30 Best Driving Apps for iPhone and Android Phones

Updated on July 2nd, 2018 by Quertime Team in Mobile

These days mobile phone is not only used for making a call or texting, there’s a lot more things to do. Thanks to the hundred of thousands of apps available on App Store and Google Play, you can almost do anything with your iPhone or Android based phones. Today we’ll be focusing on vehicle-related apps that help you to get the right direction, access to real-time traffic information, find the cheapest gas stations, and even listen to your favorite music during your drive.

Below you’ll find 30 very helpful iPhone and Android apps for better driving. Did I tell you ALL of these apps are FREE?
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Best iPhone and Android Apps for Drivers

Waze Social GPS Traffic & Gas | App Store | Google Play
Waze is a fun, community-based traffic and navigation app. With its community-generated real-time traffic, you’ll always get the best route to your destination. By simply driving around with Waze open, you’re already contributing tons real-time traffic and road info to your local driving community. You can also actively report accidents, hazards, police and other events you see on the road, get road alerts coming up on your route, and find the cheapest gas station along your route with community-shared gas prices.

GasBuddy | App Store | Google Play
GasBuddy helps you find the cheapest gas prices with one tap. Gas prices can vary by up to 20 cents per gallon or more, this app can save your money every time you fill up at the cheapest stations.

MapQuest | App Store | Google Play
MapQuest is a free voice-guided, turn-by-turn, GPS navigation app. Much like those expensive GPS units, this free app speaks to you, telling you when and where to make a turn. You can easily search for restaurants and other popular places with a single tap. Also, stay on schedule by checking live traffic en route.

Yelp | App Store | Google Play
Looking for an Irish pub nearby? A gas station you can drive to before your tank hits empty? Yelp is a cool app to help. You can use it to search for places to eat, shop, drink, relax and play then read reviews from an active community of locals in the know.

AT&T Navigator: GPS navigation | App Store | Google Play
AT&T Navigator works on both iPhone and Android phones. You must have an AT&T mobile phone number to subscribe. The app has many useful features including voice-guided GPS navigation, traffic & search, automatic map updates, one-tap traffic avoidance, navigate to the lowest gas prices, and more.

RepairPal | App Store | Google Play
Whether it’s an auto emergency, a roadside breakdown, or just a small problem, RepairPal can help. The app tells you the right price to pay for your repair, finds you a great mechanic in the area, tracks all your repairs, and gives you one-touch access to roadside assistance.

Navigon | App Store | Google Play
With Navigon you can turn your iPhone or Android phone into a fully functional mobile navigation system. Some of its features include intelligent address entry, lane assistant pro, real road sign, speed assistant with adjustable audio-visual warning, 2D and 3D map display (bird’s-eye view), route planning function, text-to-speech and many more.

Navfree GPS | App Store | Google Play
Navfree is a free GPS navigation app with no additional monthly charges. It uses map data created by a community of thousands of users around the world. Navfree features onboard maps that are stored directly onto your device so there is no need for a constant data connection whilst driving. It also allows you to browse maps anytime, anywhere without paying for data connections.

Beat the Traffic | App Store | Google Play
Beat the Traffic is another easy way to enjoy a hassle-free commute in the USA and Canada. It lets you quickly check the latest road traffic conditions in your area and discover the best route to take to avoid traffic jams.

iWrecked – Auto Accident Assistant | App Store | Google Play
iWrecked is an auto accident assistant on the App Store. It is a full featured, accident resource for easily logging all details and info after being involved in a wreck. Conveniently, take unlimited photos of the damage and accident scene with your phone. It can also generate a detailed, professional-looking PDF accident report with images, which you can send directly from the app to your insurance company.

DriveSafe.ly | App Store | Google Play
DriveSafe.ly speaks email messages, G Voice text messages (SMS), Facebook Chat messages and Twitter updates (tweets) aloud and lets you respond by voice so you can concentrate on the road and stop texting while driving to help you drive safely.

Pandora Radio | App Store | Google Play
If you’re looking for something to listen to during your drive, Pandora Radio’s a good solution you should try. The app is a free personalized radio that only plays music you’ll love. Just start with the name of one of your favorite artists, songs or classical composers and Pandora will create a custom “station” that plays similar music.

Spotify | App Store | Google Play
With the Spotify app, you can choose to listen millions of songs on your iPhone and Android phone. The free app lets you listen to radio for free, discover and save music when you’re on the go. If your station plays a song you really like, save it with a single tap.

Slacker Radio | App Store | Google Play
Slacker Radio is another free personalized radio app you can try during your drive. It features more personalized content than any other radio service, with music, ESPN Radio, live sports, ABC News, comedy and many more. This free app gives you access to the entire Slacker music library featuring millions of songs from thousands of artists.

Audible | App Store | Google Play
If you prefer “reading” while you drive, we recommend the Audible app. With this free app, you can immerse yourself in a great story anytime, anywhere, by downloading from a range of 100,000+ titles to your iPhone or Android phone, from best sellers to classics, news, interviews, comedies, and many more.

iExit | App Store | Google Play
iExit tells you what’s coming up in real time when driving on the interstate. It’s designed to easily communicate which upcoming exits have what you need, whether that’s gas, a hotel, a rest area, or specifically a Starbucks.

Trapster | App Store | Google Play
Trapster is a free app that alerts you as you approach speed traps, red light/speed cameras, accidents, and other roadway hazards.

Parkdroid | App Store | Google Play
With Parkdroid, you can save the parked car location and then find it with GPS. The app allows you discover new parking areas on the map, and share your parking places to extend parking map of your city.

Driving Apps for iPhone only

MotionX GPS Drive | App Store
MotionX GPS Drive is another navigation solution that provides real-time traffic-based routing and guidance, portrait and landscape mode, visual lane assistance for complex intersections and freeway junctions, live local speed limits, multi-stop planning, and more.

Cheap Gas! | App Store
Cheap Gas! helps you find the cheapest gasoline nearest to where you are. Then, map a route to where the cheap gas is. This application is operational only within the United States and Canada.

Augmented Car Finder | App Store
Augmented Car Finder allows you to find your car wherever you parked it. Once you load the application, in the augmented reality view you can see the direction it is located, the street address close to your present position, and the street address close to where you parked.

Driving Apps for Android Phones only

Google Maps | Google Play
Google Maps for Android with Navigation has many cool features for drivers such as detailed maps with 3D buildings, voice guided turn-by-turn GPS navigation, driving, public transit, biking, and walking directions, live traffic information, local search and business reviews, Google Maps Street View and many more.

Street View on Google Maps | Google Play
With Google Maps Street View, you can explore the world at street level. See popular landmarks, check out places you want to visit in your hometown or far away, and take a virtual trip around the world.

Sygic: GPS Navigation | Google Play
Sygic is the offline voice guided GPS navigation app. It’s packed with TomTom maps and a robust set of navigation features. Both app and maps are updated for free. Maps are stored on the phone, no internet needed.

TeleNav GPS Navigator | Google Play
TeleNav GPS Navigator lets you find what you’re looking for. It lets you browse movies, restaurant reviews and find the nearest ATMs and lowest-priced gas nearby. You can also call any business with a single tap of the finger, and get ratings, reviews for almost every place in town.

aCar – Track your vehicles | Google Play
aCar tracks the fillups, maintenance, fuel mileage, trips and expenses of your vehicles. You can keep records of your cars, trucks or even your bikes; and have all of them under control.

ROUTE 66 Maps + Navigation | Google Play
This is a GPS based mapping and navigation app with Follow Me augmented reality navigation.

FuelLog – Car Management | Google Play
FuelLog tracks and logs your mileage, fuel consumption, maintenances, services and costs of your car or motorbike and know exactly how much your car costs. The app calculates a lot of useful statistics like fuel consumption and economy (e.g. mpg or l/100km) of your car or other vehicle, total cost and mileage, average cost per distance or gas amount, average cost per month, year and driven distances, expenses and a lot more.

MyCar Locator Free | Google Play
My Car Locator Free is an easy to use free car locator in the Google Play Store, with all essential information displayed at all times. The app uses your GPS to remember where you park with the push of just one button and guides you back to your car easily.

Car Dashboard | Google Play
Car Dashboard is both a speedometer and a Car Home dock replacement app. You can use this app to watch your speed and easily access 20 customizable shortcuts.