Comparison

loadmate vs Pitstop

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

loadmate

This app helps caravan owners calculate towing weights to ensure safe and legal journeys. It offers smart load adjustments, weight distribution insights, and professional compliance checks for peace of mind on the road.

Highlights
  • Caravan & towing weight calculator
  • Smart load adjustments
  • Road trip planning
  • Weight distribution insights
  • Professional compliance checks
  • Intuitive design
Features
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Every trip starts with the same quiet question: are we under our ratings, and how do we actually know? loadmate answers it with one number. RigScore checks your whole rig, truck, trailer and everything you load, against your weight ratings and shows a 0–100 score with the working shown. Green means your numbers sit inside every rating. Anything less shows you what's over and what moves it, in plain language. Built on the numbers that matter in North America: GVWR, GCWR, GAWR, payload, tongue weight and pin weight, the same terms as your door placard and your scale ticket. WHAT'S IN THE APP Can I Tow It? Free for everyone. Shopping for a travel trailer, fifth wheel or tow vehicle? Enter the specs and see whether the combination works before you sign anything. No account needed. Your rig, profiled once. Truck and trailer specs, dry weights and ratings, hitch position, storage zones. Set it up once and the system runs underneath every screen. Cargo, where it actually rides. Assign gear to storage zones in the trailer and the truck. loadmate works out tongue weight and axle loads from where things sit, not just what they weigh. See the change before you make it. Shift 50 lb from the truck bed to the front compartment and watch tongue weight, axle loads and your RigScore move, before you touch a thing. Weigh-ins that stick. Pull onto a truck-stop scale once, enter the figures, and your baselines update. The score's confidence reflects how current your data is. Tire intelligence. Pressures, age and load margins are watched in the background and raised only when they matter. Maintenance, warranty and trips. Service items, warranty coverage and trip planning stay connected to the same rig profile, so nothing is tracked twice. Exceeding your ratings can complicate warranty claims, loadmate keeps your numbers where you can see them. More than one rig. A travel trailer and a boat, or two tow vehicles, switch setups and everything re-scopes. DESIGNED FOR PEOPLE WHO TOW Plain language, big touch targets, nothing buried two menus deep. If you currently run your weights on a spreadsheet, this will feel like an upgrade, not a learning curve. FREE AND PRO Free: the full Can I Tow It? research tool, plus a complete demo rig so you can explore every feature with realistic numbers. Pro: your own rig, live RigScore, cargo tracking, weigh-ins, simulation, tires, maintenance, warranty and trips. One annual subscription, no tiers. Current pricing is always shown on this page and in the app. Auto-renews unless canceled in your App Store account settings at least 24 hours before the period ends. SUPPORT Questions to hello@loadmate.io Privacy policy: https://loadmate.io/privacy Terms of use: https://loadmate.io/terms

About

Pitstop

Features
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Keep every car's service history, MOT record, and upcoming work in one place - without a spreadsheet, without another login. Snap the stamps in your service book, Pitstop reads them and builds the history for you. Screenshot the gov.uk MOT check page and your MOT timeline fills itself in. Pitstop then figures out what's due next based on your car's manufacturer schedule, and gives you a traffic-light heads-up before each job. • YOUR GARAGE. Add every car you own. Nickname them, pin photos, set mileage units, track registration plates. • AI-PARSED SERVICE BOOK. Multi-select pages of any service receipt, invoice or stamped handbook. Pitstop's vision AI pulls out the date, mileage, items performed, parts replaced, cost and garage - so you don't have to type any of it. • MOT TIMELINE. Paste a screenshot from gov.uk/check-mot-history. Advisories, failures, mileage and expiry dates are extracted automatically and collapsed into a clean, scrollable timeline. • UPCOMING, NOT GUESSWORK. Pitstop researches your manufacturer's service intervals and combines them with your records to flag what's coming up - an oil change, a cambelt, a brake fluid change - with a mileage and date estimate. Green, amber, red. • BEFORE YOU BUY. Viewing mode is a second workspace for cars you're considering. Upload whatever paperwork the seller sent and Pitstop's gap analysis flags what's missing or suspicious - evidence of a missed cambelt interval, a gap in the stamp book, an MOT advisory that was never addressed. • EVERY WORKSHOP VISIT, ALWAYS WITH YOU. A unified timeline across all your cars. Search by garage, by part, by car. • NO ACCOUNT NEEDED. Download and you're ready. No email, no password, no tracking. Your data backs up automatically against a random ID stored in your iPhone's secure Keychain — restore it on a new device in one tap. • BUILT FOR PROPER CAR PEOPLE. The owner who keeps the folder in the glovebox. The weekend car enthusiast. The cautious buyer who wants receipts before they hand over cash. Whether you've got one car or five. Pitstop is free. We do not sell your data, show ads, or use tracking SDKs. - Privacy: https://pitstop-web-pi.vercel.app/privacy Support: hello@getrebrief.com

Screenshots

loadmate4 screens
Pitstop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pitstop at none against loadmate's 1. loadmate's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. loadmate sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per year. Pitstop asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
loadmate versus Pitstop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterloadmatePitstop
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size107 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer4Thought RV Pty LtdUwais Ishaq

In-app purchases

1 purchases

loadmate

Subscriptions1
  • loadmate Pro Annual$19.991 Year
None

Pitstop

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is loadmate free?
loadmate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pitstop free?
Pitstop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do loadmate or Pitstop have ads?
Neither loadmate nor Pitstop shows ads.

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