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When you're preparing for a long road trip, or even a short one, you want to make the most of it. While you could go to AAA and let them prepare a TripTik for you, along with buying all of their guides to help you identify places to stay and visit, that's just not the best way anymore. Instead, you should harness the power of the internet and your smartphone, and let an app help you plan. That's what Roadtrippers is all about.

Free

TripIt: Travel Organizer

TripIt Inc

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inRoute Route Planner & GPS Navigator

Carob Apps, LLC

$2.99

Roadside America

This Exit LLC

With Roadtrippers, you can find the hottest spots as well as the most offbeat highlights along your trip. All you have to do is start your new trip, give the app your location and where you want to end up, and then choose what kinds of things you want to see. After that, the app will calculate the best route for you to take and what sites and other attractions might be along your travels. It's all quite easy, and very comprehensive.

Roadtrippers has a lot of great features. It will help you plan your trip, and has a comprehensive catalog of locations that you won't want to miss. You'll be able to find gas stations, restaurants and diners, as well as historical landmarks with ease. Roadtrippers also helps you locate campgrounds, if you want to rough it along the way. It even includes points of interest that aren't quite on the beaten path, like the world's largest wicker basket.

The app also allows you to browse pre-planned trips, if you need some inspiration. Just visit the Guides tab, and Roadtrippers will provide you with a treasure chest full of possibilities, like the ultimate Route 66 road trip or a week-long drive along the Blue Ridge Parkway.

While overall the app is easy to use, it has its drawbacks. There's no easy way I could find to plan legs of your trip, so you may find yourself using another map to plan stops for really long road trips. Once you figure out where you need to stop for the night, though, you can pretty easily add that to your itinerary.

The other drawback to Roadtrippers might not be a bad thing after all. There's just so much to see and do, and the app can create maps that are downright overwhelming with how many options they provide you. You have to pick and choose, since you won't be able to see everything and still get to your final destination.

Finally, the app ships you out to another title for actual navigation. While it includes its own map, Roadtrippers doesn't do turn-by-turn navigation. It works with Apple Maps and Google Maps, though, and sends you straight to those apps with your start and end points preselected.

All in all, this is a terrific choice for planning your next road trip. It's not perfect, but few apps are. What Roadtrippers does, plan your sightseeing, eating, and refueling locations, it does very well. I just wish I could do everything in a single app, even getting my turn-by-turn navigation.

8.8

OVERALL

iPhone Integration 10

Lasting appeal 9

Does it well 9.5

User Interface 8.5

Is engaging 7

FREE

Roadtrippers – Trip Planner Map & Travel Guides

Roadtrippers

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I think everyone's had that brilliant idea they wanted to text to someone, but it was the middle of the night. We've all forgotten to send that "Happy birthday" text message until either the last minute or the next day. What if you had an easy-to-use app that would remind you with a ready-to-send text message? That's what Scheduled is all about

$0.99

Schedule SMS Pro – Send Text Scheduler

Chuan Xu

$1.99

SMS HERO – Schedule any sms to be sent on time

SOFTBROKE OU

Here’s how Scheduled works. First, you schedule a text message by choosing the contact you want to send it to, entering the text message you want to send, and specifying the date and time you want the text message to be sent. You will then get reminded when it’s time to send the text message, and you can choose the messaging app you want to use with the text message already copied in the message field — the app supports Messages, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram, Twitter, Mail (for emailing the message), and Phone (for calling the contact to deliver your message yourself).

Scheduled does a fantastic job of reminding you when it's time to send that text message. You get a notification, you choose which messaging service you want to use, and Scheduled fills in everything for you. All you have to do is tap send. The app works with a wide variety of messaging platforms: Messages, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram, and email, just to name a few. It is reliable, works well, and even supports repeating messages so you can schedule your happy birthday text messages once and never forget them again. If you have your birthdays on your calendar, Scheduled can even import them into the app to make setting up those reminders even easier. The only thing it doesn't do is automatically send those messages, but the developers say they are working on that.

Without an in-app purchase, you are limited to just three scheduled text messages. That's rather limiting, and a fairly odd number to cut you off at. If you don't make the in-app purchase when you first launch the app, it's difficult to find a way to buy the upgrade short of searching in the App Store again. Finally, choosing the date to send your text is a bit cumbersome. I'd like to see calendar popup, instead of the date wheel selector.

Scheduled is an excellent choice for managing your text messages before you send them. It integrates well with your contacts, works with just about every messaging platform you can imagine, and even supports repeating messages. The only thing it doesn't do is automatically send the message for you, but few (if any) of its competitors are able to do that yet. It's not something that Apple encourages or endorses. If you're looking for a way to make sure you remember to send that important text message, look no further.

8.8

OVERALL

Lasting appeal 9.5

iPhone Integration 9.5

User Interface 9

Does it well 8.5

Is engaging 7.5

FREE

Scheduled — Schedule your text messages

Brthrs Agency

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