Fuelly: MPG & Service Tracker 4+

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.