Key Takeaways
Zeo's unlimited plan is $15.99/month. Geo2 Pro is $7.99/month for the same unlimited stops. That's the headline.
Zeo's free plan is 12 routes per month, not 12 stops. Each of those routes can have unlimited stops, but you only get 12 routes in a month. Geo2 free is 15 stops per route with unlimited routes. Different shape: Zeo caps how many routes, Geo2 caps how big each one is.
Zeo's real strength is stop input. Type, voice, drop a pin, import from Excel, scan an order book. It's genuinely one of the best in the category for getting stops in. Geo2 matches most of this but Zeo deserves credit here.
Zeo has no AI voice assistant. Nor does any other route planner app. Geo2 is the only one that does, free on the mobile app, 10 requests a day. This is the one feature no competitor matches at any price.
Zeo has no height or weight restriction avoidance. Geo2 does, free, once you set your van's dimensions.
Both have proof of delivery. Zeo includes POD, so this isn't a Geo2-only win. Say so.
Geo2's free plan is ad-supported. Zeo's free tier shows upgrade prompts too. Neither free plan is ad-free.
What is the best alternative to Zeo Route Planner?
Geo2 is the best alternative to Zeo Route Planner, because it does the same core job for half the monthly price and adds two things Zeo doesn't have at all.
Let me be fair to Zeo first, because it's a good app and drivers who use it tend to like it. It optimizes well, it's mobile-first, and it has the widest set of ways to add stops of almost any app in this category. If getting a messy stop list into the app quickly is your main pain, Zeo is genuinely strong.
The problem is the price. $15.99 a month for the individual unlimited plan is the most expensive upgrade among the driver-focused apps. Circuit/Spoke is $20 but that's a business-leaning tool. Among apps built for a solo driver, Zeo sits at the top of the price range and Geo2 sits near the bottom at $7.99.
Is Geo2 cheaper than Zeo Route Planner?
Yes. Geo2 Pro is $7.99/month against Zeo's $15.99/month for individual unlimited stops. Over a year that's roughly $96 versus $192.
That's not a small gap, it's a doubling. For a self-employed driver, the annual difference is close to $100. Zeo does offer an annual plan at $129/year which softens it, and a weekly plan at $4.99 if you only need it now and then.
But like for like, monthly unlimited against monthly unlimited, Geo2 is half the price. And you're not giving up features to get there. You're gaining the AI assistant and height/weight routing.
What does Zeo Route Planner do better than Geo2?
Its stop input. Credit where it's due.
Zeo lets you add stops five different ways on the mobile app: typing, voice, dropping a pin, importing from an Excel file, and scanning a physical order book. That's a wider spread than most apps, and if you're a driver who gets stop lists in a different format every day, that flexibility is worth real money in time saved.
Geo2 covers typing, voice and camera-based scanning of manifests and addresses, which handles the majority of real cases. But Zeo's Excel import in particular is a clean feature, and Geo2's approach isn't identical to it.
Zeo also has:
Anti-clockwise routing and mid-route re-sequencing. Nice touches for drivers who like fine control.
A "share live location" one-tap for customers. Simple and useful.
A solid reputation. Zeo's App Store rating sits well and reviewers repeatedly call it good value, which matters given we're arguing it's expensive. Plenty of its users disagree with that and think the price is fair for what they get.
For context on track record: Geo2 has a 4.5 average from 74 combined reviews (4.6 from 11 on the App Store, 4.4 from 63 on Google Play). Zeo has more reviews and a longer history. We're the newer app.
Where Zeo stops and Geo2 keeps going: there's no AI voice assistant in Zeo, and no height or weight restriction avoidance. If you drive a tall or heavy van, that second one isn't a nice-to-have, it's the difference between a legal route and a wedged vehicle.
What if I run a small fleet?
This post is about the driver app, so briefly: Zeo has a separate fleet product with its own web dashboard. If you run 3 to 10 drivers, Geo2 Advanced is $15.99 per user per month with multi-driver dispatch, live tracking and time windows, at a published per-user price. Geo2's edge for a fleet is the driver-side experience your drivers use every day: the AI assistant, voice stop adding and free POD.
The other Zeo alternatives
Circuit, now Spoke, gives 10 stops per route free and charges $20 a month for unlimited. Cleanest interface in the category, no ads on the free plan, but no proof of delivery form. See our Circuit route planner alternative comparison.
RoadWarrior gives 8 stops per route free, locked to the device that created them, and charges $14.99 a month for Pro with a 120-stop cap. See our RoadWarrior alternative comparison.
Route4Me's app gives 10 stops free but deletes each route after 7 days, and charges $9.99 a month for unlimited. Their web platform is a separate enterprise product. See our Route4Me alternative comparison.
Google Maps caps at 9 stops and never reorders them, which makes it navigation rather than a multi stop route planner.