Simple Trip Meter vs Roadbook '71
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Trip Meter
This app provides accurate GPS-based distance measurement and a speedometer, designed for rally navigators. It displays distance, current speed, and time on a clear, high-contrast screen, functioning offline without ads or accounts.
- Accurate GPS distance measurement
- Current speed and time display
- One-touch distance correction
- Background measurement
- Automatic background stop
- Offline functionality
- Ad-free experience
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Simple Trip Meter is a precise GPS distance meter and speedometer made for rally co-drivers. It shows the exact distance you have covered, your current speed and the time — on a clean, high-contrast screen you can read at a glance. It is built around the road book. When the notes say "in 21.3 km, turn right," you need a distance you can trust, measured straight from GPS. FEATURES • Precise GPS measurement of the distance traveled — kilometers or miles, following your phone's region settings • Current speed (km/h or mph) and an accurate clock • One-tap correction, −100 m or +100 m, to keep in step with your road book • Reset protected by a confirmation, so the trip is never cleared by accident • Keeps measuring in the background, screen kept awake during a stage • Stops on its own after five hours in the background to spare battery • Completely offline — no account, no network, no advertising • English and Russian Made for rally, useful well beyond it. The same dependable distance serves regularity and classic-car rallies, off-road and enduro riding, navigation runs and car-club outings — or any journey where you simply want an exact count of the kilometers.
Roadbook '71
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Roadbook '71 turns a recorded GPX loop into a 1970s rally co-driver's roadbook - and then drives it with you. Import any GPX track and the app matches it to real roads, builds turn-by-turn guidance, and draws every junction as a hand-inked "tulip" diagram computed from your own recording. Join a loop at the point nearest you, drive the full circle, and arrive back where you joined. Stop for lunch and continue later - the book keeps your place. - Turn-by-turn voice and on-screen guidance along your recorded route - Tulip junction diagrams parsed from the track itself - dot in, arrow out - Loop-aware: join anywhere, the route wraps around - Progress inked onto both the route and your original recording - Interrupt and continue a drive, days later, from wherever you are - Day pages in paper and ink; night pages lit like a map light over leather - Export the drive you actually made as a new GPX Built for slow roads, open tops, and routes worth driving twice.
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Verdict
Simple Trip Meter and Roadbook '71 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Simple Trip Meter | Roadbook '71 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | — | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aliaksandr Peda | B-NYS GCV |
In-app purchases
Simple Trip Meter
No in-app purchases
Roadbook '71
No in-app purchases
Questions
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