Internal TestFlight active — V1.0 in progress

Your route.
Your rules.

Routey is the offline-first iPhone companion built for rural mail carriers. Import a route, search it locally, snap parcel labels with OCR, and keep moving even where there's no cell signal.

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100+ parcels

Scanned into route order in minutes with OCR — not typed in by hand.

Offline-first

Every feature works in dead zones. Rural routes don't wait for cell towers.

iPhone first

The V1.0 cut focuses on the phone workflow; wrist and dashboard surfaces come later.

The Problem

The official tools weren't built
for rural routes.

Rural carriers handle more parcels than ever, with handhelds designed for city sidewalks — not gravel roads, dead zones, and hundred-parcel mornings.

Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. Five presses to surface basic parcel info — multiplied by every parcel, every day.

Dead zones everywhere. Safe-drop photos hang for minutes without signal — and vanish if you drive off.

The paper notebook. Carriers keep handwritten records because the issued tools can't track what a route actually needs.

"Where's that parcel?" A hundred packages in the back and no photo record to find the one you need.

Relief-day roulette. Your replacement inherits a route full of quirks, flags, and dog warnings — with no way to learn them.

Features

Built for how carriers actually work.

Every feature in Routey exists because a working route demanded it. No filler, no dashboards for managers — just tools that save minutes, every morning.

Flagship

OCR Snap-to-Add

Point your camera at a parcel label. Routey reads the address, matches it against your master route, and slots it in — in delivery order. A hundred parcels sorted and sequenced in minutes, entirely on-device. No other carrier app does this.

Master Route List

Your entire route in one searchable database — civic addresses, community-mailbox compartments, and customer flags like "No Flyers" or "Dog Warning." Type "123" and every matching point of call appears instantly.

watchOS Companion

Planned after the iPhone cut: next-stop glanceability, signature/customs alerts, and fast delivery outcomes from the wrist once the phone workflow is stable.

CarPlay Navigation

Planned after V1.0: stop-to-stop navigation on the vehicle display, with the same offline source of truth and no network dependency in the truck.

Flexible Route Views

See only today's parcels or your full master route. Community-box clearance backups for damaged barcodes. Tap the last stop to check off every stop before it in one motion.

Proof of Delivery

Domain support exists for delivery outcomes, optional location/photo references, follow-ups, and history. The V1.0 app still needs the visible delivery logging UI before this is ready for review.

Delivery Intelligence

Every delivery you've ever made, searchable in seconds — including by photo. One-tap filters for flags and dog warnings. Scan a label and Routey warns you if that address has teeth. Hand your relief carrier the whole picture, not a sticky note.

Predictive Search

Start typing a civic number and the list filters as you type. No spinners, no waiting. Built for the speed you sort at in the morning.

How It Works

Three steps. Every morning.

Routey fits the workflow you already have — it just removes the friction.

1

Sort your mail

Sort regular mail as you always do. Routey already has your master route loaded and ready to go.

2

Snap your parcels

OCR-scan each label to add it in route order automatically — or search and tap, whichever is faster.

3

Deliver from Today's Run

Work the run from your iPhone first: check off stops, inspect details, reorder, and keep the day local.

The Story

Built from the truck,
not the boardroom.

I deliver a rural route every day — gravel roads, dead zones, and more parcels every year. Like most carriers, I ended up keeping a paper notebook because the issued tools couldn't keep up with the realities of the job.


Routey is what I built instead. Every feature has to survive the truck: offline-first because rural routes lose signal, OCR scanning because nobody should hand-type a morning of labels, and a tight iPhone workflow before the watch or dashboard get their turn. If it doesn't save time in the truck, it doesn't ship.

— Dan · Rural mail carrier & creator of Routey
Roadmap

Internal TestFlight is running. V1.0 still has gates.

The current nightly proves the iPhone foundation and internal upload path. The App Store cut ships only after the remaining phone workflow, Production CloudKit, metadata, and device smoke checks are finished.

Now

iPhone nightly

Route import/editing, local search, Snap-to-Add OCR, and the first Today's Run UI are in the integration train.

Next

V1.0 release gates

Finish delivery outcomes, filters, PDF/share, encrypted file UI, Production CloudKit, screenshots, and compliance metadata.

Later

Apple ecosystem surfaces

watchOS and CarPlay stay planned until the phone workflow is stable, reviewed, and useful in the truck.

Early Access

Coming soon to a route near you.

Routey is in active development with internal TestFlight builds running. Star the project to follow along while V1.0 moves toward review.

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