AutoPulse vs OBD2 Logger

Know what your car is doing - and why. AutoPulse pairs with a cheap Bluetooth ELM327 adapter and turns your iPhone into a live dashboard, a fault-code reader that speaks plain English, and a drive analyzer. Stop guessing at the check engine light • Read stored, pending and permanent trouble codes • Every code comes with a real description — "Cylinder 1 Misfire", not just "P0301" • 9,000+ codes explained, fully offline, English and French • See the freeze-frame data from when the fault triggered • Clear codes once you've fixed it Live engine data • RPM, coolant temperature, intake air, throttle, fuel trims, O2 sensors and more, updating in real time • Record a session and replay it later Every drive, measured • GPS route map, speed-colored • 0–100 km/h / 0–60 mph acceleration times with a confidence rating • Peak braking, acceleration and cornering g-force • Distance, average and top speed, engine highlights, fuel-use estimate • Personal records that only count clean runs • Your favorite roads and corners detected automatically — beat your own best time Private by design • No account, no sign-up • Your vehicle data never leaves your phone • Optional anonymous usage stats, one tap to turn off Needs an ELM327-compatible OBD-II Bluetooth adapter (widely available, sold separately). Compatibility depends on your vehicle.

OBD2 Logger turns your iPhone into a precision data logger for any modern car. Plug a Bluetooth ELM327 adapter into your vehicle's OBD2 port, pair it once, and stream live engine, hybrid, battery, and emissions data straight into per-session CSV files on your phone. No accounts. No cloud. No analytics. Your driving data never leaves your device. LIVE READOUT • 40+ standard SAE J1979 PIDs, automatically discovered from your car: RPM, vehicle speed, coolant temp, throttle, MAF, intake MAP, fuel trims, catalyst temperatures, and more. • Manufacturer-specific Mode 21 PIDs on profiled vehicles — including HV pack voltage, MG1/MG2 motor torque, and battery cell-block temperatures on Toyota/Lexus hybrids. • Values grouped by category (Engine, Hybrid, Battery, Emissions, Diagnostics) and updated every second. • One CSV per logging session, written into the app's Files container — open it in Numbers, Excel, pandas, DuckDB, or any other tool with no preprocessing. • Wide-table format: ISO-8601 timestamps, one column per active PID, blank cells where the ECU returned no data (no spurious forward-fill). • Smart-stop after extended idle so you don't end up with a tail of empty rows when you forget to tap Stop. WORKS IN THE BACKGROUND • Keeps logging while you drive with Maps in the foreground or the screen off, using Apple's standard background location mode for trip-tracking apps. The system location indicator is shown the entire time. We don't store your location. VEHICLE PROFILES • Ships with three profiles: a generic Mode-01 fallback, a Toyota hybrid family profile, and a 2020 Lexus RX 450h/450hL profile validated against a real vehicle. • VIN auto-read on connect; year, make, model, and trim pre-filled from NHTSA's free public vPIC API. • Import any third-party profile JSON to add coverage for your car. The format is documented and human-readable. DON'T HAVE AN ADAPTER YET? • Tap "Try demo mode" on the second onboarding step to explore the app end-to-end with synthetic data — no hardware required. WHAT YOU NEED • Any Bluetooth Low Energy ELM327 adapter (Veepeak OBDCheck BLE+, vLinker MC+, OBDLink, etc. — most BLE clones work). USB-only and Wi-Fi-only adapters are NOT supported. • A car with an OBD2 port (1996+ in the US, 2001+ in the EU). PRIVACY • Nothing is collected, transmitted, or stored on our servers — we don't have servers. The only outbound call the app ever makes is one VIN decode per vehicle to NHTSA's vPIC API. • Your CSVs and vehicle records live in the app's Files container, accessible to you in the iOS Files app under On My iPhone → OBD2 Logger. • Open source: github.com/NathanNam/obd2-logger