The fastest way there
is the wrong way
Every navigation app is answering the same question: what is the quickest route? With a baby asleep in the back that is the wrong question. Arriving eight minutes early is no use if it means carrying them inside awake — and the quick way is quick because it takes the main road, through nine red lights and the four-way stop by the school.
LullaRoute answers a different question. It reads the same roads, counts the stop lights, stop signs and turns across traffic, and looks for the calm way instead — showing you what that costs in minutes before you choose it. And when you need the drive to last, because that is how much nap is left, it will deliberately take longer.
Getting somewhere
Type where you’re going, say what you’re avoiding, and pick from what it finds. The whole thing, start to finish:
Say what you’re avoiding today
Three sliders: fewer stop lights, fewer stop signs, more highway. Some days the problem is a neighbourhood with a stop sign on every block; other days it’s the run of lights on the main road. Left turns across traffic are avoided either way — nobody has ever wanted more of those, so it isn’t a decision we put to you.
If the drive to a destination also needs to last a certain length, LullaRoute+ sets that. The slider starts at the fastest that trip can honestly be driven, so you’re only ever adding time to a real number.
Check the counts before you go
Every route option lists its stop lights, stop signs and hard turns, with the fastest route’s lights and left turns printed underneath, so you can see what the calmer one costs you in minutes and decide whether it’s worth it.
On LullaRoute+ you can drop in up to three stops on the way — coffee, the pharmacy — and it plans around them.
It doesn’t say anything
A large turn banner sits at the top. Before each turn the phone buzzes twice: once with enough warning to move over, and once as the turn comes up. There is no voice at any point. The screen stays awake, and the arrival time sits at the bottom. If even the buzzing is too much, you can switch it off in Settings.
Naps don’t run to plan. If they’re awake early and you’re two streets from your own door, tap Head home and it drops the rest of the loop. If they’re still under and you’re nearly back, +15 minutes extends the drive from where you are.
When there is
nowhere to go
Most nights the problem isn’t getting somewhere — it’s that the baby won’t settle and the car is the only thing that works. Tap Just drive, say how long you need, and LullaRoute builds a calm loop that leaves from where you are and brings you back. No destination to think of, anywhere from ten to ninety minutes, and it’s free.
Somewhere worth going, if you’d rather
Discover shows your town, what the sky is doing, and the calm places within nap range — parks, greenways, lakes and playgrounds. Underneath it, what’s on nearby for families this week: library storytimes, museum mornings and the like, read from the venues’ own calendars.
Save one and it waits for you. Set a reminder and your phone tells you a few hours before it starts. Send it to the other parent and they get a page with the details and a map.
It fits the roads
you actually drive
Save a drive that worked
When a loop settles them, save it. One tap replays exactly that circuit next time — instantly, with no planning and no signal needed.
Ban a turn you hate
There is one junction near you that you would rather never turn at. Point at it on the map and pick the movements to skip. Every route after that goes around it.
A nap log that writes itself
Every drive of five minutes or more lands in a diary: how long it took, and how many lights and stop signs were on the way.
Read it in your language
English, French and Spanish, chosen inside the app — on the first screen when you install it, or any time in Settings. The turn instructions come back in the same language, whatever the phone is set to.
It comes up in the car
On CarPlay the drive is on the dashboard screen: a quick loop by length, the calm routes to choose from, the next turn, and the same “+15 minutes?” when the nap needs longer.
One tap, no typing
A home-screen widget starts a calm loop straight away, and so does asking Siri. With a crying baby on one arm, typing is not happening.
The routing part
is free.
LullaRoute
No account, no email
- Routing across the US and Canada
- Just drive: a loop from your door, ten to ninety minutes
- All three sliders, with left turns avoided by default
- Stop and light counts on every option
- Discover, saved drives, banned turns and the nap log
- Silent turns with two buzzes
LullaRoute+
or $24.99 once, and that’s it
- Trips to a destination, timed to the nap: reach daycare in exactly 40 minutes
- Up to three stops on the way
- What’s on my way: coffee, gas, pharmacies
- Family Sharing, so both parents have it
Nothing is charged during the beta — these are the prices for when the App Store version ships. The yearly one renews until you cancel; the one-off doesn’t.