RestMap vs PP Bathroom Finder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RestMap
This app helps you find quality restrooms at various locations during road trips, even offline. It offers AI-powered ratings, turn-by-turn navigation, and the ability to share your findings. It also includes family-friendly features and EV charging information.
- AI-powered restroom quality ratings
- Offline navigation and directions
- Shareable location cards
- EV charging station information
- Family-friendly stop filtering
- Daily geography puzzles
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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.
PP Bathroom Finder
Find clean, accessible restrooms quickly with a live map and detailed ratings. Includes public facilities and allows route planning with verified bathroom stops. Earn points for contributions and manage business listings.
- Live map of nearby bathrooms
- Filter by gender access, cleanliness, hours
- Detailed user ratings (cleanliness, smell, safety)
- Includes public restrooms from OpenStreetMap
- Urgent button for closest options
- Route planner with verified bathrooms
- Home screen widget and Apple Watch support
- Add and rate new bathrooms
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PP is the fastest way to find a clean, accessible bathroom near you, whether you're exploring a new city, stuck on a road trip, or just need one right now. Find bathrooms the moment you need one Open PP and see every bathroom nearby on a live map. Filter by gender access, cleanliness rating, hours, and whether it's free or paid. Each listing shows real ratings across cleanliness, smell, privacy, toilet paper, wait time, and safety, from people who've actually been there. Public restrooms included: parks, rest stops, and more PP pulls public toilet data directly from OpenStreetMap, so parks, highway rest areas, service plazas, and roadside facilities appear right alongside user-added listings. Once someone reviews a public restroom, it earns a full rating like any other. I Need to Go NOW Tap the urgent button and PP instantly surfaces the closest options: PP listings, public restrooms, gas stations, and restaurants ranked by proximity and quality. No searching required. Plan your drive around clean bathrooms. The On the Go route planner maps PP-verified bathrooms, highway rest stops, gas stations, and restaurants along any route — now with live open/closed hours so you're never caught off guard. Verified bathrooms show star ratings and cleanliness scores right in the list. Home screen widget and Apple Watch support The PP widget shows the nearest open bathroom right on your home screen. Your Apple Watch does the same, so you always have the nearest option on your wrist. Add and rate bathrooms Spotted a restroom that isn't listed? Add it in seconds. Hours are auto-filled from Apple Maps when available. You earn PP Points for every contribution. For cafes, restaurants, and retail businesses Turn your restroom into a revenue stream. Register as a paid listing and customers pay with Apple Pay in seconds — no cash, no codes to hand out manually. Set your own price, create promo codes for regulars, and mark when you've cleaned. Attract customers with highly rated bathrooms. A "Recently Cleaned" badge appears on your listing automatically. Manage everything from the PP business dashboard. Built with privacy in mind PP works with anonymous accounts, with no sign-up required to find bathrooms or use navigation. Create an account to save favorites, earn points, or manage a listing. Sign in with Apple is supported. Your location is never stored.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PP Bathroom Finder at 5.0 against RestMap's 4.4. PP Bathroom Finder also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). RestMap's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly) and ratings volume (14 vs 4). On price, 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
Both are free to download. RestMap sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per year and PP Bathroom Finder sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PP Bathroom Finder holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 4 respectively.
RestMap ships an update every 5 days, PP Bathroom Finder fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RestMap | PP Bathroom Finder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (14 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 174 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PETR JORDAN | BARRETT ETHAN STEINBERG |
Customer experience
RestMap
PP Bathroom Finder
In-app purchases
RestMap
- RestMap Premium — Annual7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Quick Wipe$0.99
- Fresh Towel$2.99
- VIP Treatment$4.99
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- RestMap Premium — Lifetime$34.99
PP Bathroom Finder
- Small tip$0.99
- Medium tip$2.99
- Large tip$4.99








