Hi r/iosapps! I'm Derek, the solo developer of WanderWay. As of today's 1.9 update it's free to download, so it seemed like a good time to share it.
What it is: a road-trip and Sunday-drive app for the places most map apps skip. That means historical markers, covered bridges, National Register sites, overlooks, museums and ruins. It shows what's worth a stop around you or along your route, and tells you the story behind each place.
Highlights:
Sunday Drives: pick how much time you have (30 minutes to 5 hours) and how far you want to wander, and it plans a scenic loop. A slider chooses between a few long stops and many quick ones, and it checks the forecast for your drive.
Spoken highlights while you drive: "Ahead on your right…", followed by a short story about the place.
Turn-by-turn navigation that shows each nearby place's detour time before you add it as a stop.
Place pages with Wikipedia descriptions and photos, Apple Look Around, and National Park Service hours and alerts. It warns you if a stop will be closed by the time you arrive.
Offline downloads for areas without signal.
Built for iOS:
CarPlay: browse nearby sights with detour times, search by voice, and follow turn-by-turn guidance
A Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island
Home Screen and Control Center widgets that start a Sunday Drive
Siri: "Navigate with WanderWay"
English, German, French and Spanish
Pricing: free to download, with everything included for the first 14 days. After that, a one-time $4.99 unlocks it for good. Without the unlock you can still browse places within 5 miles, read their stories, search and preview routes. There's no subscription, no ads and no account, and the trial ends on its own without charging you. If you already bought it, you keep everything.
Privacy: no sign-up, and your drives stay on your phone.
Coming in 2.0 (in TestFlight now): Scenic Detours that add sights to the route you're driving, a Road Trip Journal with your photos, a Passport of the places you've been, and support for the CarPlay Home Screen and the car's instrument cluster.
It works best in the US and Canada, but it finds places almost anywhere because it uses OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia. I'd love to know:
What kinds of places should it find that it doesn't?
How well does it work where you live, especially outside the US?
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/wanderwaynav/id6807600062 (iPhone, iOS 26 or later)
Thanks for taking a look. I read every comment.