SmartStops vs RestMap

Long drives with kids don't have to end in tears. SmartStops automatically finds parks, playgrounds, gas, and kid-friendly food along your route — timed so everyone stays happy. Unlike Google Maps, SmartStops doesn't optimize for speed. It optimizes for your family's sanity. Stops are spaced around how kids actually travel — so you pull over before the meltdown, not after. SMART STOP PLANNING Enter your start and destination. SmartStops builds a complete stop plan with parks, playgrounds, restaurants, gas, and coffee — spaced at kid-friendly intervals. No more guessing where to pull over. No more juggling apps. MELTDOWN MODE Kid losing it right now? Tap once. SmartStops instantly finds the nearest parks and playgrounds within minutes of your location. Emergency stops, solved. 194,000+ PARKS & PLAYGROUNDS The largest database of family-friendly parks in the US. See amenities like restrooms, picnic areas, trails, and playground equipment before you stop. COMPARE NEARBY CITIES At each stop, see what's available across nearby cities. Pick the town with the best combo of parks, food, and fuel — so every stop counts. WORKS WITH YOUR MAPS Plan in SmartStops, then navigate with Apple Maps or Google Maps. No switching apps mid-drive. PARK REVIEWS Rate and review parks you've visited. See what other families thought before you stop. Build your traveler profile as you explore. FREE TO USE 2 trips every month at no cost. Upgrade to Weekender ($4.99/14 days) or Adventurer ($39.99/year) for unlimited trips, Meltdown Mode, and route comparison. Rated 5.0 on the App Store. Built for families, not algorithms.

Your Intelligent Road Trip Companion AI quality scores for 2M+ locations. Find restrooms, plan stops and follow your trip worldwide. FINISH TRIPS WHEN YOU PARK Your trip can finish when you park near your destination. A remaining walk keeps it open. RESTMAP ON CARPLAY - FREE Follow turn-by-turn guidance on a compatible CarPlay display. Use Quick Find for a stop and Where To for nearby stops or stops ahead. RESTROOM IQ - FREE RestRoom IQ turns 6 data sources into explainable quality grades from A+ to F. New trip shares use the app's RestRoom IQ letter scale. Sources include: - OpenStreetMap facility data - Refuge Restrooms safety and inclusion data - Apple place information - RestMap ratings and reviews, where available - Brand reliability profiles - Open Charge Map charging data FIND WHAT YOU NEED - FREE - Quick Find: one pick with a map preview, its RestRoom IQ grade, routed travel time and hours checked for arrival - Find Best for AI-ranked nearby choices - Accessible, family, changing-table and inclusive-restroom filters - Hours, amenities and source labels when available - In-app driving and walking guidance - Rate your experience and answer facility questions in one editor PLAN ROAD TRIPS - FREE Build trips with suggested restroom, food, fuel, charging and overnight stops. See detour cost, quality grades, stop reasoning and warnings for long gaps. Follow your route and see the next stop on the Lock Screen. Share destination and arrival updates when you choose; stop sharing any time. Links expire automatically. YOUR JOURNEY See your activity, badges, characters and Passport in Your Journey. Explore Community Atlas regions and collect Passport stamps from your past and new ratings. Your Month in Review retells a completed month with a seasonal backdrop. RESTMAP PREMIUM - OPTIONAL Premium adds tools to prepare trips and revisit research: Place Reports A personal guide to a destination or town: activities, food for your diet, hours, tickets, step-free and stroller access, restroom needs and events for your dates, with sources and what to confirm. Trip Reports Review a saved plan with a day-by-day report: timing, stops, weather and decision points. Keep it or share a PDF. Your first Trip Report is free. Offline Trip Packs Save guidance, stops, IQ scores, forecasts, sourced facts and a glovebox card for a trip. Cached data available offline. Live traffic, rerouting, changed hours and forecast updates need a connection. Trip Library and Inspector Search saved and completed trips, revisit Place and Trip Reports, and export supported trips to GPX or Calendar. Inspector researches hours, access and missing details, shows its sources and tells you when a detail is uncertain. Deep Inspect is also available with Inspector Credits. WORLDWIDE, WITH HONEST COVERAGE RestMap is globally available. Defaults are most extensively tuned for the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland and France. Coverage varies by area and source; access and hours may need confirmation. PRIVACY WITH A CLEAR CHOICE No account required. Precise location is used on your device for nearby results and navigation; RestMap does not store it as a travel history on its servers. Place and Trip Reports are created only when you ask. Before sending reviewed trip information - including opaque report stop/place IDs and approximate public-place stop locations - for AI processing, RestMap shows the AI report data and the separate same-place Inspector matching envelope, including which stop/place/name/type fields appear in both and which additional exact fields stay with RestMap. No ads. No cross-app tracking. Everything that was free before RestMap Premium stays free. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Built by a dad and his 11-year-old son.