Pelican: Automotive assistant

Pelican: Automotive assistant

Navigation, OBD, & car widgets

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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

v5.0.2

August 5, 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 got a massive upgrade too, including suggesting edits to speed limits and traffic light cameras. Backed by a new report grade system, the Pelican TestFlight community has already contributed over 1000 edits to OpenStreetMap. Department of transportation data is now published to the Pelican map automatically, and municipal road status is rolling out to more cities, states, and countries every month. New Pelican+ features: ▶ The Fog: a map overlay that erases as you drive, so you can 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. ▶ Offline maps: pre-load maps so you can navigate without a connection. Also new: ▶ See speed bumps and humps along your route. ▶ Wildfires are now shown distinctly from fires. ▶ CarPlay Quick Destinations now match the map's place symbols. ▶ Pelican can open to the Map tab by default. Search ▶ Fixed bug where brand and category searches (e.g. "Starbucks") could rank a far-away result above a closer one, because drive-time estimates arrived too late to order them. ▶ Fixed bug where dropped pins could report the same address for consecutive houses. CarPlay ▶ Fixed bug where clearing or dismissing a CarPlay search left the previous results in place, so a new search could show stale ones. Units & Regional Display ▶ Speed limit signs on the phone and in CarPlay now follow the road you're on, not your device's region. A US-region phone no longer shows a US plate in Ireland. ▶ Fixed bug where "Default" distance and speed units followed your device's region instead of the country you're driving in. An explicit Miles or Kilometers setting still wins. ▶ Construction reports and roadwork settings now read "Roadworks" in British English (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India). Wildfires & Fire Reports ▶ Fire detail sheets now show fire behavior, fuel type, personnel assigned, and suppression cost to date. ▶ Fire details now appear for every fire report, not only wildfires. Satellite-detected fires previously opened an empty section. ▶ Fixed bug where a small fire's burn area displayed as "0 acres". ▶ Fire reports say "Bushfire" in Australia and New Zealand. Scout Reports ▶ Fixed bug where map edit speed limit signs were drawn in your region's units and style. A 30 km/h edit could show as "19" on a US sign. ▶ Fixed bug where a map edit with an unknown region drew a US-style sign instead of a neutral one. ▶ Flooded road reports now use a dedicated sticker symbol. OBD & Vehicle Communication ▶ Fixed bug where clone ELM327 adapters returned no VIN, calibration ID, or ECU names, and an incomplete sensor list. Pelican now repairs their malformed replies and warns you on the Scanner page. ▶ Fixed bug where one malformed ECU response discarded the valid responses from every other ECU. Trip Logging ▶ Fixed bug where trip recording failed to arm on a cold start after a long park, most often when CarPlay launched the app. Recording began only later, well into the drive. ▶ Fixed bug where the Apple Weather mark in the "Latest trip" footer and logbook journey cards could render oversized, overlapping the trip chart. Membership ▶ Fixed bug where paid features could intermittently disappear when the App Store couldn't be read — offline, signed out, or receipt not yet synced. Membership is now retained. ▶ Fixed bug where refunded transactions were never finished, which could stop the purchase sheet from appearing. Settings ▶ Fixed bug where opening Trip logging, going back, then opening The Danger Zone could lock up the app. ▶ The Pelican+ button now appears at the top of The Danger Zone, The Fog, Trip logging, and Offline maps rather than the bottom. ▶ Your account details now show your signed-in email address below "Scouting since".

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User reviews

Best CarPlay interface

Been beta testing the 5.0 for a short time and it’s by far the best OBD/Carplay integration yet!!

Response from developer

Thank you for the kind words and for being an awesome beta tester!

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

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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.