Watch manufacturer parameters live: tyre pressure per wheel, transmission oil, EV cells. Modules now carry names instead of addresses.
Pistonly is an AI mechanic. Most OBD2 scanners show a code and leave you to Google it. Pistonly reads the code, checks it against your car's service history, names the likely cause, and tells you whether the car is safe to drive.
THE AI DIAGNOSTICIAN
• Add your car by VIN: make, model, generation and engine fill themselves in.
• Add codes live from an adapter, or type in a dealer scan: PIWIS, ISTA, VCDS/ODIS, XENTRY, Techstream and more.
• The AI works through your service history, ranks the likely causes and gives you an ordered checklist. No history yet? A few questions build one.
• Then keep asking. The chat knows this car's codes, its history and its last verdict, so you never explain anything twice.
PARAMETERS THE STANDARD SET NEVER SHOWS
Diagnostic profiles for 205 models ship with the app, so Pistonly reads what generic OBD2 never exposes: the pressure in each individual tyre, steering angle, temperatures and voltages from modules the standard mode never talks to. A Cayenne has 28 of these, a RAV4 has 215. Nothing to import. Pro.
WHAT IS THAT LIGHT ON MY DASHBOARD?
Pick the symbol or describe it in your own words, before reading any codes and even without an adapter. You get what it means on your car, how urgent it is, and which codes to look for.
CAN I DRIVE IT?
Every code carries a plain answer: drive on, drivable but fix it, or better not to drive. Your garage turns it into a health score out of 100.
FREE REPAIRS YOU'RE OWED
Pistonly checks the manufacturer's safety recalls for your model and year. A dealer does recall work free of charge, whoever owns the car now, and most owners never find out. Campaigns the regulator marks "do not drive" are flagged in red.
A FULL OBD2 TOOLBOX (with an ELM327 adapter)
• Read the whole car in one pass, with a report for your mechanic
• Pre-purchase check: codes cleared before a viewing, reset monitors, mileage across modules and open recalls, in one report (Pro)
• Control units: Pistonly learns which CAN ID a module answers from instead of assuming one, so modules that used to stay silent now answer, named by what they report. A scan stops on demand and resumes where it left off.
• Modules confirmed on cars of the same model show up before you scan
• Codes decode their failure type: an open circuit reads differently from an implausible signal
• Live sensors, on-board monitors (Mode 06) and I/M readiness
• Service functions, odometer cross-check, freeze frame and CSV logging
• Drive Mode: a full-screen dashboard for the phone mount, with lap timing
FREE
• The AI diagnostician: 3 full analyses every month
• Fault codes in plain English, with the can-I-drive verdict
• The dashboard light explainer, no adapter needed
• Safety recalls, the health score, your garage, service book and interview
• Control units, live sensors, Mode 06, readiness, trip computer
PISTONLY PRO
• Unlimited AI diagnoses and follow-up chat
• Manufacturer parameters and enhanced PIDs
• Pre-purchase check and odometer rollback check
• Drive Mode and lap timing
• Service functions and CSV data logging
• More than one car in your garage, each with its own history
• Or bring your own Claude or Perplexity API key
Monthly, annual, or a one-time lifetime unlock. Cancel anytime.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account, no sign-up. Your garage, history and VIN stay on your device, and the VIN is never sent to our servers. Signed in to iCloud? Everything backs up there.
Pistonly is advisory: strong hypotheses and a checklist, not a final verdict.
Works with any ELM327-compatible Bluetooth OBD2 adapter. No adapter? Try the built-in demo.
Marques and logos are trademarks of their owners; Pistonly is not affiliated with any manufacturer. Model profiles are derived from the OBDb community database under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://held-jackrabbit-8cc.notion.site/Pistonly-Privacy-Policy-3a0893c247bf80e7b6d4d17f590bd631
This app really helps me to understand what the problem with my engine. And also I can clear error codes, check engine is always annoying. Now I don’t have that problem anymore.
WATCH THE VALUES YOUR CAR KEEPS TO ITSELF
Manufacturer parameters could be read, but only as a snapshot. Now you can put an eye on any of them and watch it live while you drive or rev the engine: the pressure in one particular tyre, transmission oil temperature, an EV cell's state of charge. The choice is remembered per car, and the screen shows the real refresh rate rather than pretending these read as fast as standard sensors.
MODULES WITH NAMES, NOT ADDRESSES
A module found outside the standard tables used to be called "Module 753", which tells nobody anything. Pistonly now works out what a module is from what it actually reports: the one returning four wheel speeds is brakes, the one returning four tyre pressures is tyre monitoring. Where a whole make agrees across its models, the name applies even to a car whose own profile is silent. Fifty-nine addresses across sixteen makes, and every one of them backed by at least three models agreeing.
THE REAL WARNING LIGHTS
The dashboard light screen now draws the actual telltales, the same symbols your instrument cluster uses, at a consistent size. Picking the light you are looking at is a lot easier when it looks like the light you are looking at.
SIX MORE FAULT CODES
P0847, P0882, P2036, P2413, P2562 and P2610 were missing outright and now read properly.
FIXES
• On imperial units, some readings kept their metric labels. Live data and Drive Mode could disagree on the same value.
• A fault code whose name we only had in an unexpected language rendered a card with no name at all.
• A Bluetooth failure could report the reason as "unknown" in the middle of a translated sentence.
Version 1.7
The developer, Aliaksei Yelin, 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:
User Content
Usage Data
Diagnostics
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Information
Seller
Aliaksei Yelin
Size
29.2 MB
Category
Utilities
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.