ROADS by Porsche Trip Planner

I’m a busy professional, a husband, and an involved father to two teenagers. I rarely write reviews because life keeps me so busy. However, I had to take a few minutes to write about one of the most amazing apps I’ve ever had the pleasure of using. I live in South Florida but was visiting my father in southeastern Connecticut during an early October weekend. With some rare downtime, I decided to take advantage of the scenic drives New England offers in the fall. While searching for an app that could guide me through the best routes, Google directed me to the Roads app. I embarked on an incredible trip from Uncasville, Connecticut, to Litchfield, Connecticut. For two and a half hours, I experienced pure joy. At 50 years old, not much tends to impress me anymore, but this app, and the stunning scenic tour it took me on, genuinely made my heart soar. I only wish I had more time in New England to use this app and explore even more beautiful landscapes. The app is free, but I wouldn’t hesitate to pay $50 if that’s what it took to use it again. Go ahead, download it, and enjoy an amazing drive wherever you are.

I do enjoy the entire concept of this app. The community aspect is largely the best part since you can see routes published by other users in your area. The auto-generated routes tend to be subpar as it will route you through neighborhoods and town-roads. But i also understand the level of programming and refining for that is difficult. One feature that truly bugs me at the moment is how difficult it is to create your own route. At the moment, to create your first route you can go to your profile > my routes > create my first route. This takes you to an extremely detailed map with the option of satellite view where you can set up your detours/waypoints. However once you create your first route, you can no longer access this detailed map to create new routes unless you delete the original. You can use the “Plan Tour” tab, but the map is incredibly dark and as you zoom in, the road lines disappear, making it impossible to accurately place your points. There is no option to use a detailed map or satellite view like in the above mentioned method. In the app FAQ, it states you can create a new route by selecting the “Drive” button on the main screen, and then clicking the + sign. This pathway no longer exists. In the screenshots listed on the App Store, it has an option to create a new route next to the “With Ups & Downs”, “Fun with Curves”, “Got a Spare Hour?”, and “Going at full speed” options. For some reason, this option to create a new route also no longer exists. This is my main and only gripe with this app as it ruins the point of the app. I should be able to create and save routes with ease while using a detailed map. I can’t give this app more than three stars until this is addressed. Without this issue, it’s easily a 4-5 star app. Sincerely, A Toyota GR86 owner.

Need to be able to skip location permissions at launch of app. Stop the data mine survey and allow us to see the app. In response to developer: people plan roads before they visit, you not need to require our location to explore and plan a trip prior.

I’ve been looking for something like this all my life as a driving enthusiast. Something that finds those fun, windy, “roads less taken”. With the new update + CarPlay support, I gotta say—hats off to the team on this one.

The missing ability to use this app in CarPlay is holding back this app. Went to the Blue Ridge Mountains this weekend and would have loved to use Roads to find some hidden treasures .. but it’s too hard without CarPlay. We know it’s coming in an update .. but would love to get an actual ETA on it!!

Listen I know they have to update the app, but it is peak driving season and most people really just want to use this app on their big screen on their cars. It’s crazy that the developers didn’t wait until winter to do some big change like this leaving the app pretty much useless unless you have someway to hold your phone up in your car. Which is illegal in a lot of places. Also ridiculous that they took away the GPX routing function and now have to go through a separate 3rd party app to make a route and then bring it in to Roads. FIX YOUR APP PORSCHE

The app’s idea is great, but it should either export the route to Maps or support CarPlay. It would also benefit from downloading maps for offline usage since cell coverage in the twisties is spotty at best.

While sometimes cumbersome to use at least the old version connected to CarPlay. This update is useless without CarPlay integration. Please fix!!!

I read about this app and was very excited to try it. I downloaded it and was happy to see it showed up on my CarPlay so I could view it on the screen in my car. A couple of weeks later I was getting ready to go on a nice weekend drive and it was gone from my CarPlay. Guess I will have to find another option. This was so promising

New version is not working with Apple carply.