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Nine apps European travellers actually use — what each one is for, what it costs, and whether it works without a signal. Including what to look for if you want a Park4Night alternative or a caravan map app. Every figure here comes from the operator's own pages, not from us.
Who wrote this. This guide is published by AlpRoute, which makes one of the apps listed below. We have marked our own entry clearly and described it with exactly the same fields, from the same kind of source, as every other app. We do not rank the apps, and we do not claim any of them is better than another.
What AlpRoute is. AlpRoute is a free map of overnight stops for motorhome, campervan and motorcycle travellers: campsites, motorhome parking, wild spots and service areas across 51 European countries, with a filter that shows only the spots that fit your vehicle. AlpRoute Pro adds a multi-stop route planner that takes your vehicle's height, width, length and weight into account wherever map data records limits, and sends the route to Google Maps, Waze or GPX.
There is no single best app for travelling Europe in a motorhome or campervan, because the apps in this list are not really trying to do the same thing. One helps you find a free gravel pull-off above a lake. Another sells you a card that fixes your nightly rate at a commercial campsite in the shoulder season. A third simply keeps a 7.5-tonne vehicle off a road with a 3.2-metre bridge. Choosing between them as if they were interchangeable is how people end up paying for three subscriptions and still not finding anywhere to sleep.
So this guide is grouped by the job you need done, not by a score. Within each group the apps are listed alphabetically.
Every fact below was read from the operator's own website or its official App Store or Google Play listing on 15 September 2026 (paid tiers re-checked on 30 October 2026), and each entry links to that source. Nothing here is taken from a review site or a blog.
We do not compare the number of places each app lists. Several operators publish different totals on their own website than on their own store listing, and every one of them counts different things — campsites, pitches, listings, service points, rental units — over different territories. Putting those numbers side by side would produce a comparison that looks precise and means nothing.
We do not list prices. Prices differ by app store and country and change often, so for each app we say only whether there is a free version and what the paid tier is called. Check the current price in the app or on the operator's own site.
Databases built mostly from what travellers themselves report: aires, service points, quiet corners, small private spots and the campsites in between. This is the category people usually mean when they say "a motorhome app".
ZP İnternet ve Yazılım Hizmetleri Ltd. Şti. · Turkey
A map of overnight stops for campervans, motorhomes and motorcycles, with vehicle-aware route planning and a travel journal in the same app. Runs in the browser and installs to the home screen; on Android it is also available on Google Play. You pick your language when you first open it, from a list far longer than anything else in this guide.
Campercontact B.V. · Netherlands
A directory of motorhome stopovers, campsites and service areas with user reviews and photos, plus booking at some sites. It is the one other app in this group that carries both a trip planner and a journal feature.
Published by Nala Multimédia · operating company not stated on their legal pages
Campsites, service areas and private hosts such as farms and small landowners, with motorhome-specific navigation that avoids unsuitable roads. Supports CarPlay and Android Auto.
APPMOBILEDITION · France
The best-known community platform in this category: travellers post and rate parking spots, service areas and campsites, and the listings carry photos and comments from people who actually stopped there.
Apps published by Harvest Hosts, LLC · United States. The website names no operating company.
A Europe-focused database of aires, motorhome parks, campsites, UK certificated locations and service points, with a strong British base and downloads for standalone Garmin and TomTom units.
Inspected or reviewed campsite directories, most with booking built in. If your nights are spent on serviced pitches rather than gravel, this is the group that saves you money.
ACSI Holding BV, apps by ACSI Publishing B.V. · Netherlands
Two separate products that are easy to confuse. The ACSI Campsites Europe app is a campsite directory with booking. CampingCard ACSI is a low-season discount card that fixes your nightly rate at participating sites — it is the reason most people know the name.
PiNCAMP GmbH, Berlin · Germany — ADAC's camping platform
Campsites and motorhome pitches described by ADAC inspectors rather than by users. Also two apps: a free one built around booking and the ADAC Campcard, and a paid annual edition built to work entirely offline.
Camping.info GmbH, Berlin · Germany
A campsite and motorhome-pitch directory built around user reviews, with availability checking and direct booking, and a paid membership that unlocks full site detail and partner discounts.
No single app covers a whole motorhome road trip. Trip planners help you sketch the route and the stages; the overnight-stop apps in group one find where to sleep; navigation that knows your vehicle’s size gets you there. Of the four planners below, only Koko Pilote’s own page says its navigation takes vehicle size into account. They are not part of the nine-app table; every fact was read from the operator’s own pages or app-store listing on 30 October 2026.
Wikicampers
A road-trip organiser from the rental platform Wikicampers: you enter your vehicle type and maximum daily distance and get a themed itinerary with overnight stops and activities, which you can change day by day.
Polarsteps
A travel planner, tracker and diary: it plans an itinerary, records your route and turns the trip into a journal. Its own pages do not mention a car or campervan mode.
roadsurfer
An app to find and book private pitches and campsites, with prepared road-trip routes in selected European countries and a route planner.
Bagolar Studio SL
An app for overnight and camping spots in Europe, with an AI assistant, Kai, that offers trip planning and route ideas.
Features as published by each operator on 15 September 2026; paid tiers re-checked on 30 October 2026. We name each paid tier but do not list prices, because they differ by app store and country.
| App | Mainly for | Paid tier | Languages | Offline | Route planning | Journal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AlpRoute | Overnight stops | Pro | 55 | Pro | Yes, vehicle-aware | Yes |
| Campercontact | Overnight stops | PRO+ | 6 | PRO+ | Yes | Yes |
| CaraMaps | Overnight stops | Premium | 7 | Premium | Yes | Not stated |
| Park4Night | Overnight stops | park4night+ | 6 | Paid | Yes, paid | No |
| Searchforsites | Overnight stops | App subscription | 1 | Subscription | Yes | No |
| ACSI | Campsites + discount card | App subscription · CampingCard | 12 | Yes | Hand-off | Not stated |
| ADAC / PiNCAMP | Inspected campsites | PiNCAMP Plus · annual app | 4 / 1 | Yes | Hand-off | No |
| camping.info | Campsites + reviews | FANCLUB | 7 | FANCLUB | Hand-off | Not stated |
| Sygic Truck & Caravan | Navigation by vehicle size | Map packages | 44 | Yes | Navigation only | No |
Language counts are not strictly like for like: most of these apps ship a hand-localised interface in the languages their app-store listing names, while AlpRoute translates its interface automatically against a curated glossary, which is how it reaches 55. ADAC is shown as two numbers because its free app offers four languages and its paid annual app only German. "Not stated" means the operator does not describe the feature on its official pages — not that it certainly does not exist. "Hand-off" means the app passes the destination to a separate navigation app rather than routing itself.
Park4Night is the best-known community app in this guide, so it is the one people most often look to replace or supplement. What a useful alternative looks like depends on what you want to be different. Everything below uses only the facts listed earlier on this page.
Campercontact, CaraMaps, Searchforsites and AlpRoute do the same job as Park4Night: they help you find somewhere to stop for the night. Park4Night and Campercontact each name six interface languages, CaraMaps seven and Searchforsites English only. AlpRoute offers 55, translated automatically against a curated glossary rather than hand-localised.
Park4Night plans multi-stop itineraries on its paid tier but does not offer a travel journal. Campercontact has both a travel planner and public "Journeys". AlpRoute has route planning on Pro and a travel journal on the free tier.
If what you miss is routing around low bridges and narrow roads, look at CaraMaps, whose motorhome GPS avoids unsuitable roads, at Sygic Truck & Caravan, which routes by height, weight and length, or at AlpRoute, which builds the route around your vehicle on Pro.
If you mostly stay on commercial campsites, the better alternative is not another community map but a campsite directory: ACSI, ADAC Camping / PiNCAMP or camping.info, all in group two above, with booking and, for ACSI and ADAC, discount cards.
You do not have to choose. The community databases overlap heavily, and many travellers keep Park4Night for its reviews and add a second app for the thing it does not do.
The two community apps people most often weigh against each other, field by field. Every entry repeats what is listed earlier on this page, from each operator's own pages, checked on 15 September 2026.
| Campercontact | Park4Night | |
|---|---|---|
| Operator | Campercontact B.V. · Netherlands | APPMOBILEDITION · France |
| Paid tier | PRO+, monthly, quarterly or yearly | park4night+, yearly or monthly |
| Platforms | iOS, Android, web | iOS, Android, web |
| Interface languages | 6 — English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish | 6 — English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch |
| Offline | Per-country downloads on PRO+ | Downloadable maps on the paid tier |
| Route planning | "Travel Planner" (PRO+) | Multi-stop itineraries on the paid tier, showing places along the route |
| Ready-made routes | Over 20,000 km of prepared camper routes (PRO+) | Not offered as ready-made routes |
| Travel journal | "Journeys", shared publicly with other travellers | Not offered; favourites can be kept in custom folders |
Both do the same main job — finding somewhere to stop for the night — on the same three platforms and in six interface languages each. Where the facts differ is in what the paid tier adds: Campercontact's PRO+ includes prepared camper routes and a public travel journal; park4night+ does not offer a journal. We do not say which is better, and we do not compare the number of places each lists, because they count different things. Many travellers keep both. If what you are missing is routing by vehicle size or a wider choice of languages, see Looking for a Park4Night alternative? above.
"Caravan map app" can mean two quite different things: a map of places to stay, or a navigator that knows your vehicle. Four questions sort the apps in this guide quickly.
The apps in groups one and two are maps of places to stay. Sygic Truck & Caravan is a navigator and does not tell you where to stop. ADAC / PiNCAMP and camping.info hand the destination to a separate navigation app.
Vehicle-aware route planning is offered by AlpRoute (Pro), CaraMaps and Sygic Truck & Caravan. The others in this guide help you find a place but do not describe routing around your vehicle's dimensions.
In most of these apps offline maps sit behind the paid tier. ACSI works offline with a downloaded country package, and the annual ADAC app works fully offline. Check the offline column in the table above before you rely on it in the mountains.
In British English a caravan is towed. Many motorhome aires are reserved for motorhomes and do not accept a caravan in tow, so read each listing's rules — and if you tow, a campsite directory from group two is often the more useful map.
Most experienced travellers carry two: one for finding somewhere to stop, one for the thing their first app does not do. Very few need more.
Start in group one. The community databases overlap heavily, so the question is less which is biggest and more which interface you get on with and which languages you need. All of them have a usable free tier, so try before paying.
Group two is where the money is saved. A discount card that fixes your nightly rate pays for itself in a week or two of shoulder-season camping — but only if the sites you want are in the scheme, so check the country list before buying.
Pair whichever stop-finder you like with proper vehicle-profile navigation. Consumer car navigation does not know about your height, and a stop-finding app that hands you to Google Maps does not either.
Check the offline column carefully. In most of these apps offline maps sit behind the paid tier, and "works offline" can mean anything from the whole database to a single downloaded card.
For a short trip on serviced campsites, often yes. For a longer trip mixing free spots, aires and campsites, most people end up with one database from group one and one from group two, because the two groups list largely different places.
Usually a combination. A trip planner such as Koko Pilote, Polarsteps or roadsurfer spots helps you sketch the stages, an overnight-stop app finds where to sleep, and navigation that knows your vehicle’s size gets you there. In this guide, AlpRoute, Sygic and Koko Pilote say they take vehicle size into account; see Which app to plan a motorhome road trip in Europe?
It depends on what you are missing: more languages, a travel journal, routing by vehicle size, or serviced campsites instead of free spots. The section Looking for a Park4Night alternative? sorts the apps in this guide by exactly that — without ranking them.
Several apps cover part of this. Sygic Truck & Caravan is turn-by-turn navigation calculated against your vehicle's dimensions, and CaraMaps combines places to stay with motorhome-specific navigation. AlpRoute shows overnight stops on a free map; AlpRoute Pro plans multi-stop routes that take your vehicle's height, width, length and weight into account wherever map data records limits, so you can add stops along the way and send the route to Google Maps, Waze or GPX.
We do not say which is better. Both help you find places to stop for the night, on iOS, Android and the web, in six interface languages each. Campercontact's PRO+ adds prepared camper routes and public "Journeys"; park4night+ adds offline maps and multi-stop itineraries but no travel journal. The table in Campercontact vs Park4Night lists every field side by side.
For finding a supermarket or a fuel station, yes. For the route itself, check what the app knows about your vehicle: Google's own help pages describe a vehicle profile for cars in which you choose the engine type (and, for an electric car, the model and plugs), with no field for height, width, length or weight (Google Maps Help, checked 5 October 2026). Use it alongside a map of places to stay and, for tricky regions, a navigator that knows your vehicle — see Getting there in a vehicle that does not fit everywhere.
Because they count different things. One counts every listing including service points and picnic areas; another counts only inspected commercial campsites; a third counts rental units too. Several also publish one figure on their website and a different one on their app store page. The totals are not comparable, which is why this guide does not compare them.
Most do, in the usual app-store way. Searchforsites is the exception in this list: its own site describes the annual payment as a single one-off that does not auto-renew. Check the terms at checkout, because app-store subscriptions are cancelled through the store, not through the app.
Every fact was read from the operator's own pages on 15 September 2026; paid tiers were re-checked on 30 October 2026, and the dates are shown at the top of the page. We do not list prices, because they differ by app store and change often. If you spot something out of date, tell us and we will re-check the source and update it.
Yes — we published it, and our app is on the list. That is exactly why our own entry uses the same fields and the same kind of source as everyone else's, why we do not rank the apps, and why we say plainly where another app does something ours does not.
The same eight platforms ask very different things of a campsite owner — some charge an annual fee, some take a percentage of every booking, some do both, and one sends an inspector. We checked those terms on the operators' own owner pages too: listing your campsite on Europe's motorhome apps.
Travelling with a dog? Our guide shows, country by country, how many campsites and stopovers accept dogs, and the EU rules for crossing borders with a dog: Camping with a dog in Europe.
Open the map and see what is around you — free, no account needed to start. With Pro, plan the drive around your vehicle's size.
