A Google My Maps alternative that plans the drive

Last updated August 2026 · an honest look at Stopful as a Google My Maps alternative — including where Google My Maps is still the better choice

Stopful turns those pins into an actual plan: drive time and distance for every leg, automatic day-splitting by how far you'll drive per day, EV chargers and hotels along the route, a running budget with a fuel estimate, and — before you book — a projection of what the trip will cost in total, priced by the regions you cross and the month you go. It handles up to 60 stops and needs no Google account — the whole trip travels in a shareable link.

Stopful vs Google My Maps, feature by feature

● Yes   ● Partial / paid / limited   ● No. Free-tier behaviour where a paid tier exists. Competitor data verified July 2026; Stopful's own rows are current as of August 2026. Pricing and features change — check each provider's site.

What will the trip cost — before you book anything?

Every planner here can record money you have already spent. Only one answers the question that comes first: roughly what will this trip cost, and if it's too much, where do I cut? Stopful's Budget tab has an Estimate view that prices a whole itinerary before a single booking exists.

• The whole trip, not just fuel — stays per night, food and getting around per person per day, things to do, flight, train and bus fares per leg, plus fuel and tolls worked out from the real route.
• Priced by where you are going — more than 150 regions and cities carry their own cost index, so Sardinia isn't priced as mainland Italy and the Swiss Alps aren't priced as France.
• And by when — month-by-month seasonality per region. The Mediterranean peaks in August, the Alps peak in February, and the model knows the difference.
• And by who's going — rooms are priced by occupancy rather than headcount, a child of 12+ takes an adult's place, an under-2 sleeps in a cot for free, and Friday and Saturday nights carry a premium.
• And by how you travel — Budget, Standard or Comfort, with per-category multipliers, because lodging spans an order of magnitude and a metro ticket costs what it costs.
• A range, not false precision — every figure is a ± band, and the bands combine statistically (in quadrature) rather than stacking on top of each other, so the range stays narrow enough to be worth reading.
• Ranked, so you can act on it — the breakdown sorts by what costs most and groups by place or by category, which is what actually answers "where do I cut".
• It never touches your real money — the estimate is derived live from the itinerary and stays structurally separate from logged expenses. Bookings reconcile against it; they never quietly shrink it.

Because it is derived rather than stored, it moves as you plan: add a night, change the party, swap a drive for a flight, and the number follows — and two different trips are directly comparable before either is booked. It is free, needs no account, and works on a trip with zero bookings.

You can see what it produces without signing up for anything: what a road trip costs prices 22 destinations and 37 real routes with this exact model — a night, a day's food, a day's local transport, and the same trip in all twelve months.

When Google My Maps is still the better choice

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Free · no account · drive times, day splits, stays, EV chargers, and an estimate of what it'll all cost before you book.

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This comparison reflects publicly available information about Google My Maps as of July 2026 and our own testing, and is maintained by Stopful. We've aimed to be fair, including where Google My Maps is the better tool. Features and pricing change; verify current details on Google My Maps's website. Product names and trademarks belong to their respective owners.