Driving

Turn it sideways.

Map, speed limit and music on one screen. Camera warnings come earlier the faster you go.

Or lay the phone flat and read the speed off the windscreen.

Drive mode: dark map with turn-by-turn directions and the passenger panel playing music
Drive mode with the passenger panel on music duty.

It knows the limit

The classic roundel shows as you drive, route or no route. Nothing to set while driving.

The real limit for the road

The roads you actually drive answer instantly and offline the second time.

No guessing

Where the map isn't sure of a limit, it shows nothing, rather than a guess.

National limits for your vehicle

On national-limit roads a van gets its 50/60/70 and a car its 60/70/70, worked out from your reg. Most big-name sat-navs still apply car limits to everyone.

HUD

A head-up display on your windscreen

Phone flat on the dash, glowing dials mirror-flipped onto the glass. At night it reads like factory kit.

  • The limit, on the glass. A little over and the number goes amber. Genuinely over and the whole arc goes red.
  • A rev dial with a proper shift light. A rainbow arc for revs, and a redline sector that lights up red at the limit. The redline itself is yours to set.
  • Sized for your windscreen. A scale setting covers however far your phone sits from the glass.
HUD mode: glowing speed arc gone red for over the limit, with lap timer
73 in a 60. The arc doesn't approve. (Shot un-mirrored. On the glass it's flipped for you.)

A co-driver's eye

For anything going wrong on the way.

It shouts a new fault

A code stored mid-drive doesn't wait politely until you get home.

Warning lights it adds

Overheating, charging trouble, oil too hot. A chime only when it is real.

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.