Your Trip, Your Way

What is Plot Along?

Plot Along is a collaborative route planner that gives you full control over every road you take. Create waypoints, plan routes segment by segment, and work on the same map with others in real time. Plot Along picks up where other route planners leave off.

Friction At Every Corner

Existing route planners are built to get you from A to B. They optimize for speed, distance, or tolls. If you care about the road itself, your options are limited.

“Avoid highways” isn’t enough. You don’t always want to avoid highways. Sometimes the state route is the scenic one. Sometimes the four-lane bypass is the fastest way through a city. What you actually want is to choose which roads you take, segment by segment. Existing tools don’t let you do that without fighting the algorithm every step of the way.

Auto-generated curvy routes are a coin toss. Tools that promise twisty roads deliver slow neighborhood drives or unexpected gravel just as often as they deliver the mountain switchbacks you were hoping for. You end up re-doing the work by hand anyway.

Sharing is an afterthought. You finish a route, then what? Export a file. Text a screenshot. Hope the other person’s app can open it. If two people are planning the same trip, there’s no good way for both of them to work on it at the same time. One person plans, the other follows.

The Path Less Traveled

Plot Along is built from the ground up around three ideas.

Full control. You place every waypoint. You decide every road segment. The planner routes between your points, but you’re always in charge of the path. No algorithm overriding your choices with a “better” suggestion.

Real collaboration. Multiple people on the same map, at the same time. Live cursors, instant sync, shared editing. Planning a trip together should actually feel like doing it together, not passing files back and forth.

Compatibility. Open routes in your preferred navigation app. Everybody gets the directions they’re accustomed to while sticking together on the road.

The Mechanic

I’m Taylor, a driving enthusiast and app developer. My wife and I have a shared passion for roadtripping on our motorcycles. We tried all the apps out there for route planning, but none of them ever really solved all our problems, or left us feeling happy and excited for the trip. Experiences ran the gamut from powerful but exhausting, to simple but ineffective.

I made Plot Along so we could plan trips together the way we wanted to with intuitive and easy to use controls. Now, I want to share this app with all of the other roadtrippers, van-lifers, group ride coordinators, road cyclists and travelers out there. Plot Along is a tool for anyone who enjoys the drive, with or without a destination.