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Dashboards

Your car's dashboard, only smarter.

Revs, speed, temps, boost, voltage, load, throttle and more. Your car's real numbers, moving in real time.

Pick a full-screen skin, or design your own.

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These dials are live, running the app's own demo drive. Pick a colour at the top and they change with it, like the app does.
Live data

Dashboards you actually design

  • Pick your gauges, colours and layout. Portrait or landscape, day or night. The dash reads the way you want it to.
  • No dead dials. The app asks your car what it can actually measure, and offers you that.
  • A proper fuel gauge, range estimate and live MPG. Numbers plenty of cars won't show you themselves.
  • Quicker than the usual apps on the same adapter. How ›
OBD Mechanic landscape dashboard with live dials for speed, revs, coolant and engine load
A landscape dashboard on a 7-inch screen. Every dial swappable.
The customise sheet open over a live dual-arc dial: reading, dial style and colour pickers
Tap any dial to change its reading, style or colour.
Three more of the app's dial styles, drawn live on this page from the same demo drive. They follow your colour too.
The app adds more faces these canvases can't do justice: a spinning cooling fan, a battery-style fuel fill, thermometers, pumps.

Skins worth showing off

Full-screen instrument clusters, every dial wired to your real data. These are screen recordings of the app itself, running its demo drive: 0 to 83 and back.

Prism, in your colour. Swipe for the rest.
Day Rider skin in landscape telling the driver to reduce speed at 83 mph Day Rider skin in portrait at night
Day Rider. The 80s called; they're proud of you. (Note it objecting to 83 mph.)
Prism skin in portrait at 5000 rpm
Prism portrait. Same skin, other way up
Prestige saloon cluster skin in portrait
Prestige. An analogue cluster for the tastefully restrained
Premium, once. The full skin collection, showpieces included. Extra saveable dashboards, the full gauge collection and full HUD customisation. Your own colours too: mix any shade and the whole app wears it. 🔧 25, a one-off unlock. The £4.99 pack covers it exactly. No renewals. What you unlock stays yours.
Straight from the ECU

Needles that keep up

Every petrol car since about 2001 (and diesels since around 2004) speaks OBD-II. Plug an adapter into the port and the app turns that stream into something worth looking at.

On most cars from 2008 on, the app asks for up to six readings in one request instead of one at a time. So the needles keep up with the engine. Quicker than the usual apps on the same adapter.*

* Within reason. Adapter quality matters. A £5 clone works, but can be slow to answer and may miss readings your car does provide. A known-brand adapter in the £10 to £20 bracket answers faster, streams more readings and holds a steadier connection.

The six-at-a-time trick needs a CAN car (most from 2008 on) and an adapter that can keep up. If a cheap one freezes mid-drive, the app re-syncs itself in seconds rather than sulking. But software can't make slow hardware fast.
The app and the car's own tacho reading the same revs, live.
Second screens

Put it on the big screen too

Your phone stays the brain. A cheap Android head unit or a spare tablet becomes a second display, drawing your live dials over WiFi.

  • Pairs once, like Bluetooth headphones. A match code on both screens, one tap to confirm. Then silent auto-reconnect forever after.
  • Sat-nav on every screen. Set a destination on the phone and the route, turns and live position appear on every connected display.
  • Music from the dash. The head unit's now-playing tile controls the phone's player. Phone in pocket, console on the dash.
A real car's dash with three screens running the app: a phone on the windscreen, a head unit in the dash and a tablet below
A real dash wearing three of them: windscreen phone, head unit, spare tablet.

More of the app

In testing now. Want in?

  1. Join the tester group with your phone's Google account.
  2. Then tap the opt-in link. It only works once you're in the group.
  3. Install OBD Mechanic from the Play page it opens.

Android only. Demo mode works with no car and no adapter, and the mechanic's three example answers inside it are free.