The driving app · Vol. I

For the
drive,
not the
commute.

A drive tracker, a road logbook, a live-voice convoy radio, and a turn-by-turn navigator — bundled into one app that respects the driver more than the destination.

Now available

Open Road launched on iOS and Android. The basics — drive logging, history, markers, navigation — are free forever. Premium unlocks live voice convoys and unlimited markers.

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The Open Road dispatch · 2026
01
The Logbook

Every drive, written down for you.

Open Road keeps a record of every road you've taken. Speed, elevation, route — captured the instant your car begins moving.

No button to press. No app to open. The phone in your pocket recognizes that you're driving and quietly does the work that, for a hundred years, drivers have done by hand if they did it at all. The result is a timeline of every drive you've ever taken since the moment you started using it — searchable, mapped, stat-rich, and yours alone.

The Logbook
Fig. 01The Logbook
02
The Map

Knowing the road is the whole game.

A marker is a single point. A segment is a stretch. Together they're the map a driver builds of the roads that matter.

You can tell a great driving road from a forgettable one with your right foot, but how do you remember the difference six months later? Markers and segments are the answer. Drop one for the apex of a coastal turn. Save a segment for the Highway 1 stretch between Big Sur and Carmel. Compare your time across runs. Build the personal atlas of every road that's ever made you want to drive it again.

The Map
Fig. 02The Map
03
The Crew

Driving alone is fine. Driving together is the point.

Convoys put your friends on one live map. Push-to-talk voice. Multi-person drive cards when the ride ends.

Texting at speed is dangerous and stupid. Convoy voice is the alternative — push-to-talk over LTE so you can route around traffic, regroup at the meet point, or just call out when somebody's about to miss the exit. When the drive ends, the multi-person card lays out where everyone went, who took which roads, who was first to the marker, who lagged behind. The brag rights write themselves.

The Crew
Fig. 03The Crew
04
The Navigator

A map built for the speed of actually driving.

Mapbox turn-by-turn, auto day/night, designed not to insult your intelligence at 70 mph.

Most navigation apps treat the driver like a city commuter who needs to be told that 'I-5 South' is, in fact, south. Open Road's navigator does less. It tells you the next turn, the speed of the road, and lets the rest of the screen rest. The map auto-switches from day to night when the sun goes down. The layout doesn't shuffle around. It's a tool that respects your eyes when you're going somewhere worth going.

The Navigator
Fig. 04The Navigator

Most apps want you to look at your phone. Open Road wants you to look at the road, and then tell you everything about it when you're done.

— How the app sees itself
Correspondence

Letters & replies.

Is it free?
The core experience — drive log, history, markers, segments, navigation, drive cards — is free forever. Premium ($9.99/mo or $39.99/yr with a 3-day trial) adds live-voice convoys, unlimited markers, advanced analytics, and crew leaderboards.
What cars does it work with?
Every car. Open Road runs on your phone — no dongle, no OBD-II reader, no Bluetooth pairing dance. If you have a phone and a car, it works.
Will it drain my battery?
About the same as Apple Maps or Google Maps with navigation running. We are working to improve it.
Does it need internet to log a drive?
No. Drives log offline. Map tiles cache locally. Convoy voice and live map require a connection; everything else syncs whenever you next get one.
Can I use it on track days?
Yep. Track it like any other drive.
Who built this?
Drivers. Open Road started as one founder logging his own drives. Every feature begins with a driver's problem, not a product manager's roadmap.
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