Short answers to the questions we hear most. If yours isn't here, use the form at the bottom.
On iPhone, get the free ForeDrive app on the App Store. On Android and desktop, ForeDrive runs in your browser, and you can add it to your home screen for an icon like any other app:
Once installed it opens full screen and keeps your favorites and settings.
Type a city and state, like Grand Junction, CO, or a street address or landmark, and pick it from the list that appears. Towns answer instantly, even offline; addresses take a moment. "Starting from" fills in with your location; tap Change to start somewhere else, or to add a stop, open More options.
After you tap Next, choose one: Leave now, Later today, Tomorrow morning, Tomorrow afternoon, or Pick a day and time for anything else. Times are in the local time zone of your starting point. If you have an appointment at the far end, open More options on the first screen and switch to arriving by a time.
Yes, with ForeDrive Plus. Open More options on the first screen, tap Add a stop, enter the town, and choose how long you'll stay, from a quick break to overnight. The forecast for the rest of the trip shifts to match.
Yes. Choose Walk under More options. ForeDrive follows hiking trails where they exist (not the shortest street way), adds hiking time for the climbs (about an hour for every 2,000 ft or 600 m), and labels each stretch as Trail, Paved path or Road; trails are dashed on the map. For one particular trail, export its GPX file from AllTrails, Gaia GPS or Strava and choose Import a file under More options. The briefing then follows the trail itself.
It can, with ForeDrive Plus. In Settings, Breaks on drives adds a short break every two or three hours of driving (15 minutes every 3 hours, or 20 or 30 minutes every 2 hours), so the arrival time and the forecast allow for fuel, food and bathroom stops. The checkpoint list shows where each break falls, and a long drive planned without any stops offers to add them. Meals and overnight stays are stops you add yourself.
Yes, with ForeDrive Plus. In Settings, set Toll roads to Avoid when possible and ForeDrive plans the drive on a toll-free road whenever one exists; the toll road stays under Route options so you can compare the two. The line under the arrival time says when a drive includes toll roads, and the checkpoint list marks where. Toll prices are not shown.
Yes. ForeDrive opens in dark mode. Tap Settings (at the bottom of the first screen, or beside the map on a briefing) and choose Dark, Light, or Auto, which follows your phone's own setting. The same screen has three text sizes: Normal, Large and Largest.
One question, "Where are you driving to?", with your starting point filled in and any drives you've checked before listed underneath, already rated for leaving now.
The trip's overall rating is its worst moment. The checkpoint list shows where and when that moment is. The bar under each number near the top of the briefing (temperature, chance of rain, gusts, visibility) shows where it sits on the same scale, from favorable to severe.
Every time in the briefing is shown in the time zone of the place you'll be at that moment, with the zone name next to it (MDT, PDT). A trip from Denver to Las Vegas arrives in Pacific time, and the app says so.
Up to 14 days. Forecast confidence drops after about five days, and the briefing says so in its confidence label. For trips a week or more out, check again a day or two before you leave.
A calendar of departure times, morning to evening, across the days around your plan. Each square is colored by the conditions you'd meet if you left then. Tap a square to re-plan around it. Free shows three days either side; Plus shows a full week.
When more than one sensible road exists, ForeDrive forecasts each and compares them: worst rating, minutes in poor weather, and travel time. Tap a route to switch the whole briefing to it. The hand-off links then send that exact route to Google or Apple Maps. This is a Plus feature.
With Plus, yes. Travel times come from typical traffic for the hour you'll be on each stretch of road, and the briefing lists the slow spots with how many minutes they add. The "Best time to leave" calendar compares weather only; tap a square and the arrival time updates with that hour's traffic.
With Plus, plan a trip that leaves later and tap Set reminder. Choose one hour, three hours or the evening before. At that time your phone gets a notification with a fresh briefing for the trip, and, if you leave the box ticked, another one if the overall rating changes before you leave. Tap the notification to open the full briefing.
On iPhone, the free App Store app is the easiest way to get these notifications, and ForeDrive added to your Home Screen works too (see the first question). On Android and desktop they work in the browser. You'll be asked once to allow notifications.
Some states and provinces have sensors in the pavement that measure its temperature and whether it is dry, wet, snowy or icy, and road crews who post official reports like "Chains required" or "Closed". When a fresh reading (under an hour old) is within 5 km (3 mi) of your route, the briefing shows it on the nearest checkpoint and in Measured road conditions, with how old it is and who measured it. Only readings for the next 2 hours of your drive change the rating; later ones are shown for context.
Measured by state road sensors at one spot on the road, as of the time shown. Conditions can change within minutes and can differ a short distance away. Sensors can be offline or wrong. Always follow official road reports, closures and what you see.
Like flight following for pilots, for your drive. With Plus, on a briefing for a drive that leaves within 12 hours, tap Follow this drive. Until you arrive, ForeDrive re-checks the weather on the stretches still ahead every 15 minutes and sends one short notification only when something real changes: the rating goes up or down, a new official alert covers the road ahead, or a new hazard like dense fog or ice appears. Never more than one every 30 minutes.
It starts the moment you tap it: before you leave, ForeDrive watches the forecast for the times you'll reach each stretch. It doesn't use your location yet. Where you are is estimated from your departure time and the briefing's times (with live traffic once you're under way). If you left late, tap I left late on the briefing; stretches you've passed are greyed out. Leaving earlier or later than planned? Tap Leaving now as you pull out, and the times start from that moment. Following stops on its own 2 hours after your planned arrival, or tap Stop following.
ForeDrive uses the same public forecast models the weather services use (through Open-Meteo), sampled at every checkpoint for the hour you'll be there. It is a planning aid. Always follow official warnings, road closures and the conditions you see.
Open ForeDrive Fleet, tap Share board, name your team and tap Create a team. You'll get two links: send the dispatcher link to people who may edit the board, and the driver link to drivers, who see the board but can't change it. Opening a link on a device signs it in; there is no password to remember. If a driver leaves, tap New driver link and the old one stops working.
Every save is checked against the latest board. If a teammate saved first, your device merges your changed trips onto their version and saves again, so nothing is lost. Devices refresh every 20 seconds and whenever you come back to the tab.
Subscriptions bought on an iPhone are managed in the App Store: Settings, your name, Subscriptions. On Android, open Google Play, your profile, Payments and subscriptions. Web subscriptions can be managed from the receipt email or by writing to support@foredrive.app. Cancelling stops future charges and you keep Plus until the end of the period you paid for. Full details are in the terms of service.
In the other browser, open ForeDrive, tap Settings, then ForeDrive Plus, then Restore purchases, and enter the email you used at checkout. We email you a link that turns Plus on in that browser. It works for one hour.
Open the app, tap Settings, find ForeDrive Plus, type the code and tap Unlock. It stays unlocked on that device. During testing everything is unlocked anyway, so you only need a code if you've been asked to try the paywall.
Use the form below, or email support@foredrive.app, and tell us the trip (from, to, date) and what you expected. A screenshot helps. We read every message.
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