There are features I love and some I detest and can be unsafe. Today, we prescribed a specific RV safe route to avoid Baltimore, coming from coastal NC heading north. The trip planner is terrific and locating fuel, etc. We were heading to our next stop and preferred to use the Chesapeake bay bridge tunnel. When we started we selected to follow the designated route, do not make changes. It was fine until we stopped at a rest area. Little did we know when the trip wizard “recalculated” it defaulted to what the app chose as our best route and we took a circuitous route through the Norfolk area when we realized. We corrected and then going through construction when we crossed directions following construction zones it recalculated again and tried to get us off our route. It was terrible. The trip wizard should ALWAYS return to my original requested route if we stop or get off course. Final note of disgust. Using Apple Car Play, the screen exit naming conventions do not align to the road signs. Why can Apple, Google, and Waze get this right and you cannot when we pay for the subscription. Also add exit numbers to the screen not just the audio. Whew.

I listened to all the hoopla on YouTube, tried it, deleted it, back to goggle maps. That says it all. I should explain why: been using google maps for years with no issues, rvlife needs more information for planning a trip so you have to leave the app to get it and when you return you sign in again etc, I only use my iPhone so that may be a problem. So it’s to most difficult app plus did you notice rvlife doesn’t respond to our reviews?, because they don’t care.

Five stars

I have tried to use RV LIFE between an iPhone and a Windows desktop. The instructions are not very straightforward. By trial and error I learned that you apparently set up a trip on the website, not through the app. You can then move that trip to the app for easier access from your iPhone. if you need instructions, you’re directed to Zendesk where you need yet another login. I cannot figure out how to add an intermediate stop after previously creating a trip. It is not obvious either on the website or the app how to do that, a serious deficiency. In a trial on a 7 mile course, I simply went from my office to Home, both of which are located a short distance off of the same major freeway. Rather than putting me on the most direct route via the highway, the navigation continually tried to put me on side streets making absolutely no sense. I am confounded by the fact that it seems to have so many high ratings, but that has not been my experience.

I used this to plan a simple route indicating I had an RV in tow. First thing this did was tell me to turn which was good. However it never returned my audio back to my radio. The last thing anyone needs is to try and figure out what’s wrong while driving down the road. Aggravation is not what one desires while getting away from it all to relax.

I’m trying to cancel this subscription. I used it 2 times during a cross country trip. In Nevada, it let us to Sinclair, the oldest gas station on the highway running north to south. The app said we could spend the night there. Nope! Then, the appt took us to Costco gas and there were no gas pumps! Ridiculous!

So many good reviews I really wanted to love this app. Maybe it’s operator error, but I did not see an easy way to find a restaurant or gas station using this app with CarPlay. The biggest fatal flaw is the app did not provide a flood warning for the planned route. Both Apple Maps and Google Maps did provide this warning. So my hunt for the perfect app continues!

Made trip easier and safer. Took away guess work!

The navigation was great we had no problems

The GPS functionality continues to improve. I have gone from my co-pilot needing to run an additional GPS to only doing so when curious! Easy to stop and restart when you find those things ‘off route’ that look to be good places to explore.