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I"m wondering if anyone has a favorite App for recording gas milage and cost etc and why. Either for iphone or droid. Thanks Matt
 
A calculator :flipoff2:

Honestly, that's the best way I can think of to track it (since it's just basic math), unless you want something with a built-in spreadsheet so you can record your history over time.
 
I have been using a small three ring binder and then transferring to excel. I've tried two apps but they are metric so I have to transfer and do a conversion. Hoping someone has a good app suggestion that would both track gas consumption but gas prices etc. It's a nice bit of info to give a person when you sell a vehicle and I like having it.
 
aCar is a pretty complete app. It will track more than you want.. price, station#, name, brand, location. You probably will want the pay version.

I used Mileage early on for Android, but aCar seemed better. Whatever you do, make sure you can export the data to a file that you can backup or open in a spreadsheet to print if you want to do something like a binder.

I only wish they had a feature to automatically calculate % odometer difference due to tire size changes.
 
why worry about it?? if you get bad milage are you still going to drive it??? well if so who cares.. i think i get between 8-10 mpg dont really care i am still going to drive it.. take the money you are going to spend and buy gas
 
esh said:
aCar is a pretty complete app. It will track more than you want.. price, station#, name, brand, location. You probably will want the pay version.

I used Mileage early on for Android, but aCar seemed better. Whatever you do, make sure you can export the data to a file that you can backup or open in a spreadsheet to print if you want to do something like a binder.

I only wish they had a feature to automatically calculate % odometer difference due to tire size changes.
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Thanks I tried "get gas" but it was metric and the excell sheet was very crude. I just got gas cubby and it has all the features I want and seems ok. I"ll be on vacation next week we will see how it does.
 
I just started using Fuelly.com I've only filled up once so far so I don't have any long term experience with it. You can look to at vehicle type to compare your usage to similar vehicles. Just cruising around the site it seems to have promise.

It has a mobile site that renders on any phone, my experience with that that for a the first try was easy and it worked well.
 
Road trip for iPhone ain't bad. Not free but cheap.
 
Only reason I need to know my MPG's is to make sure the Cruiser is running as intended 12MPG.

If I put this into an Excel spreadsheet I would have to shoot myself. We drive gas guzzling pigs so what is the point?
 
I'm with Dan on this one. I only calc it just to make sure nothing is off. Or is that the OCD in us... hmmmmm
 
On every fuel receipt I write vehicle name, and the mileage from both the odometer and trip odometer, and reset the trip odometer. Then, if I'm curious, on the back of the receipt I do some long division to get the mileage to see if there is a significant change that needs looking into now. Later I gather the receipts up and enter them into a spread sheet for each vehicle. That helps me see the long term trends. The beauty of this method is anybody can write the odometer readings on the receipts. Once the odometer readings are on the receipt it is a matter of not loosing it before it is entered into the computer. That is easy as I keep all receipts in my wallet and unload them into the new receipts slot on my computer desk.
 
Gas Cubby review. Just did a 2k mile trip used the gas cubby app and really liked it. The interface allows you to post the station method of pay grade milage etc and has a nice export of a excel file. So far the best one. My wife likes it because she gets to call it my gas chubby.
 
esh said:
aCar is a pretty complete app. It will track more than you want.. price, station#, name, brand, location. You probably will want the pay version.

I used Mileage early on for Android, but aCar seemed better. Whatever you do, make sure you can export the data to a file that you can backup or open in a spreadsheet to print if you want to do something like a binder.

I only wish they had a feature to automatically calculate % odometer difference due to tire size changes.
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x2. I love it so much, I even stepped up and paid a few bucks for the paid version. I also use it to track maintenance on my 3 vehicles. Only thing I would like (which no android app has, when I last looked) is a way to sync multiple android phones (wife's and mine), and automatic backup to "the cloud". You can save back ups very easily to SD card or email, though.
 
firetruck41 said:
Only thing I would like (which no android app has, when I last looked) is a way to sync multiple android phones (wife's and mine), and automatic backup to "the cloud". You can save back ups very easily to SD card or email, though.
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maybe a slick way to export the file into evernote on your phones? or link the exported xls to evernote? then you'd be synced (through shared notebooks across accounts?), or at least have the current version of all files in all places. integrated together would be tough i think.
 
sl33p3 said:
maybe a slick way to export the file into evernote on your phones? or link the exported xls to evernote? then you'd be synced (through shared notebooks across accounts?), or at least have the current version of all files in all places. integrated together would be tough i think.
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I'm not smart enough to figure it out myself! :D
I have a budgeting app (Easy Envelope Budget Aid) that is synced across 2 androids and web, that is what I would love to see in a vehicle maint/fuel tracking app. It is a subscription for full features though (well worth it for the budgeting app)...
 
The Gas Cubby app I'm using actually has that feature. it's an iphone app but you log into the account and send the info to the online server that blends both phones data. I haven't tried it but the feature does exist.
 
On the iphone the best App is

Road Trip

Helps you to have a view on all costs, fuel, repairs and so on.
 
tat2matt said:
The Gas Cubby app I'm using actually has that feature. it's an iphone app but you log into the account and send the info to the online server that blends both phones data. I haven't tried it but the feature does exist.
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i have gas cubby on my iphone and the wife's iphone. been using it since Nov 09 and we love it for what it tracks (fill ups and maintenance). once you create you sync account with the app, you can sync to both phones.
 
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