Pelican: Automotive assistant

Pelican: Automotive assistant

Navigation, OBD, & car widgets

103 ratings
63 reviews
#151 in top-grossing Navigation
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Released
September 16, 2023
Updated
October 30, 2026

Features

Background Location Access

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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

v5.1.4

October 30, 2026

▶ Pelican is now ready for the iPhone Duo and iPad. Fluidly move between the map and your vehicle data with the newly optimized large screen panels. See more of what's around you with a mounted Duo on your dashboard, and customize your Pelican widgets to suit your driving style. ▶ Cameras on the map Pelican now shows speed cameras, red light cameras and license plate readers on the map, for free, where local laws allow. ▶ Drag-and-drop widgets Hold any widget on the map to open the new editor. Drop widgets into any zone, and tap one to set its size and behavior. Stock widgets are used until your car has a tuned kit. ▶ Dashboards and head unit mode Dashboards are full screens of widgets you can place anywhere, with separate layouts for portrait and landscape. Turn your phone sideways for head unit mode, which shows the map and your dashboards. ▶ Speed widget The speed widget shows your current speed next to the posted limit. The new widget can show speeds from OBD or GPS, and can be trimmed up to match your speedometer. ▶ Also new • The gearshift button on the map changes map style, The Fog, navigation engine, voice guidance and the current car, on the phone and in CarPlay • The phone map can darken at twilight and lighten at dawn • Search collapses into a button, results are numbered, and the map dims while you search • Tag a Home and a Work address • Train voice search to understand phrases it otherwise hears wrong • Place sheets now let you use Look Around to see the place at street level • Signs and distances follow the country you are driving in • Left-handed mode • Wildfires have their own symbol and more detail • Steadier fuel gauge readings on hills and rough roads • Up to twice the OBD throughput on cars that allow it • Added an ECU latency panel, commands and parameter reads per minute, and which scanner recorded the session ▶ Fixes • Roundabout guidance keeps the exit instruction until you are out • Fixed bug where alternate routes weren't appearing • Fixed bug where Apple Watch was not syncing data over iCloud • Fixed bug where tapping the "OBD parameter update" notification didn't open the list of new parameters • Fixed bug where the lock screen widget's vehicle picker ignored taps. It now opens as a searchable list • German Autobahn sections with no limit no longer show 255 • Vehicle readings refresh faster on many Honda, Ford, Chevrolet, Volvo, Ram and Jeep models

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Subscriptions & In-App Purchases

Pelican+: Full access

OBD, CarPlay widgets, trip logging and more

$6.991 Month
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Charts

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This app dropped -14 positions in Navigation chart.

Last updated on November 8, 2026.

User reviews

Predatory subscription - buggy and unfinished

No obvious way to unsubscribe in the app. GPS speed freaked out randomly. Not easy to add OBD info to CarPlay. Poor support for cars without touchscreens and only dials (Audi C7). Not worth more than $10/year if it’s mostly written by AI, has bugs, and is unfinished.

UPDATE: The devs responded saying "This report appears itself to be written by AI as part of a campaign of negative review comments that all similarly provide zero specifics.” Nope. I provided a list of specific issues I had with the app. You use AI to make your app and are going to accuse me of using AI to write a review? Terrible app and dev. Will never support them going forward.
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Response from developer

Pelican has an in-app feedback mechanism through Settings > Feedback where I’m happy to look at and address specific feedback; if you are in fact running into bugs, please report them there so that I can fix them. Update: original reporter responded providing still no specifics or reporting any in app feedback that I can find. The only specific issue described is regarding scroll wheel support in CarPlay, but I am not able to reproduce any clear issue with the scroll wheel. Without any way to talk to the reporter that isn’t standing in a public square waving signs at each other, I’m left here confused and saddened that I can’t help them. To the reporter: please cool your jets with the rhetoric; if you want to be a human and help, please file feedback in the app and I will be more than happy to fix anything you explain, otherwise you are only proving the point that your comment here exists solely to be negative for the sake of negativity. Take your anger elsewhere if you can’t productively participate in the community. Pelican is a lot of things. Tolerant of bullies, though, it is not. If you can find it within yourself to share *any* specifics about the problems you’re having, then I’m still happy to try to understand and improve them. If you cannot, then I wish you nothing but the best on your journey. ❤️

Loved it at first…

This was once a really great app for me & My F-150 Lightning, but it hasn’t been so great lately. I was even paying for the connected services, but I’ve since canceled and begin using other more reliable apps. Something happened recently, making this particular app build not worth paying for on a monthly basis, but I love the idea. Hopefully, the developer continues to work with it and improve it even more. As it currently stands, the app couldn’t be less intuitive to use.
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Response from developer

Hi Ghostwriter! If you'd be able to share any specifics, I'd love to understand what you feel has become less reliable recently so I can fix it; as-is this note you've left doesn't provide any specifics so it leaves me somewhat stuck. Please reach out to me at support@clutch.engineering; always happy to chat/prioritize fixes! And fwiw Pelican doesn't have Ford connected services support, so I'm not sure which connected services you're referring to.

The end all navigation assistant app!

Sure, there’s lots of navigation apps but Pelican takes it a step much further than any other app on the market! Yeah, it will navigate you but you get the choice to monitor your vehicle at the same time with data that no one else shows. Today, vehicles are built so complex that we all face issues of some sort. With Pelican, you can monitor those potential issues using your OBDII port while navigating to your destination, saving you time and money! It’s the most worthy investment on Apple’s App Store!
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What I needed

I tried many apps and nothing compares to this, you can track your OBD2 stats right on the map so I don’t have to switch between apps, the navigation is great specially the satellite view which is great since the use Apples Maps. And the developer is very active in making this better plus any question you have he’s there to answer.
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Such A Great App!

I have had the best experience using this app! It lets me see how my vehicle is performing in a way you can’t without connecting to the OBD port. Plus, you can see your trips and get insights about them, which is a big bonus.

The developer is the only developer that I have worked with who is always there to help! No matter the issue, they are there to help. And the amount of feedback they take and put into the app makes it a much more useful tool!
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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.