Sidecar: Automotive assistant 4+
Navigation, OBD, & car widgets
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. Now includes turn-by-turn navigation in CarPlay.
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 v2.0.2
You can now install custom OBD-II CarPlay widgets in Sidecar! Add a Signal Group widget to any layout and configuration it with the parameters you want to see on your CarPlay display.
Voice Guidance is now included as a free update to Sidecar's maps & navigation. Get turn-by-turn guidance along your route using dozens of on-device voice models to choose from, including your Personal Voice if you've created one!
Other improvements in this release include:
- A new map view is now available in the journey calendar. See your entire day's journey in one map!
- You can now place widgets in the bottom left corner of any CarPlay layout.
- You can now add a play/pause button to your CarPlay buttons.
- The CarPlay next/previous buttons will now show a play button if the music is paused.
- A new leaderboard for a new weekly competition: distance traveled! Every mile driven with Sidecar active in CarPlay adds to your score.
- Kia Optima is now onboarded, including tire pressure, thanks to the incredible Sidecar PID Hunting community (Sid specifically!).
- Added vehicle symbols for the Toyota RAV4 and Camry.
- Added "Distance traveled since DTC reset" connectable to keep track of how far you've driven since your last visit to the shop.
- Added more POI symbols.
- Improved support for the Toyota RAV4 Prime via Toyota Connected Accounts (beta).
- Improvements to Maneuver Mode's camera behavior when entering a highway.
- Improved performance of trip logging and OBD data analysis.
- Improved performance of trip analysis.
- Improved confidence of trip termination upon exiting the vehicle.
- Various bug fixes and improvements to the trip logger, specifically including better handling of low-speed heavy traffic situations.
- Fixed bug where the Now Playing widget would not update if the track being played has no album art.
- Fixed bug where the "Change source" sheet would not automatically refresh itself.
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
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Fearless design, LLC has identified itself as a trader for this app and confirmed that this product or service complies with European Union law.
- DUNS Number
- 119014196
- Address
- 1470 E Valley Rd Santa Barbara California 93108-1220 United States
- Phone Number
- +1 6467700456
- support@electricsidecar.app
- Size
- 151.2 MB
- Category
- Navigation
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 11.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 2.0 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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- Sidecar+: Full access 14,99 лв.
- ScanPlan: OBD & CarPlay only 9,99 лв.
- ScanPlan Annual 99,99 лв.
- ScanPlan Quarterly 29,99 лв.
- ScanPass - 1 week 6,99 лв.
- Sidecar+: Quarterly 39,99 лв.
- ScanPass - 1 day 1,99 лв.
- Sidecar+: 6-Month 89,99 лв.
- Sidecar+: Annual 179,99 лв.
Supports
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Game Center
Challenge friends and check leaderboards and achievements.