inRoute - Intelligent Routing 4+

Throughly impressed!

Just started using this app and I’m basically a pro at it already! We like motorcycle trips. We stop every 45 minutes or so to relax and grab a beverage. With this app, I can set a route, include stops AND tell it about how long I am planning to “layover” at each stop. I can tell it what time I’m leaving the house and it will calculate what time I will arrive at my final destination, including my layover times in the trip! Also I love that you can search around any of the layover locations for restaurants, gas, etc.
If you add in another stop while planning your trip, it will recalculate your route. You can save these routes so I’m getting a lot of planning done, and this app has made it enjoyable!
There are also options to choose windy roads, avoid freeways, and it even lets you have the option of telling the app how many mph you plan on driving over the marked speed (my husband has a hard time with speed limits and it can throw off arrival times)🤣
I am quite pleased and will definitely upgrade in the future if we take more trips. For now, this hasn’t cost anything and has given me so much. Very pleased! I cannot say enough good things about it. Immediately just download it you won’t regret it!

My Favorite App - Since 2014

I'm a long distance motorcycle rider and love taking the back, winding road. I also run a large sport touring motorcycle group and plan very complex rally routes in the Smokey Mountains. I've tried out so many route apps and have paid for all of them. InRoute stands out far ahead of all others. It's not even a contest. Many other apps depend on a computer based application where you can view a route on the app. Some focus on uploading to a GPS, but few, if any, do it all on your phone or tablet. Those that can display a route rarely provide spoken turn by turn directions and none provides the ability to find gas stations along the route at 200 mile intervals and hotels ever 8 hours of driving, while adding layovers and stops at designated points. But where all others fall down is editing a given route on the fly from your phone. One more point of interest. Data is needed when you start a route. If you ride into areas where there is zero data access, you will always see your designated route and spoken turn by turn directions will always take you on your planned route.

All in all, there is no better route planner - period. Faithful InRoute user since 2014.

Free Version Useless With No Weather At All

I must be missing something? Why would one use the free app with nothing offered that one doesn’t get in planning a trip in Apple or Google Maps. **UPDATE** The developer is attentive & responsive and replied below. I’ll try the Trial subscription route but I’m not a big fan as that puts the onus on the trial user to remember to cancel the subscriptions different apps’ trials may have setup. But still appreciate an attentive developer. Will change star rating once I’ve successfully trialed and either paid or cancelled.
**UPDATE** VERY attentive developer. VERY real world use based thinking. Great tools find spots along route eg gas every 200 miles. Changed to 4-stars. I still find the weather graph at the bottom much less useful than DriveWeather’s overlay right on the route line, plus changing start time is very tedious if exploring options on best time/day to leave with least rain (DW great UI for that). The developer explained their limitations but understood my use case above and saw the value. So, can’t give 5-stars but solid 4-star app. I trialed but didn’t cancel yet. It’s $40 per year vs DW’s $10 is a reason I will likely only get it for the months I am planning a long drive. Dev should consider better lower pricing.

Developer Response ,

The free app includes basic features so you can try most of the app's interface including creating routes with up to 8 locations, but the app's premium features require a subscription (routes with up to 150 locations, weather data, sync/export, and the Mac version). There's a 7-day trial on the Upgrades screen so you can try everything first, including the weather data you mentioned. More details are available on the app's Upgrades screen (under the map's "More" button). Please contact us through the app or at support@carobapps.com if you have any questions!