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Roadtrippers - Trip Planner App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ Really badDon’t waste your money, this app doesn’t accept GPS coordinates. It also doesn’t find a lot of small places like Nugget City, Yukon as an exemple when other app like Road Trip Planner find it and it cost only $8.49 life time compare to Roadtrippers at $38.99/year..Version: 4.7.4
✓ Used to be FreeLimited to 7 stops on a road trip....dumb.Version: 4.9.0
✓ US onlyDoesn’t find places in the UK.Version: 5.4.7
✓ Poor routing systemI try to use Roadtrippers to plan motorcycle rides and I don’t always want to use the shortest most efficient route after all it’s about the ride. There is no way to select what route you want to take other than plot through towns and most small towns the program does not recognize. It is extremely frustrating when you are trying to plan a route that a group is going to ride that covers hundreds even thousands of miles. The share feature is nice as it makes it easy to distribute the map, but when it doesn’t follow the proper route people get lost because they follow the line and not the written notes. I would be happy to improve my rating if the would allow me to drop pins or pick the route that I want to use between cities. Or even give me the ability to do both so I can drop pins for rally points on the map. These are just a couple of features that would make this software much better and more user friendly. Also expand the map search feature so that it picks everything up that’s on the map there are many small towns that you search for and it has no clue where they are, but it will pick up a town in another country by the same name..Version: 4.5.14
✓ RubbishNot a usable app in Australia. Can only find current location but can’t find a town as large as Eden in NSW. Every search shows USA places..Version: 4.7.3
✓ Good while it lastedThis app is begin gimped so they can push an $80 (now $29) a year pay service for it which is absolutely ridiculous. It serves some purpose still, but it's no longer my go to. I use trip advisor, atlas obscura, and TripCase. Not sure what they were thinking trying to charge a huge annual fee when most apps charge a low one time fee to unlock features. The upgrades are not worth the asking price, believe me. 60 more waypoints and a darker map option as it stands. Otherwise, locations missing and no way to add them. No way to 'easily' route a road like you might do on a, you know, road trip.... Route 66 or blue Ridge Parkway for example. They also do not respond to emails if you have feed back or issues. I used to love this app and might have paid a one time fee to support them, but $80 is laughable and annually! Hah! What seemed ok when it was free (or would have been with a reasonable charge) comes under more serious scrutiny and doesn't hold up. Thanks for dropping waypoints to 30! Done with this app..Version: 4.6.5
✓ Lacking in Canadian Loactions and AccuracyTrying to plan a road trip in British Columbia but the app fails to have accurate details and locations. Hopefully soon it will expand to include more locations with proper information..Version: 4.8.8
✓ Premium serviceI be nice to have a demo of premium service or standard version with apple car play as to use apple car play it has to be paid version. This seem a bit outdated when they simply could put a 7 day activation. When apps do this I stay well clear of them..Version: 5.6.3
✓ CostlyUnfortunately I downloaded this as an Apple recommendation and then as I added the sixth stop ( back home) I ran out of free waypoints. It’s too bad cause looks like a potentially great app but I will delete it before I ever use it. 30.00 ???.Version: 4.9.0
✓ Not GlobalApp only supports USA, Australia and NZ for now. Should at least mention earlier in description copy or screenshots..Version: 4.5.1
✓ Totally inaccurate local infoI just downloaded the app and just searching around me it’s showing businesses so old that they were gone before I even moved to this city 10 years ago. How useful is an app that shows you local info if all that info is false? Update in response to developer: When I say that there are closed businesses being shown - I mean easily 2/3 of the businesses it’s showing are closed, and the info for ones that are still open are painfully outdated. I did submit about five changes through the app for businesses that are closed. Even if the businesses that were closed were updated, there are still tons of new business that do exist that aren’t there, or updates to existing businesses that aren’t there. If my local area is so completely inaccurate and out of date, then I have no faith that I’ll be able to find useful information in other parts of the country using this app - and I’m definitely not going to pay to find out..Version: 4.8.15
✓ :(Used to be free and now it’s stupid expensive just to put over 7 waypoints?? That’s the entire purpose of the app why would you make it unavailable the everyday person who can’t dish out £6.50 a month on a map. Dumb.Version: 4.7.1
✓ Faulty appJust downloaded it. Tried starting a new trip and it presents eight or ten icons of choices (Things to do, sights to see etc). But if you pick one, the rest disappear and a inch of words appear on top of each other! Very amateurish. Not impressed..Version: 4.8.8
✓ Seems reasonable but overly challengingTrying to to create an account with this app has been the struggle of a lifetime. I incorrectly missed a letter with my email, so it tried to send confirmation emails to a nonexistent email. There was no way to correct it. After half an hour, & a hundred confirmation emails, of trying to figure out a way to correct a simple mistake, I gave up. I was then able to set up an account with my real email, but when I downloaded the app, it assumed I was still trying to use the incorrect email. I then purchased the plus version of the app, & tried to access it on my desktop. I now cannot access the account because it says the password is incorrect, & there is no way to change it, because when I try to change the email, it says an error occurred. There is no winning in this hellscape. Who would make an app this confusing & frustrating? Every email to change the password forces you to receive another email confirming you would like to change the password, which then takes you to a Google page to actually change the password. This of course doesn’t matter because the app itself has no way of actually remembering that I changed the password. I now have two accounts because of the nonfunctional technology of the app, & neither accounts work the way they were intended. Every email sent to change a password The email expired after 24 hours, so.Version: 4.12.0
✓ Wouldn’t recommend for planning trips outside the USAQuite hard to search by land marks in Europe as it will only find the equivalents in the USA..Version: 4.14.4
✓ PoorThis is a poor app you can only add 5 stops to your trip, so if your planning a long road trip they want you to buy the full version of the app for $39.Version: 4.6.8
✓ Waypoint limit too low since update.Free version is now next to useless with only 5 waypoints. That is not nearly enough for a road trip of anything more than a day. Old version was great..Version: 4.6.5
✓ Pas plus que 7 points possible sur la map.Très décevant de perdre son temps à débuter un trajet pour que après 7 points on t’avise que tu ne peux en rajouter dans payer 10$/mois ou 40$/ans.Version: 4.7.0
✓ Feature Removed!Can no longer find service stations for fuel along my route..Version: 4.0.0
✓ Change routeI am having a problem changing the route I wish to take.Version: 4.16.1
✓ Useless for the UK.London to Windsor. Sort of worked. Windsor to Bath worked. Bath to Olney it had no idea. Was useless from there. Google allows 10 locations. This allows 7 before demanding $48 a year..Version: 4.14.13
✓ Too expensiveI’ve used this app so much over the last few years and it is truly great. But it now requires a subscription to access more than 7 waypoints and it’s ridiculously overpriced. Feels really greedy. I’d willingly pay £10 for an annual subscription but 25£+ is ridiculous. They’re bound to lose custom so I say to them - drop the price and you’ll actually make some good money I’m sure..Version: 4.7.1
✓ Missing islandsDoesn't have santorini.Version: 4.3.4
✓ Not Canada FriendlySearching for cities and/or towns in Canada? Nope. Only US place names come up in search. Deleted the app is quickly as I downloaded it..Version: 5.1.2
✓ Unable to preplanPaid for pro to preplan a trip for Sepetember. Route planning doesn’t work due to seasonal road closures ..Version: 4.14.1
✓ Good if you’re willing to pay and will use it oftenEDIT: it got worse!!! Now the free version only lets you view ONE trip! And you can only add one stop between your starting and final destination. Garbage. Disappointing. Not for the casual road tripper. 👎🏽 TLDR: functions great for showing you stops and attractions, but the free version is now useless and $40 isn’t worth it The good: - pretty much shows you all the possible attractions/stops/things you’d need and want for planning a road trip The bad: - not worth the money if you don’t road-trip often (even then, $40-$60 for an app is hard to justify) - when I used it , it still had a free option where you could add up to 7 stops, and now that’s been reduced to 3, which is practically useless - drive times were inaccurate, different from google maps by as much as 2 hours - I can’t even view my past road tips because it had more than 7 stops which is just cheap- seriously? I can’t even look at where I went? Sure, gotta get paid but that seems excessive and unnecessary. No one’s gonna do the exact same road trip twice so there’s no need to keep me from seeing it..Version: 5.5.1
✓ DisappointedPoor functionality in Canada. Doesn’t recognize many cities or towns..Version: 4.11.2
✓ Good while it lastedI’ve been using Roadtrippers for years and learned today that if I want continue using this app I’ll have to subscribe?? Like really. This must have happened within the past two months because I just used it in March or April to plan a long road trip with no restrictions. I used to love this app to find waypoints and points of interest on my cross country road trips, just to see what’s along the way or if there were interesting places close to the route. I liked the gas and distance feature. All good items for someone who loves to plan and map out logistics. I’m an intense trip planner, and use this app as a starting point to do further research on google and TripAdvisor. I’ve come to really love this app. And upon opening today any future trip I try to plan I can only have 5 waypoints. They say 7 but the starting and ending point of your trip each count. So in reality you only have “5” free waypoints. I usually have 10+. For a price of $30 a year this app isn’t worth it for the infrequency of the trips I take or even if I would be a more frequent traveler. And with everyone else wanting a subscription, I’ll just delete this because there are services like Google, and TripAdvisor I’ll just use now in the future. I loved having all of them, I’d pay $1-$3 a month to keep, but now your just a waste of space in my phone..Version: 4.6.8
✓ Still no landscape modeWhile great for planning, it still offers no landscape mode on iPad or iPhone when reviewing and exploring the map..Version: 4.7.1
✓ Was great until the excessive chargeApp is great and the best in the market... except now you have very very limited features unless you pay the ridiculous annual charge (26 quid)?! Don’t bother downloading..Version: 4.7.5
✓ I Hate EmailsI Hate Emails.....unlike some people, I read every email I receive....Roadtrippers seemed like a good app until it sent me 3 emails in 3 days since I clicked on the “unsubscribe” link. So I now hate Roadtrippers and I am looking forward to deleting the app which will happen very soon!.Version: 4.5.9
✓ Milking customersRoadtrippers lowered the maximum number of stops in a road trip to 8 in the free version. This is obviously too low to force customers to buy the plus subscription, that you can only pay for an entire year at once ! Do they believe that their customers are on the road for entire years at once ? Incredibly scummy tactic to force people to pay for a service that they will use only for a few weeks most likely. The bare minimum would be to let us buy Roadtrippers Plus on a month to month basis. Until that is possible I won’t use this anymore..Version: 4.6.3
✓ Solid start but a ways to go.Moving from RV Trip wizard since they only really support campgrounds since are now staying in Hotels/resorts there are some notable gaps. 1. Date mgmt. Typically we plan around getting the hardest places booked and work around those for places to stay and things to do. This app only supports arrival day, not multiple day stays and doesn’t help by showing gaps in the calendar so you have to manage the calendar separately. 2. Most information has to kept in the waypoint free text note field (eg confirmation info, how long to leave for a POI, how many days you are staying, etc) which has two problems. 2.a you cant really get a detailed route/itinerary since its all in text. Route planner shows the day of arrival but not in printed route. 2.b the collaboration idea is cool, but this text field is not shared with collaborators so you have to distribute/discuss sep. 3. No driving radius or ability to set how far you want to drive in a day. Not sure how travel time is specifically calculated and you can’t adjust for those of us that prefer to get there fast so you have to do your own calcs. Seems very conservative. The map UI and POI integration are pretty cool. Have done a reasonable job with places to stay but some smaller B&B places have to be added via their address vs name search. If you are driving a normal vehicle I haven’t found anything better so hopefully some of these other gaps get closed..Version: 4.14.13
✓ Not helpfulThis is the first App I have regretted purchasing. This App is not user friendly for multiple day trips.... you should be able to analyse segments of a complex road trip. Also I am using this from Australia and the conte t is very poor. No reviews of restaurants, hotels, etc. you are better off with Google Maps and Trip Advisor. Also, when I purchased the app it appeared that the only option was a 1 year subscription, but when managing my subscriptions in iTunes there is a monthly option. So I am out $50 when I could have tested it for a month at something like $10. Not happy..Version: 4.8.7
✓ Didn’t meet my expectationsI recently use the road trippers app for a road trip on my motorcycle with a buddy of mine. Apparently it only brings up restaurants and hotels that pay to be on this app. We were in a town with restaurants and diners all around us and nothing was coming up on the app. If a road was closed and we had to reroute it put us on some roads that weren’t the best for motorcycles. There was periods for a mile or more to in Ohio where it couldn’t route us in the proper direction. It showed our location but no route to follow. Other areas it’s Ennis down roads that have been closed for years and we had to turn around and head back into a different direction and then wouldn’t reroute us. I’m feeling like the $30 for the app wasn’t well spent. The directions and the GPS worked pretty well for the most part but it seems I’ve could’ve gotten the same from Google Maps without spending a dime..Version: 4.7.1
✓ Version updateWell looks like I Can’t use Roadtrippers anymore, won’t load on my iPad and won’t let me use the older version.Version: 4.14.6
✓ Not great for Canada tripsTried to create a simple trip in western Canada but the app search failed to find locations, instead bringing up USA locations. Frustrated so deleted the app..Version: 4.14.1
✓ OkGood, app for planning a trip through the USA but lacking for Canada..Version: 5.2.1
✓ Outdated InfoDownloaded, checked out restaurants in my area - Holly Outdated Info Batman ! Bye bye..Version: 4.11.4
✓ Very sad - was great before the updateConstant errors in the new Road Plus - received many email notes blaming someone else for the mapping problems - this COULD be so good but....Version: 4.5.4
✓ It is a mysteryI am facing to understand what I do with this program. I make a trip, return later, and it is gone..Version: 4.14.4
✓ The most troublesome travel app.As we travel using this app we must re-enter cookie preferences each time the app opened. We must re-enter our vehicle information (all of it) each time we opened the app. I tried contacting the company but it allowed no contact info other than e-mail and their response time may be days later which by then we were many hundreds of miles further into the trip and when there was a response it was a friendly response but there was no help at all. No one could ever tell me why I must re-enter all the information as though it’s the first time using the app. There was no help. Just friendly responses. They had no phone number to call for technical assistance. No help at all. Just lip service by email. It became very frustrating. I couldn’t trust that the map was taking us on roads that allowed clearance for our vehicle. I quit using the app during our first trip. I tried again on our next trip. Same problems. Same Customer Service system. I informed them that their app was a real waste of money. They could care less. As my membership grew close to the end I sent an email asking for confirmation to my request NOT TO RENEW. I never got a response. I tried contacting them today and haven’t gotten a response. Note: I initially joined the Roadpass Pro membership based on an ad by Jason Esperson. I used to watch his videos. Now I have nothing to do with TOGO RV..Version: 5.4.6
✓ App is limitedI attempted to contact the developers, but it’s impossible to provide feedback to them directly because their form doesn’t display correctly in the app on the phone. There’s a field missing that must be checked in order to send messages, and you can’t get past it. It’s impossible. There’s no email listed for contacting anyone, and no phone number either. This guide provides great information when you’re on the road, but what about planning ahead? It would be great to see the route ahead of time to be able to choose routes and plan stops along the way prior to leaving. I thought that was what this app helped with. It is nice to have all the resources in one place, don’t get me wrong. But I’d like to see future trips to plan... set a trip between dates, and plan stops along the way. That’s all. Decent app for information and storing routes, otherwise, operability is limited. Capability and forward planning is limited. I would only recommend this once in the road..Version: 4.8.6
✓ Dissatisfied with “update”This used to be a great app where you could find quirkier, more out-of-the-way type stops to plan a fun and interesting road trip. Plenty of stops and addresses could be added to make sure you weren’t missing things or taking too long of a route. Now they want you to pay $30 PER YEAR if you want to be able to add more than 5 stops (they say the limit on way points is 7, but then they include your starting and ending locations in those 7, effectively making it 5 stops). Definitely not worth that much, I’d be happy to pay $5/year or heck, maybe even $5/trip, but this is way too much for this type of app, even if it worked perfectly 100% of the time. This makes an easy decision to delete. Google maps is easy enough to use for free. PS they’re also selling your info (see reviews from last fall for more info, no sense in me restating the details).Version: 4.6.4
✓ Broken after updateWill not allow me to update trips or add new locations.Version: 4.5.0
✓ European currency support?I find it highly perplexing why this app doesn’t have support for British Pounds or Euros. If you’re marketing an app in an European store, the least you can do is make it compatible. *sigh* I’d be happy to increase my score if this is rectified, though..Version: 4.7.0
✓ Not Good for CanadaNo Banff, AB or Golden, BC!.Version: 4.14.12
✓ Truly frustratingI got this app years back and have used it multiple times but today I went to create a trip and it limits your way points until you subscribe. $38/year is way too much for a subscription to this. They totally need to rethink what they are charging. A one time purchase fee might be worth it it not this subscription BS...bye Roadtrippers.Version: 4.7.4
✓ Subscription Required Now?!I’ve used this app a handful of times when going on long road trips.. maybe two to three times a year. When it was free, it was awesome. I just logged in to plan a trip for my in-laws when they visit CA and drive up the coast.. but sadly found that the app now requires, not just a one-time payment, but a monthly or yearly subscription?! I get that developers need to make money, but this is a bit ridiculous. There is no reason to pay a yearly subscription if I’m only going to use it once or twice. Nor does it make sense to sign up for a month.. then remember to cancel.. then sign up again when I want to use it again.. then cancel. What a hassle. It also prevents me from helping friends and family plan out trips when they visit, because most would be hard pressed to buy an app let alone subscribe to one. I fully understand this is my opinion, and there are others that obviously love the app and (luckily) travel enough to find the new required cost negligible. While I enjoyed the app during trip planning (mind you, I still used google maps or Waze with addresses from Roadtrippers entered in), it’s not enough for me to subscribe when I can use google maps and a little bit of research to build my own map for free and have high quality and accurate navigation..Version: 4.7.0
✓ 5* until they added subscriptionMe and 3 friends used this app to plan a road trip from Chicago to LA and this app was great, not found another app that even comes close, we have almost 30 stops on so far but now when we try to add more or change them it says we can only have 7 stops unless we pay for the £26/year subscription which is ridiculous. Would happily pay up to £10 for a one off payment to unlock the Roadtrippers plus due to how useful this app is but cannot justify paying a £26/year subscription. If you are planning a short trip and only require 7 stops this app is perfect..Version: 4.6.5
✓ Free version pointlessBesides the fact you can only add 5 visit points in the free version, the actual usability of this app isn‘t great either. Finding and selecting destinations, points of Interest etc is difficult on a mobile screen as its based around selecting areas on a map, which once zoomed in far enough to see the pin points, loses all context of where these things are on the map. I would not purchase the plus version for this reason. To be honest the desktop version is equally as bad and a far cry from what roadtrippers used to be when I first discovered them many years ago..Version: 4.7.4
✓ Don’t download if you’re AussieCompletely pointless for anything outside of wherever they developed this not even small towns which have large populations are listed even places on google maps are not on this app, pointless.Version: 4.8.12
✓ PriceyI looked at the app and was at first pleasantly surprised by how well it worked and what a great help it would be for planning my trip. However after 7 way points you have to pay an eye watering 24 pounds! I would have payed 10 so with this price they lose a plus member. Shame.Version: 4.8.12
✓ Was great, now £25 a year 😲This is a great app, but the new annual subscription is ridiculously priced. Happy to pay a one-off, but £25 a year is absurd! Used this to plan many trips in the past, but will be using Google or looking elsewhere..Version: 4.6.6
✓ Quite good so farVersion 4.1.2 Planning US road trip and found this which helps planning etc. Though some annoying bits. -Each new part I have to drag to the bottom manually, when I'm adding them in order of where we are going. -I have to log onto website to set privacy of the plan, no option in app. -Not app related, but the website: Everytime I click on other search windows to find accommodations and POI etc. The Trip window keeps the other search information until I close and reopen from scratch from profile. Will update this shortly..Version: 4.1.2
✓ Very limited in Australia.Most outback towns and even larger cities in NSW and I assume other states can’t be selected. Not really usable in Australia for a road trip, unless you are tripping between the few main cities provided..Version: 4.8.12
✓ Not freeUpgrade is inevitable.Version: 4.8.6
✓ No buyJust downloaded the free app wanting a road trip to Paris ON Canada. The app didn’t locate it. I’ll pass the paid version..Version: 4.6.8
✓ Locked up all my old tripsLoved this app, used it for years then they decided to lock down the amount of “free way points” you could have on a trip. Ok fine, we adjusted. Now all our old trips we had kept for memories are locked down so we can’t even look at them anymore without paying. Trash.Version: 5.5.1
✓ Not badEasy to use but not enough info on sites etc. Need to be able to print route, names of towns where you want to stop. I’ll keep checking it’s development but not yet worth $42 per year usage fee..Version: 4.6.4
✓ 60 second evalAfter selecting a starting point, and searching for the next point, the suggestions are not location dependent, instead of looking up something sensible like location names which are physically closer it is alphabetical. It would take way too long to use this app for a planner, a spreadsheet is better..Version: 4.7.4
✓ BrutalDownloaded this for a roadtrip from toronto to tampa. it couldn’t find the first two hotels i’m staying at booked thru trip advisor- ‘destination not found’ so i had to copy / paste the hotels addresses? lol how is this even possible. garbage. deleted..Version: 4.12.0
✓ Not intuitive, used to be goodNot enough menus for populating a route with specific interests….Version: 4.14.4
✓ Hopeless !!The first attempt to plan a route has been a disaster from the start. I live on the Isle of Man which has a ferry service to Heysham and your app has suggested that I get a ferry to Dublin and then to Holyhead. There are no ferries to Ireland at this time of year and why would I do 2 ferries when 1 is there to the UK?.Version: 4.12.0
✓ US onlyThis app is useless if you aren’t in the US. I was trying to use the app to travel within Canada, and the app would not locate Canadian towns. Waste of time. I’m deleting this app now..Version: 5.3.3
✓ Too hard to useUnclear and clunky.Version: 4.4.1
✓ Towns?How do you tons and cities on map?.Version: 4.8.12
✓ Not really Canada Ready...I travel Canada extensively and not just within city limits. I just downloaded to see what the app had to offer and so far I found its very outdated. I looked at a few places I’ve traveled that have established attractions and hotels and they are not even listed as an option. On another note, great framework and with the right marketing and updates it could be a great go to app for travelers. Keep up the hard work..Version: 4.7.2
✓ Paid subscription but apps keep losing itThis happened two years ago when I had a subscription also. Just paid for a new annual subscription and yet almost every time I try to log back in I have to go through gymnastics fiddling about trying to get into the app again or it lets me login but forgets that I have a subscription and won’t let me access any of the plus or pro features so then it keeps losing trips that I’ve built and saved. And yet somehow it saves a few of them. And it seems to always have confusion about logging in for Roadtrippers versus road pass. Thought all of that would’ve been fixed since all my troubles with it two years ago. This app is a great idea but I have so much trouble with it. It’s really frustrating and just makes the process of trip planning a lot harder and more time-consuming than it would’ve been without it. really disappointed and I’m still locked out again. Someone from customer service. Please fix this and make this work better for me. I already sent in a Help request..Version: 5.5.1
✓ Impossible to end your subscriptionAwful and no assistance possible. Had to call my bank to stop payments. Might as well be scam artists..Version: 4.8.2
✓ No longer free, not worth $30As someone who can’t really afford frequent travel, I was very excited to have the opportunity to plan a long road trip I could actually go on this summer. I was prepared to break the trip up into two legs on the app as I was aware of the 60 waypoint limit, but commencing my travel plans today I’ve discovered I have been limited to 5 waypoints per trip (starting and ending each count as one stop in your new 7 waypoint limit). If I want more I will need to pay the $30 annual subscription fee. I understand that the app needs to make money, but $30 just to use the app for one trip is simply too much for me to reason. I used to love this app, used to even recommend it to people. While some of the waypoints have the wrong address or have been closed or simply aren’t listed etc it was still super easy to use the map just to figure out what kind of stops were along the way to your destination of choice. It’s always been glitchy, but it was a fun way to collect information (definitely never used it on an actual route, though, as gps was very off). Very disappointed that greed has taken over the company. I guess I’ll be heading over to google maps from now on..Version: 4.6.4
✓ Missing locationsThere are places not available on the app and not option to add them in manually.Version: 4.9.0
✓ First timerHard to navigate when first starting out..Version: 5.3.4
✓ Not hoot yetWon’t sort trip to itinerary order on phone Needs proper rewrite! Don’t buy premium It does not work!!.Version: 4.5.9
✓ It used to be greatI’ve been using and recommending this app for years but after they created the subscription, It became pretty hard (annoying) to use. You can’t see more than one category in the map (like attractions and outdoors) so you gotta keep changing categories. Also, it’s doesn’t show rest atos anymore. I understand you gotta make money and I would pay the monthly price for the road trip usage but the app doesn’t show that option, it just shows annual? I’m not gonna pay $40/year when I have one road trip to use. $19 is fair but not $40!.Version: 4.13.1
✓ Great travelling appIt’s a great travelling app on your mobile device but for some reason it’s slow as molasses on the PC. Has millions of points of interests and things to do in the USA but could use a LOT more Canadian content seeing as we have some of the best provincial and federal parks in the world..Version: 4.8.7
✓ Great if u have full mobile service otherwise.....Even with downloading all wa maps for offline, it is absolutely useless without internet connection. Even when full internet service available it gets stuck on last location and can’t identify you have driven 200km.Version: 4.7.1
✓ Doesn’t offer camping optionsDisappointed.Version: 5.6.2
✓ For some reason NZ dollars is on there but no GBP or euroNot exactly focusing on a large part of the market.Version: 4.6.8
✓ Doesn’t really work for EuropePlanning a European road trip starting in Rotterdam, the search can’t find the city. Even when I use the address of the port, still can’t be found. Many attractions within Europe just don’t show up in the search..Version: 4.15.0
✓ Geared to USAAlthough routes may be plotted around Europe This is mainly geared to the USA Never get any ‘tips’ on traveling Europe Sorry purchased this as there are several good apps concentrating on Europe with much better information Also support is diabolical.Version: 4.14.0
✓ UselessCouldnt make head nor tails ofd this one Kept using my current Australia location when I was planning a USA trip. Soo frustrating.Version: 4.4.3
✓ Useless in EuropeUnfortunately, pretty useless in Europe. Finds zero attractions even on major highways..Version: 4.14.4
✓ Good app, not greatThis is a really good app. Definitely recommend it. Mostly an easy way to put a trip together, plan stops, construct a map. I would give it 5 stars except for a few very frustrating things that drag this app down. And could easily be fixed. I do understand that maybe it’s user error, but … When you are on a trip, you open the trip and it goes to your current location in Map View. However, when you open the List View for that trip, why doesn’t it go to your current location instead of starting from day one and you have to scroll all the way down until you find what you’re looking for. The way dates are managed is a complete nightmare. Changing the dates of an entire trip is such a hassle. And you cannot plan a trip without dates as once you add your first date, the app puts every single waypoint on a separate date!! Who thought that was a good idea?! You can add things that are not on the map already, but you can only add an address, you cannot label the address as to what it is. There are a lot of things that are not included on the map that I would like to add to my trips. And label with a name. This app is not a standalone app. You need other sources to complete the picture. Especially because there is a blue line indicating your route that completely covers up the highway numbers. Highway numbers are essential to trip planning. Also, can you update the gas pricing? It’s no where near accurate. And organize the trips into past and upcoming/future?.Version: 5.8.1
✓ Horra_appHorra awful app!.Version: 4.14.9
✓ HopelessI enter starting and ending locations and the app just crashes back the home screen. Repeatedly. Waste of time - deleting..Version: 3.0.5
✓ Recent change leaves bitter tasteRoadtrippers recently severely limited its usefulness by downgrading what users are able to do unless they upgrade. This means that the many trips I have saved are not editable because they contain too many stops, known as waypoints. Previously users were able to creat 60 waypoints. This is now limited to 7 unless one upgrades. Prior to this, the site and app has decent mapping options but there are several features lacking, like the ability to easily reverse a trip. I used this as a planning tool, mostly for trips that return to the origin, and sometimes it makes sense to change a route to go in reverse. Not easily done. One has to move every waypoint manually to achieve this. Also, the accuracy and limit of locations in their database limits the ability to plan trips. Sometimes whole roads are missing so a route can’t be mapped. These limitations with the addition of being forced to upgrade means Roadtrippers is no longer useful..Version: 4.6.4
✓ Only seems to show citiesNot good if your planning to stop at little town/villages in the UK. Has a lot of places missing, doesn’t allow you to pin drop on the places it doesn’t pick up.Version: 4.7.5
✓ ShameReally thought this would have been a good app but not willing to pay £26 a year for it!.Version: 4.7.4
✓ Why not in Europe?I like the app and its functionality. However it does not manage any European currencies. A support to Europe would bring 2 more stars..Version: 4.5.6
✓ Was good while it lastedBeen using this app for many years, traveling the USA, trying to cover all 50 states with my kids. It’s always been glitchy, when selecting categories it would ignore my selections and show items I didn’t want to see, the map has been inaccurate and has misguided us more than once, but all in all, it was okay, 4/5 stars. However... they just reduced the number of waypoints to 7 per trip in their free app, which to me rendered it useless; I see at least 20-30 things on each trip. They are charging $30/yr if I want to add more stops. Well, I’m not going to do that, there are plenty of other ways to find stops on our trips, without the glitchy performance. Hopefully the developers realize that it’s a bad idea and it’s not going to work. I’m guessing your loyal users are mass exiting! I used to recommend this to my friends and family but now... I’m out, and will tell everyone else I’ve talked to about it to move on. Shouldn’t have ruined it.....Version: 4.6.4
✓ No horizontal view on iPad.I’m just planning my first trip but was surprised I can’t use the landscape mode on my iPad. I like the ability to modify trip routes easily. I wish it was linked into google maps better for all the reviews of things, it’s not so that’s a lot of back and forth to get the real goods..Version: 4.7.2
✓ Great app, but painful subscriptionI’ve been a long-time user of Roadtrippers. I love the app - it’s a hell of a service they provide. I recommend(ed) it to most people I know. But their move to a subscription plan (championed by Apple, as they push their developers to sell subscriptions rather than one-time purchase fees) is infuriating. The least Roadtrippers could have done was give a free year or two to current users like so many other apps have over the years (think Reddit’s purchase of Alien Blue), but all of a sudden I’m unable to access & edit my previous trips because they have “too many waypoints.” I don’t blame an app for trying to make money, especially not an app that provides a service this good. But a little courtesy to the users that have been loyal for years would’ve been nice..Version: 4.6.5
✓ Canadian Atlantic tripApp keeps pointing to US destinations and attractions. Not a very good app for Canadians. Wish I hadn’t bought it.Version: 4.14.4
✓ They want $$$Can’t do more than 7 locations without paying. Their argument is that 7 locations is enough for most trips, but I’ve planned countless trips on this app and never created a single trip on here that used 7 or less locations. Basically they sold out on their original vision to try to get more money. With the million things I already pay, a travel app is not going to be another one. Sad, because I loved it otherwise. CHANGE IT BACK and you’ll get me back..Version: 4.6.3
✓ Keeps changing datesWould be a reasonable app, but has a bad flaw that it changes dates on a whim. I've entered my itinerary and specifically selected each date I am arriving at a location. When I go back to review, all the dates get shifted by a day. Very frustrating as it means the app cannot be trusted when accurately planning the trip. Also, it should detect if a date is wrong- ie if my itinerary has going from a to b to c, it should not allow the date at c to be earlier than the date for b. But it does..Version: 3.2.6
✓ Spoiled by overpricingI’ve used this App for the last 3years but and recommended to friends and family but with the new subscription app I cannot justify the charge so will have to look for an alternative platform to support trip planning!.Version: 4.8.11
✓ Doesn’t cover Europe!Annoyingly this does not cover Europe. Whilst you can search away on the map and add destinations manually it simply doesn’t recognise smaller destinations in the search option..Version: 5.4.5
✓ Terrible trip planning app.I do not know where others are coming from, but I have been planning road trips, 2000+ mile rv trips, extended work travel, etc for many years using many planning tools. This is by far the most worthless tool I have ever used. It does an OK job of identifying points of interest (if they’re even located properly) but the app does not provide even the most basic of needed information. Such as trip leg distances, driving radius from last overnight stay, etc. for someone who like to set a max daily travel distance, or perhaps try to plan an arrival time in order to have time and energy to sight see or have a relaxing meal this is a must. To top things off, this planner nearly cost me an entire day, or worse by locating a hotel stop on my route map - that was no where near my route. They had the correct address but the wrong city! Had I just booked the room using the app and followed the route indicated, I would have arrived at someone’s home 100 miles from where my room reservation was booked and too late to avoid a cancellation fee. No, I cannot recommend this app as a trip planning tool. It has clearly been created by folks that have never planned a trip..Version: 4.14.4
✓ Used to be the BEST app for route planningComing back on the app after not being able to travel is disappointing, there’s too much other noise that gets in the way. As a paying subscriber I should be able to turn off features that aren’t relevant to my travel plans. It used to be a pure travel planning app with some other features, now it feels it’s sold out to hotels. Not cool any more..Version: 4.12.0
✓ UnusableIf i can’t to see how/why the places have stars and can’t to see others comments before to pay, why to try it?? sorry for my 1 star...Version: 4.7.2
✓ Too hard to use on iPadI like using this on the computer but on my iPad it's annoying. Trying to change order of destinations is impossible and when you first add in destinations, it places them in some strange order so that they have to be rearranged. Fix these things and I will like it better..Version: 3.4.11
✓ Doesn’t work in NorwayCouldn’t find any of our stops in Norway. Even big cities like Bergen or tourist hotspots like Voss. Eventually just set my start point as “Norway” to see what happened and it dropped a pin in the middle of Sweden!! Lovey concept. Useless in Scandinavia..Version: 4.14.1
✓ Worst dev teamDelete this review as well to prove my point. Give them feedback, they do not simply ignored it, they delete it. I guess asking for a switch is an offence....Version: 4.5.13
✓ A trip planner that can’t search for citiesGot the Plus version... trying to do trip planning in Australia and this app does not show cities in the search results... search for Canberra, it’s only the capital of Australia... but it does not warrant being shown in the search... makes it pretty ordinary as a “Trip Planner”....Version: 4.8.12
✓ Not paying up for what was free onceWas going to use this for my upcoming Portugal trip to help collaborate plans with a friend, but as it turns out, since the last time I used this app, many features have been extremely limited. I can only do less than half what I used to be able to do free. On my last trip- I had about 27 waypoints... and now you can only have 7? That’s really lame- that’s no ‘road trip’. Needless to say, I will be retiring this app- it’s not even a necessity anyways, just a used-to-be-helpful tool. I’ll use google maps and a list, thanks. And I’ve looked at other reviews and everyone else agrees that $30 for the simple luxury of tracking your stop points is completely rediculous. To the developers who are responding to those reviews and trying to list the ‘benefits’ of paying- all of that is useless. The only great thing about this app was keeping track of stop points and collaborating with friends. Now that both of those things are nonexistent. This app is garbage. Totally not worth anything. Used to love it, now I wonder what it’s even still here for? 🤷🏽♀️ I’ll be using the littler apps whose heads haven’t gotten too big for their users (and whose asking price isn’t completely rediculous and not worth what they think they’re worth). How is that response true? Taking functions away and making it more expensive is somehow helping it be more useful? Lol, no..Version: 4.7.3
✓ Use a better mapping serviceThe app targets itself for road tripping but doesn’t contain most of the popular destinations in Australia. Needs to use a reputable mapping service, especially if it’s charging for a premium model. Only use this app if you want a basic route set up, don’t use it to plan your road trip, otherwise you’ll probably miss most of what’s around you!.Version: 4.5.9
✓ How much?A great app / website. But typical of some, they draw you in when it’s free then once you have been testers as it gets off the ground there becomes a charge. Not a small annual charge either. Atrocious profiteering in my opinion. Will be using Google from now on..Version: 4.6.4
✓ RMNPI cannot find the trails!.Version: 4.12.0
✓ DisappointedBased on the app ratings I expected MUCH more than this. Maybe it’s because I’m in Canada, but the lack of waypoints (cities, hotels, points of interest etc.) is astounding. I’m planning a simple road trip from Toronto to PEI and Nova Scotia and can’t add a simple waypoint for the most of the towns I’ll be passing through. Want to bump a few of your waypoints ahead by a day or two because you’ve added some stops along the way? Sorry…can’t do that. Want to change the name of a waypoint to better reflect exactly where you’re going? Sorry…can’t do that. Worst of all..want to add a custom waypoint (because the included waypoints are sadly lacking)? Sorry…can’t do that. Pretty useless. Sorry I wasted my money..Version: 4.14.3
✓ It shouldn’t be this difficult!First, it won’t put multiple destinations in the order I want. I even tried putting them in backwards order, with the final destination added first hoping it would push down each destination and put them in order. It only worked for some of them. THEN it won’t let me choose which route Example: If traveling from Bryce National Park to Yosemite, it wants me to go south, west, then north again instead of directly West. I assume it’s because the East entrance to Yosemite is closed this time of year (winter) so I added the travel dates. Still wouldn’t change routes. Google maps does this but if you change the dates in Google maps, the options will adjust. Lastly (& I haven’t even fully examined the app yet) it allows you to select what vehicle you’re driving so it can calculate fuel costs, however you can only select car OR RV. You can’t select a car pulling an RV which would greatly affect fuel usage. An hour later, I’m exhausted!.Version: 4.4.9
✓ I want my money backI paid for the premium version expecting to have navigation just to discover that is lacking the most basic feature - connecting with my car console (apple carplay). When many cars in the market have already this on dashboard screens and you get used to see apple maps, google maps or waze, and you have the essentials like podcasts musics and even whatsap and zoom - this app has no carplay functionality. What do they expect? That users that already have normal functionality in their cars go years back and start installing all kind of cellphones holders so you can use the navigation functionality?! The minimum you can do, if you are not able to incorporate this basic functionality that is standard in most map and navigation apps, is to allow exporting the itinerary to other navigation apps. But no. that is not available either. I WISH I COULD GET MY MONEY BACK. THIS IS WORTHLESS!!!’.Version: 4.8.15
✓ Was alright now nopeGone to a paid service as free is useless with 7 things you can save. Utterly useless Money grabbing company.. don’t bother.Version: 4.6.7
✓ Needs updatingThis app would be more useful if it was up to date. Several of the restaurants it has listed for my hometown haven’t existed for years and none of the more recently opened restaurants (within the last two years) appear..Version: 4.9.0
✓ Ok but not if you are trying to plan for trips far awayI was really excited to find this app as we are planning a big road trip through Germany next year. I like the ability to add in locations on the map but you have to add destinations via either accomodation or a sight. Not so easy to just add a village name. Their are no sub categories either so if you want to build on a place you are visiting with accomodation and things to visit it just adds it in the main list which is confusing. It also keeps trying to link to where I live now. For example I click on guides hoping to find some guides for Germany and instead it shows my only NZ stuff cause that is where I am now. I’ve gone back to my spreadsheet to plan instead. Probably good if you are actually on your road trip when using it..Version: 4.5.16
✓ Ok app, limited functionality and needs a lot of updatingThis app hasn’t changed much over the years, and it’s getting further and further behind. A lot of destinations can’t be found, you can’t add them yourself, the app is limited when you want to see distances between points in the app when previewing your route - but on a computer you can. Even though a web browser will let you see the distances between points on your route, if you’re on a mobile device you can’t use your web browser to view your trips because it insists you use the app only. All in all it’s relatively limited in functionality and restrictive, but as a basic mapping tool it’s just “ok”..Version: 4.14.0
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