EV planner feature comparison table

Key takeaways

There is no overall winner here and we do not publish one. These are not ten versions of the same product: a roaming card, a community map, a routing engine and a car’s built-in navigation solve different problems, and the right choice depends on the car you drive and the country you drive it in.
Drive Charge Eat is made by the people who publish this site. It is listed alphabetically like everything else, it is never scored or ranked first, and where another tool does a job better this page says so.
Cells marked – are ones we could not confirm from the vendor's own documentation. They are gaps in our checking, not evidence the feature is missing.
Checked against each vendor's own public documentation on 2026-08-19. This category changes monthly — treat anything here as a starting point and confirm on the vendor's site before you buy.

The table

Capability	ABRP	Apple Maps	Chargemap	Chargeprice	Drive Charge Eat *	Electroverse	Google Maps	PlugShare	Tesla	Zapmap
Plans a charging route	●	◐	◐	○	●	–	●	◐	●	●
Models the charging curve	●	–	–	◐	–	○	◐	○	●	–
Adjusts for weather and temperature	◐	–	–	○	●	○	●	○	–	–
Accounts for elevation	–	–	–	○	●	○	●	○	–	–
Live charger availability	◐	–	◐	–	◐	●	◐	◐	●	●
Reads the car	◐	●	–	–	–	–	◐	–	●	–
Preconditions the battery	–	◐	○	○	–	○	–	○	●	○
Turn-by-turn navigation	◐	●	–	○	●	○	●	○	●	–
CarPlay or Android Auto	◐	◐	–	–	◐	–	◐	–	○	◐
Pays for the charge	○	○	●	○	○	●	○	–	◐	●
Compares session prices	–	–	◐	●	○	◐	–	○	○	◐
Food, restrooms and facilities	◐	◐	–	○	●	◐	◐	◐	◐	–
Driver check-ins and reviews	◐	○	●	–	–	–	◐	●	○	–
Usable without paying	●	●	●	●	○	●	●	●	●	●

Key: ● Yes · ◐ Partly · ○ No · – Unverified. An asterisk marks our own app.

What the table cannot tell you

Whether the thing is pleasant to use. Whether the charger data is right in your country. Whether the subscription renews at a price you would have agreed to. A capability matrix is a filter for a shortlist, not a substitute for a fortnight of driving with one.

Prices and platforms

Product	Platforms	Price	Coverage
A Better Routeplanner	Web, iOS, Android, Android Automotive	Free tier; Premium around €5 per month or €50 per year	Worldwide
Apple Maps	iOS, CarPlay	Free	Varies by manufacturer and market
Chargemap	Web, iOS, Android	Free app; Chargemap Pass tiers, with paid tiers adding route planning and live availability	Europe
Chargeprice	Web, iOS, Android	Free	Europe
Drive Charge Eat (our own app)	iOS 17+, CarPlay	$4.99 per month or $39.99 per year; no free trial	Not stated by the vendor. Example routes on the site span the US and several European countries, which is not the same as a market-availability claim.
Octopus Electroverse	iOS, Android	Free to join; charging billed at network rates, stated as passed through without markup	States over 1,000,000 chargers and 950 charge point brands across 40 countries
Google Maps	Web, iOS, Android, Android Auto, Android Automotive	Free	Worldwide, though EV features depend on vehicle support and market
PlugShare	Web, iOS, Android	Free	Worldwide, strongest in North America
Tesla in-car navigation	Built into the vehicle	Included with the car	Tesla vehicles
Zapmap	Web, iOS, Android, in-car dashboard	Free; Zapmap Premium adds discounts and removes ads, price not stated on the page checked	United Kingdom only; states 120,000+ chargers across 40 networks