RoadWarrior Route Planner vs Create Own Map
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RoadWarrior Route Planner
This app helps professional drivers and traveling professionals create optimized multi-destination routes. It considers real-time traffic, client availability, and schedules to save time, money, and gas. Features include bulk address uploads, route customization, and navigation integration.
- Multi-destination route planning
- Route optimization for time and gas savings
- Bulk address upload
- Drag and drop stop adjustment
- Availability time windows
- Navigation app integration
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Create reliable multi-destination routes with your trusty copilot, RoadWarrior Route Planner. Designed for drivers, couriers and traveling professionals, RoadWarrior gives you a customized route based on real-time road traffic, client availability, and your own busy schedule. Last mile drivers and dispatchers can optimize hundreds of stops, customize routes and sync between web and mobile experiences. Road-tested since 2013 and recently partnered with MapQuest to leverage tremendous capabilities in terms of maps, mapping, routing, fleet management and logistics planning. Join thousands of drivers who save time, money and gas by relying on RoadWarrior Route Planner’s best-in-class optimization and driver-first design. Who can save time with RoadWarrior? - Professional couriers and delivery drivers: Drivers for Fedex, UPS, OnTrac, DPD, Amazon, logistics managers and many more! - Flower and gift delivery - Insurance agents - Fleet managers and dispatchers - Sales reps - Pharmaceutical sales - Landscapers - Realtors - Food delivery - Small businesses - Logistics workers - Motorcycle trip enthusiasts - Groups planning a roadtrip - Local running groups Download RoadWarrior Route Planner router now to get started with fast routes. Fleet managers can pair this app with the RoadWarrior Flex web product to manage multiple drivers. RoadWarrior Features - Plan delivery routes with multiple destinations - Optimize your routes for fast, gas-saving routing - Navigate using your favorite navigation app such as Apple Maps, Waze, HERE Maps, and more - Upload addresses in bulk via RoadWarrior’s quick upload tool - Even faster address and manifest file upload for FedEx and OnTrac drivers - Drag and drop your stops to adjust your route in seconds - Enable “Round Trip” options to create a closed loop in our route planner - Add availability time windows to arrive at locations during their open or delivery hours - Track your progress on your route by checking into locations - Send ETAs to clients on your route with Glympse integration - Search for addresses from the web, your contacts or simply click on the map What RoadWarriors Are Saying… “Lifesaver! Increased my number of deliveries by 40%” “Off the chain… as a Fedex Ground Contractor, this helps TREMENDOUSLY!” “I absolutely love this app, as a realtor it has saved me countless hours and gas.” Route Tracker For Pro Drivers The RoadWarrior Pro Route Planner upgrade unlocks premium features and increased capacity for optimization and smooth navigation. All the tools and reporting you need for logistics and last mile planning and reporting. RoadWarrior Pro is available as two auto-renewable subscriptions: 1) $14.99 USD per month 2) $100 USD per year Price may vary by location. Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your Apple account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel your renewal at any time on this App Store page. We’ve Got Your Back Learn more about RoadWarrior Route Planner at: https://support.roadwarrior.app If you encounter any issues or questions, please reach our friendly RoadWarrior customer support team here: support@roadwarrior.app. For the Geeks (TSP) RoadWarrior solves one of the most complex challenges known to computer science, the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP, TSPTW). RoadWarrior elegantly solves the TSP with a custom genetic algorithm specifically tailored for the professional driver/courier. Large transportation and courier companies (FedEx, UPS) have used this type of logistics productivity software for decades to optimize routes for high levels of efficiency. For the first time ever, RoadWarrior makes this powerful TSP software available to iOS drivers. Privacy Policy and Terms of Use https://roadwarrior.app/terms-of-service/
Create Own Map
Create custom offline maps of your surroundings to navigate easily. Mark important locations like home, parking, or favorite spots with custom icons. Ideal for those with poor direction or who dislike reading complex maps.
- Create custom offline maps
- Navigate without internet
- Drop and name location pins
- Assign custom icons to pins
- Track and draw routes
- Save and open created maps
- View street address with internet
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This app helps you create a custom map of your neighborhood and navigate without the need for internet connection or any pre-downloaded map. This app is particularly useful for anybody who has a poor sense of direction, or who can not read maps with so many uninteresting street names and directions. Let's assume you have just moved into a new home and you don't want to get lost when traveling around. This app helps you find your way back home easily. Another practical use of this app is to find where you have parked your car, find your favorite restaurant, store, hotel, or a particular building in a neighborhood. What the app does is that it tracks you and draws your route constantly. You can drop a pin on any location that you are interested in. You can give the pin a name and assign it an icon using a variety of image options. In this way, you will have a clear view of the region you are interested in. You can follow the route to take you back to the departing point. You can save the created map. The next time you can open it and follow the route to take you to the location pins. If the internet connection is available too, then tapping the current location will show you the street address and the address is also saved with the location pins. In order to delete or rename a saved map, swipe the desired row in your map book and select the appropriate action. The premium version enables the save and open features.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: RoadWarrior Route Planner at 60% against Create Own Map's 0%. RoadWarrior Route Planner also leads on rating (4.6 vs 1.3) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 17 months). Create Own Map's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. RoadWarrior Route Planner sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month and Create Own Map sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
RoadWarrior Route Planner holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RoadWarrior Route Planner has 7.5K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of RoadWarrior Route Planner's written reviews are positive against 0% of Create Own Map's.
RoadWarrior Route Planner ships an update every 3 weeks, Create Own Map every 17 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RoadWarrior Route Planner | Create Own Map |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (7.5K ratings) — better | 1.3 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.5% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7.5K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 17 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | #29 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 251 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MapQuest Holdings LLC | Bita Sobhani |
Customer experience
RoadWarrior Route Planner
Create Own Map
Bugs and requests
RoadWarrior Route Planner
Reported bugs
5 issues- Addresses disappearing after route optimization
- Incorrect address mapping and navigation
- Crashes when switching between apps
- Stops getting deleted unexpectedly
- Inability to cancel subscription
Requested features
8 requests- Ability to manage team and routes from app or web
- Option to manually reorder stops
- Support for address scanning/importing
- Offline map support
- Search bar for finding addresses
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- Ability to add notes and labels to stops
- Automatic route adjustment based on traffic conditions
- Support for more than 120 stops per route
Create Own Map
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
RoadWarrior Route Planner
- Road Warrior Pro7 Days trial$14.991 Month
- Road Warrior Pro1 Month trial$14.991 Month
- Road Warrior Pro7 Days trial$99.991 Year
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- RoadWarrior Pro7 Days trial$119.991 Year
- RoadWarrior Pro Annual7 Days trial$119.991 Year
Create Own Map
- Premium$1.99
Questions
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