United StatesWith the ROADS route planner, you can find the most beautiful route for your next ride. Create a winding and scenic route between two or more locations with just a few clicks. ROADS is provided by Porsche and is available free of charge to anyone who loves driving. Unlike conventional navigation solutions, ROADS focuses on discovering particularly attractive routes. Our unique route intelligence takes into account speed, curves and elevation as well as the real local road and environmental conditions. It also adapts to your individual driving preferences. This works both on in front your own doorstep and almost anywhere in the world. With the integrated GPS navigation from Mapbox, the route can be driven directly with ROADS. And thanks to Apple CarPlay, it can be used in the onboard system of your compatible vehicle at any time. Top features - Create individual routes with up to 50 stops and test them directly on the phone before setting off thanks to the 3D preview - Use the circuit generator to quickly and easily create trips based on your available driving time and the desired direction - Import existing tours from Google Maps without detours - Share your routes with the ROADS community and retain full control over who gets access to your routes - Find interesting rides and exciting POIs in your immediate vicinity - Create public or private groups and experience ROADS together with the global community of passionate drivers - Drive directly in ROADS or export the route as GPX for use in navigation systems of your choice ROADS means less time planning and more time driving. Try it out, download the app without obligation and become part of the ROADS community now. Your help is needed! We have developed ROADS to give you a more intense driving experience every day. In order to continue to develop the app in the best possible way in the future, we ask for your feedback. For ideas, tips, questions and anything else, please use the ""Feedback"" option in the app, send our team an email at [email protected] or address your concerns in the ""Welcome to ROADS"" group. We have also stored the most frequently asked questions and answers directly in the app. You can find more information at roads.porsche.com
Can't seem to get back on route
Routinely the GPS seems to completely drop and roads loses track of where I am. More than once I'd be coming up to an intersection and realize that roads had just stopped paying attention to where I was. So I'd go through the intersection, get pulled over, then the route on roads would show me some place that I was supposed to turn a while back, but doesn't give me the directions to get back to where the turn is... What is up with that? Every other navigation app redirects you when you get off course... It's very frustrating.
United StatesClose, but not quite there…
I would like to continue using the app, as it did set up a decent route, but I wish it would allow deviations from the designed route. We were having a great drive, and found a fun looking road so decided to take a turn the app had not created. Once we deviated, the app wanted us to turn back and continue from the last point where we had deviated the app has created. That created a frustrating moment, and environment, so we ended up turning off the app. Earlier on that same drive, we stopped for gas, and exited the parking lot at a different exit that we entered, so the app would not continue with the route until we turned back and exited from the entrance we entered the gas station. Not a fun moment. I removed the app from my phone, as every time I considered using it, I realized I wanted to be able to stop to see the sights along the way, and the app would ultimately just be a distraction from the fun because of the issues. Sorry
United StatesRecord
Why can’t I record a course you used to be able to on an earlier version? it’s pretty useless if you can’t.
United StatesGood could be great
The current version (3.2.161) still has trouble rerouting if you miss part of a route or don’t pass through the start point. Another feature that would be great to have is an easy option to drive a route in reverse. Edit: Rerouting is still broken in 3.2.244 and even worse now it it wants to route detours through parking lots and adjacent driveways. After trying to use it again I ended up needing to switch to a different nav app 1/4 of the way through a 300 mi drive so I’m deleting a star from my original review.
United StatesSo very disappointing
I finally found a free Saturday and called up the Roads app to find a fun drive up to Bear Mountain State Park. Waze called for a 55 min drive, so I was encouraged when Roads predicted a 90 min journey. Northern NJ has some amazing, spirited roads so I eagerly set out to follow the route. However, right away, I noticed odd guidance through 25 mph zones. The app directed me through a parking lot, then returned me to continue on my current road, so I ignored its detour through the lot and continued on, yet the app repeatedly urged me to turn around and go back through the lot. I stopped and restarted the route to get back on track, but again, all I saw was slow drives through light after light. After 90 minutes of barely exceeding 40 mph at the top speed, I frustratedly deleted the app and used Waze. 15 min later, I reached my destination and used Waze to return home on the Pallisades Pkwy, a terrific road with speed and scenery that I sought from the beginning. Porsche has a LOT of work to do to get me to try this again.
United StatesNot user friendly
This app is very confusing much like most tech from PCA…not user-friendly whatsoever and not intuitive
United StatesWorks for simple use cases, lacks functionality
Devs listen up, I have some real feedback for you. I like the premise, I like the UI, and I like how it allows you to cultivate a route around specific points. The 3D route preview is awesome. The auto route generator is a nice feature, but it struggles to keep people away from roads with lots of traffic lights. I live right on the front range in Colorado, and half of my route is always thru some metro area with lots of lights, while the other half is perfect mountain roads. I could solve this with a route involving custom points, but it’d be nice for more personalization with the auto route generator directly, like an option to avoid traffic lights. My biggest pet peeve, though, is not being able to do a route in reverse. Or if that feature is possible, it seems hidden. I need to warm my car’s engine oil up by driving more slowly, which takes some time, and I don’t want to spend this time driving the exciting straight part of a route just because that was generated at the route’s beginning. Some routes are better driven in the reverse order from how they’re generated. A simple toggle to reverse the route direction would fix this problem immediately. Also, this only happened once, so I don’t know if this is 100% accurate, but my phone lost cell service and it seemingly caused the app to stop updating my location. If true, that’s a major issue. “No cell service” does not mean “No GPS signal”, and the app should attempt to dead reckon my location using GPS if my cell signal is lost. In my experience, the app just freezes and stops moving your little marker along the route, which is pointless for any route where there’s a cell dead zone. This could have just been the app freezing for some other reason, but for me, it happened at the exact moment my cell service went out. I had to switch to Apple Maps just to get home, since I was driving and I couldn’t safely mess with ROADS. Also, I was frustrated and didn’t want to. One last nitpick I have is that the app color scheme follows your iPhone’s color scheme, with no option to just select dark or light. I want the ROADS app to be dark all the time, but I don’t want the same for my iPhone. It’s annoying that these are tied together, this always annoys me when apps force this. I don’t like the way the CarPlay app looks in white when it’s on a massive screen surrounded by a black car interior, as it’s way too much contrast and it just makes everything look bad. I shouldn’t have to change my phone’s overall color theme to dark just to make ROADS follow the dark theme — This should just be an option in the app. Fix these very simple issues and I will update my review to reflect five stars. As of right now, the app is just decent.
United States
Apr 28, 2024
Apr 28, 2024
Apr 27, 2024
This version includes various minor bugfixes.
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