Rove Miles: The Complete Guide to the App, 30x Hotels and 20 Transfer Partners

Rove's app is out on iOS with dining, instant gift cards and rebuilt hotels. Real app screens show up to 30x miles per dollar, and at Rove's own 1.25 to 1.5 cent estimate a $200 Vegas room returns $70 to $85 in flight value. The complete guide, fine print included.

Rove shipped its biggest update since launch this week, and the headline is simple: there is finally an app. It landed on the iOS App Store on August 22. Android is not there yet, there is no Google Play listing, and Android users join a public beta waitlist instead.

The app is the front door to a pile of new pieces: a dining program, instant gift cards, rebuilt hotel booking, three browser extensions, and in-store offers rolling out. This guide walks through all of it, what the miles are actually worth, and the fine print the launch coverage skips.

What is Rove, exactly?

Rove is a free travel booking and rewards platform with its own currency, Rove Miles, which you can move to 20 airline and hotel programs. It is operated by Rove Card, Inc., a New York startup, but do not let the name fool you: it is not a credit card. You do not apply for anything, and there is no fee. It layers on top of whatever card you already pay with. Rove's own pitch: "No new credit card. No switching banks."

That layering is the whole point. Your credit card earns what it always earns. Rove pays on top. We already count it as one layer in our Sapphire Reserve StubHub triple stack, and if stacking is new to you, start with our stacking explainer.

How many miles does a hotel actually pay?

The hotel side got the biggest rebuild, and part of it is simply better multipliers. The live app screens we captured this week show what that means on specific properties:

ARIA Resort & Casino, Las Vegas: $188 a night, earning 5,644 miles at 30x
The Prince Sakura Tower, Tokyo: $690 a night, earning 20,711 miles at 30x
The Westin Bora Bora: $1,627 a night, earning 42,290 miles at 26x

Here is the math that matters, using Rove's own numbers rather than ours. Rove estimates its miles are worth 1.25 to 1.5 cents each when booking flights through Rove. The ARIA night is $200.45 with taxes. 5,644 miles at Rove's own estimate is $70 to $85 of flight value, on a $200 room. Rove's terms also say it does not guarantee any fixed value, so treat that as a range measured today, not a promise. Even at the bottom of the range, no hotel program and no credit card pays a third of your room back in flight value.

And the card you pay with keeps earning the whole time. Put that ARIA night on a flat 2% card like the Citi Double Cash and you also collect about $4 back on the card itself, or 2x miles on a flat-rate travel card. Rove sits in the middle of the purchase without touching what your card pays. That is the stack: one booking, two currencies, no trade-off.

The booking flow got smarter too. You see bed configuration before you book. Cancellation policy and breakfast are add-ons you choose, not separate rate types to dig through. And your choices change the earn: picking a nonrefundable rate or adding breakfast can pay up to 10x more miles on some properties.

One label to check before you book: "Loyalty Eligible." Those rates let you book through Rove and still keep your hotel points, elite nights and status. They expanded in this update, but only select room types qualify. If your Hyatt or Marriott status matters to you, look for the label on the exact room, not just the hotel.

How does Rove Dining work?

Link a card once, eat at one of 2,000+ participating restaurants across 20 cities, pay with the linked card. No promo codes, no receipts. Miles post within about a week. Rove's published rate is "3-10x miles," and Rove calls the multiplier an estimate that varies by locality, so your rate depends on where you eat.

The fine print that matters:

Miles are earned on the subtotal only. Tax and tip do not count.
It cannot be combined with other dining rewards programs. The one exception is your own credit card's earnings, which still apply. One check, two currencies.
Orders through DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub, Postmates, Toast or ChowNow are not eligible.
Rove's exact sentence: "Miles are not earned on any transactions above $3,500." Rove does not clarify whether a $3,600 dinner earns nothing or earns on the first $3,500. Planning a big group bill? Assume the worse reading.

What changed with gift cards and shopping?

Gift cards bought through Rove now earn miles instantly. That is a real difference: the shopping portal takes 60 to 100 days to fully post. If you find an award you want today and you are a few thousand miles short, a gift card for a store you already use closes the gap the same day. Rove publishes no per-brand gift card rates, so the rate you see at checkout is the rate.

The shopping side now has three extensions: Chrome, Safari, and a mobile Safari extension for iPhone, which almost nobody else offers. One tip straight from Rove: the extension and the portal do not show the same deals. In Rove's words, "you'll see varying stores and varying offers between the Chrome extension and the portal." Before a big purchase, check both.

In-store offers are rolling out too: pay with your linked card at participating retailers and earn on top of your card. Same layering idea as dining, applied to physical stores.

Do you still earn airline miles and hotel points?

Yes, and this is the part people doubt until they read Rove saying it. For flights, Rove's homepage puts it plainly: "Triple-dip by earning Rove Miles, airline miles, and your usual card rewards simultaneously." The flight you book through Rove is a normal airline ticket. Your frequent flyer number earns on it the way it always does, provided the number is actually on the booking. We wrote about what happens when it is not this week, and it applies double here: booking through any third party is exactly when numbers fall off.

For hotels, the same stacking exists but only behind that Loyalty Eligible label: "Looking to earn hotel points and elite nights? Choose a Loyalty Eligible stay to book direct and still earn miles." A regular Rove hotel rate follows normal third-party rules, meaning no hotel points and no elite nights. A Loyalty Eligible one pays all three: hotel points, elite credit, and Rove Miles. Check the label on the room, then decide.

Where do the miles go?

Rove Miles transfer to exactly 20 partners: Aeroplan, Flying Blue, Air India Maharaja Club, ALL Accor, Aeromexico, Cathay, Etihad Guest, Finnair Plus, Frontier, Hainan Fortune Wings, Miles & More, SAS EuroBonus, Vietnam Airlines Lotusmiles, Qantas, Qatar Privilege Club, Thai Royal Orchid Plus, Turkish Miles&Smiles, Japan Airlines Mileage Bank, Virgin Atlantic Flying Club, and Virgin Red.

Nineteen of the twenty transfer at 1:1. The exception is ALL Accor, and the direction matters: 1.5 Rove Miles becomes 1 ALL point. That is worse than 1:1, you give up more than you receive. A lot of coverage writes this ratio backwards, so read it twice before transferring.

You can also skip transfers entirely and book flights or hotels directly through Rove with miles. That is where Rove's 1.25 to 1.5 cents per mile estimate applies.

Do the miles expire? What is the catch?

Rove says miles "do not currently expire." The word "currently" is Rove's, not ours, and the terms let Rove change the program. Closing your own account can forfeit your balance. And Rove is a venture-backed startup, which means the program's future depends on the company's future.

None of that makes Rove bad. It makes big balances risky. Earn steadily, move the miles when you have a real use, and do not sit on six figures in a startup's ledger. The 20,711 miles from one Tokyo night is a real award balance from a single paid stay; the right move is using balances like that, not hoarding them.

How to start in five minutes

Sign up free. Through our link you start with 1,000 Rove Miles instead of the 500 the public referral pays.
Get the app on iOS, or join the Android beta.
Install the extension for your browser, and the mobile Safari one on your iPhone.
Link a card for dining and in-store offers. Your card keeps earning its own rewards on top.
Before your next hotel booking, price it in the app and check the earn rate and the Loyalty Eligible label.

Disclosure, in full: when you sign up through our link we earn 800 miles plus a share of your earnings for six months. It costs you nothing and does not reduce your bonus. That is the whole arrangement, and now you know it.

All numbers verified against Rove's site, help centre, App Store listing and live app screens on August 30, 2026. Rove is early-stage and terms move, so check the label and the rate on the screen before you book.