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Open the app and add your vehicle — pick the year, make, and model and we fill in its EPA MPG automatically. Then tap Start drive when you pull out and End drive when you arrive. Or turn on automatic tracking, on Android or iPhone, and your drives record themselves. The app needs no account and nothing to sign up for.

No. Turn on automatic tracking in Settings and LiveGasCost records your trips on its own in the background, even with your phone in your pocket, on Android and iPhone. On iPhone it needs location set to Always. You can still start and end a drive yourself.

iPhone and Android — everything above works on both, automatic tracking included. Your drives live on that phone either way.

The official EIA average for your area, refreshed weekly — that is how often the government publishes it. It is an area average, not the pump you used, so if you know your exact price, type it in and every drive is costed from that instead.

Your car's MPG (an EPA estimate to start, and you can type in your own) and the current gas price: (miles ÷ MPG) × price per gallon. That's the number you watch climb live.

No. Prices refresh on their own, once a week, because that is how often the EIA publishes them. There is a refresh button in Settings if you want to pull the latest right now — it will tell you when it last updated, or say so plainly if it could not reach the EIA.

99¢ once, when available, unlocks the live gas counter for good: the live cost, automatic detection on Android and iPhone, and your drives saved and priced. It is a one-time purchase that never renews. The beta running now is free.

Because it's a beta. Testers on it today have every feature at no cost while we're testing. The prices start when the app reaches the stores; nothing is charged in the meantime and nothing expires on anyone mid-test.

Not yet — nobody new is being added to either platform's beta right now. Leave your email on the get-the-app page and we'll tell you the moment you can.

No. The unlock is a normal one-time purchase through your phone's app store, tied to your store account. The app has no account of its own.

Yes. Your drives are saved on your phone, and the app does not send them to us (your phone's map service turns each drive's start and end into an address). We never sell your location, and we never route it through a big-tech ad platform. Your phone's own backup can keep a copy. On Android, if Google backup is on and the phone has a screen lock, your drives, cars and typed pump prices go into it, encrypted with your screen lock so Google can't read them; the routes never do. On iPhone, if iCloud Backup is on, it includes the app's data the way it does any app's. That copy is in your own Google or Apple account, and we have no access to it.

No. The app needs no account — open it and drive. We hold nothing about you.

Yes — delete a trip in the app and it's gone from your phone. A phone backup made earlier (Google backup on Android, iCloud Backup on iPhone) may still hold it until that backup is replaced. Deleting the app removes every drive on the phone.