Pelican: Automotive assistant

Pelican: Automotive assistant

Navigation, OBD, & car widgets

89 ratings
56 reviews
#179 in top-grossing Navigation
🔧 Utilities
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Free
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Released
September 16, 2023
Updated
October 1, 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

v5.1.1

October 1, 2026

▶ 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
14 Days trial
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Charts

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This app dropped -8 positions in Navigation chart.

Last updated on October 18, 2026.

User reviews

My new favourite maps app!

Pelican is amazing. Everything you’d want for driving in an app that is easy to use. Not to mention the mapped speed cameras & vehicle parameter widgets! I love being able to see my car’s info, tyre pressures, engine temps, my current route, and the music I’m currently playing, all on the same screen without having to interact with anything whilst driving. Very excited to see what’s coming in future updates to this app!
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Something happened with this most recent update

Used this app daily since January 2026 and have had no problems until the week of September 26. This major update wiped all my widgets and will no longer connect/read data with the Vgate iCar Pro 2S I bought specifically to use with this app in January. Zero problems with it until recently. This actually almost made me buy a new scanner, but no other scanning apps have any issues. I couldn’t tell if it was my new 18 pro or ios27 or the app or the scanner, but since no other apps are having issues I’m landing on it being this app. I was disappointed after investigating further on GitHub that there’s Claude involved in this project. Not sure when that was added but I’m sure isn’t helping. There’s nothing wrong with using Claude but even paying for Pelican plus and getting to my age, I’m tired of tinkering with stuff. I just want it to work like it did for 9 months without issue. So, I’m uninstalling and canceling my subscription until it “just works”. Great app otherwise I just wish the widgets and connection to my scanner stayed
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Response from developer

Hi! Please reach out to me either through the feedback page in Pelican’s Settings tab or through support@clutch.engineering so I can help you out! I can’t do much through the App Store review comments unfortunately other than reply to you ❤️

Powerful and intuitive, straightforward but extremely capable

Note: you’ll need an OBD2 scanner to get the vast majority of features from this app. It’s a worthwhile investment and they’re pretty cheap nowadays. The developer’s website has a great list of options. If you don’t have a scanner and leave a poor review that’s completely on you for failing basic reading comprehension and no sympathy will be given.

This app is essentially the platonic ideal of what a CarPlay app could be. The navigation capabilities are top notch, and the integration with OpenStreetMaps makes me feel good about contributing corrections or new information. I especially appreciate the new surveillance overlay that shows speed/ALPR cameras, right on the app.

New features keep coming out that I didn’t know I’d love (I wouldn’t have ever thought of The Fog but now I can’t go without it!) without making the app’s settings busy or confusing. I’ve never spent a chunk of money on a lifetime premium license before but have done so here and am happy to support the developer and I consider it money well spent.

The built-in feedback submission capabilities makes it super easy to make suggestions and is so much better than sending an email out into the void and hoping something gets fixed one day. The developer is responsive to an almost unhealthy degree and I hope they have a sustainable work/life balance!
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10/10

The best all-around map and car scanner on the market. Being able to monitor your car all through car play while having a fully customized interface and map is awesome!

What happened? Most Widgets yanked from Carplay.

Not cool paying for a subscription and then without warning lose functionality after latest app update. No reason stated other than saying some ( really many ) widgets are no longer available on carplay. After I finally got my gauge cluster set up with widgets and parameters I updated the app this morning and then all but like 3 widgets total ( range, status and compass ) are now available in carplay. All the rest including many available parameters are only available on your phone now. Please bring back all the widgets and parameters that were originally available on carplay when I started to subscribe.
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Response from developer

Hi! Please email me at support@clutch.engineering to look into this.

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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.