A road-trip companion for the whole car.
Four backseat games on iOS, and a trip that logs itself in the background while you play.
Games & trip log
See the games
00At a glance
What Switchback
actually is.
Three things, in order. The whole app in thirty seconds.
Your trip never becomes someone's data.
Your trip stays on your device, end-to-end encrypted when it syncs. No accounts, no ads, no tracking. You pay at most once, never with your family's data or attention.
The non-negotiables
Read the promises
Something to pull off the shelf in ten years.
The whole journey, laid out as a printed keepsake - the real thing on the shelf, pulled down years later.
$29 / $69
See the book
01Why it exists
The journey was
the destination.
Somewhere between "are we there yet" and the seventh hour, the road becomes the enemy. Switchback flips it. The miles become the game - spotting plates, hunting signs, racing the photo board - and the backseat goes quiet for the right reason: the kids are too busy playing to fight.
It's the trip you'll all remember instead of endure - the long way taken on purpose, the detour everyone wanted. And without anyone trying, the whole journey gets logged as it happens.
"Dad, I need Wyoming. We have to take the long way."
- actual goal of the long way
02What you do
Four games for the long way.
Four games, no setup, no rules to read aloud over the engine noise. Open one and the backseat goes quiet on its own.
License-Plate Hunt
Spot a plate, tap the state, watch it stamp onto the map. Fifty-one to find - and a reason to take the scenic route.
the headline eventPhoto / Picture Bingo
A board of things to find out the window - a red barn, a water tower, a cow. Snap it, mark it, chase the line.
first to bingo winsSign & Scavenger
Hunt for road signs, landmarks and roadside oddities - the giant dinosaur, the "Welcome to" marker, mile zero.
eyes up, kidsRoad Trivia
Region-aware questions that match where you actually are. The kids learn the country without noticing they did.
local knowledge03The payoff
The trip becomes
a book you hold.
When you get home, Switchback lays out the whole journey - the route, the photos, the plates you caught, who won what - as a printed keepsake book. Real paper, on a shelf, pulled down and re-read for years. The trip your kids helped make, in something they can hold - not another folder of photos no one ever opens again.
Order one only if you want it - the trip's yours either way.
04Pricing
Free to play. Yours to keep.
Free to play, a one-time unlock if you want the rest, and an optional book at the end. That's the whole model.
Always free
$0Download & play, forever
- The core plate hunt & trip log
- Each kid on their own device
- Offline, on your device
- Export your data anytime
One-time unlock
$5$10 down the line - buy now and your price never goes up
- Every game & region pack
- Badges, patches & bonus boards
- Unlocks across all your devices
The keepsake
$29+The trip, made to keep
- $29 softcover · $69 hardcover
- Order only if you want one
- A trip you can hold
No subscription, ever. Promise.
05The promises
You're the customer,
not the product.
You pay us at most once - never with your data, never with your attention. Switchback was built privacy-first on purpose, because your family's trip is yours to keep, not ours to mine.
The photos, the plates, every mile you drive - they live on your phone, and the only people who ever see them are the people in your car.
◆ When the car syncs, it's scrambled end-to-end - only your family holds the key, so no one else can ever read it. Not us. Not anyone. ◆
Offline-first
No signal? No problem. The app works fully offline.
No accounts
No sign-up, no email wall. Open it and go.
No ads
Not one. Nothing competing for your kids' eyes.
No tracking
No analytics on you. We never see your trips.
You own your data
Export to PDF or plain files. One-tap delete, anytime.
The beta is open
Be a founding
Be a founding
family.
Turn this summer's miles into a game the backseat begs to keep playing - and a book you'll pull off the shelf in ten years. The beta's open now; founding families ride free for good.
Invites go out in waves - the sooner you're on the list, the sooner you're driving.