The break that fits your trip.
ChargeBreak looks around the charge point for a bakery, café, playground or meadow – matched to your vehicle, your companions and your interests. Honestly rated, with source and timestamp.
No account needed. No tracking. Data from open sources.
Example break place4 × CCS, 300 kW
- Bakeryopen3 min
- CaféDogs allowed (tagged in OSM)5 min
- Playground6 min
- Supermarket7 min
- Park9 min
Pause-Score
68.1 / 100
Confidence
0.97 / 1
Three steps to the right break
Tell us what you travel with
Connector type, direct current (DC) and minimum power of your vehicle. Plus a place: your location (the browser asks first) or a place you type in – for example on your route.
Tell us what the break should offer
Bakery, café, playground, green space or shopping. With kids, with a dog. And how far you are happy to walk.
Get up to three suggestions
With Pause-Score, confidence, real walking times, plus source and timestamp of the data. What we do not know is stated explicitly.
For everyone who wants more than a charge
A good break looks different on every trip. ChargeBreak therefore weighs what matters to you.
Families with children
A playground within walking distance decides whether the break works for everyone. ChargeBreak counts playgrounds and kids’ areas up to 12 minutes on foot.
Dog owners
Dog meadows and venues that allow dogs – but only if the map says so. A missing tag is never counted as “yes”.
Business travellers
Short walks and cafés or bakeries that are open at your planned time: you enter the break time, ChargeBreak checks opening hours for it.
EV drivers
Connector type, DC and minimum power are hard filters. Whatever does not suit your car is never rated – however nice the café.
Two numbers. Never mixed.
The Pause-Score (0–100) says how well a place fits you. Confidence (0–1) says how reliable the data behind it is. A high score with low confidence is possible – and is shown exactly like that.
Ten criteria count. How much depends on whether you travel with kids or a dog and what you are looking for.
Base weights of the ten criteria
Honest beats impressive.
With break places, pretty but unproven claims creep in fast. ChargeBreak sticks to fixed rules.
Unknown never counts as good
Missing information earns zero points and lowers confidence. There is no “neutral average” that upgrades gaps.
Nothing invented
No demo places, no live availability without source and timestamp. If a source fails, we show the error instead of substitute data.
Source and timestamp always visible
Every result says where the data comes from, under which licence and when it was fetched – including cache hits.
Real routes, not straight lines
Walking routes are computed on the path network. Where that is impossible, “estimated” appears next to it and confidence drops.
Filter before ranking
Connector, DC and minimum power are checked before anything is rated. The reason for exclusion stays traceable.
Open data, properly credited
© OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Open Charge Map – credited on every result and in the footer.
Frequently asked questions
Is ChargeBreak a charging app or a navigation system?
No. There are good apps for managing charge points, paying tariffs or planning routes. ChargeBreak answers a different question: Where do I take a good break here? The charge point is the prerequisite, not the destination.
Does ChargeBreak show whether a charger is free?
No. Neither Open Charge Map nor OpenStreetMap provides reliable live occupancy. We therefore show “Status unknown – no live data”. A live indicator would only be allowed with a source and a timestamp.
Where does the data come from?
Charge points: Open Charge Map and OpenStreetMap. Surroundings (bakery, café, playground …): OpenStreetMap. Walking routes: OSRM on OpenStreetMap data. Place search: Nominatim. More on Data sources & transparency.
Is my location stored?
Your browser asks before sharing your location. We do not store it in a database or an account. For technical reasons it can appear in the hosting provider’s server logs because the search sends it as a parameter. Details in the privacy policy.
Ready for your next break?
Share your location or type a place – you get up to three suggestions, each with reasoning.