On the roads we usually find speed traps, wonky speedometers, horrible feeling of finding nearby gas stations down the road. These 10 handy smartphone apps will get connected with your smartphone's features and will help you in avoiding the little annoyances of the road.
iGasUp (Price - $0.99)
Help In - Finding Cheap Gas.
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| iGasUp |
Many gasoline retailers have apps that locate their branded stores, which are easy and handy if you use their credit card. But for drivers, who only want the cheapest gas and want to avoid fuelling up and then find cheaper gas a mile down the road - for this there is iPhone app iGasUp. It will display the 10 nearest fuel stations and their prices, derived from the same pricing service that supplies the AAA and satellite companies. iGasUp introduced in 2008, recently it has dropped its price from $2.99 to $0.99 and it is planning to add fuel station amenities such as car-washes to its listing. The app claims that 110,000 stations are included in its database, which means it has almost nearly stations in US which are in operation.
My Max Speed 2.0 (Price - $4.99)
Help In - Tracking your kid's Driving and For Arguing your way out of a ticket.
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| Max Speed 2.0 |
For this app accelerometer in Android phone is required, My Max Speed 2.0 will logs speed and location in every 5 seconds and makes the data available for exporting to a spreadsheet. My Max Speed can be used on two ways: to monitor a teen's driving habits and to provide an accurate record with which to argue against speeding tickets. It will also provide location history and send a message if your phone have an app travels outside - a preset location perimeter.
Trapster (Free)
Help In - Providing Little Warning about Speed Traps.
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| Trapster |
Trapster is the best known speed trap database apps. It was introduce in 2008 as a free download app and remains in that way only, private investors are steering the app toward advertising and fee is likely in the future. This app will make users to know where speed cameras, red-light cameras and live speed traps are and rates the validity by multiple user confirmations. The traps are displayed by the icons on a map on most smartphones.
It claims 14 million users worldwide and hundreds of thousands of traps and camera locations in its database. If you exceed your speed limit or approach a trap this app will send you voice alerts. It will give you the option of becoming a member of Trapster network and reporting speed traps, cameras or other traffic hazards, breakdowns, and construction sites for the benefit of their fellow drivers. On trips and unfamiliar roads this app is essentials.
greenMaster (Price - $5.99)
Help In - Knowing How Much Money Your Lead Foot is Costing You.
This iPhone App gives real time readouts of your accelerator and brake use to get the best fuel economy. It breaks down energy usage at different speeds and loads in to engine power, aerodynamic drag, and mechanical rolling resistance. It then displays energy cost in dollars oil consumption and CO2 output. greenMaster don't use GPS, all computations are done using the accelerometer sensors in an iPhone or iPod Touch, so you have to set a forward direction when you position your phone inside the car and then leave it be while you are driving.
TripAlyzer (Price - $5.99)
Help In - Coaching as its a Fuel-Economy Coach.
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| TripAlyzer |
If you are on your favourite route and you drive it often, the TripAlyzer can coach you to get the best fuel efficiency and the cheapest route. This iPhone app works through cell tower or Wi-Fi triangulation and is designed to analyse your driving habits, calculate how efficiently you use your fuel and how much you spent. You have to enter your odometer reading and the number of gallons you use. The TripAlyzer will then display speed, direction and distance as well as elapsed time, carbon footprint in the form of CO2 emissions, and the amount of time you spent idling. TripAlyzer also announces verbally the current fuel efficiency.
Dynolicious (Price - $12.99)
Help In - Justifying how much You Spent on Your Hot Rod.
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| Dynolicious |
Dynolicious app can measure and record your car's performance almost as accurately as sophisticated car - testing equipment. It will score your car for 0-60 mph runs and quarter mile drag races in speed and elapsed time (with or without a 1-foot roll-out start), measure braking and cornering force, and even calculate horsepower to the wheels. You can measure your car measure your car before and after any modifications you make, Dynolicious can compare results to see how much of improvement your hot rodding has done.
gMeter (Price - $8.99)
Help In - Knowing your G's.
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| gMeter |
Using the iPhone's accelerometers, the gMeter can automatically record speed, distance travelled, engine power. It can also measure how quickly your car stops. All this can be done in SAE or metric untis. This performance computer also lets you correct the numbers depending on the climate you are testing in as well as estimated losses for aerodynamic and mechanical drag.
Help In - Accurately judging Your G's.
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| g-Tac |
G-tac, it is an another app to measure your g-forces, also adds horsepower calculation, similar to the way the Dynolicious app does it. It also uses GPS to add to the accuracy of the iPhone's built-in accelerometers, G-tac records 0-60 mph, 0-100 mph, and quarter mile times, as well as braking and cornering forces. Line graph display comparisons of different car tests.
Help In - Tracking How Much You Spend on Gas.
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| AccuFuel |
AccuFuel can keep track of what you spend on all of your cars and gives you instant feedback while driving. You can switch between SAE, imperial and metric fuel use, and the app also includes a resettable odometer. Fuel-fill records can be stored for multiple cars too.
Speedometer Speed Box (Price - $3.99)
Help In - Double Checking that Whether Your Speedometer hasn't gone Crazy.
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| SpeedoMeter Speed Box |
If you have a classic car with a cable driven speedo, you can check its accuracy with a digital speed readout of Speedometer Speed Box, which also functions as a compass, an average speed calculator and an altimeter, Users can configure the display to show either large digits or moving dial and the app remembers maximum and average speeds on a trip, up to 3 hours worth of data. Place your iPhone facing up on the dashboard and a reverse readout will reflect of the inside of your wind-shield like a head-up display.
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