Rods - Pocket Co-driver

Buildrhaus

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About this app

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 or your phone speaker. Native Android Auto and CarPlay support coming soon.

★ 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.

Ratings and reviews

I don't have an issue with this being a pay to use service. But an issue with. How it first makes you plan a route. Than prompts you that an account is necessary. Makes you plan the route again. And only after that shows the paywall. Like come on. The paywall should be the first thing you see when opening the app. It being paid isn't the issue. But just be upfront about it.

I think the app has great potential, the first half of my trip was great on the route I made, then the app just stopped.. after that nothing was working.. continuing on route got my initial location but couldn't track me, free drive couldn't even do that much. Pretty good app when it works, but to charge money for this thing in this state is questionable

Typical vibe coded slop, it barely works half the time, it's fine when it does but that is maybe 30% of the time or less. Get some actual engineers to fix this instead of using ai to slop out code, the idea is good but the execution is just bad. The GPS has a tendency to bug out after rerouting, once showed a long straight road where one does not exist diagonally across the entire screen. it is laughable to expect anyone to pay for this.

What’s new

New
- Roundabout callouts: Rods now tells you which exit to take.
- Motorcycle support: choose Car or Motorcycle, with a new bike for your garage.

Fixes
- Fixed subscribers wrongly shown as not subscribed and locked out of saved routes.
- Fixed route preview getting stuck on loading.
- Fixed freezing while recalculating after a reroute.
- Android: fixed background GPS killed by battery savers on some phones.