and see their activity
- Community-driven car club experience
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Backroads is a revolutionary experience for drivers across the world. Developed as a car club, it is gps app tailored for the car community. It allows users to join and host rallies, find scenic routes other users have created, and create routes of their own. Simply add your cars, trucks, or motorcycles to your garage for other users to see and follow your friends to see theirs. This app is in its first stages so feel free to leave feedback and things you would like to see in the future. You can read our terms and conditions here: https://backroadscarclub.ca/terms/
ApexDrives
Discover and create driving routes worldwide. Explore new roads, share your adventures with friends, and access a crowdsourced database of routes with images and reviews.
- Create driving routes
- Discover new roads
- Share routes with friends
- Crowdsourced route database
- View route images and reviews
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ApexDrives is a driving and travel mobile app used to create and find roads to drive across the world. ApexDrives is used for driving activities such as exploring new roads, creating new roads and sharing them with friends. The service allows users to access a database of road routes, which is all crowdsourced filled with images and reviews.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ApexDrives at 100% against Backroads App's 0%. ApexDrives also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). On price, ratings volume 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. Backroads App sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. ApexDrives asks for nothing beyond the download.
ApexDrives holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Backroads App's written reviews are positive against 100% of ApexDrives's.
| Parameter | Backroads App | ApexDrives |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.5 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 94 MB | 96 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | jack lacey-rogers | Younus Mahmood |
Customer experience
Backroads App
ApexDrives
In-app purchases
Backroads App
- Premium membership on 1 month$1.991 Month
- Premium membership on 6 months$9.996 Months
- Premium membership on 1 year$12.991 Year
ApexDrives
No in-app purchases
