Best Caravan and RV Apps in Australia 2026: 7 Compared

Quick comparison

The apps split three ways: directories that tell you where to stop, a club app for motorhome owners, and navigation that knows the size of your vehicle. Many caravanners carry one directory and one navigation app.

1. AussieCamps: official data for the stops a caravan needs

AussieCamps draws its campgrounds, rest areas, dump points and drinking water from state park agencies, road authorities and public facility datasets. For a caravan or motorhome that means 1,393 dump points, 230 of them with a washout, 3,004 drinking water points, 5,552 rest areas and 1,838 campgrounds. Place pages list the features the source records, such as caravan sites, powered sites or a heavy vehicle area at a rest area, along with access notes from the park agency such as 2WD or high-clearance 4WD, and you can filter by those features and by cost.

Trips work as a list of stops with the distance and drive time for each leg, a forecast for each arrival date within the forecast range, and a checklist for the jobs before you hitch up. Place details are stored on the phone, so they stay readable out of signal, while the map, directions and weather need a connection.

The download is free, and so are bookable holiday parks, motels and tours from BookEasy. Everything else, including campgrounds, rest areas, dump points, water and trips, needs the AussieCamps Pass, a weekly subscription or one-off lifetime purchase, with in-app purchases listed at A$2.99 to A$9.99.

Choose another app if you need a big rig filter: AussieCamps shows a vehicle detail only where the source records one, so it cannot tell you whether every campground fits a long van. It is iPhone only and has no traveller reviews.

2. CAMPS Australia Wide: the pick for big rigs

If your main question is whether a site takes your rig, CAMPS is the strongest choice here. Its App Store listing lets you filter by camping set-up, including caravan, motorhome, camper trailer, RV and big rig, and lists vehicle suitability as a site detail. Its dump point symbols show big rig access and the fee. The company says its team has visited sites since 1992, lists more than 16,000 of them and takes no paid listings.

The first 7 days are free, then it costs A$14.99 a year, and maps with all site information can be downloaded for use without signal. It is rated 4.4 from 3,476 Australian ratings. Camps also runs Rig Ready, a free towing weight checker on its website.

3. WikiCamps Australia: what other caravanners say

WikiCamps costs A$9.99 once per platform and is rated 4.5 from 16,663 Australian ratings. It lists more than 65,000 sites and 1.3 million reviews by its own count, all contributed by users, which is where you learn whether a turn is tight or a site is too sloping for a van. Its filters include site features for access by people, pets and vehicles, and its Trip Planner estimates fuel cost between stops.

Maps and up to three planned trips can be downloaded for use without signal. The developer has added a small number of ads in the reviews, fees and photos sections. Vehicle access is recorded by users, so check a site's access features and reviews before you take a long van in.

4. CMCA Traveller: for motorhome club members

The Campervan and Motorhome Club of Australia gives its members CMCA Traveller, which lists more than 200,000 points of interest by its own count, including campgrounds, caravan parks, RV parks and dump points, with route planning, voice-guided navigation and maps you can download before you lose signal. It is free to download but works only for members, after a 14-day free trial.

Membership costs A$60 a year for motorhome, campervan, fifth-wheeler and bus owners, or A$55 a year as an associate with a caravan or camper trailer, with the digital magazine. CMCA also runs the RV Friendly program: towns that offer short-term, low-cost overnight parking of 24 or 48 hours for self-contained vehicles, drinking water and a free dump point. The app has only 25 Australian ratings, averaging 3.2.

5. CamperMate: free, and made for hire campervans

CamperMate is free with no in-app purchases on the Australian App Store and lists holiday parks, free camps, dump stations, toilets and supermarkets across Australia and New Zealand. Maps and key information can be downloaded for use without signal, and it is the official travel partner of hire companies Apollo, Maui, Britz and Mighty Camper.

It suits a hired campervan well. For a large caravan, note that its listing documents no filter for vehicle size, so check each site's details or reviews before you commit to a narrow track.

6. Sygic GPS Truck & Caravan: navigation that knows your size

Sygic plans routes by vehicle type, size and weight, aiming to avoid low bridges and narrow streets, and its maps can be downloaded for use without signal. It is rated 4.4 from 1,766 Australian ratings. The app is free to download, and its Camper Australia in-app purchase is listed at A$79.99.

It is a navigation app, not a directory: pair it with one of the apps above to decide where to stop.

7. Hipcamp: private land with rig limits

Hipcamp books stays on farms, stations, vineyards and bushland on private land. The app is free and rated 4.8 from 22,592 Australian ratings, and you pay per booking. A March 2026 update renamed its RV filter to rig type and made listings clearer on whether a site is 2WD accessible, 4WD recommended or 4WD required.

It is built around bookable stays, so it is not the app for finding dump points, rest areas or free camps between them.

Also worth knowing

G'day Parks books its own network of holiday parks, more than 350 by its listing, and its G'day Rewards membership costs A$50 for two years with 10% off bookings, up to A$50 each. Caravan Helper costs A$4.99 and lists dump points from the National Public Toilet Map and travellers, with payment and key requirements.

For weights, loadmate checks a rig against its rated limits but has only a handful of ratings so far, and ExplorOz Traveller suits off-road vans on remote tracks, at A$59.99, plus an in-app upgrade for full-detail topo maps without signal (from A$59.99 a year, or A$79.99 for a four-year edition).

Check your weights before the apps

No app knows what your van weighs once it is loaded. The NSW Government's towing page says the loaded trailer must not exceed the lowest of the towbar and coupling rating, the vehicle's towing capacity, the trailer's own carrying capacity and the tyre ratings, and that about 5 to 10 per cent of the loaded trailer's mass should sit on the coupling. Brakes depend on the gross trailer mass: none are required up to 750 kg, and a trailer with a gross trailer mass over 2 tonnes needs brakes on all wheels and an automatic breakaway system.

Our guide to towing a caravan covers licences, the four load limits and towing speed limits in WA and NSW.

How we compared them

Each app's price, in-app purchases, rating and version were checked on the Australian App Store on 20 October 2026, and features and offline behaviour on each developer's own pages. We looked at what a caravan or motorhome needs: whether a site suits the rig, where to empty and refill, and what still works out of signal. Where a developer does not document a feature, we have said so rather than guessed.

AussieCamps is our own app, and its camping data is sold through the Pass. No other developer paid to be in this comparison. If a price or feature has changed since then, let us know on the support page.

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