CleanTrip vs The Rest Stop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CleanTrip
Find clean public restrooms on your road trips with community-reviewed stops. Plan routes, filter by cleanliness, and get detailed information before you pull over.
- Route planning with stop suggestions
- Community cleanliness ratings
- Detailed stop tags (soap, paper towels, etc.)
- Near Me search
- No bathroom alerts
- Direct navigation integration
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CleanTrip is the road tripper's secret weapon for finding clean bathrooms before you're desperate. Plan your route and instantly see community-reviewed stops at gas stations, convenience stores, and grocery stores along the way. Every stop is rated by real travelers on a 5-star cleanliness scale, with detailed tags so you know exactly what to expect before you pull over. FEATURES - Plan any route and find stops along the way - Near Me search for stops within your current area - Community cleanliness ratings from real travelers - Detailed tags — soap, paper towels, changing tables, accessible stalls, family rooms, and more - No bathroom alerts — community flags stops with no public restroom - Customers Only warnings so you know what to expect - Earn badges and climb the leaderboard - Add friends and compete for most reviews - Open directly in Apple Maps or Google Maps with your stops as waypoints - Filter stops by cleanliness rating and type CleanTrip is free and always will be. No ads, no subscriptions — just honest bathroom intel from fellow road trippers.
The Rest Stop
Rate rest stops and service areas to help other travelers find clean facilities. Plan your route, discover the best bathrooms, and access EV charging stations. Enjoy built-in mini-games while parked.
- Rate rest stop bathrooms
- Route planning with rest stop locations
- EV charging station finder
- Built-in mini-games with controller support
- CarPlay and Home Screen widget integration
- Follow friends and share ratings
- Customizable app themes
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The Ultimate Road Trip Companion App: YOU are The Rest Stop rater. We rely on you, and others like you to give real time info on where the best and worst stops are along the way. The Rest Stop gives you plenty to do when you aren’t traveling. No other travel app does anything like it. Terrible bathrooms on the road are no joke — even if the stories afterward sometimes are. CLEAN or DISGUSTING — real verdicts from real travelers, so you never gamble on a sketchy stall again. THE CLEANEST BATHROOM ON YOUR ROUTE Over 2,000 rest stops and service areas rated coast to coast. Open Near Me and instantly see the cleanest stalls within range — ranked by travelers who have actually been in there. PLAN THE WHOLE TRIP Type in your route and the Road Trip planner maps every rest stop along the way, the cities and landmarks you'll pass, and the single cleanest bathroom in your next 50 miles. Save your go-to trips and jump back in with one tap. EV driver? Tesla Superchargers are on the map too. Looking for the right beach? Beached! gets you up to date surf reports! The Rest Stop RIDES SHOTGUN Full CarPlay support puts the cleanest stops ahead right on your dashboard. A Home Screen widget keeps the nearest rest stop one glance away. And Siri rides along too — just ask "Where's the nearest rest stop" and get the name, the highway, the distance, and how clean travelers say it is, spoken out loud without ever touching your phone. RATE Cast your verdict — CLEAN or DISGUSTING. Leave the comment future travelers deserve to read. Every rating pushes a stop up (or down) the Stall of Fame, the definitive leaderboard of the best and worst bathrooms on the American highway. Proud of your stop? Share a "Greetings from" postcard straight to X. BRING YOUR CREW Stallmates lets you follow friends and see what they're rating in a live activity feed. Share any stop — or your friend code — with a single tap. Road trips are a team sport. THE THRONE ROOM ARCADE *SUPPORTS CONTROLLERS* 9 mini games for when you're.. parked. Clear clogs under pressure in Plunger Panic, chase the perfect launch in Plunger Flinger, build a porcelain empire in Royal Flush, putt putt putt the day away in Gas Station Golf, dash across porta-potties in Port-a-Potty Run, shred some gnar in The Gnar-lien, and settle in for The Plunger of Power — a love letter to 90s games, complete with quests, boss battles, and real world integration. Unlock Roaring 20s mode for a throwback! MEET TOMMY TOILETS Your friendly neighborhood plunger. Tommy answers your questions about the app, dresses for whatever theme you're rocking, and stars in every mini game. PARTICIPATION TROPHIES Over 90 trophies to unlock, from your First Flush to feats only a true road warrior will ever pull off. MAKE IT YOURS Hand-crafted themes — constantly rotating, with limited-time theme events planned into 2027 — each with its own fonts, colors, sounds, and app icons. Interstate, Americana, Neon, Carnival Barker, Leaf Peepers, The Swashbuckler, and more. Pin your two favorites to the top of the picker so your go-to vibes are always one tap away. SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Italian, and Japanese. THE GREAT AMERICAN PIPELINE Rate rest stops in person and you unlock their state's territory in The Plunger of Power, an RPG that grows as you travel and every state's world is drawn from its real geography, roamed by its own exclusive critters, and stalked by cryptids straight out of local legend. There is an absurd amount of depth to this game. Every road tripper deserves to know what they're walking into. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CleanTrip at none against The Rest Stop's 2. CleanTrip also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). The Rest Stop's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (35 vs 6). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. The Rest Stop sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. CleanTrip asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for CleanTrip against 5.0 for The Rest Stop. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Rest Stop has 35 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two.
CleanTrip ships an update every 3 weeks, The Rest Stop weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CleanTrip | The Rest Stop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (35 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 35 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 270 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | James Kinard | RYAN PATRICK FLANNERY |
Customer experience
CleanTrip
The Rest Stop
In-app purchases
CleanTrip
No in-app purchases
The Rest Stop
- The Rest Stop Rater Premium$4.991 Month
- The Rest Stop Rater Premium$49.991 Year









