Enjoying it!
Response from developer
Thank you for the detailed review and for choosing iCarMode! I’m really glad to hear it’s working well as an infotainment replacement on your iPad. I also appreciate the thoughtful suggestions regarding shortcut customization, additional icons, and the compass widget — feedback like this is extremely valuable when planning future improvements. If you’re open to it, I’d love to hear more about your ideas and the use case you described. Please feel free to contact me through the support section in the app or at support@icarmode.com.
Bob
Very nice App
Not a true dashboard, no trial period
If you are looking for a tool that overlays audio controls (play/pause/next track etc) of your favourite music app (e.g. Tidal) over your favourite navigation app (e.g. Waze) this is not it.
The lack of a trial period meant that I couldn’t test this functionality until after I purchased it.
Geht so
Ansonsten während der Fahrt ok.
Response from developer
Danke für Ihr Feedback! Um Ihnen besser helfen zu können, senden Sie uns bitte weitere Details an support@icarmode.com.
Super buggy
Response from developer
Hi j.maxwell, Thanks for your feedback and sorry to hear about your experience. Just to clarify: iCarMode includes a built-in turn-by-turn navigation system (with a major upgrade coming soon). While it can also launch apps like Waze, its main purpose is to offer its own easy-to-use tools—navigation, music/radio/podcast players, quick dial and more—designed for safe driving. If you could share more details about the issues you encountered, I’d love to look into them. Please feel free to reach out at [support@icarmode.com](mailto:support@icarmode.com). Thanks again for helping us improve.
Great app for cars that don’t have infotainment screens
Bad product
Nirjf
No free trial?
Thoughtfully designed
Response from developer
Thank you so much for this feedback, of course I appreciate all type of feedbacks…but hearing such review fuels me up to keep those updates going. So Thank you again and drive safely! PS: Please send me a picture of your setup to support@icarmode.com - that would be awesome!
I love this
Top!
Thoughtfully designed
With every vehicle in this day and age having dash cams and backup cameras and owners like having an older vehicle without the mentioned devices would be elated to be able to adapt them to this app through an adapter, I use an iPad installed in my dash so I personally be thoroughly satisfied, thank you for sharing this with us.
Response from developer
Thank you so much for this feedback, of course I appreciate all type of feedbacks…but hearing such review fuels me up to keep those updates going. So Thank you again and drive safely! PS: Please send me a picture of your setup to support@icarmode.com - that would be awesome!
Nice idea, badly implemented
Response from developer
Hi, I’m sorry to hear you are not satisfied, I think this feedback could be much more effective if you just send an email to support@icarmode.com so you could share screenshots and I could explain some stuff you missed. Apple Music IS fully integrated, size of icons is controllable through settings, external navigation apps are external…but there is a full integrated navigation turn by turn…contact me by email, I’m sure we can solve these issues in no time.
Wow ! we love this App
We love it , we can’t have Carplay in our car so we searched and downloaded ICarMode Drive safely , You only have to ask Siri to play this song , skip a song ect, ect , and works perfectly, all played through your car speaker using blue tooth , also you can ask Siri for directions using Waze if you don’t like Apple or Google maps …. just ask Siri to phone one of your contacts that are stored in the app and works perfectly , no need to touch your screen and no distractions while you are driving ! we love it , and can’t wait for more updates, we were thinking of different coloured icons similar to car play 👍
from One happy subscriber
Was a great app but sadly no longer worth it
I bit the bullet and decided to support the author and pay the subscription however I’ve just cancelled it today as sadly a new update has now been pushed which has ruined the previous interface and it no longer works properly in landscape mode and the buttons left align and are smaller, the first button is hidden behind the iPhones notch at the top of the screen, the weather and time are now vertically stacked which means they dont look right in Landscape mode either and the background for the time etc is no longer transparent which hides the desktop, one of the only reasons I subscribed so I could theme it to my car brand.
Definitely not worth the subscription fee
Previous Review:
I loved this app and paid for it but sadly the developer has changed the payment model and made it subscription only. As a previous purchaser I am supposed to be able to use my version unhindered however unfortunately the app now pops up advertising trying to entice you to buy the subscription version. I voiced my annoyance with this to the developer especially as this pop up appears after you have started your journey often which means in order to close it you have to pull over and stop driving to close the screen down, as it is illegal here in the U.K. to touch a phone screen whilst driving but it seems to have gone on deaf ears. More annoyingly is that some of my own suggestions were brilliantly included in the app design like showing the time on the screen and now in the subscription version another one of my suggestions of customisable wallpapers is also now available. I already have turn by turn navigation in other apps and nothing offers makes this worthwhile for paying an annual charge in my opinion, each to their own but as I can no longer use this app legally due to the nag sales screens I reluctantly have had to stop using it, if you don’t mind paying subscriptions then enjoy, but if you feel like me you are someone who paid for an unrestricted version and then the goal posts were moved you can see why I now feel the disloyalty leaves a bad taste in your mouth. I understand if the dev can’t make a business model from a one time purchase setup, but this is not fair on people who paid for something in good faith and now find they have a hindered product. Real shame …
Response from developer
I’m sorry to hear you’re disappointed, actually legacy users can keep using the app as always without subscribing. As for user interface issues you mentioned, the last update allows you to control the size of buttons, the transparency of the information above and also fixed the notch bug. Please contact me if you have additional feedback at support@icarmode.com - would be much more efficient, considering all the above - an updated rating would be appreciated.
Too many ads!
Downgrading to 1 star due to so many freaking ads! I bought this app a few years ago and even with a few issues, I could live with it. With the latest versions, it started to just bombard you with ads to the point where you need to tap to remove, which in turn takes your focus away from the road and onto the app, making it a safety hazard.
I understand the premium, subscription based version removes the ads and adds a ton of features, but for someone like me that paid for the app and does not need all the features, this has become unusable due to the ads. All good things do come to an end, sigh…
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Great app but needs to be more configurable. I mainly use this for music while driving. I wish you can configure the default music subscription. It would be cool if tapping music chooses the last playlist I have in Spotify. It currently defaults to Apple Music and it takes a lot of taps to get to a Spotify music, which isn’t great when you're driving. Three stars as I’ve stopped using it as it takes a lot of steps to get to Spotify playlists…
