Comparison

loadmate vs OBD Tally

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

loadmate

This app helps caravan owners calculate towing weights to ensure safe and legal journeys. It offers smart load adjustments, weight distribution insights, and professional compliance checks for peace of mind on the road.

Highlights
  • Caravan & towing weight calculator
  • Smart load adjustments
  • Road trip planning
  • Weight distribution insights
  • Professional compliance checks
  • Intuitive design
Features
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Every trip starts with the same quiet question: are we under our ratings, and how do we actually know? loadmate answers it with one number. RigScore checks your whole rig, truck, trailer and everything you load, against your weight ratings and shows a 0–100 score with the working shown. Green means your numbers sit inside every rating. Anything less shows you what's over and what moves it, in plain language. Built on the numbers that matter in North America: GVWR, GCWR, GAWR, payload, tongue weight and pin weight, the same terms as your door placard and your scale ticket. WHAT'S IN THE APP Can I Tow It? Free for everyone. Shopping for a travel trailer, fifth wheel or tow vehicle? Enter the specs and see whether the combination works before you sign anything. No account needed. Your rig, profiled once. Truck and trailer specs, dry weights and ratings, hitch position, storage zones. Set it up once and the system runs underneath every screen. Cargo, where it actually rides. Assign gear to storage zones in the trailer and the truck. loadmate works out tongue weight and axle loads from where things sit, not just what they weigh. See the change before you make it. Shift 50 lb from the truck bed to the front compartment and watch tongue weight, axle loads and your RigScore move, before you touch a thing. Weigh-ins that stick. Pull onto a truck-stop scale once, enter the figures, and your baselines update. The score's confidence reflects how current your data is. Tire intelligence. Pressures, age and load margins are watched in the background and raised only when they matter. Maintenance, warranty and trips. Service items, warranty coverage and trip planning stay connected to the same rig profile, so nothing is tracked twice. Exceeding your ratings can complicate warranty claims, loadmate keeps your numbers where you can see them. More than one rig. A travel trailer and a boat, or two tow vehicles, switch setups and everything re-scopes. DESIGNED FOR PEOPLE WHO TOW Plain language, big touch targets, nothing buried two menus deep. If you currently run your weights on a spreadsheet, this will feel like an upgrade, not a learning curve. FREE AND PRO Free: the full Can I Tow It? research tool, plus a complete demo rig so you can explore every feature with realistic numbers. Pro: your own rig, live RigScore, cargo tracking, weigh-ins, simulation, tires, maintenance, warranty and trips. One annual subscription, no tiers. Current pricing is always shown on this page and in the app. Auto-renews unless canceled in your App Store account settings at least 24 hours before the period ends. SUPPORT Questions to hello@loadmate.io Privacy policy: https://loadmate.io/privacy Terms of use: https://loadmate.io/terms

About

OBD Tally

Features
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OBD Tally is a customisable OBD-II dashboard, data logger, and diagnostics companion created by a Ford Everest V6 owner and shared for other drivers and enthusiasts. A built-in browser for community vehicle profiles from the OBDb project now lets it work with a far wider range of makes and models. Built for and tested with the Veepeak OBDCheck BLE+ scanner. It may also work with other ELM327-compatible Bluetooth Low Energy adapters, but compatibility cannot be guaranteed across every vehicle, adapter, or ECU. Connect to your vehicle to view live sensor data, build personalised dashboards, monitor important values, investigate diagnostic trouble codes, and record drives for later review. Make the dashboard your own • Create multiple dashboard pages for different driving or diagnostic situations. • Choose from gauges, graphs, bars, numeric readouts, temperature displays, and status indicators. • Configure names, units, ranges, colours, warning levels, and critical thresholds. • Add low-value alerts for parameters such as fuel level or pressure. • Apply value smoothing to reduce noisy readings. • Replace raw values with custom labels—for example, transmission positions. • Choose compact or expanded tile layouts. Choose from a large library of vehicle profiles Browse and import profiles from the open-source OBDb repository, a community-maintained collection of signal definitions for a large variety of makes and models. Pick your vehicle, import its profile, and start viewing manufacturer-specific data without building anything by hand. Combine multiple profiles on one vehicle and edit any profile or PID afterwards. A default Ford Everest V6 3.0L profile is also included. Manufacturer-specific data varies by model, year, engine, ECU calibration, and market, so review and validate imported PID definitions against your own vehicle. Community profiles may be incomplete. Can't find your vehicle? Use the AI prompt generator to prepare a detailed prompt for creating a vehicle-specific CSV template. Paste it into your preferred AI assistant, review the result, and import the CSV. You can also import profile files directly. Record and review your drives • Interactive charts and sparklines. • Route and location information when location recording is enabled. • Trip summaries and individual data-point inspection. • Configurable recording intervals and PID selection. • Session archiving, backup, restore, and optional iCloud synchronisation. Alerts, diagnostics, and CarPlay Create alert rules for the values you care about and see warning or critical conditions on your dashboard. Read and view diagnostic trouble codes reported by the vehicle. CarPlay provides a simplified view of selected live data, alerts, connection status, and recording controls where supported. Built by an enthusiast OBD Tally is not professional workshop software, a certified diagnostic platform, or a replacement for qualified mechanical advice. OBD-II values—particularly manufacturer-specific PIDs and calculated results—may be incomplete, unsupported, or inaccurate depending on the vehicle and adapter. Always validate important readings independently, and never configure or operate the app while driving. Vehicle profile data courtesy of the OBDb community (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Screenshots

loadmate4 screens
OBD Tally4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: OBD Tally at none against loadmate's 1. loadmate's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.4). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. loadmate sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per year. OBD Tally asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

loadmate ships an update every 3 days, OBD Tally every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
loadmate versus OBD Tally: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterloadmateOBD Tally
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.4
Further details — not scored
Size107 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer4Thought RV Pty LtdTHOMAS L JANUS

In-app purchases

1 purchases

loadmate

Subscriptions1
  • loadmate Pro Annual$19.991 Year
None

OBD Tally

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is loadmate free?
loadmate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is OBD Tally free?
OBD Tally is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do loadmate or OBD Tally have ads?
Neither loadmate nor OBD Tally shows ads.
Which is updated more often, loadmate or OBD Tally?
loadmate ships an update every 3 days, and OBD Tally every 5 days. Most recently, loadmate was updated on November 3, 2026 and OBD Tally on October 31, 2026.

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