5+ Best Road Trip Apps to Make Your Journey Comfortable and Safe

• Plan road trip with friends
• Access offline maps
• Access exclusive deals
• Sync your trips automatically across devices

Roadtripers is loaded with several convenient features to help you plan the ultimate road trip. The app lets you plan car-based voyages across Canada, USA, New Zealand, and Australia. If you’re short on ideas, the app will give you recommendations. You can also find trip guides for some of the more popular areas and regions. For longer trips, it is worth upgrading to Roadtrippers Plus. The subscription will allow you to build itineraries with friends and access offline maps and exclusive deals. 

• Get alerts about traffic, police, hazards, and more
• Instant routing changes to avoid traffic
• Know your ETA
• Find cheapest gas along your route

Waze is known to find better and faster routes by notifying you of accidents, police stops, traffic, and more. Real-time alerts are powered by its community of users. What’s more? You can find the cheapest gas prices around, as gathered by the community. The slick interface minimizes phone fiddling by letting you listen to music and podcasts right in the app.
 

• Find the cheapest fuel station
• Report fuel prices to help others
• Earn reward and points for reporting fuel prices
• Add your vehicle to GasBuddy to receive notifications on new recall

GasBuddy scours its database for gas stations along the area where you’re driving and displays the updated prices of all their fuel products so that you can decide where to gas up your car. This one of the best road trip apps also lets you report fuel prices to help others find cheap fuel. 

• Beat traffic with real-time ETAs and traffic conditions
• Save time with automatic rerouting
• Discover events, restaurants and activities near you
• Get street view and indoor images of restaurants, shops, and more
• Use it offline

Google Maps is a very valuable resource if you’re planning a trip. Aside from the usual map view, Google Maps also offers 360-degree views of certain streets as well as real-time traffic updates and the estimated time of arrival to your destination. It also provides additional information about restaurants and cafes located along the path which can be useful if you want to grab a quick lunch or buy some food and other supplies for your trip. You can also review and upload the photos of the place you have visited to help other tourists as well. 

• Book accommodation of your choice
• Add experiences and events to your itinerary
• Message your host for directions and assistance
• Search for last minute stays

If you’re looking for a  holiday accommodation, then Airbnb is just the app for you. With Airbnb, you get over 6 million choices, ranging across over 91 countries. Browse through listings of places you would like to stay, work, or just relax. You can even message your host for directions, assistance, and other tips. 

• Create your master itinerary in seconds
• Use this app offline
• Check safety scores of neighborhood
• Plot your entire trip on a map

Create master itineraries with TripIt for your trips. All you have to do is forward all your reservations to its dedicated email address, and it will automatically create a single itinerary for the upcoming events. The best part? You can view the events even when you are offline. Other interesting features include neighborhood safety scores and the ability to plot road trips on a map. All in all, it’s a simple yet highly powerful road trip-planning app.

• Make last-minute booking
• Get 24*7 customer support
• Get better deals
• See ratings, reviews and photos from fellow bookers

If you get tired during long drives and need a hotel to stay the night or just take a few hours rest, Hotel Tonight is the app for you. Specializing in last-minute hotel deals, Hotel Tonight makes it possible to book a room in three easy taps and one seamless swipe. You can search hotels by city, map location, or attractions. You also get 24*7 customer support.

• See flight and hotel reservations at one place
• View plans on travel map
• Plan group travel
• Add notes and links to your stop

Wanderlog is another great road trip planning app. It saves all your reservations, flights, and tickets in one place, creating a single itinerary for you. That’s not all! You can even share the itinerary with your friends and family, who can also update their plans and yours as well. The app also provides links to reviews and guides for each place you’re visiting, so you’ll never be short of ideas.