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Routal vs Google Maps
Google Maps is the best navigation app there is, and your drivers will keep using it. The difference shows up before anyone sets off: nine stops per route, an order you set by hand, and no record of what happened afterwards.
What delivering on Google Maps costs
It is not a bad product. It is a navigation app being asked to do something else.
Nine stops, destination included
That is the limit documented in Google's own help centre. A forty-drop round becomes five routes chained together by hand, and a driver rebuilding the list mid-morning parked on the hard shoulder with the engine running.
You decide the order
Google Maps does not resequence stops: you drag them into place. The route ends up being the planner's intuition, which is usually good and never optimal, with nothing to compare it against to know how much is being left on the road.
Nothing survives the delivery
No signature, no photo, no customer alert, no actual arrival time. Proof of delivery ends up as a picture in a chat thread nobody can find three weeks later, which is exactly when a customer calls to say the order never arrived.
Why teams switch from Google Maps to Routal
Hundreds of stops, already sequenced
Upload the day's deliveries and the route comes back in order, respecting time windows, vehicle capacity and zones. No slicing the round into blocks of nine and chaining map links over chat.
Your drivers keep using Google Maps
This is not about replacing the navigation app. The driver taps the stop in Routal and Google Maps or Waze opens for the leg, exactly as today. What changes is that there is now a route behind it, instead of a loose list in somebody's head.
Everything leaves a record
Real arrival time, signature, photo and failure reason, stored and searchable. The customer gets an ETA without anyone picking up the phone, and at month end the report exists without being assembled by hand.
What Google Maps does better
Your drivers will keep navigating with it, and that suits us fine.
Nothing navigates better
Real-time traffic, lane guidance and the best-maintained street data in the world, offline maps included. We do not try to compete there: we would rather lean on it and let the driver navigate with what they already know.
It is already on every phone
No install, no training, no resistance to change. Any driver, permanent or covering a shift, can use it from minute one without anyone explaining anything. No delivery software has that advantage.
It is free, and sometimes it is enough
Two vans, eight stops a day and long-standing customers in an area you know by heart: the right answer is Google Maps, not routing software. Worth saying before trying to sell you anything.
Real results from real operations
Whether you manage a fleet or drive solo, Routal has the right tool for you.
25.6%
lower distribution cost · Prio
+15%
more productivity · Alfil Logistics
26.6%
less fuel and CO₂ · Recoambiente
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Real results from real operations
Whether you manage a fleet or drive solo, Routal has the right tool for you.
25.6%
lower distribution cost · Prio
+15%
more productivity · Alfil Logistics
26.6%
less fuel and CO₂ · Recoambiente
“Routal has become a key tool in our daily operations. We save time, money, and gained full visibility over our entire operation. The experience couldn't be better.”
“The platform is very intuitive and easy to use. It lets you optimize routes quickly and efficiently and monitor deliveries in real time, which translates to significant time and cost savings.”
“It's a very easy-to-use platform, and support is fast and efficient when you have questions. I've been using it for two years without any issues.”
“I've used it at different companies and it has brought great benefits: better fleet utilization, fuel savings, reduced wear, and lower maintenance costs.”
“We're very happy using Routal. It's simple and easy to learn, super useful for new team members. Creating new stops is incredibly easy with bulk and individual upload.”
“What I liked most about Routal is how user-friendly the platform is. The maps, the dynamism, the fonts: everything is very easy and quick to learn.”
“Great route optimization, ease of use, and above all customer support. When you have questions, they're always resolved quickly.”
“My experience has been great. They're always updating with new tools. It's very dynamic and the time calculations are perfect when designing routes.”
“The intuitive way to use it. No thousands of buttons for basic tools, and the interface is super dynamic and pleasant. It's been the most reliable routing platform.”
“I've been using it for over 5 years and I'm satisfied. They focus on functionality while keeping a clean aesthetic. Customer support is fast.”
“It fills me with satisfaction to generate my routes knowing there's no margin of error. The daily route optimization is fantastic and you learn fast.”
What teams ask before making the jump
Real questions from operations delivering with the phone's navigation app.
How many stops can you add in Google Maps?
Does Google Maps sequence the stops for me?
What does Google Maps do better than Routal?
Do I have to stop using Google Maps with Routal?
We ran the numbers in this article: Google Maps is free, but it ends up expensive