Comparison

Roadtrippers vs RestMap

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

Head to head
About

Roadtrippers

Plan your next road trip with an AI-powered wizard and discover millions of unique places. Find campgrounds, RV parks, and attractions with detailed reviews and map overlays. Customize your itinerary with up to 150 stops and navigate with offline maps and CarPlay support.

Highlights
  • AI-powered trip wizard
  • Campground reviews and insights
  • Comprehensive map overlays
  • Customizable trip planning (up to 150 stops)
  • Offline maps
  • CarPlay navigation
  • Trip collaboration
Features
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DISCOVER THE OPEN ROAD AND THE GREAT OUTDOORS WITH EASE Roadtrippers, the #1 road trip planning app in the USA and Canada, now includes the patent-pending AI-powered trip wizard: Roadtrippers Autopilot™. Whether you’re RVing on your annual campground trip, or planning a weekend trip at a boutique hotel, Roadtrippers Autopilot™ uses the knowledge of over 38 million trips to help get you there. And, with the newly added features from Campendium, Roadtrippers will be your go-to app for planning epic road trips and finding the perfect camping spots. ENHANCED CAMPING AND RV FEATURES ∙ Campground Reviews and Insights: Dive into over 150,000 campground reviews, offering perspectives for RVers and campers alike. Discover the best spots, from swanky RV parks to serene, free remote destinations. ∙ Comprehensive Map Overlays: Find the perfect campgrounds with ease using overlays for public land, cell coverage, and wildfire smoke, ensuring you’re always informed and prepared. ∙ Advanced Filtering Options: Tailor your search with new filtering capabilities, including cell service and elevation, to find your ideal campsite every time. EXPLORE AND PLAN WITH EASE ∙ Epic Routes and Places: Uncover millions of unique places, from quirky roadside attractions to breathtaking national parks. Get inspired by pre-made trip guides for once-in-a-lifetime routes. ∙ Customizable Planning: Start with up to three stops or upgrade to add up to 150 stops per trip with our Premium membership. Enjoy RV-friendly GPS navigation, offline maps, trip collaboration, and more. ∙ Seamless Syncing and Navigation: Your saved trips and favorite places sync across devices. Hit the road with confidence using CarPlay for easy navigation. JOIN THE ROADTRIPPERS COMMUNITY Merging the spirit of Campendium with Roadtrippers, we invite you to embark on road trips and camping adventures that you’ll cherish forever. Whether you’re mapping out a weekend getaway or a cross-country journey, Roadtrippers is here to guide you every mile and every campsite along the way. Download Roadtrippers today and transform your travel dreams into reality. Your next epic adventure awaits! Terms of use: https://roadtrippers.com/tos Privacy policy: https://roadtrippers.com/privacy-policy Note: Designed for discovering and planning road trips in the USA and Canada only.

About

RestMap

This app helps you find quality restrooms at various locations during road trips, even offline. It offers AI-powered ratings, turn-by-turn navigation, and the ability to share your findings. It also includes family-friendly features and EV charging information.

Highlights
  • AI-powered restroom quality ratings
  • Offline navigation and directions
  • Shareable location cards
  • EV charging station information
  • Family-friendly stop filtering
  • Daily geography puzzles
Features
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Your Intelligent Road Trip Companion AI quality scores for 2M+ locations. Find restrooms, plan stops and follow your trip worldwide. FINISH TRIPS WHEN YOU PARK Your trip can finish when you park near your destination. A remaining walk keeps it open. RESTMAP ON CARPLAY - FREE Follow turn-by-turn guidance on a compatible CarPlay display. Use Quick Find for a stop and Where To for nearby stops or stops ahead. RESTROOM IQ - FREE RestRoom IQ turns 6 data sources into explainable quality grades from A+ to F. New trip shares use the app's RestRoom IQ letter scale. Sources include: - OpenStreetMap facility data - Refuge Restrooms safety and inclusion data - Apple place information - RestMap ratings and reviews, where available - Brand reliability profiles - Open Charge Map charging data FIND WHAT YOU NEED - FREE - Quick Find: one pick with a map preview, its RestRoom IQ grade, routed travel time and hours checked for arrival - Find Best for AI-ranked nearby choices - Accessible, family, changing-table and inclusive-restroom filters - Hours, amenities and source labels when available - In-app driving and walking guidance - Rate your experience and answer facility questions in one editor PLAN ROAD TRIPS - FREE Build trips with suggested restroom, food, fuel, charging and overnight stops. See detour cost, quality grades, stop reasoning and warnings for long gaps. Follow your route and see the next stop on the Lock Screen. Share destination and arrival updates when you choose; stop sharing any time. Links expire automatically. YOUR JOURNEY See your activity, badges, characters and Passport in Your Journey. Explore Community Atlas regions and collect Passport stamps from your past and new ratings. Your Month in Review retells a completed month with a seasonal backdrop. RESTMAP PREMIUM - OPTIONAL Premium adds tools to prepare trips and revisit research: Place Reports A personal guide to a destination or town: activities, food for your diet, hours, tickets, step-free and stroller access, restroom needs and events for your dates, with sources and what to confirm. Trip Reports Review a saved plan with a day-by-day report: timing, stops, weather and decision points. Keep it or share a PDF. Your first Trip Report is free. Offline Trip Packs Save guidance, stops, IQ scores, forecasts, sourced facts and a glovebox card for a trip. Cached data available offline. Live traffic, rerouting, changed hours and forecast updates need a connection. Trip Library and Inspector Search saved and completed trips, revisit Place and Trip Reports, and export supported trips to GPX or Calendar. Inspector researches hours, access and missing details, shows its sources and tells you when a detail is uncertain. Deep Inspect is also available with Inspector Credits. WORLDWIDE, WITH HONEST COVERAGE RestMap is globally available. Defaults are most extensively tuned for the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland and France. Coverage varies by area and source; access and hours may need confirmation. PRIVACY WITH A CLEAR CHOICE No account required. Precise location is used on your device for nearby results and navigation; RestMap does not store it as a travel history on its servers. Place and Trip Reports are created only when you ask. Before sending reviewed trip information - including opaque report stop/place IDs and approximate public-place stop locations - for AI processing, RestMap shows the AI report data and the separate same-place Inspector matching envelope, including which stop/place/name/type fields appear in both and which additional exact fields stay with RestMap. No ads. No cross-app tracking. Everything that was free before RestMap Premium stays free. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Built by a dad and his 11-year-old son.

Screenshots

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RestMap4 screens

Verdict

The call

Roadtrippers and RestMap both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of RestMap's written reviews are positive against 31% of Roadtrippers's. RestMap also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). Roadtrippers's advantage is ratings volume (62K vs 14) and chart position (#43 vs unranked). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Roadtrippers sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $35.99 per year and RestMap sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Roadtrippers holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Roadtrippers has 62K ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 31% of Roadtrippers's written reviews are positive against 100% of RestMap's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Roadtrippers ships an update fortnightly, RestMap every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Roadtrippers versus RestMap: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRoadtrippersRestMap
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (62K ratings) — better4.4 (14 ratings)
Positive reviews30.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings62K — better14
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#43 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size204 MB174 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRoadtrippersPETR JORDAN

Customer experience

Roadtrippers

All ratings61,506 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral4.1%
Negative4.9%
Written reviews793 reviews
Positive30.9%
Neutral7.9%
Negative61.2%

RestMap

All ratings14 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Roadtrippers

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes when adding too many stops
  • Issues with syncing trips across devices
  • Incorrect travel time and distance calculations

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to plan routes without dates
  • Option to select preferred route instead of fastest
  • Integration with other navigation apps
  • Improved offline functionality

RestMap

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Roadtrippers

Subscriptions3
  • Roadtrippers Basic - Annual7 Days trial$35.991 Year
  • Roadtrippers Pro - Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Roadtrippers Premium - Annual7 Days trial$59.991 Year
5 purchases

RestMap

Subscriptions1
  • RestMap Premium — Annual7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time4
  • Quick Wipe$0.99
  • Fresh Towel$2.99
  • VIP Treatment$4.99
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  • RestMap Premium — Lifetime$34.99

Questions

Is Roadtrippers free?
Roadtrippers is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is RestMap free?
RestMap is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Roadtrippers or RestMap?
Roadtrippers is rated higher. Roadtrippers averages 4.6 out of 5 from 62K ratings, while RestMap averages 4.4 from 14 ratings.
Do Roadtrippers or RestMap have ads?
Neither Roadtrippers nor RestMap shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Roadtrippers or RestMap?
Roadtrippers ships an update fortnightly, and RestMap every 5 days. Most recently, Roadtrippers was updated on October 26, 2026 and RestMap on October 24, 2026.

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