DrivePulse: Car Companion
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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, no server: your data stays on your phone. What's new in this version: • Custom PIDs. Add readings the app doesn't know (command, formula and unit) and test them on the connected car, starting from a larger community database that isn't verified. Each trip shows the minimum, average and maximum of the PIDs you record, and you can import PID lists from a CSV file. • Home Assistant, if you use it. The app can send it the start and end of each trip, with fuel, distance, voltage and trouble codes, plus live values if you want them, straight from your phone. It's off by default, and the help starts with installing through HACS. When the free trial ends, automatic sending pauses until you unlock the app. • Start/Stop no longer splits the trip. A long stop with the engine off, at a level crossing or in traffic, no longer ends it while the car's control unit stays awake; and if it had ended, setting off again within a few minutes and a short distance continues the same trip. • Eco score trusts real consumption. A surge with the pedal held still no longer counts as harsh driving, and where the car measures consumption, surges and braking weigh less if you used less than expected. New trips only. • Every trip with its type: commute, personal, travel or business. After a few identical routes the app suggests it, but never fills it in on its own. • Hybrids and electric cars, counted right. The Plug-in hybrid profile counts fuel only on the distance driven on fuel. Electric cars no longer end the trip at traffic lights, and a hybrid running on electric, or an electric car that doesn't report revs, no longer disconnects mid-trip. • Quiet when parked. With the car parked the app doesn't connect on its own, and after a trip, walking away with your phone no longer wakes the car: on some cars that could set off the alarm. A button on the main screen connects when you choose. • The iOS 26 glass effect, off by default: translucent bars and cards in the app, the widget and Live Activities, now on every main screen. Also: • Fill-ups from Road Trip MPG, and the fill-up does the math. • The right fuel level on cars that count in half liters. • Adapters that skip answers get a slower pace, remembered per car. • Adapters with an unfamiliar name get a fair try. • Cars that answer late get asked again. • Range reads in full on CarPlay. • Connection messages that tell the truth. • Plausible hybrid range. • Eco score, only if you want it. • Battery voltage even without the car's reading. • Particulate filter, GPS distance and climbs read with more care. • Currency and units from your region.
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About
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 adapter plugged in you don't press anything: the trip starts when you start the car and ends when you turn it off. 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. The history keeps expenses and favorite places. 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 Free for 7 days or 15 trips, whichever comes first, with everything on except extended diagnostics (one free reading 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.
What's new · 3.5.6
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, no server: your data stays on your phone. What's new in this version: • Custom PIDs. Add readings the app doesn't know (command, formula and unit) and test them on the connected car, starting from a larger community database that isn't verified. Each trip shows the minimum, average and maximum of the PIDs you record, and you can import PID lists from a CSV file. • Home Assistant, if you use it. The app can send it the start and end of each trip, with fuel, distance, voltage and trouble codes, plus live values if you want them, straight from your phone. It's off by default, and the help starts with installing through HACS. When the free trial ends, automatic sending pauses until you unlock the app. • Start/Stop no longer splits the trip. A long stop with the engine off, at a level crossing or in traffic, no longer ends it while the car's control unit stays awake; and if it had ended, setting off again within a few minutes and a short distance continues the same trip. • Eco score trusts real consumption. A surge with the pedal held still no longer counts as harsh driving, and where the car measures consumption, surges and braking weigh less if you used less than expected. New trips only. • Every trip with its type: commute, personal, travel or business. After a few identical routes the app suggests it, but never fills it in on its own. • Hybrids and electric cars, counted right. The Plug-in hybrid profile counts fuel only on the distance driven on fuel. Electric cars no longer end the trip at traffic lights, and a hybrid running on electric, or an electric car that doesn't report revs, no longer disconnects mid-trip. • Quiet when parked. With the car parked the app doesn't connect on its own, and after a trip, walking away with your phone no longer wakes the car: on some cars that could set off the alarm. A button on the main screen connects when you choose. • The iOS 26 glass effect, off by default: translucent bars and cards in the app, the widget and Live Activities, now on every main screen. Also: • Fill-ups from Road Trip MPG, and the fill-up does the math. • The right fuel level on cars that count in half liters. • Adapters that skip answers get a slower pace, remembered per car. • Adapters with an unfamiliar name get a fair try. • Cars that answer late get asked again. • Range reads in full on CarPlay. • Connection messages that tell the truth. • Plausible hybrid range. • Eco score, only if you want it. • Battery voltage even without the car's reading. • Particulate filter, GPS distance and climbs read with more care. • Currency and units from your region.
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