Turn-by-turn navigation
Ruto packs the roads around your whole route onto your phone before you leave. When the network disappears in a tunnel, on a back road or in a dead zone, the directions keep going — and Ruto finds you a new route from the phone itself.
How it works
Offline maps help when you downloaded the right area before you left. Ruto does that for you on every drive: it saves the roads around your whole route, keeps the directions going, and reroutes with no service at all, no plan needed — and it says so at the three moments that matter.
Ruto works out the corridor around your entire route and saves it to the device, then tells you exactly what it saved — instead of showing you a spinner and hoping.
Roads for all 37 mi saved on this phone.The moment the network goes, four words appear where you would otherwise be wondering whether the app has frozen. Miss a turn and it reroutes from the phone.
No signal. Still navigating.At the end of the drive you see what actually happened — including the part you never noticed, because nothing went wrong.
47 mi · 58 minOn the screen
Ruto draws a real 3D city at night, puts the places you actually stop for on the map as pins you can filter, and moves the whole thing onto your dashboard through CarPlay. Here is what that looks like.
3D at night
Buildings rise out of the map so a junction looks like the junction you are approaching. The camera pitches into the road ahead and the whole scene is painted for darkness — deep navy ground, lit windows, one red route through the middle of it.
Premium pins
Chargers, fuel, coffee, parking and food sit on the map as proper pins with their real names beside them — not a wall of grey dots you have to tap to identify. Choose the categories you care about and the map answers on the same frame.
CarPlay
Ruto renders the map, the route and the puck in the car itself — not a mirrored phone screen. The camera, the puck motion and the zoom behaviour are the phone's model verbatim, so the two screens agree about where you are, frame for frame.
Ahead of you
Speed cameras, crashes, closures and police reported by drivers on the same road are spoken while you can still do something about them — and the lane you need is lit before the junction, not as you pass it.
Trips
Every drive is written to your phone and nowhere else. The summary names the part you never noticed — the minutes the network was gone while the directions carried on, and whether Ruto had to find you a new route without it.
Saved on this phone. Never uploaded.
Everything in Ruto
Twenty-one things the app does. A few of them are why it exists; the rest are table stakes it would be strange to be without.
The roads around your whole route are saved to the phone before you leave, so turn-by-turn continues through tunnels, back roads and dead zones.
Miss a turn with no bars and Ruto finds you a new way from the on-device road graph — a legal forward route, never a U-turn invented to save time.
A pitched camera and extruded buildings, painted for darkness, so the junction on screen looks like the one through the windscreen.
Map, route and puck drawn natively on the dashboard, with your saved places, so a drive starts without touching the phone. Camera alerts and the lane row on the car screen are Ruto Pro; the guidance itself never is.
The lanes you need light up in step with the spoken instruction — when the turn is announced, not half a mile early.
The posted limit on a real shield beside your actual speed, so a glance answers the only question that matters.
Fixed and red-light cameras called out with distance and the posted limit, early enough to matter.
Police, crashes, closures and debris reported by people on the same road, voted on by the ones who pass next, expiring on their own.
Arrival is computed from real per-segment traffic on your route, not an average speed. Jams change the number; they never interrupt you.
Chargers, fuel, food, coffee and parking as named pins you can switch on and off — and the map answers on the same frame.
Brand names, road numbers and half-remembered street names resolve to the one near you — not to one four states away.
Type three words and drive to a three-metre square — for trailheads, gates and field entrances that have no address at all.
Drive a route from Kurviger, Rever or a Garmin with real turn-by-turn — Ruto snaps the line to roads. Export any Ruto route the same way.
Ask for the interesting way round on a bike, or routes suited to your height and weight in an RV. A preference, never a promise — read the sign.
Three switches that change the route rather than filing a complaint about it. The preference sticks until you change it.
See the other ways there with their real times, and take one before you set off or when the road ahead turns red.
Add stops along the way and Ruto routes through them in order, with arrival times for each one.
The places you go constantly, one tap from the search screen and from the car screen, with your recent destinations underneath.
A private link showing where you are and when you will arrive. It stops working the moment the trip ends, and the secret is never stored in a usable form.
Miles, minutes, the time you spent without a signal and whether Ruto rerouted you without one. Written to the phone and never uploaded.
Every cue is spoken by one warm neural voice built into the app — no robotic fallback, and it ducks your music instead of talking over it.
Ruto Pro
Turn-by-turn, the map, the voice and hazard alerts cost nothing and never will — a driver being warned about an accident ahead is not something to sell. Ruto Pro pays for the work that happens beyond the signal: the roads saved to your phone before you leave, the reroute that runs on the device itself, live traffic, camera alerts.
30 days free then yearly
Billed once a year after the free month. The free month is long enough to contain a real drive through a dead zone, which is the only demonstration that counts.
Yearly for up to six
iPhone only. Up to six people through Apple Family Sharing, each with their own saved places and their own vehicle.
3 months at a time
One trip, one summer, one season of driving somewhere the bars disappear. Renews every 3 months until you cancel — switch it off when the trip is over.
Monthly cancel anytime
The short way in, for a month you already know will be busy. Cancel in Settings whenever you like.
Prices, in your own currency, are shown in the App Store and Google Play before you subscribe.
Every plan starts with the same 30 days free. There is no account to make and nothing to cancel by email — it is an App Store subscription, so Settings ends it in two taps. And the price you start on is the price you keep: if Ruto ever costs more, it costs more for new drivers, not for you.
Questions
The things people ask first. Anything else is on the support page, or one email away.
Ruto (Ruto Maps on the App Store and Google Play) is turn-by-turn navigation for iPhone, CarPlay and Android phones that keeps working when your signal stops. Before you leave, it saves the roads around your whole route to your phone. When the network drops, the directions keep going, and Ruto finds you a new route from the phone itself.
Yes. Once your route is saved, Ruto keeps guiding and reroutes with no service at all, no plan needed: no bars, no data and no satellite add-on. You see No signal. Still navigating. while it happens, and the minutes without signal on the receipt when you arrive. Saving routes and rerouting with no signal are part of Ruto Pro.
Offline maps help when you downloaded the right area before you left. Ruto does it for you on every drive: it saves the roads around your whole route automatically, tells you what it saved, reroutes on the phone if you leave the route, and shows you afterwards what it handled without signal.
Yes. The map, the route and turn-by-turn guidance run on the car screen, with your saved places one tap away, so a drive can start without touching the phone.
No account and no ads. Ruto never asks for your name, email or phone number, has no advertising or analytics SDKs, and does not sell data. Your trip history and saved places stay on your phone. The privacy policy explains what reaches our servers.
Ruto is free to download, with no account. Turn-by-turn with the spoken voice, the map, hazard alerts from other drivers and CarPlay guidance stay free. Ruto Pro adds the part that works beyond the signal (routes saved before you leave and rerouting with no service), plus live traffic, speed-camera alerts and more. The yearly plan starts with 30 days free.
Yes. Ruto covers roads in the United States, on iPhone with CarPlay and on Android phones. It is coming to the App Store and Google Play together, in November. Android Auto support is coming. The Android page has the details.
Ruto is coming to the App Store and Google Play in November, for iPhone with CarPlay and for Android phones. Questions before then reach the team that builds it, and get an answer from someone who knows the code.