If you've hit a wall with RoadReady — sync issues, confusing day/night tracking, or scrambling before a DMV appointment — you're not alone. GoTime was built to solve exactly those frustrations.
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RoadReady has been around for a while, and it's done a decent job as a basic hour tracker. But families today have more complex needs: multiple supervisors, multiple teens, and an expectation that their apps actually work the way modern apps should. Common complaints include:
GoTime was designed from the ground up to address every one of these pain points.
With GoTime, you just tap "Start Driving" and the app handles everything else. GPS automatically tracks drive time and distance, and when the session ends, it's instantly saved with all the details. No manual entry, no forgetting to hit stop, no calculating how long the drive was after the fact.
Most states require a specific number of nighttime driving hours — typically around 10 — before a teen can get their license. GoTime automatically categorizes every session as day or night using real sunset and sunrise data for your location. There's no guessing and no going back to correct it manually. The app just gets it right.
You can add Mom, Dad, grandparents, and driving instructors to a single family group. When Dad logs a morning session on his phone and Mom logs an evening session on hers, both automatically roll up into one unified, accurate record for your teen. No merging spreadsheets, no emailing logs back and forth — it just works.
Got two kids working toward their licenses at the same time? GoTime handles it. Each teen gets their own profile with separate progress tracking, session history, and supervisor access. Managing permits for your whole family in a single place is one less thing to worry about.
GoTime's visual dashboard shows a circular progress display with hours completed toward your state's goal — total hours, day hours, and night hours — all at a glance. The History page features an interactive bar graph so you can see your teen's driving journey over time, spot trends, and celebrate milestones.
Every session captures everything that matters: time, distance, day/night classification, weather conditions (clear, rain, snow, fog), road type (city, highway, suburban, rural), supervising driver name, and optional practice notes. The kind of detail that used to require a paper logbook — captured automatically.
When your teen is ready to hit the DMV, GoTime generates a formatted driving log with every field DMVs ask for, including a parent signature block. Export with a single tap — print it or share it digitally. You can also export as a CSV for spreadsheets or driving schools. Your documentation is always ready when you need it.
GoTime never sells your family's location data. All driving logs are encrypted in transit and at rest. What happens in your car stays in your car.
A side-by-side look at what each app brings to your learner's permit journey.
| Feature | GoTime | RoadReady |
|---|---|---|
| Completely free — no subscriptions | ✓Yes | ✓Yes |
| Visual progress dashboard | ✓Yes | ✓Yes |
| DMV-ready PDF/CSV export (all 50 states) | ✓Yes | ✓Yes |
| Automatic GPS tracking | ✓Yes | ✕ |
| Automatic day/night detection | ✓Yes | ✕ |
| True family sync (multiple devices) | ✓Yes | ✕ |
| Multiple teen drivers in one app | ✓Yes | ✕ |
| Accurate weather & road type capture | ✓Yes | ✕ |
| Live Activities (iOS only) | ✓Yes | ✕ |
| Encrypted in transit and at rest | ✓Yes | ✕ |
One of the most common reasons people stick with an app they don't love is not wanting to lose their existing data. GoTime has solved that too. You can import your existing RoadReady driving log directly from a PDF — just pick your file and GoTime pulls in all your sessions automatically. No re-entering hours by hand. You pick up right where you left off.
Takes about 2 minutes
You don't have to lose the hours you've already logged. GoTime can read your existing RoadReady PDF and import every session automatically — no re-typing required. Here's the whole process, step by step.
Open RoadReady and export your Supervised Driving Log (also called the Affidavit Report) as a PDF. Save it somewhere on your phone you can find easily, like the Files app.
In RoadReady, tap "Export Driving Report" on the Driving Log tab.
In GoTime, go to the History tab. If you don't have any sessions yet, tap the "Import from PDF" button right on the empty state. If you already have sessions, tap the green + button in the top right and choose "Import from PDF" from the menu.
Empty log? Tap "Import from PDF".
Tap the green "Select PDF" button, then choose the RoadReady PDF you exported earlier from your phone's file picker.
The import screen — tap "Select PDF".
Hang tight for a minute or two while GoTime reads through your driving log and pulls out every session automatically.
GoTime analyzes your PDF.
GoTime shows you the sessions it detected, with date, day/night, and duration. Add a supervisor name, deselect anything you don't want, then tap "Import".
Review and confirm the sessions to import.
You'll see a confirmation, and your imported sessions now appear in History alongside any new drives you log going forward.
Import complete!
That's it — your RoadReady sessions are now part of your GoTime log, and any new drives you record going forward are tracked automatically. No lost hours, no manual re-entry.
Everything you need to know about switching from RoadReady to GoTime.
GoTime is widely considered the best alternative to RoadReady. It offers automatic GPS tracking, smart day/night detection, true family sync across multiple devices, support for multiple teen drivers, and DMV-ready exports — all completely free with no subscriptions. It's built for modern families who need more than a basic hour tracker.
Transferring your log is easy. First, export your driving history from RoadReady as a PDF. Then open GoTime, go to Settings, and select Import from PDF. Pick your exported file and GoTime automatically pulls in all your sessions — dates, times, and hours — so you pick up right where you left off. No manual re-entry required.
Yes. GoTime can import your RoadReady driving hours directly from a PDF export. Just export your log from RoadReady, then use GoTime's Import from PDF feature to bring in all your recorded sessions automatically.
Absolutely. You don't have to start over. Export your RoadReady log as a PDF and import it into GoTime. All your accumulated hours, dates, and session details carry over, so your teen's progress toward their state requirement stays intact.
For most families, yes. GoTime adds automatic GPS tracking, accurate automatic day/night categorization, true family sync so multiple supervisors can log from their own devices, support for multiple teens in one app, accurate weather and road-type capture, Live Activities on iPhone, and encryption in transit and at rest. Both apps are free, but GoTime is built for the way families actually drive today.
Yes. Just tap Start Driving and GoTime uses GPS to automatically track drive time and distance. When the session ends, everything is saved instantly — no manual math, no forgetting to stop the timer, no calculating how long the drive was afterward.
Yes. GoTime supports true family sync. You can add Mom, Dad, grandparents, and driving instructors to a single family group. When one supervisor logs a session on their phone and another logs a session on theirs, both automatically roll up into one unified, accurate record for your teen.
Yes. GoTime supports multiple teen drivers in a single app. Each teen gets their own profile with separate progress tracking, session history, and supervisor access, so you can manage permits for your whole family in one place.
Yes. GoTime is free on iOS and Android. If you are on Android specifically, our Android driving log guide covers the background-tracking setup. You can download it from the Apple App Store for iPhone or Google Play for Android, and family members can use either platform within the same family group.
GoTime's PDF import pulls in each session's date, start time, duration, and total hours, along with any day or night classification recorded in RoadReady. Anything not captured in the exported PDF can be added or corrected in GoTime afterward.
No. The whole point of the import is to save you from re-entering hours by hand. Once you export your RoadReady log as a PDF and import it into GoTime, your past sessions are brought in automatically. You may want to review them for accuracy, but manual entry isn't required.
Yes, you can import more than once — for example, if you exported an earlier version of your log and later added more sessions in RoadReady. Just import the updated PDF and GoTime will bring in the sessions. If you're concerned about duplicates, review your imported history after each import and remove or merge any repeats.
Absolutely. Once a session is imported, it behaves just like any session logged directly in GoTime. You can open it and edit the date, time, duration, day/night classification, weather, road type, supervisor, and notes — or delete it entirely if needed.
Yes, as long as you can access the exported PDF. Anyone with the RoadReady export file can import it into GoTime. Once imported, the sessions live in your GoTime family group, and you can assign them to your teen's profile so all the hours count toward their state requirement.
Yes. If your RoadReady export records whether each session was day or night, that classification carries over during import so your night-hour totals stay accurate. If a session's classification is missing or unclear, you can set it manually in GoTime afterward.
Yes. Importing brings in every session with its original duration, so your cumulative total hours stay the same. After import, it's a good idea to glance at your progress dashboard to confirm the totals match what you had in RoadReady, and adjust any individual session if something didn't come through perfectly.