Comparison

Traffic Ping vs Road Sorties

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Traffic Ping

Features
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Traffic Ping helps you check traffic to your important places before you drive. Save the places you care about - home, work, school, the gym, or any regular destination - and Traffic Ping can quickly check the current route from your location. With Siri Shortcuts and App Intents, Traffic Ping is designed for hands-free use. Ask for an update, and the app checks your saved destinations, estimates travel times, and speaks the result in your interface language. It is especially useful when starting a drive, connecting to CarPlay, or deciding which destination makes sense right now. What Traffic Ping does: • Save multiple named destinations on the map • Check routes from your current location • Get traffic-aware drive times • Use with Siri Shortcuts and automations • Designed for simple, hands-free driving routines Traffic Ping is not another full navigation app. It is a quick route-checking assistant for the places you already know. Before you go, ping your routes.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Curvy roads routing
  • Scenic highlights overlay
  • Turn-by-turn voice navigation
  • Multi-leg routing
  • Shareable routes
  • Privacy-focused design
Features
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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

Screenshots

Traffic Ping4 screens
Road Sorties4 screens

Verdict

The call

Traffic Ping and Road Sorties are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Traffic Ping versus Road Sorties: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTraffic PingRoad Sorties
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Fortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.217.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWEDO4U LTDBenjamin Parli

In-app purchases

None

Traffic Ping

No in-app purchases

None

Road Sorties

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Traffic Ping free?
Traffic Ping is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Road Sorties free?
Road Sorties is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Traffic Ping or Road Sorties have ads?
Neither Traffic Ping nor Road Sorties shows ads.

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