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Sidecar

Your personal automotive assistant

Stay in tune with your carboth on and off the road

Download Sidecar from the App Store
Sidecar running on an iPhone with features like battery history and trip efficiency statistics

Focus on the journey

Let Sidecar do the rest

Sidecar's vehicle screen, Porsche Taycan with 88% charge, battery history widget and recent trip details
Read tire pressure from your Apple Watch See the state of multiple vehicles on your Apple Watch Run commands for Connected Accounts from your Apple Watch

Features at a glance

OBD plug required

Easy to understand OBD diagnostics

Unlock your car's data.

Read diagnostic information from your car

Thoughtfully accessible

Optimized for your needs.

Dark Mode Dynamic Type Accessible by design

iCloud sync

Sync your private data securely via iCloud
Sync across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch
Trip logging

All day trip logs

Sync across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch

Detailed trip statistics and widgets

Charts and graphs

Personalize your driving experience with customizable widgets.

Intuitive trip statistics created automatically
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Recalls

Recall notices

Stay aware of vehicle safety issues.

Documents

Document storage

Digitize your glovebox with on-device intelligence.

Powerful OBD terminal

Inline results and details help you navigate your car's diagnostics.

OBD plug required
Run OBD commands on the terminal
Apple CarPlay

OBD + CarPlay = 🎉

Navigate with CarPlay Read diagnostic information from CarPlay

Trip Logger & OBD Scanner

Effortless journey history & detailed statistics

Sidecar's trip logger shows historical trip information
Optimized daily use

Heavily optimized for all-day use

Intelligent trip detection

Intelligently detects when trips begin and end

Trip economy

Tracks historic trip economy statistics

OBD scanning

Connects to your OBD scanner for detailed logs

Maintenance Minder

Take care of your car so it can take care of you

Recall notices

Recalls delivered straight to your phone

Maintenance schedule

Stay on top of your maintenance schedule

Recall notices are currently only supported in the USA

Maintenance schedules require Connected Accounts (Beta)

Sidecar delivers full recall notices to your phone

Available plans

Download Sidecar from the App Store

Free

Basic features

  • Simulated vehicles

  • Offline vehicles

  • Vehicle issues

  • Vehicle recalls

  • Test Connected Accounts

  • 30 seconds free OBD scanning

ScanPass

On demand OBD

  • Great for quick diagnostics

  • Pay as you need it

  • 70+ standard PIDs

  • Growing community of

    Extended PIDs

24 hours: $0.99 USD

1 week: $4.99 USD

Subscription

Unlock all features

  • Trip logger

  • Recall notices

  • Document scanner

  • Historical statistics

  • OBD scanning

  • Storage mode

  • Widgets

  • Live Activities

  • Siri Shortcuts

  • Connected Accounts (Beta)

$6.99 USD/month

2-week free trial

Sidecar is deeply integrated with iOS features

Deeply Integrated

Make the best use of your connected devices

Accessible

Accessibility

Siri shortcuts

Siri shortcuts

Apple watch

Watch app

Live Activities

Live Activities

Complications

Complications

Widgets

Widgets

Watch complications

Community Knowledge Base

Discuss common issues and share OBD parameters

Creative commons

Creative commons licensed

Forums

Join discussions in the forums

Participate

Participate in the community

Community features require a GitHub account

github.com/OBDb
Sidecar's community is open to the public
Sidecar is deeply integrated with iOS features

Thoughtfully Accessible

Designed to meet a wide range of needs

Dynamic Type

Dynamic Type

Bold Text

Bold Text

Dark Mode

Dark Mode

VoiceOver

VoiceOver

Intelligent Glovebox

Secure document scanning with on-device vision

Scan and import documents

Scan and import documents

Automatic extraction

Automatically extracts dates, VINs, and barcodes

Scan and import documents
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Sidecar

Take it for a spin with a 2 week free trial

Download Sidecar from the App Store