Pelican: Automotive assistant appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Pelican is 75 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Pelican User Reviews

Name: Pelican: Automotive assistant
Rating: 4 (78 reviews)

Pelican: Automotive assistant

Fearless design, LLC

🔧 Utilities

🗺️ Navigation

Customer Experience

Positive experience67.3% of reviews

Neutral14.3% of reviews

Negative experience18.4% of reviews

~ Based on 49 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Pelican Safe?

Pelican: Automotive assistant appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Pelican is 78/100.

This assessment is based on 78 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4/5.

Safety Analysis

71.8% of ratings point to a safe experience

10.3% of ratings suggest some concerns

17.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 78 App Store ratings for Pelican.

Is Pelican Legit?

Pelican: Automotive assistant appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Pelican is 75/100.

Based on 75 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

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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.

pjgardner

3 months ago

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

Stylofication

4 months ago

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.

rleedyii

4 months ago

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

stu licious

4 months ago

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.

sean-sull

4 months ago

Such a cool app!

I love this app, everything regular CarPlay lacks Sidecar provides. It’s such an underrated app that makes having CarPlay so much more enjoyable.

Zanejabbia

5 months ago

Has potential, but check compatibility first

There’s a lot of promise from this app, but so far my experience has been very mixed. Currently I use the BMW app for trip statistics/vehicle status, Waze or AppleMaps for my daily nav/traffic mitigation, and a couple OBD2 apps for scanning and live telemetry. This app would potentially be a godsend, combining all the above into one, customizable, CarPlay compatible, interface.

But alas, my vehicle is not yet fully supported and there is no telling how long I’ll have to wait.

Top that off with the fact that, so far, I’ve found that, yes the app is full of features, but It doesn’t really excel at any of them. Or at least not enough to sway me away from the other apps I’m currently using. The CarPlay interface and navigation has also been a bit buggy so I’ve ended up running the app on my phone (to test trip logging) and just using other navigation.

Hopefully someday I’ll come back and give it another shot

WyldStallyn89

6 months ago

Best automotive app EVER

sean-sull

7 months ago

Best app out there to connect to your OBD2 scanner

Does so much already and developer is very active and responsive to questions and ideas.

Felkor79

8 months ago

Finally a do-it-all navigation app

I do a lot of driving in my crosstrek, I’ve wanted a way to watch temperatures of various parts of my car. Sidecar lets me see tire pressure, oil temp and engine coolant temp all while navigating. It’s clean and responsive. Also 100% the fastest route finding app. It tries to find a route before you even finish typing the address. Also rerouting is literally instant. I don’t know what kind of magic is behind the scenes, but 10/10 recommend trying it out.

Jacob Estep

8 months ago

Good improvement on Apple Maps

I use this app in my vehicles, connected via a Bluetooth ODB scanner. Sets up quickly and works fine. As much as I like Apple Maps this lets you add useful custom widgets to the display. Developer is working hard and frequently releasing updates. Purchased the lifetime license, happy with the app.

scottjl

8 months ago

Suddenly closing

When I open start a navigation, it suddenly closes the app. It is also the same on CarPlay.

Whao282

8 months ago

still need improvement

I belive what would make users use this app even more would be fixing the search bar on the maps section. you always have to paste an address and most of the time it takes you somewhere else.

qcere

8 months ago

Best app for CarPlay period

Anyone that loves driving will love Sidecar!

Siddharth Natamai

8 months ago

Cool features - complicated

I think the app is awesome and super cool. I don’t really understand how to add a vehicle and frankly don’t want to share my cars vin in an app. BUT And I cannot express how much I enjoy this- SATELLITE MAPS. Google Maps has it, but the quality is so bad. Literally is the best. Maybe add traffic lines also!

birk2009

8 months ago

Good but Not Good Enough

Unlike Google maps or Waze, this app, Sidecar does not show speed limits or the speed you’re driving. This is a known deficiency in Apple Maps and until Apple institutes a speedometer and speed limit notification in its Maps app Sidecar is really useless. Unfortunately, it’s pretty good but lacking. So until Apple adds those features, I will continue to use either Waze or Google maps as my primary navigation choice .

Scott 'n NJ

8 months ago

Response from developer

Hi there! Sidecar isn’t Apple Maps, and our speed limits come from our partnership with OpenStreetMaps, which sometimes is missing speed limit data on a street. If the data is missing we highly encourage contributing updates back to OSM so that everyone can benefit from more accurate data :)

Total waste of money

The developer has plugged this app in forums, Reddit, and websites to build up a hype bubble they burst quickly.

It is not a bad idea, but the app is way overpriced and it shows so much pointless data. I mean, does anyone really need a constant view of tyre pressure?

CRCR--CRCR

10 months ago

Response from developer

Sorry you feel this way :( Sidecar is still a pretty new app, and I take feedback pretty seriously. Your comment gets your frustration across, but doesn’t give me any specific feedback I can take action on so I’m saddened that I can’t make this better. You can always reach me directly at jeff@clutch.engineering. Wishing you well.