Comparison

CarTiles vs Dashly

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

Head to head
About

CarTiles

Personalize your iPhone home screen and CarPlay dashboard with customizable tiles featuring car logos, clocks, and photos. Design a unique car-focused interface for your phone and vehicle.

Highlights
  • Customizable car brand logos
  • Analog and digital clock widgets
  • Countdown and quote tiles
  • Personalized license plate designs
  • Photo tiles with background cutouts
  • AI car generation
  • Home screen and CarPlay compatibility
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Personalize your iPhone home screen and CarPlay dashboard with beautiful, customizable tiles. Make your car the focus of your phone — your way. DESIGN YOUR DASHBOARD Build widgets for your home screen and CarPlay from one place. Choose from a deep catalog of car brand logos, analog and digital clocks, countdowns, daily quotes, license plates, and photo tiles. CAR BRAND LIBRARY Show off your car. Pick from dozens of brand logos — BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Tesla, Ford, Lexus, Toyota, Audi, Lamborghini, Ferrari, and many more. WIDGETS THAT WORK EVERYWHERE Every tile you build can be placed on your home screen as a widget — and on your CarPlay dashboard, where supported. Same tile, two places. POWERFUL CUSTOMIZATION - Custom backgrounds — solid colors, gradients, your own photos, or preset images - Text layers with custom fonts, colors, and positioning - Photo cutouts — remove backgrounds and turn any car photo into a tile - AI car generation — generate any make, model, and color in seconds - Analog and digital clocks with multiple styles - Countdown tiles to any date — vacations, deliveries, milestones - Daily quotes that rotate automatically - License plate tiles with custom design and lettering Privacy Policy: https://cartiles.apronix.com/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://cartiles.apronix.com/terms.html

About

Dashly

Personalize your car's digital dashboard with custom widgets, AI-generated artwork, and animated GIFs. Create unique designs for your vehicle, add personal touches like photos and text, and even set custom sounds for driving automations.

Highlights
  • Personalized car widgets
  • AI-generated car artwork
  • GIF and video widgets
  • Customizable car sounds
  • License plate designs
  • Countdown widgets
Features
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Make your car screen yours. Dashly lets you create personalized car widgets, automotive designs, AI car artwork, GIFs, custom sounds and more for your driving setup. CREATE YOUR OWN CAR WIDGETS Build a dashboard that feels like yours. Choose your vehicle, customize the design, add logos, text, colors and personal details, then save your favorite creations to My Widgets. PERSONALIZE YOUR CAR • Vehicle Style widgets with cars, logos and custom layouts • Car logo widgets with customizable backgrounds • Custom license plate designs and plate text • AI-generated personalized car artwork • GIF and video widgets • Couple and relationship widgets • Countdown widgets for birthdays, trips and important moments • Dynamic moon phase widgets • Custom text and photo designs • Football club logo widgets • Music and vinyl-inspired widgets • Stickers, colors, fonts and multiple visual styles AI CREATE Turn your own photos into a personalized automotive design. Upload a photo of your car and a photo of yourself, and Dashly creates a custom car-themed widget artwork designed for your setup. GIFS & VIDEO Bring your widgets to life with animated content. Discover GIFs or use your own compatible media to create something more personal than a standard dashboard. CUSTOM CAR SOUNDS Make every drive feel different with customizable sounds for supported driving automations, including connection and disconnection experiences. WIDGETS FOR EVERY STYLE Go minimal, sporty, colorful, aesthetic or completely personal. Dashly includes a growing collection of templates designed around cars, photos, relationships, music, events and more. EASY TO CREATE Pick a widget, customize it and add it to your collection. Dashly keeps creation simple while giving you control over the details that matter. PREMIUM Upgrade to Dashly Pro to unlock premium customization, additional designs and advanced features. Subscriptions are managed securely through your Apple ID and can be restored from within the app. Your car is part of your everyday life. Make the screen feel like yours with Dashly. Some functionality depends on device, iOS version and supported in-car experiences. Apple and CarPlay are trademarks of Apple Inc. Dashly is an independent application and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Apple Inc. Privacy Policy: https://getdashly.app/privacy Terms of Service: https://getdashly.app/terms

Screenshots

CarTiles4 screens
Dashly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: CarTiles at 5.0 against Dashly's 1.0. CarTiles also leads on ads (none vs shown). Dashly's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. CarTiles sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Dashly sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

CarTiles holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
CarTiles versus Dashly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCarTilesDashly
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better1.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings22
Update frequency—Every 6 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size182 MB184 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperTapronixKK Ventures, UAB

Customer experience

CarTiles

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Dashly

All ratings2 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

CarTiles

Subscriptions3
  • CarTiles Weekly3 Days trial$0.997 Days
  • CarTiles Monthly$1.991 Month
  • CarTiles Yearly$9.991 Year
2 purchases

Dashly

Subscriptions2
  • Dashly Pro Weekly$3.997 Days
  • Dashly Pro Yearly$79.991 Year

Questions

Is CarTiles free?
CarTiles is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dashly free?
Dashly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, CarTiles or Dashly?
CarTiles is rated higher. CarTiles averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Dashly averages 1.0 from 2 ratings.
Do CarTiles or Dashly have ads?
Dashly shows ads; CarTiles does not.

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