La Route Buissonnière
Pro, with no subscription
You pay once, and that is it. No monthly fee, no renewal, nothing to cancel.
First edition · 100 places
Join the first 100 Founding Members
For 49 € paid once, you get Pro with no subscription, and you help build a different way of taking the road.
Purchases are subject to our terms and conditions. Secure payment by Stripe, VAT included.
What you get
What your 49 € buys
The Pro as it grows
Everything that comes to enrich the Pro offer will be part of your Founding Member access too.
Founding Member status
You climb aboard while we are still building the road. You are one of the first 100 to join us, quite simply.
Your feedback reaches us directly
You tell us what works, what annoys you and what you are missing. It reaches us directly, not a black box.
Your Pro
Pro really changes the road.
You route around one town. You avoid tolls and ferries. That is the heart of the product, and it will stay that way.
Pro goes further: you genuinely personalise your route.
Choose the towns you would rather leave aside
With Pro, you choose the size at which a town becomes too big for your journey: 100,000, 50,000, 20,000 or 10,000 inhabitants. La Route Buissonnière then tries to avoid every town above that threshold.
You set the limit.
Bring out what is worth the detour
- The village you would probably never have thought of stopping in.
- The viewpoint you would have driven past without lifting your foot.
- The perfect spot to get the sandwiches out.
You switch on whatever appeals to you today, and La Route Buissonnière shows you what there is to discover along the way.
And if what you really want today is greenery?
The Green Route compares several ways of getting there and favours the calmer, greener ones, without sending you on an unreasonable detour.
In this example: 15 minutes more. Two nature parks on the way.
Two hours on the road? Time for a break.
On long journeys, around the two-hour mark, La Route Buissonnière looks for a picnic area near your route and can add it as a stop.
After two hours, your legs deserve to see the country too.
And while you are watching the landscape…
La Route Buissonnière also keeps an eye on the practical side:
- Weather along the way
- Estimated cost
- Petrol stations and fuel prices
The proof
Good news: you are not buying an idea.
It is already on the road.
25+testers
are currently using La Route Buissonnière on Android in closed testing.
They tell us what gets in the way, what they like and what they would like to see change. We look at the data, we fix things, and we head back out to test.
- Android closed testing
- Feedback from the road
- We fix, we set off again
I work on La Route Buissonnière every day. I drive with it, I record my journeys, I look at what goes wrong and I fix it. Then I head back out to test on the road.
Why this offer exists
An independent project, kept alive only by the people who use it
- No advertising
- No selling of data
- No investors to satisfy
No advertising. No selling your data. No investors to repay. Which means nothing pushes us to route you somewhere we would not want to go ourselves.
It also means the project moves at the pace of what we can put into it. That is what the Founding offer is for: getting to the end of the road.
What your support makes possible
What it actually changes
Your support does not fund one particular line of spending. It funds time: the time it takes to drive, measure, and start again.
Making a GPS that makes you want to drive means covering a lot of ground. Every trip is filmed, every second of navigation is measured, every fault is replayed before it is fixed. It is slow, it is stubborn, and it is the only way to get a road that keeps its promise.
And because we would rather show you behind the scenes than ask you to take our word for it, we started the Journal des Éclaireurs.
We show you everything
Le Journal des Éclaireurs
We film the real journeys, the tests, the moments when it works and the ones when it goes completely wrong.
You can follow the adventure, episode after episode.
Watch the Journal des Éclaireurs →What comes next
Your Pro will grow with the road.
Among the directions we want to take La Route Buissonnière:
The little hare could well become your co-pilot.
A travelling companion, spoken, in the shape of the hare: asking it where to stop, for a viewpoint, for a walk, without taking your eyes off the road.
The idea: being able to talk to it while you drive, and letting it search around your route for you.
A route that takes more account of the way you travel.
Travel profiles — a motorcyclist's beautiful road is not a van's.
We would like the route itself to take more account of it.
A far more ambitious offline mode.
Offline maps by region, to head far from any network.
And to keep travelling even when the network lets you down.
And the road does not stop at the border.
We want to take La Route Buissonnière further, country after country, as soon as we can guarantee the same quality of data and routing there.
And the rest?
And we are keeping a few surprises under the bonnet.
These are directions of work, not delivery commitments: no date, no guarantee.
The difference
The most beautiful road, not the fastest
A little longer. Infinitely more beautiful.
Transparency
Where the road stands
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The Web
The Web version is usable right now, from a browser.
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Android
The Android app is in development, and runs on real phones in closed testing.
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Out in the field
Navigation is tested on the road, and every build is measured after the drive.
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What comes next
Guidance improves build after build: we compare our drives with those of other GPS apps.
First edition
The first 100 places at 49 €
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This first edition has 100 places.
Join
Come aboard from the very first mile.
One hundred places, a single payment, and Founding Member status yours from today.
Purchases are subject to our terms and conditions. Secure payment by Stripe, VAT included.
The questions we get asked
Everything worth knowing before you decide
What is a Founding Member?
One of the first 100 supporters to join this first edition. You pay 49 € once and you enjoy Pro with no subscription, with Founding Member status.
How much does it cost?
49 €, once. VAT included.
Is this a subscription?
No. 49 € once, nothing to renew, nothing to cancel.
What does Pro add?
The population threshold for leaving large towns aside along the way, the Green Route, the places to discover en route, the weather, the cost of the journey, petrol stations and the break around the two-hour mark. And everything that comes to enrich Pro later will be part of your Founding Member access too.
Why only 100 places at 49 €?
Because we chose to keep this first edition for the first hundred. That is all.
When is the app coming out?
The web version is already available. Android is in closed testing. We do not yet have a date for the wider opening, and we would rather not invent one for you.
What does it work on today?
Today the web version works from a browser, and Android is in closed testing. For iPhone, no date is announced for now.
How does payment work?
Through Stripe, on a secure page. We neither see nor keep your card number, and you receive a receipt.