Sidecar: Automotive assistant 4+
Your car, your data
Fearless design, LLC
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Your personal automative assistant. A powerful OBD scanner with integrated CarPlay widgets, Shortcuts, and iCloud sync support.
Want to beta test Sidecar and get two months free? Visit http://sidecar.clutch.engineering/beta/ to learn more.
Sidecar is designed specifically for Apple platforms and with privacy and data security in mind. It's your car, your data, your journey.
No connected services on your car? No problem: use an OBD scanner + iCloud sync to see your offline car data on your Apple Watch, iPad, and widgets.
The app works best in combination with an OBD scanner and/or a Connected Account (Beta). Without either, you can still pull NHTSA recall notices for your vehicle and track trips.
Get 30 seconds of OBD scanning for free. Extend this time by purchasing ScanPasses for either 24 hours or 7 days, or by purchasing a subscription.
## Privacy and security
- All data is stored on your device and never sent to third party servers. If you use iCloud sync, your data will be stored on your personal, encrypted iCloud database accessible only to you.
- Sign in with Connected Accounts (Beta) uses OAuth industry standards for authentication.
## OBD scanner
- Use a connected OBD scanner to read real-time data from your vehicle.
- Requires a separate purchase of an OBD scanner.
- Manage your OBD scanners from CarPlay.
- View live OBD parameters from CarPlay.
- Over 70 standard OBD-II parameters supported for most vehicles since 1996.
## Trip logger
- Explore your neighborhood and beyond with CarPlay support and a historical trip overlay.
- Automatic trip logger using on-device intelligence; just enable it and drive.
- Capture battery and/or fuel economy automatically with a connected account or OBD scanner.
- Optimized for all-day use without being a drain on your phone's battery.
## Integrations
- Widgets for iPhone and Apple Watch, including: vehicle state, tire pressure, range, fuel history, trip logs
- Live activities while charging EVs
- Lock your car with Siri (requires Connected Accounts (Beta))
## Maintenance minder
- NHTSA recalls pulled automatically for your vehicle.
- Identify upcoming maintenance tasks on your vehicle with Connected Accounts (Beta).
## Community
- Report and discuss issues occurring with your vehicle with other vehicle owners.
- Contribute to the growing set of open source OBD vehicle parameters.
## Document storage
- Organize your documents in a digital glovebox.
- On-device document scanning helps you organize your documents.
## Sign in with Connected Accounts (Beta)
- Supported accounts: Porsche, Toyota, Tesla.
- Sign in with Connected Accounts (Beta) allow you to remotely access your vehicle's data and perform remote commands such as locking your car.
- As a beta feature, availability may change over time.
Unlock all features with a subscription. Subscriptions come with a free trial period.
Need help? Have feature requests? Reach out at support@electricsidecar.app
EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula
What’s New
Version v1.20.2
# CarPlay widgets: Now Playing and Weather
Two new widgets are now available, allowing you to see your currently playing music and album art and the local weather.
It's also now easier to set up CarPlay without having to enable trip logging or a subscription.
# CarPlay media controls
You can now choose to swap the pan button with a next/previous button for easier media playback control right from within Sidecar.
# Expanded vehicle support
Thank you to the beta testers that enabled Sidecar’s expansion of vehicle support to include more BMW, Lexus, and Toyota models! More cars should be able to pull more data automatically now.
# More vehicles
New vehicle symbols are now available: Kia EV9 and BMW i3.
# OBD parameter improvements
Several vehicles’ parameters were tuned since the last release, including the Taycan, Toyota Tacoma, and BMW X3.
The OBD scanners page has also been reorganized so that it's easier to see your scanners.
# Bug fixes
- Fixed a bug where the camera would sometimes fly off to the side and then snap back in CarPlay. This mostly affected drivers closer to the north pole.
- CarPlay widgets now fit snugly into the corner above the CarPlay buttons.
- Various onboarding improvements.
- Landscape onboarding has been improved.
- Vehicle names now use a shortened year format.
- Fixed a broken link to the OBDb.
- CarPlay widgets now appear automatically if you only have one vehicle in your garage.
- Trip logger now only starts its wake up sequence if trip logging is enabled (this addresses a Motion and Activity prompt that would otherwise appear unnecessarily). Trip logging was not turning on as a result of this bug, but the permission prompt was appearing which was confusing.
- You can now request location access from CarPlay as part of the first-run experience. Requires your phone to be unlocked with Sidecar open.
- The entire "Add widget" row can now be tapped in the CarPlay widget editor.
- Various OBD scanner connection stability improvements.
App Privacy
The developer, Fearless design, LLC, 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
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Fearless design, LLC
- Size
- 134.6 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 17 or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 10 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease battery life.
- Copyright
- © Clutch Engineering
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- ScanPass - 1 week 2,99 €
- Sidecar+: Quarterly 22,99 €
- ScanPass - 1 day 0,99 €
- Sidecar+: 6-Month 44,99 €
- Sidecar+: Annual 89,99 €
- Sidecar+: Full access 7,99 €