Road Trip Radar

Road Trip Radar is an open-source navigation app for Android that combines map-based travel guidance with situational awareness. It is intended for people who want to understand conditions around their route while traveling, including explorers and motorcyclists. The app supports navigation by showing the bearing to a destination instead of relying on rigid turn-by-turn instructions.

Live animated weather radar from RainViewer can be displayed over the map, helping users view precipitation in the direction of travel. Radar opacity is adjustable, and playback controls let users examine how the weather imagery changes over time. The app also provides wind speed and direction, along with the current temperature and its one-hour trend. These details can help motorcyclists decide when to prepare for changing conditions or consider avoiding a storm.

Distance rings centered on the user’s location adjust to the current zoom level, providing a changing sense of scale on the map. Road Trip Radar includes Light, Dark, and Auto map styles, with custom colors available for both the light and dark styles. A speed readout can use metric or imperial units, and its font size is adjustable.

Road Trip Radar is listed in MirrorNest’s Navigation category and is built for the Android platform. It has no tracking, accounts, or ads, and its open-source license allows the software to be distributed in that form. MirrorNest mirrors the official build on its own storage and scans it for malware before publishing.