Switching from RoadReady to PermitReady

Before you start

RoadReady is going through an account migration following its 3.4 update. RoadReady's own homepage carries a banner about account migration difficulties as of August 2026, and a number of App Store reviewers from June 2026 onward describe trouble signing in or getting to their logged drives.

That is the situation, stated plainly. This page is not about whether RoadReady is a good app — it is about what to do if you have hours in it and want them somewhere else. If your RoadReady account is working fine and your state's paperwork names RoadReady, there is a reasonable argument for staying put; see the side-by-side comparison before you decide.

Step 1 — Get your hours out of RoadReady

Try these in order. Stop as soon as one of them gives you a copy you can read outside the app.

• Look for a PDF or report export. RoadReady has historically offered a printable summary or report of logged drives, and in some states a PDF affidavit or certification. Check the log or summary screen for a share, export, print, or "email report" option. If it exists, send it to yourself.
• Look for a CSV or spreadsheet export. If a CSV export is offered, take it — it is the easiest format to re-enter from, because each drive is one row.
• Check the parent account too. RoadReady uses a paired teen and parent setup. If the teen account is stuck, the parent account may still be able to see and export the same drives, or vice versa.
• Screenshot everything. If you cannot get a file out — and if you are locked out of the account, you may not be able to — scroll your drive list and screenshot it. Screenshots of your own log are a perfectly good source for re-entry, and they are timestamped by your phone.

If no export is available at all, which is the situation some locked-out users have described, you are down to manual reconstruction. That is not as bad as it sounds, because what your state ultimately asks for is a total (and usually a night-hours subtotal), not a forensic record of every trip. Gather what you can:

• Any running total you remember or screenshotted before the trouble started.
• A parent or guardian's own recollection of the drives they supervised — they were in the car for all of them.
• Any paper log, glovebox sheet, or notes app entries you kept alongside the app.

Be honest about the number. The hours exist to make you a safer driver, and a parent signature on a state certification form is an attestation.

Step 2 — Download PermitReady

PermitReady is free on iPhone and iPad. There is no account to create, no email to verify, and no second device to set up. Open the app and the driving log is there.

One thing worth knowing before you switch: PermitReady is iPhone and iPad only. If the person who needs a copy of the log uses an Android phone, see the honest limits section below.

Step 3 — Add your existing hours

Open the driving hours log and add each drive. Each entry has these fields:

• Date — the day the drive happened. You can backdate freely, which is what makes re-entry possible.
• Duration — how long you drove, in hours and minutes.
• Conditions — highway, night, rain, city streets, parking, and heavy traffic. Tag everything that applied; more than one can apply to a single drive. Night is the one most states track separately, so be careful with it.
• Notes — optional free text.

Two practical approaches:

• If you have a full export, enter drives one for one. Tedious, but it takes about a minute per ten drives once you get a rhythm, and you end up with a record that matches your old one exactly.
• If you only have totals, enter consolidated entries — for example one entry covering "March 2026, 12 hours, city streets" and a separate one for the night hours in that period — and put the source in the notes field ("carried over from previous log app, exported 6 Aug 2026"). A note explaining where a number came from is far better than a suspiciously round total with no explanation, especially if an examiner ever asks.

The running total updates as you go, so you will see your old number rebuild itself.

Step 4 — Verify your total against your state

Once the hours are in, check them against what your state actually requires — total hours, night hours, and any weather or highway minimums.

• Use the supervised hours calculator to see how many total and night hours you have left.
• Open your state's page for its specific requirements and licensing agency.
• Confirm the log format your state accepts. Some states want a specific form or affidavit signed by a parent; some accept any accurate record; some accept a printed summary. PermitReady's log is a record you can copy from — it is not a state form, and no state has approved or rejected it as a substitute for one.

What PermitReady can't do (yet)

Reasons you might want to stay where you are, or use both:

• No Android version. PermitReady is iPhone and iPad only. If the teen or the supervising parent is on Android, this is a hard stop for that person. RoadReady ships on both platforms.
• No telematics or automatic drive detection. PermitReady does not use GPS and does not detect that you are driving. Every drive is typed in by hand. That is deliberate — it is why the app needs no location permission and works with no signal — but it does mean you have to remember to log. RoadReady's automatic logging is genuinely more convenient if you will forget.
• No PDF affidavit or state form generation. PermitReady does not produce a signed state certification form. You get an accurate log to copy from; the form itself still comes from your state.
• No in-app parent view or live sync. Sharing is a file you send — AirDrop, Messages, or Mail — not a dashboard a parent watches update in real time. On the other hand, there is no second account to create and nothing to be locked out of.
• No state recognition. PermitReady is not named in any state's official materials. RoadReady is referenced by name in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Ohio, and Montana. If your state's instructions name an app and you want the path of least resistance, that matters.

What you get in exchange: no account, no second phone, an app that works with no signal, and permit-test practice in the same place as the log.

Frequently asked

See the full PermitReady vs RoadReady comparison · RoadReady troubleshooting guide · About the driving hours log