About Carve

Carve, in one line. Carve is a scenic-drive planner and offline map app for cars: plan the exact roads you want, then drive them turn by turn — even with no cell signal — on iPhone with CarPlay or Android with Android Auto.

What Carve is

Everyday navigation apps find the fastest way somewhere. Carve is for the drive itself: the coast road, the canyon, the long way over the pass. You choose the roads, stop by stop, or start from a Google Maps link or one of Carve's famous drives, and Carve guides you along exactly that route. It never swaps your route for a faster one; if you take a wrong turn, it leads you back to the road you planned.

It's built for car drivers, road-trippers and car clubs. A drive can be downloaded to work with no signal, shared by link so a whole group drives the same route, and — with Group — everyone driving it can see each other on the map.

The facts

Name: Carve: Scenic Drive Planner (also listed as Carve: Route Planner).
Website: carve.run
For: driving cars on scenic roads — planning routes, turn-by-turn navigation, offline maps, CarPlay and Android Auto, and group drives.
Platforms: iPhone (iOS 26 or later) on the App Store, since October 2026; Android 10 or later in early access on Google Play.
Price: free to plan, share, import and drive with a signal. Carve Apex, $29.99 a year with a 7-day free trial or $4.99 a month, adds offline maps, Group, guidance back after a wrong turn, CarPlay and Android Auto, and recording drives.
Made by: Chris Aston Chen.
Contact: [email protected]

Other apps called Carve

Carve at carve.run is separate from other apps with the same or a similar name. It's for driving cars, plans any route you like, and runs on both iPhone and Android.

Press and contact

For anything — press, partnerships, car clubs planning a drive, or help — write to [email protected]. The support page answers the usual questions.