Comparison

MateDrive vs EVLog

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

Head to head
About

MateDrive

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Turn the driving and charging data in TeslaMate into a clear history and insights you can understand at a glance. MateDrive is a native iPhone app for self-hosted TeslaMate users. Explore live vehicle status, drives, charging sessions, energy statistics, and trip analysis in one clean, intuitive experience. One timeline for every event Follow drives and charging sessions in chronological order to understand how your day and energy use connect. Turn numbers into useful insights The redesigned statistics dashboard reveals driving patterns, energy flow, efficiency, charging mix, and activity by time of day. Discover trips you may have missed MateDrive analyzes driving history and recommends trips you have not saved yet. Group related drives and review total distance and energy use. Live vehicle status Check battery level, estimated range, location, inside and outside temperature, tire pressure, lock status, and Sentry Mode. Detailed drive and charging records Explore route maps, speed, power and elevation charts, energy consumption, charging cost, charging speed, and battery progression. Your data stays on your server MateDrive never connects directly to Tesla servers. Vehicle data comes from your personal TeslaMate installation. Requirements - A self-hosted TeslaMate instance - Network access to your TeslaMate server Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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EVLog

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EVLog is a native iPhone client for your own TeslaMate server. It reads the data your instance has already collected โ€” drives, charges, statistics, battery health โ€” and gives it an interface built for the phone, rather than a dashboard squeezed onto a small screen. It talks only to servers you run yourself. It never connects to Tesla, there is no account to create, no service in between, and nothing leaves your network. Until a server address is in place the app runs in a built-in demo โ€” three weeks of example data โ€” so you can try every screen before you point it at your own server. A switch in Settings takes you back to the demo any time. OVERVIEW Battery ring with range, what the cable is doing right now, TeslaMate's own status glyphs โ€” preconditioning, the battery heater, open doors and windows, tyre pressure and more โ€” plus lock state, Sentry, location, inside and outside temperature, degradation, the countries the car has driven in, software version, and how long ago the car was last heard from. Degradation opens a battery page: capacity against mileage, charge by charge, and how long the pack has sat at each charge level. The car's name opens a spec sheet: model, VIN, efficiency, and with a Tessie key the car's own configuration. From here you reach a map of every place the car has been over any period you choose, on a plain map or satellite imagery, and a range map showing how far the current charge takes you โ€” using a detour factor from your own trips. TIMELINE Drives, charges and the parking in between, as one flow per day, going back as far as you choose: the last week, the last month, this year or everything. A parked row says how long the car stood and what it cost the battery. When the odometer shows the car moved while nothing was logged, the row says so instead of pretending the car stood still. Software updates get a row of their own. Swipe inside a drive or a charge to step through the day without going back to the list. DRIVES The route on a map, a speed graph you can drag along to follow the car through the trip, the elevation profile beneath it, energy and regen, consumption, and efficiency as a percentage of rated consumption. Drives where the battery heater ran are marked. CHARGES AC and DC told apart, the charging curve with a readout under your finger, added and used energy, average and peak power, cost, and what the battery heater and cabin climate drew while the car charged. A card names what set the pace: the charger, a cold battery, the heater, or a DC start above half full. A car left plugged in across several charging processes is shown as one charge. Costs TeslaMate never receives from Tesla can be filled in from Tessie, if you use it. STATISTICS Week, month, year or any span of days you pick, drilling down to a single day and its drives. Charging statistics with what charging costs in all, per kWh and per 100 km, top locations, AC/DC split, and a weekday-by-hour heat map. Destinations: where the car goes most often and where it covers the most distance, each opening into the drives behind it, weekdays against weekends, and a heat map of when you drive. Temperature and consumption: consumption grouped by outside temperature, the coldest fifth of your driving against the warmest. FREE AND OPEN SOURCE No ads, no in-app purchases, no analytics. The source is on GitHub under the MIT licence. WHAT YOU NEED Nothing, to look around โ€” the built-in demo needs no server at all. For your own data: โ€ข A running TeslaMate instance โ€ข teslamateapi reachable from your phone โ€ข Optionally Grafana, for the visited-places map, battery health and a few queries the API does not expose โ€ข Optionally a Tessie API key, only to fill in costs TeslaMate never records Light and dark, metric and imperial, costs in your own currency. This project is an unofficial community tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or supported by the official TeslaMate project.

Screenshots

MateDrive4 screens
EVLog4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: EVLog at none against MateDrive's 3. On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. MateDrive sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. EVLog asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MateDrive ships an update every 3 days, EVLog every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
MateDrive versus EVLog: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMateDriveEVLog
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 days โ€” betterEvery 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size18 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDaily PromptMartin Stockzell

In-app purchases

3 purchases

MateDrive

Subscriptions2
  • MateDrive Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
  • MateDrive Premium Yearly$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • MateDrive Premium Lifetime$19.99
None

EVLog

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MateDrive free?
MateDrive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is EVLog free?
EVLog is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do MateDrive or EVLog have ads?
Neither MateDrive nor EVLog shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MateDrive or EVLog?
MateDrive ships an update every 3 days, and EVLog every 6 days. Most recently, MateDrive was updated on October 25, 2026 and EVLog on October 29, 2026.

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