Before winter: battery tests at rest and while cranking, fault codes, engine temperature and warm-up time. All read-only. No account, no subscription.
DrivePulse connects to your car's OBD2 port through an ELM327 adapter and keeps your trips, gas mileage, costs, reminders and diagnostics on your phone. Every US car and light truck since the 1996 model year has an OBD2 port. Miles, mpg, gallons and degrees Fahrenheit follow your phone's region.
The home screen shows where you parked, the battery status, your range, what you have spent and how your last trip went. Car, motorcycle or scooter: one profile each, with separate data.
WORK TRIPS
Mark which trips are for work and the app prepares the report: odometer, distance, expenses and receipts, per trip or per period, in PDF and CSV. It is a record for your employer or your accountant, not a tax filing.
FILL-UPS AND RECEIPTS
When the fuel level goes up, the app sends you a notification with the fill-up already entered, and you save it with one tap. It also works for propane, natural gas and charging in kWh. Or take a photo of the receipt or the pump display: the app reads gallons, price and total and lets you check them before saving.
AUTOMATIC TRIPS
With the app open, on the phone or in CarPlay, the trip starts and ends with the car. App closed: a Shortcuts automation starts it, with location on "Always". Each trip has the route on a map colored by speed, duration, distance, cost, temperatures, battery and range. If you stop for gas or lunch, pause it: the trip resumes when you say so and stays a single trip.
DRIVING TIPS
The Eco Score tells you what to change: large on the car's screen and in Driving analysis on the phone. At the start of a trip, with a cold engine, it counts for less, because fuel use says little then.
CAR HEALTH
Battery, engine, temperatures, DPF and DEF (AdBlue) in green, yellow or red, with a sentence that explains. A value not read yet stays empty instead of turning into a zero.
PARKING
When you get out, the app saves where you left the car and walks you back to it.
GAS AND COSTS
Distance, fuel spending, mileage in mpg, L/100 km or km/l (kWh on electric cars), Eco Score and estimated savings. The score rewards efficiency, never speed. Monthly or yearly summary to share.
REMINDERS
Insurance, registration, inspection and service, by date or by mileage, handy with a lease too. From the VIN the app works out the vehicle details.
CARPLAY AND SIRI
From CarPlay you start and end trips and look at the dashboard, which you choose. With Siri: "Hey Siri, start my trip with DrivePulse", and the same for pause, resume and end, also from Shortcuts.
DIAGNOSTICS (PRO)
With an OBD2 ELM327 adapter: the codes behind the Check Engine light explained with what to do, every parameter your engine computer exposes, a guided battery test while the engine starts, DPF regenerations. The app only reads. It does not clear codes, does not reset anything and does not write to the engine computer. One exception: on three European electric models (Citroën e-C3, Fiat Grande Panda, Opel Frontera) a probe you start by hand opens the extended diagnostic session for a moment to re-read one value, then goes straight back. Even there it writes nothing.
WHICH CARS
Codes, live data and fuel use work on any vehicle with an OBD2 port, gas or diesel. A few readings, like the odometer from the instrument cluster, depend on the brand: where they are missing, the app counts the miles from your trips.
NO ACCOUNT, NO SERVER OF OURS
Your trips never reach us. No ads, no tracking.
PRICE
A trial of 7 days or 15 trips, whichever comes first, with everything on except extended diagnostics (one reading included with the adapter connected). Then a single purchase unlocks everything for good. No subscription.
Note: the app only works with an OBD2 ELM327 adapter plugged into the car's diagnostic port. On iPhone the adapter must be Bluetooth LE or Wi-Fi: the OBDLink MX+ and other classic Bluetooth adapters do not connect to an iPhone. Without an adapter, only reminders and manually entered expenses remain, and trips are not recorded.
This app is great. The developer is equally great. He responds quickly to any issues and is fast to implement updates and improvements to the app. I am loving all the data and look forward to continuing monitoring deep down the rabbit hole of my GTI.
Developer Response
You cannot imagine how happy I am to read this review. Thank you for the kind words and for the trust. I will keep pushing updates after updates 😃 If you need anything I’m here and again thank you! Davide
DrivePulse reads your car through an OBD2 adapter: fault codes explained in plain words, real fuel consumption, engine health and every trip on a map. No account and no server of ours.
What's new in this version:
• Full-screen trip map. On the trip screen, the button at the top right opens the map full screen, with the same gestures as before.
• Save here, with a map. Save here now tells you the place is saved where you are at that moment, and the place card shows it on a small map.
• The DPF on CarPlay. On diesel cars that report the filter data, CarPlay Diagnostics has a DPF row even outside a regeneration: load or soot, how long ago the last regeneration was and how long it took. The values are an estimate from the car's sensors.
• Start/Stop: stops at the lights too. When Start/Stop switches the engine off at the lights, the trip no longer ends after a short wait: it carries on until you drive off. If you switch the ignition off yourself, the trip ends as before.
• LPG: consumption no longer shows at half. On some cars with factory-fitted LPG that report consumption from the engine computer, the app showed about half the real figure. Now, if the car says it is running on LPG and measures the intake air, consumption is worked out from that with LPG values: in the trip, on the map colored by consumption, in the Live dashboard and on the car's screen. Trips already saved keep their old figure.
• Low fuel on LPG and CNG cars. On LPG or CNG cars the adapter only reads the gasoline tank. The low fuel alert now says so, comes once per trip and can be turned off for each vehicle.
• Your last tank reading stays. If the app restarts while the car is parked, it shows the last tank level it read and how long ago, on LPG and CNG cars too.
• When the car gives no consumption data. If the car gives no consumption data, the trip now says so instead of leaving a blank, and that trip no longer counts in your averages and range.
• Unlock reminders, only if you want them. When the trial ends, the app asks you once whether you'd like a reminder about unlocking and what's new. Without your yes nothing arrives, and you can change it in Settings, Notifications.
Also:
• In "Send to Home Assistant", the help for connecting DrivePulse to Home Assistant with HACS: three steps, with no repository to add by hand. Data goes only to your own Home Assistant, and only if you turn sending on.
Version 3.5.8
The developer, Davide Guida, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
Seller
Davide Guida
Size
66.1 MB
Category
Navigation
Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
Location
This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.