Best Trip Planning Driving Apps

4.6😐(61K ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

#51in Travel

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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.

What We Love

🚀 Helpful for planning road trips
👍 Useful for finding interesting stops
📍 Ability to add and rearrange stops
🗺️ Provides route and distance information

Room to Improve

🔒 Subscription required for full functionality
🗺️ Inaccurate or outdated location information
🔍 Limited search capabilities
🤔 Confusing or unintuitive user interface

Waze Navigation & Live Traffic by Waze Inc.

Avoid traffic, police, hazards

Strong Contender

4.8😊(3.2M ratings)

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#2in Navigation

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Navigate your commute with real-time traffic updates and alerts from a community of drivers. Get accurate ETAs, avoid hazards, and find gas stations and parking. Integrates with your car's display for seamless use.

What We Love

🚀 Accurate real-time traffic updates
🚗 Helpful hazard and incident reporting
📍 Precise navigation and route guidance
🗺️ Community-driven map updates
⏱️ Accurate ETA estimates
🔔 Useful alerts for speed cameras, police, etc.
🎨 Customizable voice and avatar options
💬 Ability to share ETA with contacts

Room to Improve

🐛 Unreliable route recalculation
🚧 Inaccurate or outdated road closure information
🔍 Difficulty finding and reporting issues
🔋 High battery drain
📱 Distracting in-app advertisements
🔀 Odd routing suggestions that increase travel time
🔇 Inconsistent or annoying voice prompts
🗺️ Lack of lane guidance and turn-by-turn directions

Road Trip Planner Viewer by Kyle Modesitt

Easily plan your road trips

Worth Considering

Places, navigation & traffic

4.1😞(2.6K ratings)

Free

View your road trip plans on your Apple device. This free app lets you open and explore Road Trip Planner files created on other platforms. It's ideal for sharing and reviewing trip itineraries without needing the full editing software.

What We Love

🚀 Intuitive and multi-featured
🚀 Great for planning and travel
🚀 Terrific app
🚀 Easy to use
🚀 Awesome
🚀 Just right

Room to Improve

🐛 Directions needed
🐛 Cumbersome to use
🐛 Not user friendly
🐛 Need a tutorial to navigate
🐛 Limited places per file
🐛 App is terrible, desktop version great
🐛 Lacks detail, doesn't integrate with Google Maps
🐛 Confusing app
🐛 Hard to use
🐛 Not working
🐛 Almost useless
🐛 Scrambles stops
🐛 Doesn't have all roads
🐛 Wish it worked for me
🐛 Totally frustrating
🐛 Very difficult
🐛 Can't map a very common route
🐛 Hard to understand
🐛 No instructions on how to export
🐛 It's limited
🐛 Lame
🐛 Unknown
🐛 Cat fish for purchasing
🐛 Nicht ausgereift
🐛 Don't waste your time on this
🐛 No elevation chart as advertized
🐛 Bait and switch
🐛 Terrible
🐛 Rip-off
🐛 Just a map app
🐛 Weird
🐛 Waste of money
🐛 Crappy app
🐛 Too difficult to use
🐛 BS - Not Free and a waste of time
🐛 Crashes
🐛 VERY difficult to use
🐛 Stupid
🐛 Rip off
🐛 Can't save? What's the point
🐛 Frustrating
🐛 Unusable
🐛 Leider nur ein Viewer
🐛 Hopeless couldn't even gut it to load a map
🐛 Crashes

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$3.99

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Worldwide map with pin placementDetailed trip itinerary creationPin data includes dates, times, notes, images

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Live cruise coordinationShared destinations with individual routesCustom route planning

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AI-powered trip itinerariesLive highway amenity mapAI narration of landmarks

This app uses AI to plan personalized road trips, suggesting stops based on your interests and vehicle. It also provides live highway information, AI-powered narration of landmarks, and tools for managing your vehicles and discovering new destinations.

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Offline itinerary accessDaily event summariesLocation contact and navigation

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This app helps drivers maximize their stops on the road. It offers faster rewards, mobile fueling, and the ability to reserve amenities like showers and parking. Easily find Pilot stores and the services you need for your journey.

Simplified rewards programOrder food and drinksReserve showers and parking