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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 and no server of ours. What's new in this version: • Find your car from your Apple Watch. When a trip ends, your iPhone saves where you parked. On the watch, the “Find car” page shows the distance in a straight line and an arrow pointing to the car, and “Take me there” opens Maps with walking directions. With the adapter connected you start the trip from your wrist, then pause or end it from there. Range, health and fault codes are there at a glance, and with DrivePulse PRO the complications put them on your watch face. • Two columns on phones that open up. On an open iPhone Duo, the trip card, statistics, the dashboard and the parking map split into two columns: the trip map, for example, stays put on one side while you scroll its numbers on the other. If you share the screen with another app, DrivePulse fits the space that's left. • The expenses + moves to the top bar. On the Vehicle tab, the + for adding an expense is now the first icon in the top bar, and it no longer covers the buttons or your car's health. When you scroll, the bar goes away: then “Add expense” sits above the other buttons. On the other tabs the + stays where it was. • Notifications lead with the number. A notification's title now carries the figure that matters, such as “Fuel: 12%” or “Eco challenge won: 3/5”. You can read it without opening it, on the lock screen and on your watch too. This covers trips, fuel, reminders, refuels, challenges and the monthly report card.
DrivePulse connects to your car's OBD2 port through an ELM327 adapter and records your trips, gas mileage, costs, reminders and diagnostics. Now on Apple Watch too. 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. APPLE WATCH: FIND YOUR CAR (new) When a trip ends, your iPhone notes where you parked. On your wrist you see the distance in a straight line and an arrow pointing to the car, and "Take me there" opens Maps with walking directions. From the watch you start, pause and end trips and check range, trouble codes and car health. Complications (PRO) put them on your watch face. IPHONE DUO (new) On an open iPhone Duo, trip, statistics, dashboard and parking split into two columns: the map stays put while the numbers scroll beside it. HOME ASSISTANT If you run Home Assistant, the app sends it every trip with fuel, distance, voltage and trouble codes, plus live values if you want them. You turn it on in Settings. 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 app open, on the phone or in CarPlay, the trip starts and ends with the car. App closed: a Shortcuts automation starts it, with location on "Always". Each trip has the route on a map colored by speed, duration, distance, cost, temperatures, battery and range. DRIVING TIPS The Eco Score tells you what to change: large on the car's screen and in Driving analysis on the phone. CAR HEALTH Battery, engine, temperatures, DPF and DEF (AdBlue) in green, yellow or red, with a sentence that explains. 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. REMINDERS Insurance, registration, inspection and service, by date or by mileage, handy with a lease too. 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. NO ACCOUNT, NO SERVER OF OURS Your trips never reach us. No ads, no tracking. PRICE A trial of 7 days or 15 trips, whichever comes first, with everything on except extended diagnostics (one reading included 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.