OnRoute is a mobile companion for people who love the road. It plans road trips, holds your hand through the drive with a hands-free AI copilot, tracks the cost of the flight you've been eyeing, and quietly reminds you when a price drops. Built in Bengaluru. Free on the App Store today, with Android in closed beta.
This page is a quick introduction to who we are and why OnRoute exists. If you're here from a partnership or press request, we'd love to hear from you — details at the bottom.
Why we built OnRoute
Most travel apps treat a road trip as an afterthought — an "off-highway" edge case squeezed between hotel bookings and airline deals. But road trips are their own thing: they involve music, meal breaks, checkpoints, someone in the passenger seat looking things up, and a driver whose hands are on the wheel.
The founder built OnRoute after one too many drives where finding food, changing music, or knowing "how much further" meant fumbling with a phone at a red light. We wanted a co-pilot that lives on the dashboard, not another app you have to manage.
The flight-tracking side (OnFlight) grew from the same instinct: cheap flights don't happen at your convenience, they happen while you're driving your kid to school or in a meeting. Let the app watch for you, ping you when the price drops, and open the booking site when you're ready.
What OnRoute does today
- Road-trip planner — Set an origin, a destination, and any stops you want. OnRoute weaves in meals, sights, and rest stops around your route, with a beautiful map view and turn-by-turn navigation.
- Trip Designer — Describe a multi-day trip in a sentence and get every day of it: the stops, the meals, where you sleep. Start any day from the home screen, skip a stop or add fuel mid-drive, and the final day brings you home rather than leaving you at the last stop.
- Voice copilot — Say "Hey OnRoute" (during trips) and ask anything — restaurants nearby, refuel points, add a stop, share your live location. All hands-free, so your eyes stay on the road.
- OnAir — Your trip gets its own radio station. Between your songs, an RJ who knows this route talks about what's ahead and what you just passed. Your music dips for the segment and comes straight back — it is never paused.
- Convoy mode — Drive together with friends in separate cars. Shared route, live location, push-to-talk and an SOS button. You can also send a live trip link to someone who stayed home.
- Looking out for you — Check-ins on long drives that you answer out loud, and accelerometer-based crash detection that alerts your convoy if you don't respond.
- OnFlight — Search fares from Travelpayouts' flight data and save alerts on any route: OnRoute checks prices at least once a day and lets you know when one drops. Tapping Book opens Aviasales or Ixigo, where you complete the booking.
The whole app speaks six languages — English, हिन्दी, Français, Español, 日本語 and 中文 — including spoken navigation and the radio segments.
Who's behind OnRoute
Aswin Madollathil — Founder, based in Bengaluru.
Long-time software engineer and even longer-time road-tripper. Started OnRoute after realising every trip involved switching between five apps at every stoplight. Building the product he wished existed.
Reach out: hello@onroutelabs.com
Where we're going
OnRoute launched on the App Store in August 2026 and is free to download. The Android build is in closed beta now — write in if you'd like a place in it. The product goal is to be the single app you open before, during, and after any journey — road or air.
We're a small team, self-funded, and independent. If any of this resonates and you'd like to be an early tester, investor, or partner, please write in.