Back in the olden days, I watched my dad write down the mileage and gallons at each fill-up. I never could get in the habit of using a paper notebook, but keeping it in my phone is great. I’m two years into using Fuelly and I can’t imagine not having it. It’s more than just fuel and mileage info, it’s also a record of maintenance. I love that I can take a pic of my receipt at the pump, or the itemized invoice at the mechanic, and log exactly what was done. Then a few months later I can look at my notes when the shop tells me it is time to replace my spark plugs and I can say no thanks I had that done less than 10K miles ago. If I could change anything it would be the export function. All the images are lost, which stinks if you ever want to sell your vehicle and include the service record. Also, the tire size and recommended pressure aren’t viewable on the car info page. If you hit edit you can see the fields and edit them, but otherwise they’re invisible. Devs, if you’re reading, consider updating. Both are minor issues and don’t outweigh the overall usefulness of this app, especially for the very reasonable annual fee. If you’re looking for a place to store your vehicle data consider Fuelly.

I’ve been using this app for years now... long before it was taken over by Fuelly (can’t remember the old name, but remember the wooden looking logo). Anyway, this app has helped tremendously in tracking the true cost of ownership of many of my cars, and I’m therefore pretty anal about entering the info for accurate results. Herein lies the flaw... due to the new format, and it’s need to sync (to what?), the last time I opened it I noticed a sync error on one of the entries from my last road trip. It said duplicate entry and, after toggling between the two I saw that it was right. I went into edit and hit delete. Nothing happened. I did it again. Now BOTH entries are gone! The problem is that there is now no way to put one back, and my 24-27 average mpg vehicle is now showing a best of 61 mpg! My world has not ended, but I will never have an accurate account of this vehicle now as a result. There should be some way to insert a missed record, but there isn’t. Even though I can change the date, the “last mileage” is always the true last one recorded, and is blocked out from editing, so inserting one would jack up the history even more. This is something that needs addressed by the developer. Otherwise, this was a 5 Star app. 😞

I like the general use of the app. I use it to track my Government Vehicle as well as my personal motorcycle and truck. I have learned the hard way that if you take a picture of your receipt, there is no way to retrieve it even if you go to Fuelly online. I now use Adobe Scan add it to the app as a PDF and I also keep it in a file in adobe on my phone. I haven’t been on in a while, but I don’t think you can print or specify certain reports to print for your vehicles. I do wish the online interface was better so I could print certain things or be able to pull the info into a spreed sheet like excel. Don’t get me wrong the general use of tracking services, mileage, parts, overall costs and all it dose its job. You just have to do a little more work if you actually need to put the info your are tracking into a report or file.

Update 2: Apparently we are at the end of the troubleshooting stage for finding out why notifications are not working for the app. What was suggested to fix it? ‘Delete and redownload the app. Oh, that didn’t work? Nothing else we can do.’ My impression: we don’t know or care enough to actually sort out your issue. I asked if they were going to do anything else we can do to try and resolve the problem, but they said this is all they can think of. Also, as a response to the developers ‘check your spam folder’ comment. I check my spam folder every day. I never received a response to my first request for help on this issue. Thanks.Update: After going to their website and submitting a request for feedback to another product, I was directed to submit through the app. After that I did receive a reply.There is hardly any access to control settings within the app. It has an option to provide feedback in the app, it uses your email but I have tried many times and never heard anything back. I do not see an option to see how long I have remaining for my subscription, I thought this was a decent product and wanted to support that, but it now seems I was incorrect. One of my biggest issues is that the notifications for service reminders do not work on the app, I only see that it hasn’t told me when logging into the desktop/web version to read the forums for a solution. Not acceptable.