Motorways vs AutoTrek
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Motorways
View live, searchable, and filterable traffic incidents and motorway speeds across England. Optimized for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, this app helps you avoid delays and save time on your journeys. It provides detailed speed graphs and maps of road conditions.
- Live traffic incidents
- Motorway speed data
- Searchable and filterable information
- Speed graphs
- Traffic maps
- Apple Watch integration
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BEAT THE TRAFFIC! Motorways gives you live, junction-by-junction speeds and incidents for every M road in England, fed by multiple aggregated sources including near realtime National Highways traffic data that updates continuously throughout the day. LIVE JUNCTION SPEEDS • A/B direction speeds for 600+ junctions, colour-coded: green for free-flowing, amber for slowing, red for congested • At-a-glance average speed and live alert counts for every road on the dashboard • Tap any junction for a map, both directions, and a typical speed-by-hour profile so you know whether today is normal or a problem LIVE INCIDENTS • Accidents, roadworks, congestion, closures and other hazards as they happen • Filter by category or search, and see every event on a live national map • Distances in miles and yards, sorted nearest-first to your position APPLE WATCH • A standalone watch app brings road averages, per-junction speeds and the most serious active incidents to your wrist — no iPhone needed FREE & PRO • Free with a daily allowance of junction lookups • Motorways Pro removes the limit: unlimited speed lookups. • No account to create, no email address required — your device signs in automatically Built for daily drivers, HGV and van operators, and anyone who hates sitting in a queue. End user license agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
AutoTrek
Track your driving trips, recording route, distance, duration, and speed. Add photos and notes to document your travels, and easily share session data or generate reports for business or personal use.
- Records travel route, distance, and duration
- Tracks varying driving speeds with color-coded map segments
- Allows adding photos and notes to trips
- Generates monthly and annual reports of total distance and duration
- Exports session data and reports in PNG or PDF format
- Useful for business mileage tracking and vacation documentation
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This app tracks your driving trip and records your travel route, travel distance, total duration and varying driving speeds throughout the trip. The app can be used to keep track of your business trips mileage and time, or to keep a detailed record, accompanied by photos and a note, of your vacation trip to a destination. Furthermore, you may send any session data, along with all the photos (in PNG or PDF) to your friends and/or yourself; or in case of a car accident, you may send your latest session data to your insurance company for filing a claim. Specifically the app records the following data of your trip and stores them into a session: a) A session title (optional) b) Total distance traveled c) Total duration of the trip d) Average driving speed e) The fastest and the slowest driving speed f) The last driving speed when you stop the session g) A map that shows your travel route h) A set of photos you take for the session i) A user entered note (optional) In addition to the above, the map depicts your travel route with colored segments that represent the varying driving speeds throughout the trip. The colored segments are: a) Green segments - speed 50 Mi/hr and above b) Yellow segments - speed 30 Mi/hr - 49 Mi/hr c) Red segment - speed 0 - 29 Mi/hr You may email any session data, via PNG or PDF file, to friends or your employer for expense reimbursement. Furthermore, the app can generate a report that tallies the total distance and duration taken, per month and annually, for all saved sessions. You may email the report, via plain text or PDF, to friends or your employer for expense reimbursement. Note: continue use of GPS running in background can dramatically decrease battery life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: AutoTrek at 100% against Motorways's 15%. AutoTrek also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.3) and in-app purchases (none vs 6). Motorways's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99). On ratings volume, update cadence 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
Motorways is free to download; AutoTrek costs $0.99 up front. Motorways sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. AutoTrek asks for nothing beyond the download.
AutoTrek holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 15% of Motorways's written reviews are positive against 100% of AutoTrek's.
Motorways ships an update every 4 months, AutoTrek every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Motorways | AutoTrek |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 3.3 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NuovoDev | Dynetix Design Solutions Inc |
Customer experience
Motorways
AutoTrek
In-app purchases
Motorways
- Weekly$0.997 Days
- Monthly$1.991 Month
- Annual$9.991 Year
- Weekly Subscription$0.99
- Monthly Subscription$2.99
- Annual Subscription$3.99
AutoTrek
No in-app purchases
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