7 Best RV Trip Planning Apps: 2024 Guide

Every memorable RV trip needs a guide. Fortunately, you don’t have to do it all on your own. 

To help you plan out your next adventure, we scoured the digital world for the best RV trip planning apps available. 

There’s a lot out there now and many are truly invaluable resources when on the road, whether it’s deciding on your next stop or planning well in advance. 

Each of the apps we reviewed below are great at what they do and can serve as trusty tools in planning out and navigating your next trip, each with their own unique features.

Read on to find out our picks for the best RV trip planning apps of 2024. 

7 Best RV Trip Planning Apps

Below, each app is summarized based on:

• Its unique features
• Data (access to campground locations, routes, or something else unique)
• And pricing 

Also: Keep in mind that while you’ll want to use one app to plan out your trip and navigate, that’s not to say that you can’t make use of multiple apps.

Some offer access to unique features such as connecting you with the owners of private campsites. 

This allows you to get to places you otherwise would never be able to without that particular app. Consider that when you’re planning out your trip and which apps you’ll use. 

Here are our picks for the 7 best RV trip planning apps:

1. RV Life Pro / Trip Wizard

One of the most popular all-around trip planning resources in the industry, RV Life Pro gives you access to a variety of tools.

One of those tools is the RV Life Trip Wizard, which includes:

• A visual trip planner 
• Customization to your RV’s specs (to avoid things such as roads with a particular height clearance)
• Thousands of campground reviews from other RVers
• Points of interest for recreation and more
• Trip cost planner

If you want to go the whole nine yards with planning down to each individual destination, campground, and route, RV Life’s Trip Wizard is a great option. 

Pricing

RV Life Pro has a monthly subscription option, which includes full access to all Trip Wizard features, for $19.99 per month. 

They also offer an annual subscription for a pretty steep discount at $64.99 per year.

2. Adventure Genie

Adventure Genie is an RV trip planner that uses unique AI-powered features. 

It can automatically create personalized trip recommendations, which can be improved over time as the AI learns your travel habits. 

This is great if you frequently travel as the app will remember not only the locations and routes themselves but their characteristics, allowing it to offer more customized recommendations over time.  

With that said, if you’re interested in getting some of the other features standard in most trip planner apps such as a large database of campground reviews, you’ll find it lacking as it leans toward specializing in AI features. 

Pricing

Adventure Genie offers a free starter plan with a few of their most basic features. 

Their premium Pro plan gives you access to additional planning tools as well as their unique AI planning tools for either $39.99 annually or $9.99 per month. 

3. Roadtrippers

The Roadtrippers app offers similarly comprehensive features to RV Life’s Trip Wizard, with a great visual trip planner, large database, and ease of use. 

It’s yet another great all-around trip planning tool, which you use will mostly depend on the one you prefer in terms of user experience and actual app navigation (it offers a free trial, so you can try it before committing).

Pricing

They offer 3 plans, each with similar features, along with a starter free plan that includes one saved trip and 3 stops. 

Their starter plan comes in at $35.99 (or $2.99 per month) and include 3 trips and 20 stops while their Pro (5 trips, 50 stops) and Premium (unlimited trips, 150 stops) plans come in at $49.99 and $59.99 respectively.

4. The Dyrt Pro

The Dyrt, a crowd-sourced campground review community, offers The Dyrt Pro, a paid plan that gives access to an assortment of features. 

Features include:

• Trip planner and route optimizer
• Database with 50,000 campgrounds
• Including 5,000 drive-in campground locations and overnight parking locations
• Discounts at certain campgrounds
• And more

Where The Dyrt Pro accels is in getting the best possible information about and treatment at campgrounds. 

They have a huge database of reviews and great photos of most campgrounds. You can also not only get big discounts at many campgrounds but access to some campgrounds even when they’re fully booked. 

Pricing

The Dyrt Pro offers a 7-day free trial with a competitive $35.99 annual price tag.

5. Hipcamp

Hipcamp is a unique entry on this list, but one which is worth mentioning. Think of it as the Airbnb of campsites. 

If you’re interested in finding and visiting truly unique RV spots and campsites on your trip, Hipcamp is your best bet as it allows you to connect with private landowners who rent their property out to RVers and campers. 

It doesn’t have all of the great trip planning features that some of the other apps on this list offer, but given its unique angle and the opportunity to see and stay at campsites you’d never otherwise have the chance to, we think it’s worth checking out.

Pricing

The app is free to use, the cost comes in renting a campsite or RV spot. Price varies. 

6. KOA Camping App

KOA is a collection of campgrounds throughout the U.S. and Canada. 

The KOA App gives you direct access to information on their entire network of campgrounds as well as additional trip planning features.

While it doesn’t have the amount of data that some of the other trip planners do on this list, having direct access to KOA’s network offers some unique features that many other apps don’t.

You can search for campgrounds and see park profiles, photos, and other information and even book a stay right from within the app.

Pricing

To access the KOA app, you need to sign up for a KOA rewards membership, which is $36.00 per year. 

7. RV Parky

RV Parky is a great starter app for first time RVers. It offers a simple plan with a few key features and is super easy to use. 

To start you can use the free version, but keep in mind that most features are locked behind their (quite affordable) paid plan. 

They offer a large database of campgrounds and RV parks along with reviews from other RVers. 

In addition, you get access to a great collection of filters for planning your trip all the way down to the particular feature or amenities you’re looking for.

Pricing

RV Parky has some free features, but to get access to the majority of the platform’s features you’ll need to get RV Parky Pro.

They offer one simple plan at an affordable $4.99 per month or an annual membership at a large discount of just $19.99 annually. 

Why Use an RV Trip Planner App?

If you’re looking around to see what an RV trip planner can help you with, the list is long.

While you could go without one if you’re in for the thrill, using an app can help you avoid all kinds of potential issues and dangers, slowdowns, and save time navigating.

An RV trip planner app can help you:

• Plan out your trip and calculate travel time in advance, with specific stops
• Avoid dangerous routes and label unpaved roads, low clearance, and more to help you set a safe route for your rig
• Locate campgrounds and RV parks
• Find points of interest such as gas stations, recreational stops, dump stations, and more
• Calculate mileage and track gas spend
• And more, depending on the app

With all that said, every app is a bit different. So, make sure to look at the full feature list of any of the apps that interest you most from the list above. 

Start Planning (and Have Fun)

Planning an RV trip is a big part of the fun, and it can take a lot of work depending on your goals.

We hope one or more of these apps can help not only make that planning simpler and easier but your trip as a whole smoother, so that you can enjoy the adventure solo or with loved ones without worry.