Pelican: Automotive assistant

Pelican: Automotive assistant

Navigation, OBD, & car widgets

78 ratings
49 reviews
#170 in top-grossing Navigation
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Enhance your driving with a personalized CarPlay experience. Access real-time vehicle data, community-sourced road reports, and customizable widgets for navigation, weather, and more. Offers robust privacy with on-device data storage.

Customizable CarPlay widgets
Real-time vehicle data via OBD
Community-sourced road hazard reports
Speed limit display
Destination weather updates
Range overlays
Remote vehicle control (select models)
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What's New in Pelican

v5.0.0

July 20, 2026

Introducing Pelican Navigation: a major expansion of Pelican's driving experience. ▶ Lane guidance ▶ Offline routing ▶ Improved speed limit and road detection while cruising Scout reports have also gotten a massive upgrade, including the ability to suggest edits to speed limits and traffic light cameras. Backed by a new Scout report grade system, the Pelican TestFlight community has already contributed over 1000 edits to OpenStreetMap during our beta testing period. Department of transportation data is now also being automatically published to the Pelican map, making it easier to plan your route and understand the state of the road ahead of you. Support for municipal road status is rolling out to more cities, provinces, states, and countries every month. New Pelican+ membership features include: ▶ The Fog: a persistent overlay on the map that erases as you drive, making it easy to see where you've been (and where you haven't) ▶ The Danger Zone: see how far you can drive before you run out of fuel/gas. ▶ Offline maps: pre-load Pelican with offline maps so that you can navigate even when offline.

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Subscription plans

Sidecar+: Full access

OBD, CarPlay widgets, trip logging and more

$6.991 Month
14 Days trial
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In-App Purchases

$0.99

ScanPass - 1 day

24 hours of unlimited OBD scanning

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Navigation

This app dropped -8 positions in Navigation chart.

Last updated on July 24, 2026.

User reviews

Nice App

A very nice app that shows many checks you are looking for on your vehicle. One thing I am hoping that gets updated on the map section is the MPH display. At times it shows and other times it doesn't. And at times the carry over into a new speed limit is not updated. Outside of that I really like the app. It is very customizable.
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AI coded app with unique features

Is it a good idea to give a AI coded app access to your OBD port? You be the judge. Has cool features, sadly upon determining the development process I'm not comfortable using it now let alone spending $. The nav loses to GMaps for me, wish I could use Pelican's nav more reliably since I wouldn't get the widgets I pay for otherwise
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Response from developer

Pelican’s OBD stack was built long before AI coding was a concept, after hundreds of hours studying SAE standards and rigorous technical implementations covering 30 years of automotive diagnostics protocols. The stack has been further hardened through tens of millions of miles driven by hundreds of thousands of drivers, and not one of those miles was driven using an AI-coded app. As a solo founder, I do use AI tooling to prototype new features throughout Pelican, but not a single line of code goes into Pelican without being reviewed and tested, and the OBD stack in particular is the most hardened part of Pelican. It would be more accurate to say today that Pelican has an AI-assisted app development process, and one that has enabled me to improve the stability and quality of Pelican in countless ways. But to call Pelican an AI coded app is to ignore the years of human development time that have been invested into making Pelican what it is today. Navigation is the next big focus area for me. It sounds like you might already be in Discord, so I invite you to participate in the community discussions around the features I'm working on next including lane guidance and municipal road closures.

No instructions and support

The interface gives no flow how to get started. Also to get any support you must join GitHub. They themselves are so paranoid of bots make joining a full cavity search process. I really wanted this app but will not jump through multiple hoops just for them. I subscribed but will be dropping immediately before my two weeks are up.
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Response from developer

Hi rleedyii, Please email me at support@clutch.engineering and I can follow up with you. Your car might not be fully onboarded yet so if you let me know your make and model and year and I can help you better ❤️

App does it all

This app reports more OBD parameters than any other I have used. Outstanding work

Best automotive app EVER

I stumbled on this app on twitter of all places. It works seamlessly with my car and the developer actively looks to add new vehicles every few weeks. It's such an awesome interface and makes it easy to log trips. Would highly recommend if anyone is looking for a trip logging app that connects directly to their car!


One thing I wanted to add is that some people are probably confused by the purpose of the app. I don't think you should see this app as replacing Google maps for instance. This app is a digital logbook for your drive and it shows everything, your speed, tire pressure, fuel level, all that. And then it logs it for you so you can go back and know your exact statistics from every single drive. I think some people get confused because they open this app and they wonder why it doesn't have all the features that Google I don't think this was first and foremost meant to be a navigation app, it was meant to be a trip logging app.
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FAQ

What does Pelican do?

Pelican provides a personalized driving experience for CarPlay, integrating navigation, real-time vehicle data through OBD scanning, community-sourced road condition reports, and customizable widgets. It aims to reduce context switching by bringing essential information directly to your car's display.

What are the key features of Pelican?

Key features include customizable widgets for the map screen (vehicle data, weather, music, speed limits), real-time road hazard alerts from the Pelican community, speed limit display, destination weather, range overlays, and privacy-focused data storage. Paid features unlock trip logging, historical diagnostics, and OBD scanning.

How much does Pelican cost?

Pelican is free to use with core navigation and widget features. Advanced functionalities like trip logging, historical vehicle diagnostics, and OBD scanning are available through paid power features, supporting ongoing development of the app.

What cars are compatible with Pelican?

Pelican is designed to work with any car, from older models to the latest. Remote vehicle control features are currently fully supported for Tesla and Volvo, with Porsche, Toyota, and Polestar support in closed beta. Vehicle state can be synced to Apple Watch for free.

How does Pelican ensure user privacy?

Pelican prioritizes user privacy by storing all data on your device and never sending it to third-party servers. If iCloud sync is used, your data is stored in your personal, encrypted iCloud database, ensuring it's accessible only to you.