Kiwi OBD User Reviews

Kiwi OBD
Kiwi OBD
PLX Devices, INC.

Customer Experience

Positive experience13.2% of reviews
Neutral1.3% of reviews
Negative experience85.5% of reviews

~ Based on 76 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Kiwi OBD Safe?

Kiwi OBD does not appear safe based on available data. AppsHunter Safety Score for Kiwi OBD is 43/100.

This assessment is based on 37 user ratings, with an App Store average of 1.4/5.

Safety Analysis

8.1% of ratings point to a safe experience
0.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
91.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 37 App Store ratings for Kiwi OBD.

Is Kiwi OBD Legit?

Kiwi OBD appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Kiwi OBD is 80/100.

Based on 80 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Doesn’t work

Despite some gauges are beautifully designed many cannot be customized. Doesn’t change measure units. Diagnostic is always connecting. Without giving any hint it is working or has crashed. Have to force shut it down and start again.

Biggest waste of money

App crashes instantly biggest waste of money I’ve ever spent .

Wurde nie fertig entwickelt

Dieses Kickstarterprogramm hat ein Sponsoren leider ziemlich enttäuscht. Die unter dem Strich teure Hardware (mit eigentlich mit eigentlich sehr vielversprechenden Funktionen) hat von vorne rein nicht richtig mit der Software funktioniert. Der Funktionsumfang der Software wurde nie zu Ende entwickelt. Zuverlässig benutzen konnte ich das System leider nie.
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Locks up while reading data

This app is useless. I’ve uninstalled.

App crashes on iOS 17.5.1

As soon a connection to the Plx is made, the app crashes.. I guess another email to tech support.

No longer works

Third party apps have slowly dropped kiwi4 support, most of them no longer connect.

Now even their own app - while it will connect - no longer displays data.

App hadn’t been updated in 4 years. Assume updates are needed for changes in iOS.

So, shopping for a new OBD2 adapter.

iOS 17.2.1 iPhone 15 pro max.
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Total Junk

I’ve never been able to get this app to work reliably. Crashes when I run diagnostic check. Also very flaky connection to scanner. Kiwi s u c k s A s s

Trash ! Don’t spend your time and money with it.

Trash ! Don’t spend your time and money with it.

Doesn’t work

It will connect to the vehicle, but won’t do anything after that.

Forever “Coming Soon”

The app has major sections (notably the performance measurement section) that are “coming soon” for several years. Don’t let the feature set lure you I to thinking the device is a great purchase because it’s supported by a app delivering features “soon”. It looks like an abandoned product. Probably a white-label product with a app made by a third party that went out of business.
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Just trashed this app

Never connect to kiwi OBD device if connects trying for multiple then app get crashes this app is piece of trash. I will zero stars if I could.🤬🤬🤬

Je suis déçu!

J’ai eu la même expérience je suis dégoûté.. avez-vous réussi à avoir de satané code pour l’application? Que je puisse enfin m’en servir
Cordialement

Kiwi 4

I had Kiwi 3 and it worked great, unfortunately miss placed or leant to someone. Replaced it with Kiwi 4 and been nothing but a pain! Lucky to get it connect with this app or other apps to read codes and look at data

Crap

Waste of time. Doesn’t work at all. They just want you to buy their product, don’t.

Don’t buy this

1) Device won’t connect until you pull it from OBD port each time you want to connect phone. 2)Data logging only output 2 channels and said N/A for all other channels checked that work on live mode.
3)Data won’t save to micro card
4)Bluetooth constantly drops
5)refresh rate of app is seconds behind.
7) device not designed to Connect data from other PLX devices like OBD / boost pressure

Overall not worth my investment, software is very glitchy. I have purchased other PLX devices and they work much better but Bluetooth interfaces seem to be poor design.
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Worthless

Major glitches
Don’t waste your time or money

Crashes every time

Can’t even get the app to get to the Diagnostics screen where it shows a code.... crashed every single time when trying...

So bad it isn’t even funny

Spend a bunch on a kiwi 4 and it is practically useless as the app crashes every time I try to read a code. Also, only seems to support landscape, doesn’t respect unit selection, vehicle editor is hard to find and clunky and can’t seem to edit vehicle after it has been added, etc etc. Has a lot of fancy paid features but they should focus on the basics.
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Crashes every time

Every single time.

Doesn’t Work

Took a long time to connect to my KIWI3 adapter and when it finally did connect all the gauges showed zero even though the engine was running. Don’t believe any of the 5 star reviews of this app, there are quite a few that have the EXACT same wording but written by a different “user”. It’s clear that the PLX team knows their app is garbage and at one point tried to do damage control by spamming the App Store with fake reviews.
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