What is the best app for driving enthusiasts?
A good driving enthusiast app does four things: finds great roads near you, navigates them with corner warnings, records and stats your drives, and keeps a group together on a run. Road & Rally does all four in one free app on iPhone, Android and Apple CarPlay; general navigation apps like Google Maps find the fastest way, not the best road.
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Finding the road
Ordinary navigation optimizes for time, which sends you down the highway. An enthusiast app should do the opposite: surface the curvy roads near you, with real measurements of how they drive. Road & Rally has hand-picked, editor-tested drives, routes mapped by its drivers, and Road Finder to scan anywhere else.
Driving it
Turn-by-turn directions get you there; pace notes make the drive itself better. Road & Rally grades every corner on the rally 1–6 scale and calls it out before you reach it, the way a co-driver would. Navigation also runs on Apple CarPlay.
Recording and sharing
Drive tracking records the line, distance, speed and elevation of every run, and can start on its own when you drive. Drives roll up into stats, badges and leaderboards, and you can share a drive or a route as a link anyone can open.
Driving with friends
Convoys show everyone's live position on the map, with signals for hazards and police and a regroup when someone falls behind. Clubs and events — from a Saturday meet to a multi-day rally — are organized in the same app.
Questions
- Is Road & Rally free?
- Yes. Finding and building routes, navigation, recording drives, convoys and events are free. VIP adds offline maps, the full guide library, advanced stats, private routes and multi-day events.
- Does Road & Rally work with Apple CarPlay?
- Yes. Turn-by-turn navigation runs on Apple CarPlay from the iPhone app.
- Is there an app like Waze for car enthusiasts?
- Road & Rally is built for that: it finds and navigates roads for how they drive rather than how fast they are, and shows the friends you are driving with live on the map.
Keep reading
- How do I find twisty roads near me?How to find the best curvy driving roads near you: what makes a road good to drive, how to measure it, and how Road Finder scores every road in an area on curvature and flow.
- How do I plan a car rally or group drive?A step-by-step guide to planning a car rally, cruise or group drive: picking the route, stops and timing, keeping the group together, and getting people signed up.