Driver's Road vs TeCluster for Tesla
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Driver's Road
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Driver's Road turns your smartphone into a feature-rich vehicle dashboard. CUSTOMIZABLE WIDGETS Freely arrange speedometers (digital, analog, 7-segment), compass, G-force meter, GPS status, odometer, road info, and clock widgets on your screen. Resize, reorder layers, and save up to three layouts โ rename, duplicate, or delete them anytime. THEMES Choose between dark and light modes, or create your own custom theme for comfortable viewing day or night. You can also set a photo from your camera roll as the dashboard background, with opacity, blur, and tint controls to keep widgets readable. Each layout keeps its own background. MY GARAGE Register your car with its specs โ model, year, color โ and a photo. The photo you register can be used as the background of your dashboard or your share cards. DRIVING LOG Start with one tap and Driver's Road tracks your route, distance, speed, and altitude โ recording continues even while the app is in the background. Review past drives on a map with speed and altitude graphs. Top speed and average speed are calculated automatically for each drive, ready to show on the detail screen and on share cards. Each log automatically records the names of the places where your drive started and ended, making it easy to find a drive in the list. All logs are stored on your device. PERIODIC REPORTS See your drives summed up by week and by month: distance, time, and number of drives, plus a map of every route you covered in that period. Each report compares with the previous period and exports as one image. ACHIEVEMENTS Unlock achievements by hitting milestones โ total distance, recording streaks, seasonal and time-of-day challenges. Where you drive counts too: the prefectures and municipalities you pass through, and the national routes and expressways you cover. A map of all 47 prefectures fills in as you go and can be shared as an image. New unlocks appear right after a drive and can become share cards. LIVE MAP Watch your route draw itself in real time as you drive. A dedicated full-screen map shows your current position, heading, and the track you have covered so far. Open it any time, not only while recording, and start or stop a recording straight from the map. SHARE CARD Turn a finished drive, a periodic report, or an achievement you unlocked into an image worth sharing. Pick a background from your photos, a bundled design, a map of your route, or a solid color, and swipe between photo, info, and map presets. Cards support 9:16, 4:5, and 1:1, and you choose which details appear and where. Save it to your camera roll or post it straight to social media. DRIVE DATA RECORDING Record GPS, accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer data in CSV format for post-drive analysis. SENSOR FUSION Combines multiple sensors for accurate heading and attitude estimation, smoother and more stable than GPS alone. ROAD INFO The Road Info widget displays nearby road names and route numbers. The same road data drives the location achievements, so while the app is open your current location is sent to the OpenStreetMap Overpass API (and its public mirrors) to look it up. Only the coordinates of that moment are sent โ the app itself does not store or share your location. PRIVACY FIRST Get started instantly โ no account required. Your location leaves your device only for the road lookups behind Road Info and the road achievements (Overpass API), for place names in your logs and the area achievements (the OS's built-in reverse geocoding), and for a share card's map background (Mapbox). Your driving data stays on your device and is never sent unless you share it. Photos of your car and the backgrounds you pick are processed on your device only. SAFETY Shows a safety notice on first launch. Please have a passenger operate the app while driving. LANGUAGES English and Japanese.
TeCluster for Tesla
Enhance your Tesla driving experience with a digital cluster and navigation features on your iPhone. Stream car vitals, use your favorite navigation apps, and receive alerts, all without needing a Tesla Connected plan for basic functions.
- Digital instrument cluster display
- Integration with Google Maps, Waze, Apple Maps
- Car vitals streaming (speed, battery, tires)
- Speed camera alerts
- Vehicle controls (lock, charge port, etc.)
- A/C After-blow feature
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Set a destination in your Tesla. Your favorite nav app opens on your iPhone. Automatically. Google Maps ยท Waze ยท Apple Maps Model 3 and Y have no cluster. Now your iPhone is one. No more glancing at the center screen to check your speed. Speed, gear, power and regen, battery, range, tire pressures โ streamed straight from the car over Bluetooth, several times a second. No server in the middle to slow it down. Your nav app. Or ours. - Built-in navigation: Map and gauges on one screen. Miss a turn? It reroutes in seconds. - The app you already use: Waze, Google Maps or Apple Maps opens full screen with your destination already entered. Tap the Lock Screen card to jump back to the cluster. Find it on your iPhone. It's waiting in the car. The destination goes straight to your Tesla's navigation โ one tap on the car's screen and you're on your way. If the car is asleep, it shows up the moment the car wakes up. No warranty worries. Nothing an update can brick. Works where your signal doesn't. Cloud apps ask Tesla's servers. We ask the car. Your car's vitals, at a glance. Car Checkup checks each tire against your car's own recommended pressure and keeps an eye on battery health and software updates. When something looks different from usual, it tells you what to do. No need to open the Tesla app. One tap on the cluster. Doors, frunk, trunk, charge port, windows, Sentry, Dog Mode. Connected plan. Works near the car, over Bluetooth. Car Wash Mode, mirror folding and seat adjustment aren't possible โ Tesla doesn't offer commands for them. Why does your A/C smell musty? Running the A/C leaves the evaporator wet. Park, and that moisture just sits there, which is how you get mold and that mildew smell. Once you walk away, After-blow runs the fan for 1, 3 or 5 minutes to dry it out. No more switching off the A/C a few minutes before you arrive. Speed cameras? You'll get a heads-up. About 49,000 cameras in 10 countries. Start free. Upgrade anytime. Free (US$0 ยท forever) - Instrument cluster โ speed, gear, power, battery, range, tires - Car-to-phone destination hand-offs โ 20 a month - Turn-by-turn on your iPhone, or in the nav app you already use - Speed camera alerts - My Car Info, night mode, charging screen Connected (monthly or yearly subscription ยท billed from day one) - Unlimited destination sync โ car to phone and phone to car - Car Checkup โ tires, battery health, software updates - Vehicle Controls โ lock, doors, frunk, trunk, charge port, windows, Sentry, Dog Mode - After-blow โ dries out the A/C after you park - Turn signals on the cluster Want to try first? Start a 7-day trial in the app with your Tesla account โ no payment info, then back to Free. Prices vary by country. Cancel anytime in iOS Settings. What you'll need. - An iPhone on iOS 17 or later (iPhone XS or newer). - The cluster, navigation and speed-camera alerts work right away โ open the app and tap โStart right awayโ. No sign-in, no VIN. - A Bluetooth key, paired once in the car with your key card when you connect. Needs car software 2024.38 or later. Works with every Model 3 and Model Y, plus Model S and Model X (2021 and newer). - A Tesla account is optional. Sign in and pick your car from the list, or just enter the VIN if you'd rather not sign in. - Tesla sign-in and the virtual key are needed only for the Connected plan โ Tesla requires that key to send status while the car is far away. - Location access for navigation: โWhile Using the Appโ with Precise Location on. - One thing the app can't do: start or cancel the car's navigation. Tesla only allows that on the car's screen. Tesla, Model 3, Model Y, Model S and Model X are trademarks of Tesla, Inc. Other app names and icons are trademarks of their respective owners. TeCluster is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by them. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tecluster.org/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Driver's Road at none against TeCluster for Tesla's 2. Driver's Road also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). TeCluster for Tesla's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 2 weeks). On price 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
Both are free to download. TeCluster for Tesla sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Driver's Road asks for nothing beyond the download.
Driver's Road ships an update every 2 weeks, TeCluster for Tesla daily. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Driver's Road | TeCluster for Tesla |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | โ | 100.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Daily โ better |
| Ads | No โ better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No โ better | Yes |
| Monetization | โ | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 โ better | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daiki Nakano | Joung Hoon Lee |
In-app purchases
Driver's Road
No in-app purchases
TeCluster for Tesla
- Connected (Monthly)7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Connected (Yearly)7 Days trial$19.991 Year
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