Rods — Corner & Road Alerts: iPhone vs Android
Rods — Corner & Road Alerts gets 500+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
Rods — Corner & Road Alerts by Buildrhaus, MB is on both the App Store and Google Play. Here are both versions together: downloads, users, revenue, ratings and chart positions, store by store with totals.
Rating
4.4 ★
542 ratings, both stores
Measured
Best rank now
#25
iPhone · 
Navigation Free
Navigation FreeMeasured
App Store
App details
App ID
6758915466
Publisher
Buildrhaus, MB
Publisher country
Lithuania
On the store since
Apr 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 16.4+
iPhone 8 and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
1
EN
Size
156 MB
Also listed in
Sports
Google Play
App details
App ID
com.rods.app
Publisher
BUILDRHAUS, MB
Publisher country
Lithuania
Content rating
Everyone
Rods — Corner & Road Alerts downloads & installs
Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.
| Store | Downloads / day | Lifetime installs |
|---|---|---|
| iPhone | 100+ | 10k+ |
| Google Play | 100+ | 50k+ Measured |
| Total | 500+ Confidence | 50k+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
iPhone: chart positions and rating growth per country, anchored on its own Android downloads; lifetime from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Google Play: the daily change in its exact install count. The total adds every store.
Where Rods — Corner & Road Alerts's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend before Apple and Google take their fee.
| Store | Per day | Per month | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | |||
| Google Play | |||
| Total | Confidence | 100% |
Business model: In-app purchase-led
How Rods — Corner & Road Alerts makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
In-app purchases
One-off purchases
/mo
of revenue
Where it ranks now
Both stores, across every country we track.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.5 ★ | 91 |
| Google Play | 4.3 ★ | 451 44 written reviews |
| Both stores | 4.4 ★ weighted by ratings | 542 |
What users say about Rods — Corner & Road Alerts
From the 17 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Mixed but leaning positive (65% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for good value, and being fun. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions, and ads. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Price & subscription: “After using it, I can genuinely say that I have no problem paying the subscription price”
- Fun: “Personally enjoy it and would consider using it from time to time”
- Useful: “Highly recommend giving this app a try!”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “App behind paywall, can’t delete account”
- Ads: “Saw an ad for this online, looked great!”
- Login & account: “I’m stuck on the log in page”
About Rods — Corner & Road Alerts
Rods is your personal co-driver. It analyzes any road and calls out every corner before you arrive — the direction, how sharp it is, whether it tightens or opens, and the distance to the next one. It also warns you about speed bumps, chicanes, and surface changes and other road hazards along the way.
Pick a road. Drive. And hear what's coming:
Simple mode: "Medium left tightens, into easy right, 100"
Advanced mode: "Left 3 tightens, into Right 5, 100."
No more guessing what's around the next bend.
—
HOW IT WORKS
1. Set a start and end point on any road
2. Rods analyzes every corner along the route
3. Tap Drive and hear callouts through your speakers
4. Each corner is announced before you arrive
It's the same kind of corner callouts used in professional rally — but generated automatically for any road, anywhere.
—
WHAT YOU HEAR
Every corner is described by:
• Direction — left or right
• Severity — Easy, Medium, or Hard in simple mode or 1 (tightest hairpin) to 6 (gentle curve) in Advanced
• Shape — tightens, opens, long, very long
• Sequence — "into" links consecutive corners
• Distance — yards/meters to the next corner
Road hazards and features are called out too:
• Speed bumps and dips
• Chicanes and narrowings
• Bridges and tunnels
• Speed cameras
• Surface changes — gravel, cobblestone, unpaved sections
Example on a mountain pass:
"Right 4 long, 80. Left 2 tightens, into Right 3, 50. Caution, speed bump. Left 5."
—
WORKS COMPLETELY OFFLINE
Download your region's road data once and drive anywhere — mountain passes, backroads, canyon roads, scenic routes. No cell signal needed while driving on a pre-generated route.
—
BUILT FOR DRIVING ENTHUSIASTS
Rods isn't about getting from A to B. It's for the roads you choose to drive — the twisty ones, the scenic ones, the ones you drive twice.
Whether you're carving canyon switchbacks, exploring unfamiliar mountain roads, riding your motorcycle through the hills, or running your favorite backroad on a Sunday morning — Rods tells you what's ahead so you can drive with confidence.
—
PLAN BEFORE YOU DRIVE
Preview any route and see what the road looks like before you commit — how many corners, how severe, what kind of sequences. Find the most interesting roads without driving them blind.
—
SUBSCRIPTION
Rods is a subscription-based app. A 14-day free trial is included — no charge until it ends, cancel anytime.
All features require an active subscription after the free trial:
• Real-time voice callouts for every corner
• 6-level severity scale (hairpin to gentle curve) in Advanced and Simple modes
• Tightening, opening, and long corner detection
• Speed bump, dip, chicane, and narrowing alerts
• Bridge, tunnel, and speed camera callouts
• Surface change detection
• Corner-to-corner distance announcements
• Cars and motorcycles
• Route planning with full corner preview
• Offline use — download your region's road data once and drive anywhere
Subscription options: Monthly and Yearly, wit
Pick a road. Drive. And hear what's coming:
Simple mode: "Medium left tightens, into easy right, 100"
Advanced mode: "Left 3 tightens, into Right 5, 100."
No more guessing what's around the next bend.
—
HOW IT WORKS
1. Set a start and end point on any road
2. Rods analyzes every corner along the route
3. Tap Drive and hear callouts through your speakers
4. Each corner is announced before you arrive
It's the same kind of corner callouts used in professional rally — but generated automatically for any road, anywhere.
—
WHAT YOU HEAR
Every corner is described by:
• Direction — left or right
• Severity — Easy, Medium, or Hard in simple mode or 1 (tightest hairpin) to 6 (gentle curve) in Advanced
• Shape — tightens, opens, long, very long
• Sequence — "into" links consecutive corners
• Distance — yards/meters to the next corner
Road hazards and features are called out too:
• Speed bumps and dips
• Chicanes and narrowings
• Bridges and tunnels
• Speed cameras
• Surface changes — gravel, cobblestone, unpaved sections
Example on a mountain pass:
"Right 4 long, 80. Left 2 tightens, into Right 3, 50. Caution, speed bump. Left 5."
—
WORKS COMPLETELY OFFLINE
Download your region's road data once and drive anywhere — mountain passes, backroads, canyon roads, scenic routes. No cell signal needed while driving on a pre-generated route.
—
BUILT FOR DRIVING ENTHUSIASTS
Rods isn't about getting from A to B. It's for the roads you choose to drive — the twisty ones, the scenic ones, the ones you drive twice.
Whether you're carving canyon switchbacks, exploring unfamiliar mountain roads, riding your motorcycle through the hills, or running your favorite backroad on a Sunday morning — Rods tells you what's ahead so you can drive with confidence.
—
PLAN BEFORE YOU DRIVE
Preview any route and see what the road looks like before you commit — how many corners, how severe, what kind of sequences. Find the most interesting roads without driving them blind.
—
SUBSCRIPTION
Rods is a subscription-based app. A 14-day free trial is included — no charge until it ends, cancel anytime.
All features require an active subscription after the free trial:
• Real-time voice callouts for every corner
• 6-level severity scale (hairpin to gentle curve) in Advanced and Simple modes
• Tightening, opening, and long corner detection
• Speed bump, dip, chicane, and narrowing alerts
• Bridge, tunnel, and speed camera callouts
• Surface change detection
• Corner-to-corner distance announcements
• Cars and motorcycles
• Route planning with full corner preview
• Offline use — download your region's road data once and drive anywhere
Subscription options: Monthly and Yearly, wit
Rods — Corner & Road Alerts iPhone
Rods — Corner & Road Alerts gets 500+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
Rods — Corner & Road Alerts is #44 in Navigation Grossing in United States and charting in 5 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 25 Oct 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperBuildrhaus, MB
CategoryNavigation
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.5 (91)
Version1.8.31
Age rating4+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)10k+ worldwide
Rating
4.5 ★
91 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#44
Navigation GrossingMeasured
Rods — Corner & Road Alerts on the App Store
App details
App ID
6758915466
Publisher
Buildrhaus, MB
Publisher country
Lithuania
On the store since
Apr 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 16.4+
iPhone 8 and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
1
EN
Size
156 MB
Also listed in
Sports
Rods — Corner & Road Alerts downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. iPhone downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Rods — Corner & Road Alerts's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Rods — Corner & Road Alerts before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Not in an overall Top Grossing chart, only in category charts: each category position is converted to the overall position it corresponds to, then priced on the same rank-to-revenue curve, inside the part of each market the charted apps leave over.
Business model: In-app purchase-led
How Rods — Corner & Road Alerts makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
In-app purchases
One-off purchases
/mo
of revenue
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | NavigationGrossing | #44 |
| United States | NavigationFree | #71 |
| Australia | NavigationFree | #25 |
 Germany | NavigationGrossing | #66 |
 United Kingdom | NavigationGrossing | #78 |
 Canada | NavigationFree | #44 |
| Australia | NavigationGrossing | #100 |
Apps near Rods — Corner & Road Alerts on the chart
Navigation Grossing, around #44.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.5 ★
91 ratings
Measured
Ratings
91
Measured
What users say about Rods — Corner & Road Alerts
From the 17 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Mixed but leaning positive (65% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for good value, and being fun. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions, and ads. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Price & subscription: “After using it, I can genuinely say that I have no problem paying the subscription price”
- Fun: “Personally enjoy it and would consider using it from time to time”
- Useful: “Highly recommend giving this app a try!”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “App behind paywall, can’t delete account”
- Ads: “Saw an ad for this online, looked great!”
- Login & account: “I’m stuck on the log in page”
About Rods — Corner & Road Alerts
Rods is your personal co-driver. It analyzes any road and calls out every corner before you arrive — the direction, how sharp it is, whether it tightens or opens, and the distance to the next one. It also warns you about speed bumps, chicanes, and surface changes and other road hazards along the way.
Pick a road. Drive. And hear what's coming:
Simple mode: "Medium left tightens, into easy right, 100"
Advanced mode: "Left 3 tightens, into Right 5, 100."
No more guessing what's around the next bend.
—
HOW IT WORKS
1. Set a start and end point on any road
2. Rods analyzes every corner along the route
3. Tap Drive and hear callouts through your speakers
4. Each corner is announced before you arrive
It's the same kind of corner callouts used in professional rally — but generated automatically for any road, anywhere.
—
WHAT YOU HEAR
Every corner is described by:
• Direction — left or right
• Severity — Easy, Medium, or Hard in simple mode or 1 (tightest hairpin) to 6 (gentle curve) in Advanced
• Shape — tightens, opens, long, very long
• Sequence — "into" links consecutive corners
• Distance — yards/meters to the next corner
Road hazards and features are called out too:
• Speed bumps and dips
• Chicanes and narrowings
• Bridges and tunnels
• Speed cameras
• Surface changes — gravel, cobblestone, unpaved sections
Example on a mountain pass:
"Right 4 long, 80. Left 2 tightens, into Right 3, 50. Caution, speed bump. Left 5."
—
WORKS COMPLETELY OFFLINE
Download your region's road data once and drive anywhere — mountain passes, backroads, canyon roads, scenic routes. No cell signal needed while driving on a pre-generated route.
—
BUILT FOR DRIVING ENTHUSIASTS
Rods isn't about getting from A to B. It's for the roads you choose to drive — the twisty ones, the scenic ones, the ones you drive twice.
Whether you're carving canyon switchbacks, exploring unfamiliar mountain roads, riding your motorcycle through the hills, or running your favorite backroad on a Sunday morning — Rods tells you what's ahead so you can drive with confidence.
—
PLAN BEFORE YOU DRIVE
Preview any route and see what the road looks like before you commit — how many corners, how severe, what kind of sequences. Find the most interesting roads without driving them blind.
—
SUBSCRIPTION
Rods is a subscription-based app. A 14-day free trial is included — no charge until it ends, cancel anytime.
All features require an active subscription after the free trial:
• Real-time voice callouts for every corner
• 6-level severity scale (hairpin to gentle curve) in Advanced and Simple modes
• Tightening, opening, and long corner detection
• Speed bump, dip, chicane, and narrowing alerts
• Bridge, tunnel, and speed camera callouts
• Surface change detection
• Corner-to-corner distance announcements
• Cars and motorcycles
• Route planning with full corner preview
• Offline use — download your region's road data once and drive anywhere
Subscription options: Monthly and Yearly, wit
Pick a road. Drive. And hear what's coming:
Simple mode: "Medium left tightens, into easy right, 100"
Advanced mode: "Left 3 tightens, into Right 5, 100."
No more guessing what's around the next bend.
—
HOW IT WORKS
1. Set a start and end point on any road
2. Rods analyzes every corner along the route
3. Tap Drive and hear callouts through your speakers
4. Each corner is announced before you arrive
It's the same kind of corner callouts used in professional rally — but generated automatically for any road, anywhere.
—
WHAT YOU HEAR
Every corner is described by:
• Direction — left or right
• Severity — Easy, Medium, or Hard in simple mode or 1 (tightest hairpin) to 6 (gentle curve) in Advanced
• Shape — tightens, opens, long, very long
• Sequence — "into" links consecutive corners
• Distance — yards/meters to the next corner
Road hazards and features are called out too:
• Speed bumps and dips
• Chicanes and narrowings
• Bridges and tunnels
• Speed cameras
• Surface changes — gravel, cobblestone, unpaved sections
Example on a mountain pass:
"Right 4 long, 80. Left 2 tightens, into Right 3, 50. Caution, speed bump. Left 5."
—
WORKS COMPLETELY OFFLINE
Download your region's road data once and drive anywhere — mountain passes, backroads, canyon roads, scenic routes. No cell signal needed while driving on a pre-generated route.
—
BUILT FOR DRIVING ENTHUSIASTS
Rods isn't about getting from A to B. It's for the roads you choose to drive — the twisty ones, the scenic ones, the ones you drive twice.
Whether you're carving canyon switchbacks, exploring unfamiliar mountain roads, riding your motorcycle through the hills, or running your favorite backroad on a Sunday morning — Rods tells you what's ahead so you can drive with confidence.
—
PLAN BEFORE YOU DRIVE
Preview any route and see what the road looks like before you commit — how many corners, how severe, what kind of sequences. Find the most interesting roads without driving them blind.
—
SUBSCRIPTION
Rods is a subscription-based app. A 14-day free trial is included — no charge until it ends, cancel anytime.
All features require an active subscription after the free trial:
• Real-time voice callouts for every corner
• 6-level severity scale (hairpin to gentle curve) in Advanced and Simple modes
• Tightening, opening, and long corner detection
• Speed bump, dip, chicane, and narrowing alerts
• Bridge, tunnel, and speed camera callouts
• Surface change detection
• Corner-to-corner distance announcements
• Cars and motorcycles
• Route planning with full corner preview
• Offline use — download your region's road data once and drive anywhere
Subscription options: Monthly and Yearly, wit
Latest updates
1.8.31
What's New
• Import Google My Maps links
• Address search is easier to find when creating a route
• CarPlay callout cards are now black, and the distance under each callout counts down live
Improvements
• Steadier arrival time on CarPlay — no more jumping between estimates
• Long routes now preview on CarPlay in seconds instead of minutes
• CarPlay returns to the route preview when a drive ends
• Your settings now come back when you sign in on a new phone or reinstall
• GPX files that store checkpoints as route points now show their checkpoint pins
Bug Fixes
• Fixed tunnel callouts sometimes playing as silence
• Fixed speed bumps, roundabouts and road surfaces near a border being read from the neighbouring country's map
• Fixed the app downloading neighbouring countries' map data it didn't need
• Fixed downloaded voice files going missing and leaving callouts silent
• Fixed a speed camera warning on a route with no cameras
• Fixed a new route saying "no surface data" right after showing it
• Fixed the Recents card showing the drive to the start instead of your route
• Fixed the app crash-looping on launch for some signed-in users
• Fixed the CarPlay route preview going blank on routes with lots of road info
• Fixed Free Roam missing on CarPlay until Rods was opened on the phone
• Fixed the arrival time disappearing from the car's instrument cluster mid-drive
• Fixed street names repeated several times on the CarPlay map
• Fixed a wrong "~N min away" on CarPlay when the phone's last location was old
• Fixed "1 Speed bumps" — a count of one now reads singular
1.8.27
What's New
- Your co-driver now speaks up when GPS is lost, weak or back, when the phone overheats, or when location access is switched off.
- New road-feature icons for dips, narrowings, danger zones, speed cameras and the finish flag.
Improvements
- Smoother drive map, with no more stutter on every GPS update.
- Faster app open and resume, with far fewer repeated network calls.
- Smoother Create Route editing on routes with many checkpoints.
- Automatic map-data downloads now wait for Wi-Fi, so they can't run up a roaming bill.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed callouts dropping out over Bluetooth and CarPlay.
- Fixed callouts not being heard over plain Bluetooth unless music was playing.
- Fixed a late callout for an already-passed corner after a phone call.
- Fixed corner callouts stopping mid-drive.
- Fixed the app locking up during a drive.
- Fixed the app freezing when ending a rerouted drive.
- Fixed a reroute on a long route holding the drive for minutes.
- Fixed the map and pace notes staying on the old road after a wrong turn onto a straight.
- Fixed rerouting going dead when GPS updates arrive slowly.
- Fixed GPS stopping when you plug in or unplug a charger mid-drive.
- Fixed the car icon trailing behind the car.
- Fixed late Free Roam callouts after a junction or a recalculation.
- Fixed route creation freezing for up to 45 seconds.
- Fixed routes that could disappear after a restart.
- Fixed a blank screen after a drive to the start of a route.
- In France the voice no longer names speed cameras, matching the map.
- Fixed the distance card saying "1.0 kilometers" or "1 miles".
- Fixed street addresses like "23 5th Ave" being read as GPS coordinates.
- Fixed new routes not being named after their place on phones that write dates with dots or dashes.
- Fixed off-road checkpoints being snapped far away.
- Fixed map-data downloads spinning forever on a bad connection.
1.8.26
Store changes
What Rods — Corner & Road Alerts changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
New screenshots 
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New screenshots
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Rods: Pace Notes Co-driver Android
Rods: Pace Notes Co-driver gets 500+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
Rods: Pace Notes Co-driver is #43 in Maps & Navigation Grossing on Google Play in United States and charting in 11 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 25 Oct 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperBuildrhaus
CategoryMaps & Navigation
PriceFree
Released
Installs50k+
Rating★ 4.3 (451)
Updated
Content ratingEveryone
Rating
4.3 ★
451 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#43
Maps & Navigation GrossingMeasured
Rods: Pace Notes Co-driver on Google Play
App details
App ID
com.rods.app
Publisher
BUILDRHAUS, MB
Publisher country
Lithuania
Content rating
Everyone
Rods: Pace Notes Co-driver downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Google Play shows an exact lifetime install count; downloads per day are its daily change (measured). When Play hasn't refreshed the count, they come from new ratings and Top Free chart positions. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Rods: Pace Notes Co-driver's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Rods: Pace Notes Co-driver before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Not in an overall Top Grossing chart, only in category charts: each category position is converted to the overall position it corresponds to, then priced on the same rank-to-revenue curve, inside the part of each market the charted apps leave over.
Business model: In-app purchase-led
How Rods: Pace Notes Co-driver makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
In-app purchases
One-off purchases
/mo
of revenue
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Maps & NavigationGrossing | #43 |
| United States | Maps & NavigationFree | #69 |
| Canada | Maps & NavigationFree | #26 |
 India | Maps & NavigationGrossing | #79 |
 Netherlands | Maps & NavigationFree | #28 |
 Mexico | Maps & NavigationGrossing | #81 |
 Indonesia | Maps & NavigationGrossing | #76 |
 Saudi Arabia | Maps & NavigationGrossing | #76 |
 United Arab Emirates | Maps & NavigationGrossing | #78 |
 Turkey | Maps & NavigationGrossing | #82 |
| Netherlands | Maps & NavigationGrossing | #83 |
 Thailand | Maps & NavigationGrossing | #74 |
 Vietnam | Maps & NavigationGrossing | #79 |
Apps near Rods: Pace Notes Co-driver on the chart
Maps & Navigation Grossing, around #43.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
Rating
4.3 ★
451 ratings
Measured
Ratings
451
Measured
Written reviews
44
Measured
What users say about Rods: Pace Notes Co-driver
From the 99 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Mixed (44% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for good value, and its features and content. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions, and crashes and bugs. Recent reviews are more positive than earlier ones.
What people like
- Price & subscription: “the premium features are 100% worth it”
- Features & content: “Really like the countdown features”
- Useful: “Definitely useful and well made”
- Speed & performance: “Smooth on my phone, no lag, no ads”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “everything is behind paywall”
- Crashes & bugs: “constant freezing and no generated routes”
- Features & content: “Need to pay for premium for basic features”
- Login & account: “Than prompts you that an account is necessary”
About Rods: Pace Notes Co-driver
Know every corner before you reach it. Rods is your rally co-driver — it reads any road and calls out every turn, hazard, speed bump, speed camera and surface change in real time, on twisty backroads, mountain passes, canyons and touge worldwide.
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HOW IT WORKS
1. Create a route — works anywhere in the world
2. Rods maps every corner, speed bump, speed camera and surface change
3. Drive, and hear voiced pace notes before each turn
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★ REAL-TIME VOICED CALLOUTS
Every corner is called with severity before you reach it — the direction, how sharp it is, whether it tightens or opens, and the distance to the next. Choose from different car models, voice styles, and more. Adjust callout timing to land exactly when you need it.
★ FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE
• Simple mode (easy, medium, hard) or rally-style numeric severity (1–6)
• Early, standard, or late callout timing
• Metric or imperial units
★ BACKGROUND & IN-CAR
Lock your screen or switch apps — callouts keep playing through Bluetooth, your car stereo or your phone speaker. Mount it, start the drive, put the phone away.
★ CO-DRIVER MODE
Hand the phone to your passenger. Large on-screen pace notes let a human co-driver read the corners ahead while audio stays off.
★ FREE ROAM
No route planned? Free Roam calls corners live as you drive, on any road you pick.
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BUILT FOR driving enthusiasts, motorcycle riders, and sports car owners who want to know what's around every hairpin, twisty, and blind corner.
Built by drivers, for drivers. Rods Free Roam and Drive mode are free to try for 14 days. After that, a small subscription keeps you driving.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
HOW IT WORKS
1. Create a route — works anywhere in the world
2. Rods maps every corner, speed bump, speed camera and surface change
3. Drive, and hear voiced pace notes before each turn
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★ REAL-TIME VOICED CALLOUTS
Every corner is called with severity before you reach it — the direction, how sharp it is, whether it tightens or opens, and the distance to the next. Choose from different car models, voice styles, and more. Adjust callout timing to land exactly when you need it.
★ FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE
• Simple mode (easy, medium, hard) or rally-style numeric severity (1–6)
• Early, standard, or late callout timing
• Metric or imperial units
★ BACKGROUND & IN-CAR
Lock your screen or switch apps — callouts keep playing through Bluetooth, your car stereo or your phone speaker. Mount it, start the drive, put the phone away.
★ CO-DRIVER MODE
Hand the phone to your passenger. Large on-screen pace notes let a human co-driver read the corners ahead while audio stays off.
★ FREE ROAM
No route planned? Free Roam calls corners live as you drive, on any road you pick.
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BUILT FOR driving enthusiasts, motorcycle riders, and sports car owners who want to know what's around every hairpin, twisty, and blind corner.
Built by drivers, for drivers. Rods Free Roam and Drive mode are free to try for 14 days. After that, a small subscription keeps you driving.
What's new in 1.8.27
New
- Spoken alerts when GPS is lost, weak or back
- New road-feature icons
Fixes
- Callouts more reliable over Bluetooth and with the screen off
- Fixed a crash on app open and out-of-memory crashes on long drives
- Smoother drive map, faster app open
- Faster, more reliable rerouting
- GPS no longer stops when charging or after a pause
- Fixed route creation freezing
- Map downloads wait for Wi-Fi
- Address search fixed for "23 5th Ave" style addresses
- Spoken alerts when GPS is lost, weak or back
- New road-feature icons
Fixes
- Callouts more reliable over Bluetooth and with the screen off
- Fixed a crash on app open and out-of-memory crashes on long drives
- Smoother drive map, faster app open
- Faster, more reliable rerouting
- GPS no longer stops when charging or after a pause
- Fixed route creation freezing
- Map downloads wait for Wi-Fi
- Address search fixed for "23 5th Ave" style addresses