RV LIFE - RV GPS & Campgrounds

I’ve been using RV Life Pro since Mar 2025. It’s a good source of information, and does better than others trip planning. Recently they partnered with Harvest Hosts (also a member) and I thought that was going to be great. It needs more integration, as the HH sites are not always showing up. Also the filter option in the map needs some work. When you filter by your needs/desires and rig, almost nothing comes up. But clear the filters and they appear. I also think the interface to the trip planning is too click intense, need to simplify getting to the trip planner. Also, I get annoyed with the constant banners to join as Pro, I’m already paying for Pro, so should be smart enough to know that and remove the banner. Currently I have to use 3 different apps to do all I need to do for planning, wouldn’t it great if this one was one stop shopping!?! All that said I do like the trip planning general functionality and the ability to plan multiple trips and have them tentative while making changes. This app has so much potential, it should be leveraged to make it “great”. I’ll keep using and hoping.

I’ve used RV Life Pro for the past 5 years. It has effectively kept me safe from low bridges and dead-end roadways. Its campground reviews have been very beneficial as well. But, one persistent issue will cause me try other products / services after my current subscription expires. The fonts on RV Life maps don’t scale. You - or, I at least - cannot read the highway names or numbers on their maps. The larger I expand the maps, the more unreadable the highway designations. I end up having to employ an old school magnifying glass to my laptop screen. Totally forget about viewing the maps on my iPhone or the large screen in my truck. I mentioned this to their support team in the past and they repeatedly promise to take the matter up with their cartographer … nothing changes. I really don’t understand why this problem even exists much less cannot be remedied. I don’t see that problem in any other digital mapping product. Scaleable fonts have been part and parcel to Google maps for decades now. So, I don’t get why there is this problem but, apparently, RV Life doesn’t see it as a priority thus driving me to find a more readable alternative. I’ll miss them, but I suspect I will get over that.

We are full-time RVers going strong for 1 year and have used this app for trip planning. We depend on this app 100% and even use the RV Safe GPS. Yes, the estimated eta is conservative and we always arrive at our destination earlier than the estimate compared to Waze, Apple, and Google estimates, but I think that’s because most safe RVers drive slower than the marked speed limit. There are settings for entering your max speed on the highways which you can experiment with. My only negatives are very minor with the GPS. In the older versions of the app, we only had one incident where we were directed down a back road that was was one way and narrow with tight turns where an adjacent main road would have been desired. Also, the new 4.0 version map display seems to have issues. I’ve had to kill the app and restart it to reset the map and remove splotches of graphical objects. In addition, the CarPlay map seems to be zoomed way in and I’d like to be able to zoom it out a bit. Overall, I love the app and will continue to use it. GPS part just needs some work still. I’m an app developer and sometimes wonder why they don’t just tap into the Waze or Google map API. I would especially appreciate the turn by turn voice from one of their engines rather than the robotic sounding one.