A Better Routeplanner (ABRP)

Its good at planning the route, but absolutely useless on the road.

After using ABRP for 4000 km driving through Europe this summer, the conclusion is that it is the worst of my navigation apps. Even though I have to pay for it to be functional as a navigation app, it seems like a bad open source project. It is extremely buggy and freezing all the time. It loses GPS permission from the OS which means you must approve it again. The user design is just flat out idiotic at parts. One example is in the CarPlay mode, where the button Back in map mode simply clears the route. It is cumbersome to set up a route, variables are mixed with settings and things like manually adjusting SOC is hidden in a labyrinth of UI. Setting it from CarPlay is deep in settings, only adjustable in increments of +\- 1 and 5, only one adjustment at the time before having to re-enter the SOC menu and you must manually calculate it as it is not shown. I’m going ask for my money back from this company because this is not acce was

ABRP has perhaps the most comprehensive registry of EV charging points available in the market today. It generally creates good routes, but it is sometimes less up-to-date about road closures than other major mapping services. Its Apple Car Play interface, which you refer to while driving, has some of the best interface detailing available. However, the map view often zooms out to the whole-trip overview, leaving you without guidance at crucial moments. When the map does jump back to the detail view, it first zigs and zags around wildly before settling on your current location. The iOS app lets you set up a trip from start to finish, but editing the suggested charging stops can be tricky. Some of the interface components are just badly designed; when entering your EV’s State of Charge (SoC), the onscreen keypad obscures the number you are trying to enter. Also, after amending the contents of a route plan, the interface does not update the view with the content that you have entered. You just have to hope it works and hit “Plan”. In summary: a great backend, some excellent interface details, generally quite poor interaction design. But because Apple / Google / Here don’t support EV route planning very well, ABRP for now remains your best bet.

After I upgraded to premium app freezes and cant be used anymore. Tried to reinstall, no difference. Have to stop premium subscription

I'm quite happy with the app. It works quite well and the estimate is quite good. Only thing is in apple car play when I go to the home screen with the music player and calender ABRP does not show in a small window but waze does even though I haven't been using waze

I used to plan my trips with ABRP all the time, now it's a waste of time to even open the app. It picks the strangest roads, miscalculates usage and remaining percentages at arrival and demands user payment for just about anything. There must be 100 apps better that this nowadays.

This app is useless without premium account. It not worth to install on phone

The idea of having a dedicated BEV route planner is excellent, but the experience is quite horrible. After overcoming the hurdles of creating my plan, I had to purchase a subscription to activate CarPlay. When I hit the road, it became obvious that the planner had overshot the range of my car, so I tried to update my plan accordingly, but the app recalculated the entire route. When I tried again after stopping for my first charge, I was told then plan could no longer be used. What the hey? So I fell back to Apple Maps and Plugsurfing. Manual work, but I got to where I was going. Using A Bad RoutePlanner, I would still be stuck somewhere on the Swedish coastline.

You cannot connect to your car to test if this even works without purchasing an expensive subscription. For that reason alone, I will not buy a subscription. Edit: the developer responded to suggest that you can use the app with CarPlay without having Premium and that is not true. Update 12.2022: I bought a Polestar 2 and installed the app in the car. Seemed to work great until I actually tried to use it for a road trip. The app would forget to track the route and would suddenly reroute me to a totally different charging stop. Ended up using Google Maps because this is just not in any way usable. Don’t expect me to pay €50 for this. Edit: I bought a Polestar 2 and tried to use this for a road trip. It is totally unusable. Constantly stops tracking your position and/or randomly updates which chargers your trying to head to. Resorted to using Google Maps manually and managed just fine. Not worth a single Euro, let alone an annual subscription.

Står bar å laster når en prøver å legge rute …. Prøvde 5-6 ganger før jeg slettet appen.