Motonav vs Road Sorties
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Motonav
This app provides motorcycle-specific navigation, route generation, and ride telemetry. Track lean angles, G-forces, and share your live location with friends. Plan routes, avoid tolls, and record your rides with detailed statistics.
- Loop route generator
- Favorite roads routing
- Lean angle tracking
- G-force telemetry
- Live location sharing
- Turn-by-turn voice guidance
- Ride recording and export
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Motonav is turn-by-turn navigation built for motorcyclists: massive, glanceable directions you can read in a fraction of a second at speed, on a dark high-contrast map that works in bright sunlight. CURVY ROADS, NOT JUST FAST ONES Choose your ride before you go: Fastest, No Highways, or Curvy. Curvy routes you onto the twisty back roads riders actually want - trading a few minutes for a far better ride - while steering clear of interstates and dead-straight slab. You get full turn-by-turn the whole way, and if you wander off, it reroutes onto a fresh curvy line from wherever you are. RIDE-FIRST NAVIGATION - Huge turn instructions with live distance countdown and the road name - Turn arrows drawn from the real shape of the junction, measured from the road itself - a hard right gets a hard-right arrow, a gentle fork gets a fork - A "then" preview so you always know the move after this one - Voice guidance timed for riding, not driving - Automatic rerouting when you go your own way - Current speed always visible, with the posted speed limit shown as a real US speed-limit sign - Arrival time, time left, and distance to go in one glanceable bar WIDGETS, CONTROL CENTER, AND SIRI Put your favorite destinations one tap away: Home Screen widgets in three sizes, Lock Screen and StandBy widgets, and a Control Center button that starts navigation without unlocking. Say "Hey Siri, take me to the diner in Motonav" and you're riding - add a stop, stop navigation, or ask for your ETA, all by voice - and use those same actions in your own Shortcuts automations. LIVE VEHICLE DATA (OPTIONAL) Pair a Bluetooth OBD-II adapter and Motonav becomes a dashboard for your bike or car: RPM, coolant temperature, voltage, and every sensor your vehicle exposes - plus computed gear position, fuel economy and range, and charging-system health, remembered per vehicle. (Requires a compatible Bluetooth LE OBD-II adapter.) BUILT FOR GLOVES Every control is oversized and high-contrast. No fiddly gestures, no tiny buttons - designed to be used on a handlebar mount. LOCK SCREEN + DYNAMIC ISLAND Directions continue on your lock screen and in the Dynamic Island, with a live route progress bar - no need to keep the app open. YOUR RIDE, YOUR RULES - Avoid highways with one tap, recalculated instantly - Rate roads good or bad as you ride, saved to your account - Favorites and recent destinations one tap from the home screen - Give favorites your own names, like "Mom's" instead of a street address RIDE WITH FRIENDS Add riding buddies by the email they use for MotoNav and share your location - all the time, or not at all. Only friends who've accepted you can see where you are, only your latest position, and turning it off drops you off their maps at once. Friends show up on your map at home and during navigation, and you can ride straight to one. PLAN ON THE WEB, RIDE ON THE BIKE Motonav has a companion planner at motonav.co. Draw a route on the big screen - or describe the ride you're dreaming about and let the AI copilot sketch it onto the map - then save it. It's on your phone before your helmet's on. GPX works everywhere: import a track a friend sent you (AirDrop it straight into the app, or pick it from Files right on the Where-to screen), and export any saved route to share back. Saved routes start from wherever you are - join a friend's route partway along and the directions pick up right there. OPTIONAL ACCOUNT, REAL BACKUP Create a free account and your favorites, recents, road ratings, saved routes, and settings follow you - through reinstalls, onto new phones. Or skip it entirely and just ride: navigation never requires an account. Motonav is built by a rider, rebuilt from the ground up around one idea: do turn-by-turn brilliantly before anything else.
Road Sorties
This navigation app prioritizes scenic and curvy roads for drivers and motorcyclists. It offers turn-by-turn voice navigation, multi-leg routing, and shareable routes without requiring user accounts or tracking.
- Curvy roads routing
- Scenic highlights overlay
- Turn-by-turn voice navigation
- Multi-leg routing
- Shareable routes
- Privacy-focused design
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Road Sorties is navigation for drivers and motorcyclists who choose the road as the destination. Whether you live for tight switchbacks, alpine passes, or coastal highways, Road Sorties plans routes that prioritize what makes driving worth doing — not just the fastest line on a freeway. CURVY ROADS ROUTING Flip on "Prefer Curvy" and watch your route shift from interstates to the kind of roads people drive for the sake of it. Tuned for sports cars, motorcycles, and anyone planning a weekend ride. SCENIC HIGHLIGHTS See which stretches of your route are officially scenic — the overlay glows on the map so you know exactly where to slow down, roll down the window, and take it in. TURN-BY-TURN VOICE NAVIGATION Now with CarPlay. Clear voice cues that duck your music or podcast during instructions and hand the audio back when they're done. No fighting with your media app over who controls the speaker. MULTI-LEG ROUTING Plan road trips with multiple stops. Set different preferences per leg — fastest to the trailhead, curvy roads on the way home. RV ROUTING Tell Road Sorties your rig's height, width, length and weight, and every route is built around it — avoiding low clearances, weight-limited bridges, and tunnels that ban propane. The route report tells you what it steered around, and why. KEEP NAVIGATING WHEN YOU LOSE SIGNAL Save a route before you leave and turn-by-turn guidance, rerouting and voice keep working with no connection at all. This is the routing data, not map imagery — areas you haven't already viewed will be blank while the map catches up. SHAREABLE ROUTES Build a route, share a link. Friends open it and load the exact same waypoints. No account required. PRIVACY FIRST No user accounts. No tracking. No ad networks. Your location stays on your device. The only thing that ever leaves your phone is the route itself, and only when you choose to share it. BUILT FOR THE REAL DRIVE • Continues navigating when your screen locks or you switch apps • Off-route detection tuned to avoid flapping on weak GPS • Designed for portrait mounting on a handlebar or dashboard Stop letting your navigation app pick boring routes. Road Sorties is for drivers who want the journey to count. No accounts, no tracking, no stored queries. Your trips stay yours. Download now and plan your next road sortie. — ROAD SORTIES PRO Road Sorties Pro unlocks RV routing, saving routes for offline use, and unlimited saved routes and places. • Annual — $39.99 per year, with a 7-day free trial • Monthly — $6.99 per month Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of that period. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Manage or cancel your subscription in Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://roadsorties.com/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Motonav at every 6 days against Road Sorties's fortnightly. Road Sorties's advantage is iOS requirement (17.4 vs 26.2). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Motonav against 5.0 for Road Sorties. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Motonav ships an update every 6 days, Road Sorties fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Motonav | Road Sorties |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 17.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrew Freed | Benjamin Parli |
Customer experience
Motonav
Road Sorties
In-app purchases
Motonav
No in-app purchases
Road Sorties
No in-app purchases









