Your car doesn't have a screen. Your iPhone is one.
CarOS turns your iPhone, on its phone mount, into your car's dashboard: maps, music, calls and a dash cam on one screen, with big round buttons you can hit without hunting for them.
Nothing to buy, nothing to wire, nothing to install. It works in any car, truck, van or RV.
NEW: CAROS 5
Rebuilt from scratch, with a brand-new design: clear by day, dark at night, and a SmartBar that keeps the essentials one tap away on every screen.
FREE, FOR EVERY DRIVE
• Dashboard: your map, what's playing and your trip on one screen
• Radio: thousands of stations from around the world
• Listening: one player for every audio source
• Road alerts reported by other drivers, shown and spoken
• Weather at a glance
• Your week: distance, time behind the wheel and trips, ready to share
• Impact detection with an SOS screen and local emergency numbers in 238 countries and territories
• Live Sharing: let someone follow your trip with a private web link
CAROS PREMIUM
• Maps: search, Home and Work, places nearby and turn-by-turn voice guidance
• Music: your library and Apple Music, with big controls
• Podcasts: search, subscribe and listen
• Phone: favorites, recents, contacts and keypad, in big buttons
• Messages: pick a contact, dictate your text, hear it read back, then send
• Dash Cam: continuous recording that keeps the clip safe after a hard impact
• Face Control: play, pause or skip a song with a smile (iPhone with Face ID)
• Parking: remember where you parked, add a photo and a note, walk back with directions
• Calendar: today's appointments, with directions and a call button
• Shortcuts: run your favorite shortcuts from the road
• Spotify and Google Maps, when their apps are installed
• Trip automations: when you start driving, set brightness and volume and start the dash cam or Face Control
ON IPAD
Turn an iPad into a large in-car screen, in full-screen landscape, with the dashboard always in view.
DESIGNED FOR THE ROAD
Large text, large buttons and few steps, in light or dark mode. Keep your iPhone on its mount, set things up while parked, and follow local laws.
SUBSCRIPTION
CarOS is free to download, with Radio, the dashboard and the safety features included. CarOS Premium unlocks everything else, as a weekly or yearly auto-renewing subscription, both with a free trial.
Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://carosapp.com/legal
Made by an independent developer since 2021. Questions or ideas? Write to us from Settings › Report a problem.
This app works worse than the last one. I thought maybe some of the bugs like not being able to consistently take video when driving would be fixed with this one. NOPE. It literally won’t take video, it randomly logs out when I try to press the now playing tab in the music app. The design is worse than the first one. can’t believe they expect you to pay money for such garbage.
Decent App
Krazzykurt521
This is great for those who don’t have CarPlay in their vehicle and need an alternative. There are still some bugs and glitches but for the most part it does well. The app crashes when you try to change the sequence recording settings in camera, also in music it won’t let me scroll in playlists, but I can scroll in artists or songs. However, I’m sure the developers will fix these issues soon. Either way it’s a great app! Use the free trial to test it out! The subscriptions or lifetime purchase fees are not outrageous. Drive safely!
Not so great
Wordsmstuff
I already previously had a unit with CarPlay . This software hardly compares . It gives you a GUI similar to CarPlay but that’s where it ends . There’s nothing simple about navigating the app . It’s a pain to simply get back to the main screen , god forbid you want to switch between music and navigation . It somehow mixes stored music up so artists aren’t with their albums etc … couldn’t even use my own music because the app just jumbled it all up . This shouldn’t be a subscription app it should be a pay once app . It’s actually simpler to just use the phone itself with an aux cable or Bluetooth for music and navigation. This app really needs work . Canceled and Deleted it .
Can’t use in portrait
PA-coder
The location where I want to have my phone mounted to the dashboard only has enough room to be in portrait. But the app won’t let me use in portrait mode. Had to cancel subscription. I know it seems weird but doesn’t seem like a big ask to allow it.
Bug fixes and other improvements.
Version 2026.42
The developer, Oh My Software, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Location
Contact Info
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
