Fuelly Reviews

Warning this review is meant for nitpicky people such as myself if anyone thinks they fit this description I hope it is helpful for them
I have a couple of problems with Fuelly I have used it for years I have the premium version and with the premium version I have lost pictures pending transactions of gas just because I have left the Avenue sometimes I’ve had to start all the way over to get Fuelly to work I’ve been trying to reach Support about this issue but it seems that the developer doesn’t do anything more with Fuelly if I can start all over I would pick someone else To support but I’ve been using it for so long and pretty much is what it is for me buyer beware is our sometimes does not load properly actually requires Internet connection to calculate such a simple purpose

Update 2: Apparently we are at the end of the troubleshooting stage for finding out why notifications are not working for Fuelly . What was suggested to fix it? ‘Delete and redownload Fuelly . Oh, that didn’t work? Nothing else we can do.’ My impression: we don’t know or care enough to actually sort out your issue. I asked if they were going to do anything else we can do to try and resolve the problem, but they said this is all they can think of. Also, as a response to the developers ‘check your spam folder’ comment. I check my spam folder every day. I never received a response to my first request for help on this issue. Thanks.

Update: After going to their website and submitting a request for feedback to another product, I was directed to submit through Fuelly . After that I did receive a reply.

There is hardly any access to control settings within Fuelly . It has an option to provide feedback in Fuelly , it uses your email but I have tried many times and never heard anything back. I do not see an option to see how long I have remaining for my subscription, I thought this was a decent product and wanted to support that, but it now seems I was incorrect. One of my biggest issues is that the notifications for service reminders do not work on Fuelly , I only see that it hasn’t told me when logging into the desktop/web version to read the forums for a solution. Not acceptable.

Have been using Fuelly since Verizon got the iPhone and it was called Gas Cubby. Paid for the paid version. Just updated it while mass updating all my other apps. Fuelly used to take care of everything conveniently and locally right on the phone. Now when I launch Fuelly it demands a login and will not allow me to see my many years of data without creating an account. This is not what I agreed to when I paid for Fuelly . Now I am unable to restore Fuelly to its previous functionality. There is no need for my information including my cars make, model, VIN number, service history and how much I paid for service to be stored on their servers when it was backed up on my personal computer using iTunes. I never agreed to allow them to have access to my automotive data when I purchased this years ago. Now my access to my own data is gated behind my compliance with their restrictions. I recommend you do not buy Fuelly and I will not be creating an account with them. My years of data entry and personal information is now lost to me and in their possession.

What on earth have you done with your app?!!?? You’ve destroyed it. I am so angry with your app and your company. I have been using your app as a paid customer since the first version of Gas Cubby (before it became this app). Once you changed Fuelly to this app, your app has gone down the tubes.

Recently, I discovered my password no longer worked and I have had to register a new password for the third time. Syncing constantly stalls and fails. I’m constantly forced to log in. And today, after having to re-register for a third time (and being greeted with what appears to be a phishing pop-up ad on your website), I learned that your app and server have not recorded any of my entries since March 2016. More than a year of data has been lost including major service I had on my car.

You have the temerity to push me to upgrade without showing what benefits doing so would offer. I’m furious. Pencil and paper would be more effective than your app. Consider me to be an ex-customer.

I paid for Fuelly quite a while back and all of its features and loved using it. But it became obvious that they wanted me to pay more when Fuelly started having pop ups to add on a monthly subscription fee. I would always decline and continued using Fuelly . Now the location services are disabled and it requires a subscription to use that feature. It won’t be long before the entire app is unusable despite paying for it.

That is like going to the store and buying a vacuum cleaner under the understanding that it will work until it gives out. Instead, while it is still working, the vacuum salesman shows up and says they are disabling the vacuum unless you pay them more and that they could care less the circumstances of your previous payment.

Shady. I partially blame Apple for letting this practice go on. I can understand if this app stops with updates due to additional costs but not changing what I have already purchased.

I have used Fuelly for years. All of a sudden today’s update removed one of my two vehicles and introduced ads so intrusive that I could barely navigate it to try to see what records I actually had left. I finally bite the bullet and subscribed for a year just so I could work with it enough without ads to figure out what was going on. The ads were ridiculously intrusive! I have spent hours re-building my data records and in reading other’s reviews I now see that probably I could have been grandfathered into Fuelly without a forced subscription. I am now pretty discouraged from continuing my use of it, and I am not in the least bit happy about a forced yearly subscription for an app that I had already been using for years! You can count me as a very unhappy subscriber. I didn’t ask for new bells and whistles. I was quite happy with it as it used to be. This is not the way to treat your users.

I purchased Fuelly before it was named this app and before the owner instituted a subscription model. It worked then and works now quite well as a fuel and auto maintenance tracker. -1 Star: Unfortunately, when it converted to this app, some of the options were not afforded to those whose previously purchased Fuelly and instead require and on-going subscription. While I find that frustrating as a user who already invested the advertised price into Fuelly, I get the capitalistic nature of the subscription model for app developers and their overhead for continuous development. - 1 Star: My main annoyance with this app is its regular advertising for premium subscription-based features upon app startup. I’m not even trying to access those features. I get interrupted using the features I’ve already paid for with the ads to pay for more. Makes me want to find another app, but I’ve got so much history with this app that it would be time-consuming to migrate elsewhere. The the this app devs: if you’re listening, please remove the apps that get in the way of non-premium features and please consider giving premium features to those who bought your app before you went to the subscription model.

First of all, it’s the best app to track vehicle fuel and maintenance costs. However, there’s no real competition and the bar is low. It seems like Fuelly has been forgotten about.

My biggest gripe is choosing the date of the entry. There’s no calendar, and no way to select the year, month or day individually. You have to scroll through all the dates. I’m trying to enter receipts all the way back to 2017 and it’s been taking an eternity.

The second thing I’d like to see is more graphs for tracking fuel. The only graph at the moment seems to be MPG on the fill up date. I’d like to see MPG at certain mileages as well. Maybe a few other graphs/layouts, but I can’t think of anything else right now.
Edit: another graph could be price of gas at each date, or price of gas at each mileage.

Also, a lot of cars track engine hours and average speeds for each tank. It’d be nice to have a few other things to be able to enter on each fill up. This wouldn’t even clog up the entry form because you can select/unselect items you want to track.

All in all, it feels outdated. If you try to find information on what the premium subscription gets you, it brings you to a page that was last updated in 2019, and it doesn’t even tell you. Premium IS worth it though. $7.99/year is affordable and I definitely wanted to be able to upload pictures.

I've been using Fuelly for a very long time and loved it, to the point that I actually bought it I believe to eliminate the ads. Before the latest update, I noticed the ads came back. It was annoying but at least I can still use Fuelly . The latest update the developer decided to add something new and the same time, asking for more money as a subscription to continue using Fuelly , otherwise Fuelly is useless.
There should be an option for those who wants to use the new added features with subscription and for those who just wats to continue using Fuelly without new added features and no subscription.
Don't waste your money, Fuelly is now a rip-off!

I’ve been using Fuelly for years now... long before it was taken over by this app (can’t remember the old name, but remember the wooden looking logo). Anyway, Fuelly has helped tremendously in tracking the true cost of ownership of many of my cars, and I’m therefore pretty anal about entering the info for accurate results.

Herein lies the flaw... due to the new format, and it’s need to sync (to what?), the last time I opened it I noticed a sync error on one of the entries from my last road trip. It said duplicate entry and, after toggling between the two I saw that it was right. I went into edit and hit delete. Nothing happened. I did it again. Now BOTH entries are gone! The problem is that there is now no way to put one back, and my 24-27 average mpg vehicle is now showing a best of 61 mpg! My world has not ended, but I will never have an accurate account of this vehicle now as a result. There should be some way to insert a missed record, but there isn’t. Even though I can change the date, the “last mileage” is always the true last one recorded, and is blocked out from editing, so inserting one would jack up the history even more. This is something that needs addressed by the developer. Otherwise, this was a 5 Star app. 😞

Fuelly is the best fuel tracker around. It doesn't suffer the major weakness of almost every other app in that any user can update any vehicle. This solves a major problem for any family where the person stuck filling it up isn’t the regular driver. As soon as Fuelly syncs the other users see the same data. In addition, if you choose to do so, you can enter service and maintenance. For those reviews that have complained about how much personal/vehicle Info is requested...don’t enter it. I couldn’t be more pleased. One addition I would like to see is a cost per mile including maintenance not just fuel.

For the past 3 years (I have paid for premium for 8 years) I paid for premium but Fuelly denies the subscription. I previously contacted customer service and they confirmed and provided access. Not sure why it happens right after renewal but this last time, after 3 tries, customer service is silent. They accept payment but will not provide the premium service. I guess it’s time to move on to another app that provides services I pay for. App has been great but I’m not going to provide charity to the developers.

Mine would be a five star rating – – EXCEPT for the following: I don’t want the subscription version. When I originally purchased this app {after numerous software updates and name changes from the previous version (I can’t even remember what it was called)}, the subscription version was not an option. Had I known the software app was going to morph into a subscription situation, I would have never purchased it in the first place. Please stop badgering me every other time I open MY PAID FOR version of this app asking me if I want to upgrade. I don’t want the subscription version.

Fuelly is very good at tracking fuel economy, and basic maintenance/repairs. It has a few quirks that I don’t like, like asking you if you missed a fuel up if you put more fuel in the tank than your average fuel up. Overall it does it’s job well. The website is not all that easy to use in conjunction with Fuelly . However, 99% of the time I use Fuelly anyhow. I highly recommend Fuelly to anyone who is nerdy enough to want to keep track of their fuel economy. It beats the pants off of the old “notepad in the glove box” method. Over the past few years I’ve stated using it to track my maintenance too, and it’s pretty convenient to have everything in one spot.

First off-I love Fuelly . Started using on my old F250 Diesel. Then, I bought a new one 3 years shop and have everything done on the truck recorded

My iPhone started playing up, so I bought the iPhone 15 and migrated everything across. When I go into this app on new phone, it recognized a new device and logged me out of this app. Although the subscription shows up in ‘settings’, Fuelly wants me to login using an email address. Unfortunately it’s been do long that I don’t even remember using an email address-thought logged on using apple-id.

How do I transfer to new device?

Every time I try to enter data Fuelly asked me to pay up! Despite having a monthly subscription, I even contacted Fuelly people and they said they would fix it, nope! Didn’t do it, ok it’s only 99c but they......... well, I’ve had enough, there are plenty of similar apps out there, I’ll give them a go!...
Still asking to subscribe to what I've subscribed to, every month same old story, but at least its...... No, there isn't a plusI tried to unsubscribe but that's Impossible, I guess I'll have to change banks, that'll fix me.
Watch this space for the continuing story. My advice? Dont touch it, get a responsible app.

I like the general use of Fuelly . I use it to track my Government Vehicle as well as my personal motorcycle and truck. I have learned the hard way that if you take a picture of your receipt, there is no way to retrieve it even if you go to this app online. I now use Adobe Scan add it to Fuelly as a PDF and I also keep it in a file in adobe on my phone. I haven’t been on in a while, but I don’t think you can print or specify certain reports to print for your vehicles. I do wish the online interface was better so I could print certain things or be able to pull the info into a spreed sheet like excel. Don’t get me wrong the general use of tracking services, mileage, parts, overall costs and all it dose its job. You just have to do a little more work if you actually need to put the info your are tracking into a report or file.

I have used Fuelly since before it was bought up and was called acar. I love Fuelly but even more now. I recently lost my phone and got a new one. After installing Fuelly on the new phone I had to gas up. I went to enter my fill up info and realized the new app had no history. I was so mad at myself because I had not backed up my data in over a year. When I went into the settings I saw the option to sync my data and thought let’s see what happens. Well it synced up and all my data was there, right up to my last fill up and I was up and running in no time, all I can say is WOW!!!!! I am even more impressed with Fuelly than I was already, best mileage/service tracking app on the planet, bar none.

I’ve been using this app to track my new Impreza’s fuel economy for the last few months. With previous cars, I always just assumed what my car reported was pretty close to actual. With my Impreza, I wanted the extra layer of “double-check” to compare against, especially since I’ll be keeping it as long as it lasts.

Enter this app. This little app is super easy to use and has the added bonus of automatically pushing updates to this app’s website where other users can compare results. I’ve already recommended it to several other people, including my family.

That said, if you’re looking for a paperless MPG tracker that has a free version with all of the basic features you’re likely to need, you owe it to yourself to check Fuelly out!

I’ve been using this app (and the predecessor) for many, many years. The only time there was ever a glitch it was 100% resolved without the loss of any data. I have used this app over the course of owning 3 different vehicles and when it came time to sell; I printed out all my data for any prospective buyer. In every case I was able to make hundreds, even thousands of dollars extra because the data is so very impressive. It verifies that I am a responsible person that cares about the fluids and services in regard to my vehicles. It’s the best vehicle app I’ve ever used.