Press kit
Ruto, for the press
Ruto is a turn-by-turn navigation app for iPhone and CarPlay, built around one problem: what happens when the signal disappears. Before you leave, it saves the roads around your whole route on the phone and tells you what it saved. When the network drops, it keeps guiding and reroutes with no service at all, no plan needed. At the end of the drive it shows a receipt of the minutes without signal and the reroutes it handled. Ruto has no ads and no account. It is made by Minetek Systems Inc in New York and is coming to the App Store in the United States.
The line we use
Navigation that keeps working when your signal stops.
Short form, as on the App Store: Works when your signal doesn't.
Key facts
| Name | Ruto (Ruto Maps on the App Store) |
| What it is | Turn-by-turn navigation that keeps working when your signal stops |
| Platforms | iPhone and CarPlay. An Android version is in testing. |
| Availability | Coming to the App Store, United States |
| Coverage | Roads in the United States |
| With no signal | Saves the roads around the whole route before departure; guidance and rerouting continue with no service at all (Ruto Pro) |
| Account | None. No sign-up, no email address, no phone number |
| Ads and tracking | No ads. No advertising, analytics or attribution SDKs |
| Your trips | Trip history and saved places stay on the phone |
| Voice | One neural voice, built into the app and running on the phone |
| Business model | Free to download. Optional Ruto Pro subscription; the yearly plan starts with 30 days free |
| Made by | Minetek Systems Inc, New York, United States |
What we do not claim
- That Ruto is the only app that works offline. Other maps can guide inside an area you downloaded yourself; Ruto saves the roads around your route for you on every drive and reroutes without any connection.
- An accuracy figure for the arrival time. Each receipt shows how close that drive's estimate was; we will publish a figure only when enough real drives back it.
- Coverage outside the United States.
Screens
The five App Store screens, in order, in the app's dark theme. Full-resolution files on request.
- The claim. Mid-reroute with no signal; the chip on the map reads No signal. Still navigating.
- Before you leave. The route preview: Roads for all 37 mi saved on this phone.
- The receipt. The last trip: miles, minutes with no signal, and the reroutes Ruto made offline.
- CarPlay. The car screen in a turn.
- Search. Nearby places found by brand name, with distances.
Contact
Press questions, interviews, review builds and image requests: [email protected], with Press in the subject.
Ruto is made by Minetek Systems Inc, New York, United States.