Comparison

Simple Trip Meter vs Roadbook '71

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Accurate GPS distance measurement
  • Current speed and time display
  • One-touch distance correction
  • Background measurement
  • Automatic background stop
  • Offline functionality
  • Ad-free experience
Features
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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.

About

Roadbook '71

Features
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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.

Screenshots

Simple Trip Meter4 screens
Roadbook '714 screens

Verdict

The call

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

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
Simple Trip Meter versus Roadbook '71: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple Trip MeterRoadbook '71
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequency—Every 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAliaksandr PedaB-NYS GCV

In-app purchases

None

Simple Trip Meter

No in-app purchases

None

Roadbook '71

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Simple Trip Meter free?
Simple Trip Meter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Roadbook '71 free?
Roadbook '71 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Simple Trip Meter or Roadbook '71 have ads?
Neither Simple Trip Meter nor Roadbook '71 shows ads.

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