# OBD Trip

> OBD Trip (iPhone/iPad app by ImpossiblePossible Limited.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/obd-trip/id6805535423 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [ImpossiblePossible Limited](https://appshunter.io/developer/1330137047)
- Category: Utilities, Travel
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 13 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-21
- Data updated: 2026-10-29

## What is OBD Trip?

Your car's own flight recorder. Plug a Bluetooth OBD-II adapter into your car, set OBDTrip up once, and every journey records itself: engine, road and route. It's all worked out on your iPhone and kept on your own devices.

RECORDS ITSELF
• Automatic – No Start button. OBDTrip reconnects in the background and is recording before you pull away.
• Knows each car by its VIN – Every vehicle keeps its own history, with no setup between cars.
• Learns your car – It asks your engine what it can report and only requests those readings.

WHILE YOU DRIVE
• Live dashboard – Speed, RPM, temperatures, fuel and more as numbers, dials, graphs or bars.
• CarPlay – Up to eight readings on your car's screen.
• Lock Screen and Dynamic Island – Your chosen readings live while you drive.
• In-car mode – Turn the phone sideways for a glanceable dashboard and map.
• Mark a moment – One tap pins it on the route.

EVERY TRIP, KEPT
• Named trips – For example "Rugby to Warwick", with faults, alerts and laps flagged.
• Route map – Start, finish and key moments pinned where they happened.
• The numbers – Distance, speeds, fuel used and mpg, warm-up time, and 0–60 and 0–100 km/h times.
• Custom trips – Turn a weekend away or a track day into one journey.

FOR ENTHUSIASTS
• Graph explorer – Overlay up to ten readings, zoom in and tap for exact values while the map follows.
• Automatic lap timing – Circuits detected from your route, every lap timed, your best highlighted.

VEHICLE HEALTH
• Checked after every drive – Coolant, charging, fuel correction and more, against your car's normal.
• "Is this normal?" – See each drive against the ranges your car usually keeps to.
• Trends – Spots slow changes, like a longer warm-up, before a warning light does.
• Quiet by default – Alerts only for what matters: overheating, low fuel, new faults, real trends.

FAULT CODES: READ AND CLEAR
• Clear fault codes – Fixed the problem? Clear the codes and turn off the check engine light, with a warning first.
• Plain English – What each code means, how serious it is, and whether to keep driving.
• Causes and checks – Likely causes, symptoms, and what a garage will look at first.
• History – When and where a code appeared, and how often it comes back.

INSIGHTS
• Your driving in numbers – Economy, fuel, CO2, distance, time driving, warm-up and battery health.
• Any period, any car – The last 7, 30 or 90 days, this year or all time.
• Everywhere you've been – All your trips on one map.

SHARING
• Share a trip as a link – You choose the map detail, the readings and how long the link lasts.
• Save a copy – Export a whole trip as a file and open it on any device.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• No account – No sign-up, email address or password.
• Stays yours – Your VIN, routes and raw readings stay on your devices and in your private iCloud.
• No tracking – No ads, no analytics trackers, and your data is never sold.

WHAT YOU NEED
A Bluetooth OBD-II adapter. OBDTrip is tested with the Vgate iCar Pro Bluetooth 4.0 (BLE). It also works with other BLE adapters that use the ELM327 command set, and with MFi-certified Classic adapters such as the OBDLink MX+ and Vgate vLinker FS and MS once paired in iOS Settings. Other Classic Bluetooth adapters, and Wi-Fi adapters, are not supported.

SUBSCRIPTION
Free, OBDTrip recognises every journey and shows speed and RPM live. A subscription records every trip in full (route, telemetry, events, laps, trends and sharing) and lets you read and clear fault codes. Monthly or annual. Payment is charged to your Apple Account and renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings.

Terms of use: https://obdtrip.com/terms/
Privacy policy: https://obdtrip.com/privacy/

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Monthly | $0.99 | per month |
| Yearly | $9.99 | per year |


## Is OBD Trip safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess OBD Trip.

## Is OBD Trip legit?

OBD Trip appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for OBD Trip is 70 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.2 — 2026-10-26

- Every trip now says how it ended
- (Beta) Better Tesla support
- No speed from the car? The speed graph and top speed now come from your iPhone's GPS.
- See each fault code on a timeline of your drives
- Share vehicle details in one tap: to your mechanic or anyone else, and readable without the app.
- Setting up is now a single page: tap each permission and watch it tick itself off.
- A picture of your car's OBD socket shows which protocols were tried and which one worked.
- Clearer connection status everywhere
- Laps: tap the map to place the start/finish exactly, and a drive that simply ends where it began no longer counts as a lap.
- New CarPlay Drive tab: live graphs of any reading you choose, with the trip's events below them.
- Cleaner Live Activity in CarPlay and at the end of a trip
- Fewer, more useful notifications
- Bug: The right model year for older US cars and European Mercedes-Benz

### 1.1 — 2026-10-23

* Readings from the manufacturer's own computers: battery health and charge  and particulate filter soot on some diesels, with a heads-up when a filter clean is cut short.
* (Beta) Tesla support: plug in a Bluetooth adapter and OBDTrip works out what your Tesla shares, with live readings where the car offers them and its 12 V battery voltage.
* Health summary for each car: one line on whether anything needs a look, then green, amber or red for faults, coolant, oil, battery, fuel trim and fuel.
* Will it pass its MOT or smog test? See the car's emissions self-tests at a glance, and what usually completes each one.
* Thinking of buying a car? Plug in for a used-car check that shows whether its codes were cleared recently, ready to share as a PDF.
* Early warnings: pending codes before the check engine light comes on, plus permanent codes and the freeze frame, kept for you even when you clear codes.
* Tap any amber or red line for the full story, ready to hand to a mechanic: the readings, likely causes and what to check first.
* Insights now live on each car's own page, with "Is this normal?" and the fleet comparison for that car alone.
* "What OBDTrip watches": everything the app keeps an eye on for your car, and which readings your car supplies.
* Coolant and oil graphs mark where your engine normally runs, on the phone, in CarPlay, on the Lock Screen and in the widget.
* Engine torque and power, worked out from what your engine reports.
* Around 80 more readings, from fuel pressures and exhaust temperatures to every oxygen sensor and the odometer on newer cars.
* Works with more Bluetooth adapters, and better with older, Asian-market, stop-start and hybrid cars.
* Better with several cars or adapters: OBDTrip waits for every adapter you use, and keeps each car's details with the car, whichever adapter it has.
* No more phantom trips from a parked car with the adapter awake.
* Tidier screens: sections fold away, a cleaner Trips list with a simple mark on shared drives, and your subscription right inside Settings.
* Tap a car's VIN to copy it.

### 1.0 — 2026-10-20

No release notes.

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