RoadTripKit

Games for the whole car

License plates, Road Bingo, live trivia and puzzles on every phone and tablet. Each kid plays at their own level with their own code. Grown-ups run the trip from the front seat.

Coming sooniPhone and iPad app Play in your browser

Play free in any browser, no account needed. The app adds AI-written trivia, stories and Mad Libs.

RoadTripKit's home screen for Maya: the trip from Ohio to the Rocky Mountains, now in Missouri, an 'Are we there yet?' card, and a grid of games.

Set up once. Everyone's in.

One grown-up sets up the family before you leave. Every other phone and tablet joins in seconds, and they all stay in sync for the whole drive.

  1. Start a car

    Add the kids and grown-ups, pick each kid's level, and plan the route state by state.

  2. Join with the car code

    Every device in the car types the code, or opens the invite link or QR code a grown-up shares.

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  3. Tap your face and play

    Kids unlock with a 4-number or 4-picture code, so siblings can share a tablet and still keep their own points.

Eleven games, from the back seat to the way back

Points from every game land on one family scoreboard. Window games come first, so carsick riders can play with their eyes up.

License Plate Hunt: a tile map of the US with 18 of 51 plates spotted, colored by who found each one, and likely plates nearby.

Look out the window

The classics, kept honest. Rare plates and Bingos wait for a grown-up's OK before they count.

  • License Plate HuntA tile map of every state, plus Canada, Mexico and Tribal Nations' own plates. A fact card for each one you spot.
  • Road BingoA different card for every kid, and a fresh one after every Bingo.
  • ABC HuntFind A to Z on signs, trucks and towns, together.
A live Trivia Showdown round in Missouri: Maya's Explorer-level question asks for the capital of Missouri, with four answers and a countdown.

Play together, live

Everyone answers at once on their own device. Questions come in three levels, so a 6-year-old and a 12-year-old can win the same round.

  • Trivia ShowdownA round about every state you drive into. In the app, Claude writes fresh questions for each one.
  • How Well Do You Know?One person takes the hot seat; everyone else guesses their real answers.
  • Would You Rather, Mad Libs and Tic-Tac-ToeCar votes, silly stories, and a challenge for anyone in the car (or the robot).
Pour Out: four test tubes of colored layers to sort, with Undo, Hint and Tube buttons.

Puzzles for quiet time

Solo games that need no signal at all, with progress saved for each player.

  • Pour OutA water-sort puzzle with endless levels, mystery layers and a daily puzzle.
  • Slip OutSlide the arrows off the board in the right order.
  • Sudoku LadderTwenty short lessons, then 60 puzzles in 10 levels, with a hint that explains the next step.
RookieAbout 5 to 7. Picture codes and read-aloud questions help.
ExplorerAbout 8 to 10.
Trailblazer11 and up, grown-ups included.

Grown-ups run the trip

A parent code opens grown-up mode: a co-pilot console for the front seat, and the rules for the back.

  • Co-pilot alerts"Look left!", "Stop in 10" and quiet time, sent to every passenger's screen at once.
  • Screen-time budgetsDaily minutes per kid for screen games. Window games never count.
  • Quiet hourPause games for a nap stretch, every day at the same time.
  • ApprovalsRare plates and Bingos wait for your OK, so points stay fair.
  • Driver's phone lockMark the driver's phone and its games sit behind an "Eyes on the road" screen that won't unlock while GPS shows the car moving.
  • Are we there yet?Set the arrival time, and kids see the countdown (and any pit stop) on their home screen.
The grown-up Co-pilot screen: Look left, Look right, Stop in 10 and Quiet time buttons, automatic state lines, approvals and screen time.
June's Trip Passport: stamps for Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri, Kansas and Colorado coming up, badges, and a story chapter.

Every state line is a stamp

Cross into a new state and each kid's Trip Passport gets a stamp, the car gets a welcome trivia round, and the trip story gets a new chapter about who spotted what.

One phone on a charger can notice state lines by itself from GPS, checked on the phone against built-in state borders. Or just tap "Crossed into KS". At the end of the route, Head home flips the trip for the drive back.

Made for the road

Works with no signalWindow games and puzzles play offline. Scores sync and merge when you're back in range, even if two kids scored at once.
Every phone and tabletiPhone and iPad, plus Android phones and tablets in the browser. One device can be shared by the whole back row.
Easy to read in a moving carBig type in Atkinson Hyperlegible, a typeface designed for low-vision readers, and large tap targets.
Gentle at nightDark mode dims everything but the signs, so the back seat glows less after sunset.

Privacy, plainly

RoadTripKit is made for kids, so it collects as little as it can.

No accountsNo email, no password, no sign-in. Your family is a random ID and a car code.
No ads, no trackingNo advertising, no analytics, and no data sold or shared for marketing.
Location stays on the phoneState lines and the driver's lock are worked out on the device. Your location is never sent to us.
Delete it any timeA grown-up can delete the whole car, for every device, from Family & devices.

Read the privacy policy

Questions

Does every kid need their own device?

No. Kids can share a phone or tablet: each one taps their own face and enters their code, and their points stay theirs. Tic-Tac-Toe even works by passing one phone back and forth.

Does it need a cell signal?

Not for most of it. License plates, Bingo, ABC Hunt, the puzzles, Mad Libs and Tic-Tac-Toe against the robot all work offline, and everything syncs when you're back in range. Live games need the devices to be connected. In the app, AI-written trivia needs a signal, so download trivia packs for your route before you leave; with no signal, it uses built-in questions.

What ages is it for?

Kids from about 5 up, plus the grown-ups. Each player has a level (Rookie, Explorer or Trailblazer) that sets how hard their questions are. Little ones can use a picture code instead of numbers and have questions read aloud.

Do I need to make an account?

No. A grown-up starts a car and everyone else joins with the car code. There's no email or password to remember.

What's different in the app?

The browser version plays every game with built-in questions and stories. The iPhone and iPad app adds content written by Claude, an AI model from Anthropic: fresh trivia for every state, new Mad Libs, personal hot-seat questions from a few fun facts, and a storybook chapter for each state. It's told to keep everything kind and right for each player's age. If anyone in the car uses the app, what Claude writes shows up on every device in the car. What's sent to the AI is in the privacy policy.

Can the driver play?

No, and RoadTripKit is built to discourage it: mark the driver's phone and its games sit behind an "Eyes on the road" screen that won't unlock while GPS shows the car moving. A co-pilot in the passenger seat runs grown-up mode.

Start your car before you start the car

Set up the family at home in a couple of minutes, then hand out the car code.

Play in your browser