Key Takeaways
Free plans: Geo2 gives 15 stops per route that stay saved. The Route4Me app gives 10 stops per route, and each route is deleted after 7 days.
That 7-day expiry is the catch. Build a round you run every week, come back after a week, it's gone. For repeat rounds it's a real problem.
Unlimited stops: Geo2 Pro is $7.99/month. Route4Me Basic is $9.99/month ($79.99/year). Close, but Geo2 is cheaper and includes more.
Route4Me's app has no AI voice assistant, no voice or camera stop adding. Geo2 has all three. No competitor has the AI assistant at all.
Route4Me's real product is the web platform, and it's a serious enterprise tool priced by sales quote. If you need Salesforce or Shopify integrations, that's a different purchase and a genuine reason to pick them. For a driver on a phone, the app is what matters.
Geo2's free plan is ad-supported. That's the trade.
What is the best free alternative to Route4Me?
Geo2 is the best free alternative to the Route4Me app, because it gives you more stops on the free plan and doesn't delete your routes after a week.
The expiry is the thing to understand. The Route4Me app's free plan lets you plan up to 10 stops per route, but each route is deleted after 7 days. Build tomorrow's round, and it's fine. Build a regular Tuesday round you want to reuse, and by next Tuesday it's gone. For a multi-drop driver who runs the same patches week after week, a planner that forgets your routes is close to useless.
Geo2's free plan keeps your routes. And it starts you at 15 stops, not 10.
What is the cheapest Route4Me alternative for unlimited stops?
Geo2 Pro at $7.99/month is the cheapest alternative to Route4Me for unlimited stops. Route4Me's Basic app plan is $9.99/month for the same unlimited stops.
It's not a huge gap in dollars, $2 a month, roughly $24 a year. But you're not paying more for less. For the extra you'd spend on Route4Me Basic you'd get fewer features, because the Geo2 Pro plan still includes the AI assistant, voice and camera stop adding, POD and height/weight routing that Route4Me's app doesn't have.
The Enhanced plan at $19.99 adds things like marking a destination as visited, adding notes per stop, and better address search. Useful features, but at $19.99 a month you're paying more than double Geo2 Pro for them, and Geo2 covers stop notes and status in its own way.
What does Route4Me do better than Geo2?
On the app, not much that a driver would feel day to day. Where Route4Me pulls ahead is off the phone.
The web platform. Route4Me's real strength is its enterprise platform: a proper API, integrations with Salesforce, Shopify, NetSuite and Zapier, geofencing, driver analytics. If you're a business plugging routing into other systems, Route4Me is a serious tool and Geo2's Hub doesn't match that depth. But that's a platform sold by quote, not a driver app.
Enhanced address search. On the Enhanced plan, their address search is genuinely good.
Track record. Route4Me has over 2 million app downloads going back to 2009 and 40,000-plus customers. 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). We're the newer app and the numbers say so.
No ads. Geo2's free plan is ad-supported. Route4Me's isn't.
In short: if you want Route4Me for the integrations and the platform, Geo2 isn't your answer. If you want a route planner on your phone for your round, Geo2 does that for less, with more.
What if I run a small fleet?
For a small fleet, Geo2 Advanced is $15.99 per user per month, with multi-driver dispatch, live tracking and time windows, managed from the Geo2 Hub. The price is published and it's per user, so it doesn't move when your volume spikes.
Route4Me's platform can absolutely handle fleets, and if you need the API and deep integrations, take the sales call. But if you mostly need to plan routes and dispatch them to drivers without wiring into other systems, a published per-user price you can see today is easier to live with than a quote.
The other Route4Me alternatives
Circuit, now Spoke, is the best known driver app. Free gives 10 stops per route, Standard costs $20 a month for unlimited, the interface is the cleanest in the category and the free plan has no ads. It has no proof of delivery form. See our Circuit route planner alternative comparison.
Zeo Route Planner optimises up to 12 stops per route free with unlimited routes, and charges $15.99 a month for unlimited stops per route. Wide range of stop input methods including Excel import. See our Zeo route planner alternative comparison.
RoadWarrior gives 8 stops per route free, locked to one device, and charges $14.99 a month for Pro with a 120-stop cap. See our RoadWarrior alternative comparison.
Google Maps caps at 9 stops and never reorders them, which makes it navigation rather than a multi stop route planner.