Comparison

Alternative Fueling Stations vs E85 Navigator

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

Head to head
About

Alternative Fueling Stations

Discover nearby fueling stations for alternative energy sources like electricity, natural gas, and biofuels. View station details, including payment options, access, and specific fuel types, all sourced from a comprehensive U.S. Department of Energy database.

Highlights
  • Locate alternative fueling stations
  • Use current or custom location
  • View stations on map or list
  • Filter by fuel type and radius
  • Access station contact and payment info
  • See details on chargers, blends, and access
Features
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The Alternative Fueling Station Locator app helps you find fueling stations that offer electricity, natural gas, biodiesel, E85, propane, or hydrogen. Use your current location or enter a custom location to find the 20 closest stations within a 30-mile radius. View the stations on a map or see a list of stations ordered by distance from your location. Select your alternative fuel of choice and adjust the custom filters to fit your needs. Select a station from the map or list to view contact info and other details: - address, phone number, and hours of operation - payment types accepted - public or private access - special services - compression (natural gas) - vehicle size access (natural gas) - number and types of chargers (electric) - blends available (biodiesel) - blender pumps (ethanol) The app draws information from the U.S. Department of Energy's Alternative Fuels Data Center, which houses the most comprehensive, up-to-date database of alternative fueling stations in the United States. The database contains location information for more than 15,000 alternative fueling stations throughout the country.

About

E85 Navigator

Find, verify, and route to E85 fuel stations worldwide. This community-driven app allows users to pinpoint locations, test ethanol content, and plan routes for daily drives or group caravans. It aims to eliminate the limitations of not knowing where E85 stations are available.

Highlights
  • Find E85 gas stations globally
  • Verify station locations
  • Test ethanol content
  • Plan custom routes
  • Build driving caravans with friends
Features
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Community Driven: Pinpoint E85 stations Verify locations for our community Test the Ethanol Content Plan your routes Build a Caravan (Drive a route with Friends) What is E85 Navigator? E85 Navigator is an app for the community to find E85 Gas Stations all over the world. The community finds locations, adds them, verifies them, and tests them. We developed this to plan routes, traveling with your race-car, or e85 fueled vehicle to do daily drives, commutes, canyon carving, caravans, or rallys. This started because we've constantly been looking for E85 stations where we live. Always communicating trying to develop lists etc. of where to go... Limiting travel and cruises because of limited knowledge of E85 gas stations. Now... We have this App... The goal is to grow, and help all E85 users find stations and not be limited anymore by knowledge, and to not be held back by not knowing where these stations are. So let us get verifying! 10 Verifications turns it green. 1-9 makes it Orange. 0 Makes it unverified!

Screenshots

Alternative Fueling Stations4 screens
E85 Navigator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Alternative Fueling Stations at 6.4K against E85 Navigator's 1. E85 Navigator's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

E85 Navigator holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Alternative Fueling Stations has 6.4K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Alternative Fueling Stations versus E85 Navigator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAlternative Fueling StationsE85 Navigator
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (6.4K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews54.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings6.4K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 25 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB188 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperNational Renewable Energy LaboratorySteven Marckstadt

Customer experience

Alternative Fueling Stations

All ratings6,416 ratings
Positive92.7%
Neutral3.4%
Negative3.9%
Written reviews98 reviews
Positive54.1%
Neutral16.3%
Negative29.6%

E85 Navigator

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Alternative Fueling Stations

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Stations listed as public are actually private
  • App crashes when accessing certain station details
  • Search results do not update when panning the map

Requested features

4 requests
  • Allow users to report closed or missing stations
  • Add ability to filter by EV connector type
  • Integrate with multiple map providers (e.g. Google Maps)
  • Display real-time fuel prices at stations

E85 Navigator

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Alternative Fueling Stations

No in-app purchases

None

E85 Navigator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Alternative Fueling Stations free?
Alternative Fueling Stations is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is E85 Navigator free?
E85 Navigator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Alternative Fueling Stations or E85 Navigator?
E85 Navigator is rated higher. Alternative Fueling Stations averages 4.7 out of 5 from 6.4K ratings, while E85 Navigator averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Alternative Fueling Stations or E85 Navigator have ads?
Neither Alternative Fueling Stations nor E85 Navigator shows ads.

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