Speed vs Open Road
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Speed
Monitor and analyze your driving with real-time metrics, detailed trip summaries, and interactive map visualizations. Optimize your driving experience and gain insights into your travel efficiency. Core features are available without an account or subscription.
- Real-time speed tracking
- In-depth trip analysis
- Interactive map visualizations
- CarPlay automations
- Siri voice command control
- Comprehensive driving statistics
- Trip history and filtering
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Enhance Your Driving Experience with Speed Tracker Speed Tracker is the ultimate app for car enthusiasts and performance drivers who want to monitor and analyze their driving with precision. Whether you're on a road trip, testing your car's limits, or simply commuting, Speed Tracker provides the insights you need to optimize your driving experience. All core features work out of the box - no account or subscription required. Key Features: Real-Time Driving Metrics: Track your current speed, average speed, and maximum speed in real-time. Monitor your journey with precise GPS location updates, even when the app is running in the background. Follow your trip from the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island with Live Activities, including distance, duration, average speed, and ETA status. Optionally auto-start trips when you begin driving and end them when you park - even if the app was closed. Shortcuts & Automation: Set up CarPlay automations to automatically track trips when you connect or disconnect from your car. Control tracking with Siri voice commands and Apple Shortcuts. In-Depth Trip Analysis: Access detailed summaries of each trip, including start and end times, total distance, and duration. Analyze your route with comprehensive speed data and GPS coordinates. Calculate estimated travel times and compare them with actual durations to gain insights into your travel efficiency and identify areas for improvement. Create share cards from any trip - polished route, compact, or overlay graphics ready to send to friends or post online. Interactive Map Visualizations: Visualize your routes on a dynamic map with speed-based coloring to identify high-speed segments. Customize speed ranges for map coloring, or use Autobahn-optimized presets. Comprehensive Driving Statistics: View detailed statistics on total distance, duration, average speed, and top speed. Explore highlights, ETA comparison, cruising insights, streaks, and tag breakdowns. Identify high-speed segments with customizable speed thresholds, perfect for performance analysis. Trip History & Management: Browse through your trip history with advanced sorting and filtering options. Tag trips for better organization and quick access. Sync and back up your trips with iCloud for seamless access across all your devices. Speed Tracker Social (subscription required): Share your trips with friends or drivers worldwide and see how you compare. Watch friends - and drivers sharing worldwide - live on the map with real-time speed, route, and ETA. Auto-share completed drives with friends and get alerts when someone is driving live. React to shared trips, build your driver profile, connect with friends, and explore their drives. Add cars to your Garage and attach them when you share. Compare on global and country leaderboards in categories like total distance, peak speed, drive time, average speed, ETA comparison, and longest trip. Social features require a monthly or yearly subscription. All core tracking, analysis, and statistics features remain fully available without a subscription. Why Choose Speed Tracker? Speed Tracker is specifically designed for car drivers who demand precision and detail in their driving data. Whether you're aiming to improve your driving performance, track your road trips, or simply keep a log of your daily commutes, Speed Tracker provides the tools you need to gain valuable insights and make informed decisions. With Live Activities, smarter statistics, share cards, and optional auto-start tracking, every drive is easier to follow and revisit. And with Speed Tracker Social - including Live Drives, auto-share, and leaderboards - you can join a community of drivers, share your trips, and see how others drive. Download Speed Tracker today and take your driving experience to the next level! — Privacy Policy: https://moonshotapps.de/privacy-policy-speed-tracker/ Terms of Use: https://moonshotapps.de/terms-of-use-speed-tracker/
Open Road
This app automatically logs your driving history and replays routes, providing key stats like distance and top speed. Compete by tracking personal bests in speed zones and speed traps, and share your drives with visually appealing cards on social media.
- Automatic drive history
- Route replay
- Speed traps and zones
- Personal best tracking
- Shareable drive cards
- Speed heatmaps
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open road is a drive tracker. it starts on its own, records the drive, and puts every road you take on one map. 50,000+ drivers · 4.7 average from 785 ratings · 150K+ drives recorded you drive every day and almost none of it gets kept. the store run, the loop, the drive to a friend's, the long way home. open road keeps all of it, so the map of where you have driven fills in on its own and any drive you took is still there a year later. drive tracker, drive log, trip log, route tracker, car stats, mileage, odometer, driving history. people call it a lot of things. it is the same idea. every drive saved without you doing anything. what you get • your drive log: every drive with the route drawn, the time, the distance and the day you took it. • your map: every road you have driven, filling in as you go. • your garage: every car you own, tracked on its own. • your friends on one live map while they drive. • speed traps and zones, marked by drivers, for drivers. free, on every map. • navigation built in, and the drive keeps recording while you use it. • convoy voice chat with your group, and the recap after you park. • segments: the roads you drive often, timed every pass, so you can beat your own best time. • streaks, XP and milestones for every drive you take. • weather on your past drives, so you remember the day how it was. • a drive feed you can post to, or keep to yourself. • a 3D map, a weekly recap card, and a share card for the drives worth showing. • markers: save the roads worth going back to. • a global leaderboard for miles, drives and XP. • long drives are easy on the battery, and every drive saves and syncs. the map is the part people keep coming back to. one road at a time it turns into a picture of everywhere you have taken your car, and it is yours. it does not reset, it does not expire, and it keeps filling in for as long as you drive. who it is for drivers who care about the road. the person who takes the long way. the weekend trip that ends up being the best part of the month. the group that drives together and wants one map for all of it. anyone who looks forward to getting in the car. how far it goes the core app is free and stays free. premium adds depth: more of your history, deeper stats, and more of what you already use. speed traps and zones are made by drivers and are free for everyone. 30 languages. what drivers say "App is clean and far better than competition." Jan 21, 2026 "Works well super clean interface." Jan 25, 2026 drive responsibly. use where legal. open road terms: openroaddrive.com/terms privacy policy: openroaddrive.com/privacy community guidelines: openroaddrive.com/community-guidelines
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Open Road at Free against Speed's $3.99. Open Road also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.0) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 months). On review sentiment, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Open Road is free to download; Speed costs $3.99 up front. Speed sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Open Road sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Open Road holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Open Road has 798 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 56% of Speed's written reviews are positive against 62% of Open Road's.
Speed ships an update every 2 months, Open Road every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Speed | Open Road |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.0 (19 ratings) | 4.7 (798 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 56.2% of reviews | 61.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 19 | 798 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 174 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Moonshot Apps UG (haftungsbeschränkt) | OPENROAD LLC |
Customer experience
Speed
Open Road
Bugs and requests
Speed
Reported bugs
2 issues- Loses tracking information when using other apps
- Shuts down and loses current route information
Requested features
8 requests- Auto-tracking of drives
- Ability to export/backup trips
- Customizable speed ranges
- MPH support
- Travel time comparison
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- Personalized km/h color ranges
- Satellite map view
- Shared trips and competition with friends
Open Road
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Speed
- Monthly$3.991 Month
- Social Yearly$9.991 Year
Open Road
- Monthly Paid$9.991 Month
- Annual Paid3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Premium Annual B3 Days trial$39.991 Year





