DrivePulse
Devoted an article and an interview with the developer to DrivePulse.
Settimio Perlini, macitynet.it
What it does
DrivePulse works out on its own when you are driving and records the trip. The rest of the time it stays quiet.
It records every trip, and then you drive it again on the map
Every trip stays there, with its route. You open it again and follow it, with the data your car exposes from the ECU while you drive.
- Odometer
- Engine temperature
- Oil temperature
- and so on
A score, and the reason for it
Every trip gets a score. Then it tells you why it is not a hundred, item by item, and how many points each one cost you.
Driving Coach
It gives you a hand while you drive and sums things up when you arrive, looking at how you drove on that trip. Not an average of all the others.
What you spend, and what falls due
Log your fill-ups and see what a kilometre costs you. Servicing, insurance, road tax and the roadworthiness test are remembered for you: by date or by mileage, whichever comes first.
On CarPlay, your way
Choose which values stay in front of you, and in what order. The ones you actually look at, large, where you need to look at them.
It reads the ECU. It never writes to it
You see the vehicle's faults and understand what they mean. The app only reads: it writes nothing to your car's ECU, ever.
What it looks like
These are the same ones you find on the App Store.
Who has written about it
Journalists who tried DrivePulse and wrote about it.
Reviewed DrivePulse.
iphone-ticker.de, Germany
Included it in its Indie Apps Showcase.
TapSmart, United Kingdom
Never heard of an OBD adapter?
It is a little box that plugs into the car's diagnostic socket, usually under the steering wheel, and brings the data the car already knows to your phone. Settimio Perlini explained it properly on macitynet.it, in Italian, if you want to understand more before buying one.