The latest updates to KamperHub, in plain English. Newest first — expand any entry for the technical details.
KamperHub is built by one person, Scott, who came to caravanning with no background in it and could not find anything to walk him through weights, compliance checks, loading and towing. So he built it. The full story is now on its own page, and you can find it any time under Our Story in the menu.
Read Our StoryYour gear inventory is no longer a Pro-only feature. Free members can keep 2 items, Explorer 10, and Pro as many as you like. And on the KamperHub Store, products with a listed weight now have an "Add to my KamperHub gear" button that drops the item into your inventory with its weight already filled in, so your weights stay accurate without typing anything.
Open InventoryThe part of KamperHub that fetches your trips, garage and weights used to run in the United States, while your data lives in Sydney — so every request crossed the Pacific and back. It now runs in Sydney, right next to your data.
From 1 October 2026 the Explorer plan costs $19 a year for new members, up from $10 — the same $19 in AUD, USD and EUR. If you are already an Explorer member, your $10 rate holds for the next 12 months, and anyone who joins before 1 October pays $10 for their first year. You do not need to do anything, and we will let you know before your renewal price changes. Pro and Family prices are not changing.
Read the details in Helpshop.kamperhub.com is live: caravan and camping gear, priced never above RRP and delivered Australia-wide, with the delivery cost for your postcode shown before you buy. Every purchase helps cover what it costs to run KamperHub, so the free tools stay free.
Visit the StoreYou can now mark each item in your caravan as loaded on the left, centre or right, and KamperHub shows how evenly the load sits side to side. A van that is heavy on one side leans and can tow badly, and front-to-back balance alone will not show it.
Open My GarageThree things that were quietly getting in your way are fixed.
Shared gear like binoculars, games and park passes was being added once per traveller, and a full set of pet gear was being added to trips with no pets. Shared items now appear once, pet gear only appears when a pet is on the trip, and a new Duplicate button copies a whole category to other travellers when you do want everyone to have their own.
Free members could only add one stop between start and destination, so it was impossible to see what the trip planner actually does on a real trip. Now you can build a route with as many stops as you like — drive times, overnight breaks and fuel plan included — before paying for anything. The Free limit is on saving: one saved trip with up to 3 waypoints. Explorer saves longer trips.
Plan a tripUploading a photo of your caravan's compliance plate failed on most ordinary phone photos because they were too large, and even when one did upload you could not see it again. Both are fixed: normal phone photos upload, and you can view your own plate.
Open My GarageA new guide to Australian roads that matter when you are towing: steep descents, tight switchbacks, length limits, permits and bans, across every state and territory. Search by road or filter by state and what you tow. A free account reads one road a month, Explorer and above read them all, and if you have driven a road you can add your own dated report. It is general information, not an official record — always check with the road authority before you travel.
Open Can I Drive It?Sharing a trip with another KamperHub member was switched on for everyone on 18 August, but the Save button in the share box stayed greyed out unless you had household members set up — which almost nobody does. That is fixed, and the confirmation that tells you who you invited now actually shows.
Open TripsWhen you pick a motorhome from our list, its tare and GVM are a starting point you should always confirm against your own compliance plate — and where we are not confident in a row, we show an amber "Specs unverified" warning saying exactly that. We found the warning had been switched off in bulk on most motorhome rows back in May without the rows actually being read. Twelve of them were wrong. The warning is back where it belongs, and the worst rows are gone.
A journey is the big one — the lap, the season, the run up the coast — and until now there was no way to say "this journey is these trips". The builder only let you add a location at a time, so thirty carefully planned trips sat in your Trips list with no way to join them up. Open a journey and you will now see "Add trips to this journey": tick the trips that belong and they become the journey, in the order you pick. A trip that joins a journey still appears in your Trips list exactly as it did before, so nothing disappears on you.
Open Trips & JourneysA day spent on faults that had been quietly failing for a long time rather than on anything new. If you ever emailed a weighbridge photo and were told it could not be read, it was us, not your photo.
Water, gas and jerry-can fuel are the heaviest things that change between one departure and the next, and nothing ever asked you about them. The pre-departure checklist had a tick box for filling the water tank; the sliders on the trip weights page reset to brim-full every single time the page loaded. On a 160 litre tank that is 160 kg appearing and disappearing from a payload that is usually 400 to 600 kg. There is now a "Confirm your load levels" step that asks, remembers your answer against that trip, and feeds the weight check underneath it.
Switching fuel stop planning off in the route planner did not stick — reopen the trip from your dashboard and it would go looking for fuel stops again. Reported twice. The setting now saves against the trip itself, so off means off.
You pass a camp worth remembering and there is nowhere sensible to put it, so by the next town the name is gone. My Places is now in the menu, on every plan. Save a spot from Explore, from a free camp's details, or from a stop on a trip, and it lands in one of three lists: Want to go, Favourites, or Been. Add a private note and a rating — nobody else sees either. Want to go holds 2 places on Free, 5 on Explorer and 25 on Pro; Favourites and Been are unlimited on every plan, and marking somewhere Been frees a wishlist slot and keeps the place.
Open My PlacesYesterday's offline release asked you to open each calculator once while you had signal so it saved to your device. You no longer need to. Open the app on a connection and we save the whole set in the background, so a calculator you have never opened still works in a black spot. If your phone has Data Saver switched on we skip that download and leave your data alone. Route planning, maps, place search and your saved trips still need a connection.
How offline access worksOut of range no longer means locked out. You now stay signed in for up to 30 days without a connection — previously an hour offline signed you out mid-trip. On Explorer and Pro the calculators run on your phone, so weight, towing, fridge, solar, gas, water and travel time all still work in a black spot. At the time, a calculator had to be opened once while you had signal before it saved to your device — that caveat was removed the next day, see the entry above. Route planning, maps, place search and your saved trips still need a connection.
How offline access worksOur Battery Buying Guide was contradicting itself — one table listed a 200Ah AGM at 30 kg, another at 60 kg. The low figures were roughly half what those batteries actually weigh. A 200Ah AGM is about 60 kg and a 200Ah lithium about 23 kg. If you used the old weight in a payload calculation, it's worth checking again.
Open the Battery GuideWe refreshed our Terms of Service and added a short clause explaining how the free plan works — it's offered at our discretion and may change over time. Your rights under the Australian Consumer Law are unchanged, and paid plans aren't affected.
Read the TermsWe've simplified how you start a trip. Instead of choosing between two buttons up front, there's now one clear place to begin — pick where you're headed and the planner sorts out the rest.
We fine-tuned how the planner flags low bridges and overhead clearances, so the warnings you see are the ones that genuinely matter for your rig — with far fewer false alarms. Overnight stops are now labelled day by day, too.
You can now pick the route for each stretch of your trip — the fastest, the shortest, or the cheapest on fuel — with the estimated fuel cost shown for each option. Avoid-highways, avoid-tolls and avoid-ferries toggles let you fine-tune every leg.
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