App Giveaway: Calculate the cost of gas with Cost2Drive for iPhone
Cost2Drive is an iPhone app that helps you price out the cost of your commute or road trip. It calculates this cost by using realtime gas prices along your route. And if you're curious if it'd be cheaper to drive, Cost2Drive will do that comparison for you as well.
I will be making a huge move from Colorado to California in a few months, and you bet I'll be using this app to help me price out the cost of the move!
Cost2Drive helps you quickly calculate the cost of driving anywhere in the US based on real time gas prices along your route, and now you can compare it to the cost of flying with our new flight cost comparison feature.
- Calculates trip fuel costs based on real time gas prices along your route
- Displays route distance and travel time
- Displays cheapest airfare found on Kayak (for routes over 200 miles)
- Lets you save up to 5 vehicles for easy comparison
- Over 20,000 vehicles to select from going back to 1990 model year
- Ability to add your own custom vehicles (RVs, motorcycles, etc.)
- Real time gas prices for 3 grades of fuel (regular, premium & diesel)*
- iPhone address book integration to easily add friends' addresses
- Maps of trip routes including refueling stops and cheapest gas at those points
Giveaway
The good folk at C2G, LLC have provided us with 4 promo codes for Cost2Drive to giveaway to our readers! For a chance to win, just let us know how long your longest road trip was in the comments below!
Cost2Drive is available on the iPhone for $1.99.
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1600 miles, long drive.
We just drove from Florida to northern Indiana! YIKES!! That's a LONG time in a car!
The most popular route entered on Cost2Drive.com is Chicago to Orlando, so you're in good company :-)
Longest road trip was Illinois to Nevada to Florida to South Carolina to New York to Illinois over a two week span. Good times.
Longest road trip was Illinois to Nevada to Florida to South Carolina to New York to Illinois over a two week span. Good times.
3500 miles!! RV trip from San Diego, CA to Anchorage, AK and that's just one way!!
West Virginia to Florida...non stop...14 hours straight...spring break
Chicago to Daytona Beach, 1993... Those were the days!
5000 miles, 7 National Parks, 1 National Monument, 5 sleeping bags, 2 coolers, 2 kids, 1 newborn, 1 tent, 1 minivan and one heck-uv-a-packer for a husband.
50 hours - from Melbourne to Darwin!
LA to San Antonio in 1 day then on to Louisiana after 6 hours rest.
longest trip was San Francisco to Palm Springs
My longest trip ever was from new York to Florida
Chicago to Florida, maybe it was Florida to Chicago, I dont know I was sleeping.
Approx. 3500 or so. Going from OC, CA to Chicago
Ohio to Toronto, Canada.
Winnipeg to Toronto, 23 hours, straight. Never again.
2700 miles from for Lauderdale, FL to Los Angeles , CA. ( with Stops in new orleans, dallas, flagstaff, grand canyon, las vegas, san Francisco. We rented two ninivans and had to change them on las vegas because of oil change.
646 miles from Lebanon, OH to Gouveneur, NY for my wife's brother's funeral. Not only was it the longest roadtrip of our lives, but it was quite somber and unexpected.
1682 from IL to Steamboat Springs, CO (highly recommended to everyone) and back to IL. I really could have used this app for that trip.
From Northern California to Missouri and back. Yeah, I know what your are thinking. What the heck is in Missouri?
New York to Las Vegas about 2800 Miles. Twice.
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Ive been to New York and back 3 times because of my new baby daughter. Ive always wondered if it was cheaper to fly or drive.... It would be great to finally put this matter to bed!
Alabama to Arizona 3,126 miles (round trip) in my Prius. Love that MPG.
My longest drive was 1959 miles or about 31 hours if drivin nonstop, but I frequently drive 528 miles about 9 hours. I make that trip about once or twice a month.
Oh, that 1959 mile trip was one way, WV, to AZ...
Over 1000 miles... Boston to Key West!
kansas city missouri to spokane washington 1600 miles
Great little app. Hope to see a UK version soon.
Would also be nice to see how you could save by Hypermiling the journey.
3986 miles. Start from Gilbert, SC via southern route through New Orleans, San Antonio and up to Denver, return straight across Kansas. Great trip in 2000.
Gone from L.A to Herlpng CA to visit my girlfriends dad in the federal correctional institute. It's 8 hour drive. He recently got move to Madera which is a blessing cuz it's only 4 hours away but still a drive. Would like to use this so that we can count the cost for driving over there for our first time. Thanks tipb.
LA to herlong 8 hour drive to go visit my girlfriends dad at herlong federal prison camp he recently got moved to Madera which is only a four hour drive but still far I would like to use this app to count the cost for our first time driving over there. Thank you.
Philly to Key West! A very long and painful trip! ;-)
KC to Denver to San Diego to LA to Yosemite and back!
Chicago to New Orleans, to Orlando, to Miami, then back to Chicago via Jacksonville. Spring Break 1987.
Thanks everyone for participating! Our app is now a Top 10 Travel App in iTunes!
California to Wyoming (Yellowstone Trip) Three cars, 5 kids, over 4000 miles for the whole trip...I didn't drive for a week after we got home.
When I was a kid, we drove from Southern California to Yellowstone to Wisconsin to Tennessee then back home all because my mother was afraid to fly!
I moved from GA to MD when my wife got her new job and we were traveling with 5 pets in the middle of August's blistering heat with no air conditioning. It was one of the most terrible experiences of my life! Only 620 miles, though, so I am way on the low end here.
round trip chicopee ma to fr lauderdale fl
Los Angeles, CA to Archbold, OH!! 32hours!!
I will be taking a road trip from Houston to the west coast this summer. This app will be a great help.
Key west to California in a 1988 Oldsmobile 88
When me and my family moved from New Hampshire to Utah, I am not sure how many miles but it took a long time, especially because I was only 12.
Omg I won! Thank you guys so much!!!!!!