A Better Routeplanner (ABRP)

3 out of 4 chargers that this app suggested to go to not working! A 7 hrs trip turned to almost 20hrs

I never leave reviews but I just traveled from NJ to CA using this app and I wouldn’t have been able to without it. Highly recommend.

I use it with a 2016 Nissan Leaf and in conjunction with LeafSpy. ABRP gets live battery telematics from LeafSpy; works frickin great!

I used this for a 2-day road trip from the Midwest to New Orleans. The app works, but there are a few critical flaws. I paid an extra $4.99 for CarPlay integration, which would be great if it worked reliably. Sometimes, the app gets stuck in a “loop” where it’s open in CarPlay and not your phone, and when you try to open the app on the phone, it crashes immediately. Also, the navigation guidance is useless. If you ever go off your originally planned route, like missing an exit or making a pit stop somewhere else, it will give you no direction on how to get back on track, and your ETA and time left calculation displays as “—“. This app is much better used in the background to plan the route, while you input the addresses and chargers it comes up with into Apple or Google maps. I will be cancelling the subscription, not worth it.

app will not speak directions in iOS 26. Tried everything to fix this through the accessibility settings. Voices are working in the OS. This is clearly an ABRP bug and makes it useless to use on a road trip. This app has such promise but they always have quality and poor UI issues that just ruin things. How hard is it to make a normal navigation app in 2025?

I went all in with this app and bought the premium service and the dongle to connect with my 2025 Ford F150 Lightning onboard computer. I did a 2200 mile round trip on major highways covering Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. The navigation function repeatedly went berserk and added turns where they were not supposed to occur. The route planning and charger locations was helpful the first half of the trip. On the return leg, I just used the Apple map, Electrify America and the Ford Pass apps, which were more than adequate. Overall ABRP was a waste of time, money and unnecessary. It resulted in a lot of wasted time.

I use this for every road trip! Super accurate and simple to use. Thanks!

Just bought a month subscription so I can prepare for a long trip and test it. On the positive, super well done technically, with Bluetooth ODB2 data it grabs and integrates all sorts of fantastic data that GM refuses to provide owners directly. Now for the bad: NO UNDO BUTTON, unclear permanent damage to routes with a minor slip of the finger or by pushing one of the overwhelmingly vague and mislabeled buttons. I’ve destroyed and had to recreate entire itineraries that I tweaked to be perfect. I’ve lost entire plans by accidentally misinterpreting the vague and complex methods of setting up and updating a plan. It doesn’t automatically save your routes, you have to manually save it (before you accidentally make any mistaken touch), you have to manually check off each of the additions to the route, you have to go back in and tweak power settings and time streams. I’ve set up a hotel for an overnight stay, and even added a second occurrence so that I could tell ABRP my expected departure time. But still ABRP continues on like a two week trip is all on the same day! By setting it up this way, the timing for stops is wrong, and for some reason they don’t have arrival times as an option for places so if someplace doesn’t open till 10 AM, you can’t tell the program that. So frustrating. So given that this is technically a super cool program, but the usability is maybe a one out of five for the real world, especially if you’re driving, and I need to rely on it, I’m torn how to rate this. The EV charging system is such a ridiculous cacophony of silo off applications networks and what have you that this is just one extra messy thing alongside it. If I could have the simplicity of using Waze, the database accuracy of PlugShare and the technical back end of ABRP, along with a single payment system, which I acknowledge as far off in the distance, road tripping in an EV it could be fantastic. But after spending several hours, watching my plans disappear from this app, settings that I tweaked get destroyed, routes get planned absurdly rather than having some sort of red flag saying “hey, driving across half the state only to get a charge (because one of the waypoints slipped) doesn’t make sense, would you like to reroute more logically?” I wish these guys luck in getting a release version together, and the technical backend on this is really good so I’ll probably give them their $50 a year toward enough coffee to make this usable for real driving. But I’m super disappointed that routing itself, and even finding and securing charger waypoints I want to use is such a hard chore. Also, maybe I haven’t found it yet, but how about allowing me a “default” charge setting for my car on a trip? I know theoretically that I can charge at “X” kWh, but for planning I want to set it “X-20%” to allow for waits, slow charging below theoretical, etc. and I want to default to 80% charge for all chargers, but then tweak to a higher number if I have more time and/or need extra reserves for a mountain or climate. This app is halfway to god level, but the other half is satan level and it’s got me torn up real bad thinking what it could be.

Locking up on macOS 6.1 after first run… (Have to kill but won’t re-launch)

Great app for EVs