Simple Speedo vs Scenic Way
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Speedo
This application transforms your iPhone into a straightforward GPS speedometer. It offers a large, readable display for speed, supports multiple units, and includes an optional direction indicator. It's designed for various activities like cycling, driving, or boating.
- Live GPS speed
- Large, readable display
- Direction bar
- Multiple speed units (mph, km/h, knots, m/s)
- Keep screen awake option
- No ads or tracking
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Simple Speedo turns your iPhone into a plain GPS speedometer. Large speed readout, pick your units, optional keep-screen-awake, and a small direction bar if you want it. Handy for cycling, driving, walking, or on the water. • Live GPS speed • Big, readable display • Direction bar • mph, km/h, knots, m/s • Keep screen awake • No ads • No tracking • No sign-up
Scenic Way
Plan and navigate custom routes for driving, walking, or cycling, prioritizing scenery over speed. Discover curated iconic routes and receive turn-by-turn guidance with live traffic and speed camera alerts. Share your adventures with friends and enjoy a private, ad-free experience.
- Custom route planning with waypoints
- Scenic vs. fastest route comparison
- Turn-by-turn navigation
- Live traffic and speed camera alerts
- CarPlay integration
- Plan walks, runs, and rides
- Shareable routes
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Most sat-navs get you there the fastest way. Scenic Way is for the journeys where the route is the point. Plan a drive, walk, run or ride through the places you actually want to go - then follow it turn by turn, with live traffic, speed-camera alerts and CarPlay. PLAN YOUR WAY • Drop waypoints anywhere, search a village, tap a viewpoint, add the pub for lunch • See the real trade-off before you choose: "Fastest · 1h 2m" vs "Scenic · +28m" • Drag to reorder, reverse the route, start and end at Home • The app suggests attractions or points of interest near your route - one tap adds them as a stop ICONIC ROUTES, BUILT IN • Legendary drives ready to go: the North Coast 500, Skyfall's Glen Etive, the Snow Roads, the Yorkshire Dales and more • New featured routes appear automatically NOT JUST FOR DRIVERS • Plan walks, runs and rides too • Or tell it "find me a 5 km loop" and it invents one from wherever you're standing DRIVE IT PROPERLY • Voice-guided turn-by-turn that follows YOUR route, not the fastest one • Live traffic on the road ahead • Resume from where you are after a lunch stop, or skip a stop on the fly BUILT FOR CARPLAY • Your planned routes on the dashboard, with camera alerts and a skip-stop button • Guidance keeps working through signal blackspots SPEED-CAMERA AWARE • Import your own licensed camera feed (SCDB, PocketGPSWorld) for spoken alerts • Automatically adapts to local law by country SHARE THE ADVENTURE • Send any route as a link to your friends, so they can save their own copy and join your trip • Perfect for road trips: every car runs the same route, even if the convoy splits up • Import and export GPX for Garmin, TomTom and more PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No ads, no tracking. Your routes stay yours unless you share a link. Sign in with Apple. SCENIC WAY PRO Free to plan, browse and share. Scenic Way Pro unlocks the full driving experience - turn-by-turn navigation, CarPlay, speed-camera alerts, the loop generator and unlimited saved routes. • 7-day free trial, then £2.99/month or £24.99/year • Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Let's take the scenic way. Terms of Use: https://scenicway.co.uk/terms Privacy Policy: https://scenicway.co.uk/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Simple Speedo at none against Scenic Way's 2. Scenic Way's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months). On price, ads, 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. Scenic Way sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Simple Speedo asks for nothing beyond the download.
Simple Speedo ships an update every 4 months, Scenic Way fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Speedo | Scenic Way |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Raxla Ltd | Turnkey I.T Solutions Ltd |
Customer experience
Simple Speedo
Scenic Way
In-app purchases
Simple Speedo
No in-app purchases
Scenic Way
- Pro Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Pro Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
Questions
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