# CarSpotter — user reviews > 82 indexed App Store user reviews of CarSpotter by Thomas McPherson, rated 4.30/5 from 75 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/carspotter/id6742119749/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/carspotter/id6742119749.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 49 · 4★ 12 · 3★ 8 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 5 ## What do users think of CarSpotter? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Fun and engaging app - 🚀 Free to use - 🤝 Great for sharing with friends - 💯 Excellent design and UI - 🎉 Exciting way to discover cars **Cons** - 🔍 Needs better car identification - 🗺️ Map functionality needs improvement - 🔋 Gas system can be limiting - 📋 Limited car brand selection **Commonly reported bugs** - Dropdown menus not working properly - Issues with car identification and saving **Most requested features** - Add reference photos for car identification - Allow viewing of all user finds on leaderboard - Expand car brand coverage - Improve gas system and make uploading free ## Newest reviews (11 of 82) ### 4/5 — Can’t restore account *2026-04-07, version 5.1* I loved the app and I found it in a niche subreddit. A year later I forgot my password and can’t login anymore. The “forgot password” button does absolutely nothing. Lost a bunch of cool logs :/ Update: the developers helped me recover my account! The images are stored in the gallery but the logs are gone. Not sure how to recover them. Also there’s no date feature, and can’t undo when we label the wrong. ### 4/5 — carspotter *2025-11-23, version 4.4* This is good it just needs more different types cars but it’s a amazing app i would recommend it ### 4/5 — Bugs *2025-11-13, version 4.4* This is a great app, I love taking photos of cars and saving it to a place where I can look at the again. However there are some bugs like I can’t see the leaderboard or go onto the feed to look at other peoples photos. I can’t even view my profile. Besides the bugs I enjoy the app. ### 4/5 — Not enough rare cars *2025-10-09, version 4.3* So far I have been loving the app, and many of the cars that I have spotted are included in its database, but I have noticed that it lacks concept cars, which I have had the privilege of seeing in person and been able to take photos of. In short, I think the app is great, but it could use an expansion on the range of cars it is able to register. ### 4/5 — Almost Perfect *2025-09-12, version 3.8* This would actually be the best car spotting app if you could discover eachother’s spots and public profiles instead of only being able to view friends. ### 3/5 — Great, but.. *2025-08-21, version 3.5* it’s a great app, however i can’t use it because of its instability. when i go to select a car, the app just crashes. iPhone 13, iOS 18.6.1 ### 4/5 — Very good *2025-06-30, version 3.0* I just got this app yesterday and it is great! So far I have not had any sports they were not on the app! I do have a couple requests though, I wish you could see others spots and were they were almost like a radar, and ad an example picture for each car. Overall amazing app! PS. I love the icon ### 5/5 — Awesome app *2025-06-17, version 3.0* I’m having a blast capturing cars and having them all in one place, the subscription is so worth it as well, keep up the great work, can’t wait to see what else they update ### 4/5 — Great app *2025-06-06, version 3.0* i love this app i am a kid i am always looking out the window for another car to add to my collection but i noticed that in your new update you listed the apollo ie as a common idk if that was a mistake or if you ment to put it as that but i think you should put it as a legendary thank you p.s. pls add gmc edit: i saw a add of a app just like this but it had a car radar. as a loyal user of ur app i dont want to switch to that app so please add a radar so that people who are looking for cars can see where some might be ### 4/5 — This is actually so fun *2025-05-28, version 3.0* I love this app it puts all my favorite cars into place. Me and my friends had a competition trying to see who could find the most cars if the app had more cars this would be amazing ### 5/5 — Great app *2025-05-25, version 3.0* i love this app i am a kid i am always looking out the window for another car to add to my collection but i noticed that in your new update you listed the apollo ie as a common idk if that was a mistake or if you ment to put it as that but i think you should put it as a legendary thank you p.s. pls add gmc ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Doesn’t have my car *2026-06-06, version 5.7* I have a nice ve series 2 commodore Ute and it’s not on the app. It has only a few holdens ### 1/5 — Can’t restore account *2026-02-17, version 5.0* I loved the app and I found it in a niche subreddit. A year later I forgot my password and can’t login anymore. The “forgot password” button does absolutely nothing. Lost a bunch of cool logs :/ ### 1/5 — Erased all my data *2025-09-29, version 4.1* I added a bunch of cars as a “guest” to see if I liked the app. once I decided to keep it, I created an account and list ALL my progress. Nope, I’m done. Deleted app ### 1/5 — Not nearly enough cars *2025-08-02, version 3.1* First I’d like to mention the limited amount of times your allowed to use ai to recognise the cars you find. That’s a huge part of why I got this app because I do love cars but I don’t always know what they are.. but I’m not even allowed to use that feature! secondly I’m really let down by the car selection. Instead of having a select amount of cars that you’ve seemingly manually put in you should have outsourced the cars and had a system put them in automatically. One of the first cars I tried to put it wasn’t on your list - a ford probe.. but your recognition tech recognised it as a ford probe but then told me I could use it because it wasn’t on the list! What’s the point in having recognition tech if you don’t even have the car on your list. thirdly I am slightly disappointed with the lack of community connection as I expected to be able to see what other people had seen as I’m a women I don’t have any friends who enjoy cars so I wanted to find some on this app and was let down when that wasn’t a possibility unless I knew their user name directly. I know this app is fresh and for what it is now it is fine but it has a long way to go before it’s going to be half way good. And don’t get money hungry, just let people use the generator freely and don’t give such a low starting amount. Please work on this ### 1/5 — Too many ads *2025-07-07, version 3.0* I downloaded this app thinking it would be fun, but no, it kept giving me ads and saying do you want to upgrade also the gas is really annoying. ### 1/5 — Bad *2025-03-27, version 1.16* The drop down menus not work when you click it the arrow goes down but no options come up. When I used gas points it auto identify it and was correct but then when I did save it said “This car is not directly in our list. It could be spelled differently. Click the dropdown and choose one of the recommended cars.” Needs a lot of work done ### 2/5 — Could be great *2025-08-26, version 3.5* Not sure why it costs us the in game currency to spot cars… you should reward us with the currency. I can’t spot cars anymore because I’ve seen too many and refuse to pay money to spot more. Feels like a money grab ### 3/5 — There’s some problems *2026-08-17, version 6.7* 1 when I try to log cars the models don’t pop up and the auto identify is horrible. I have a Chevy and it said it was a jaguar and even when I try to correct it to make it the correct model the models not even there. And also the feed should just show everyone’s cars not the people you follow because then you would need to follow like 50 people to get a decent feed.2 when you view peoples profiles to see what cars they have it does not show photos because you would obviously wanna see what it looks like. 3 there is a lot of missing cars ### 3/5 — Add a way to log multiple dif versions of a same model *2025-08-27, version 3.5* Great app, just wish i was able to log more than one specific model, i drive a 300zx NA and i recently saw a cool one on the road, so now i have to decide if i wanna log mine, or the other. Please add a way that I can add multiple different versions of the same model🫶 ### 3/5 — Good concept, needs some work! *2025-08-24, version 3.5* The idea of the app is really good, I would love to have all my spots in once place. The auto detect function doesn’t seem to work that well and the app overall is incredibly laggy. Most buttons didn’t work and would have me tapping repeatedly hit the write spot to use them. Would be interested to reuse this app in 6 months once it’s a bit more finalised. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Love it *2026-05-16, version 5.5* Love the idea of the app and can’t wait to use it fully but I can’t create an account pls help ### 5/5 — Perfect car spotting game *2026-02-09, version 5.0* Absolutely love this game with a passion. Im extremely addicted to this game but I just have a few suggestions. Maybe like add something like you can view others car spots without them added as a friend and another one is make some cars have a rarer rating like exotic or mythical. Thats all from me love the game a lot just would love those as a new feature❤️ ### 5/5 — Love this app *2025-11-29, version 4.4* This app is awesome my whole family has this app and we enjoy finding and show each other the cars we found. Only thing I wish I could do is view other peoples profile and see the photos of the cars that they have taken. Other than that this app is awesome ### 5/5 — Bravo *2025-11-18, version 4.4* CarSpotter is a really good app for the people who love cars I’ve just started and I’m amazed by how many different types of cars and car brands there are bravo to the person who has created this amazing platform. ### 5/5 — Lacks some good cars *2025-08-17, version 3.4* Some good cars aren’t apart of the index, my dad has a 1978 Holden HZ wagon but it’s not in the app unfortunately but overall great app ### 5/5 — Me and my friends are having a blast *2025-08-11, version 3.4* My car group of friends are having fun competing on the leaderboard! It is missing some cars on the list that I feel are kinda common or at least heard of. I wish there was a way to add cars to the list easily to let the programmers review and add them, but currently you just have to send an email. We love to go to car meets and log our finds in our feeds! ### 5/5 — Fantastic app / idea *2025-07-28, version 3.1* It’s a great app, I really like how you can add friends so that you can see each other’s spots and where the car was spotted. Just a suggestion but I would like to see the addition of a feature that makes you able to see everyone who uses the apps spots without them being your friends. Also I feel like it would be a good idea for the pins to show the car brand and model name along with the photo of the car when clicked on instead of just guessing which car / pin you have pressed. ### 5/5 — Great app: request tho *2025-06-30, version 3.0* Can you add the old Land Rover models like the series 2 and 2a ### 5/5 — Just Brilliant *2025-06-29, version 3.0* I’ve always loved collecting photos of cars on my phone and this app is amazing for keeping a collection thank you to whoever made this. ### 5/5 — Great fun! *2025-06-18, version 3.0* Love the concept of this app and it’s very fun to use. My only suggestion at the moment would be being able to change the date and time of a spot. Don’t know if that’s already a feature and I’m just too dumb to find it but yeah. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-02.*