What's new

1.4.4

30 Jun 2026 Latest

• Start and stop trip tracking from a new card on your Dashboard, without opening the Trip Tracker page (Pro).
• Add a BlackBox trip widget to your Android home screen to start and stop a drive with one tap (Pro).
• Fuel price alerts now cover increases as well as drops, with a new setting to choose drops, increases, or both.
• Tidier notifications: older ones now group by type so weeks of likes, comments and price alerts don't flood the list.
• A polish pass across the app: clearer wording, better empty and error states, and accessibility improvements.
• Plus a big batch of stability and reliability fixes.

1.4.3

30 Jun 2026

• Share a recorded route to Revs as a route post, with a speed-coloured map preview of where you drove.
• Keep your address private: hide the start and end of a shared route so it never shows exactly where you set off or finished.
• Text posts get a fresh look with colourful gradient backdrops, and you can pick your favourite.
• Mention people with @username in a post, and they'll get a notification.
• A big speed-up under the hood: a much smaller download, faster-loading charts, and smoother recording on long trips.
• Plus a large batch of stability and reliability fixes across the app and backend.

1.4.2

25 Jun 2026

• Revs gets a bold new look: a brighter electric-red theme, punchier headlines, and a cleaner, faster full-screen feed.
• Pinch to zoom photos right in the feed, then let go to snap back.
• Notifications now live in the bottom bar, so you can see new likes, comments and follows from any screen.
• Fuel price-drop alerts now show up in your notifications too, with a tap straight through to the station on the map.
• Shared garages now show each car's photo, and spend in the owner's own currency.
• The post author now stands out in comments, with an Author tag and a "liked by creator" badge.
• Plus a big batch of stability and reliability fixes across the app and backend.

1.4.1

23 Jun 2026

• Revs is now on the web: share any post or profile with a link or QR code, and anyone can open it, no account needed.
• New notifications for likes, comments, replies, new followers and event RSVPs, with per-type controls so you only get pinged about what matters.
• Reply to comments and like them, with replies tucked neatly under each comment.
• See who follows you and who you follow, with search, and tap straight through to a profile.
• Share your garage on your profile, with privacy controls for who sees your cars and spend, and a per-car hide toggle.
• Edit your posts after sharing (Pro).
• Add a map pin to car events so others can open the location in Google Maps.
• Plus reliability and security fixes across the app and backend.

1.4.0

23 Jun 2026

• Introducing Revs: a full-screen social feed for car people. Swipe through posts one at a time, with For You and Following tabs.
• Post text, photos, or a car event, and share a mod straight to Revs from your garage.
• Follow other owners, and like, comment on, and save the posts you want to come back to.
• Set up your profile: pick an @username, add a bio, and crop your own avatar and banner.
• Create car meets and events, and tap Interested or Going to RSVP.
• Find people with the new user search, and report anything that doesn't belong.
• Fuel map now flags out-of-date prices, so a months-old number can't pose as today's cheapest or win the cheapest-in-view marker.
• Cleaner, flatter redesign across the main screens, with editing now on full pages instead of pop-ups and a photo-backed garage picker.
• Swipe left and right to move between Dashboard, Fuel, Costs, and Mods.
• Redesigned setup: a cleaner step-by-step first-run flow that fills your car's details straight from its registration.
• Plus security and reliability fixes across the app and backend.

1.3.1

18 Jun 2026

• Vehicle Check now flags clocking: if the MOT history shows the mileage dropping between tests, you get a clear warning with the figures.
• New pre-purchase verdict card sums up a checked car at a glance: tax, MOT, mileage, export and ULEZ flags, with a green all-clear when nothing's wrong.
• Reality check: look up your own car and BlackBox compares your logged mileage against the average from its MOT history.
• Compare got a big upgrade: it now crowns an overall winner with a head-to-head breakdown, and pulls full DVLA specs (CO2, Euro status, ULEZ, colour and more) for both cars, even when you compare two of your own.
• Settings has been reorganised from one long page into clean, focused sections you tap into, so everything is easier to find.
• Plate lookups are now cached for 24 hours, so re-checking the same car is instant and uses fewer of your daily lookups.
• Insurance and tax expenses now repeat monthly or yearly by default, so renewals stay on your books without re-entering them.
• Zoom into the fuel map and it now shows every priced station in view, not just the ones inside your search radius.
• Complimentary Pro accounts now show as such in billing instead of reading as a free plan.
• Smoother app launch: the splash screen now waits for icons to load, so you no longer briefly see icon names on first open.
• A large reliability pass: safer backup restore, more accurate cost-per-mile, steadier trip detection and speeding alerts, and assorted fixes across the app and backend.

1.3.0

11 Jun 2026

• New Quick Tools hub gathers the trip estimator, 0-60 timer, vehicle check, car comparison, sale listing, garage card, and year in review in one place.
• Tap your monthly cost to open a Monthly Breakdown showing exactly where the money went, with arrows to step back through earlier months.
• Recurring expenses: set insurance and tax to repeat monthly or yearly and BlackBox fills in the past and upcoming entries for you.
• Compare your car against any registration: look up a plate with DVLA and see specs side by side, even with just one car in your garage.
• Trip maps now handle GPS signal gaps cleanly instead of drawing a straight line across the missing stretch.
• Faster, smoother fuel map that opens straight away using your last known location.
• Security hardening across the app and backend.
• Forgotten trip recordings are no longer lost: the 12-hour auto-stop now saves the drive, and turning off auto trip detection mid-trip keeps the trip too.
• Fixed a rare case where a new entry could save to the wrong car right after switching cars.
• Recurring expenses you delete now stay deleted across all your devices, and backups always capture your very latest edits.
• Trip Cost Estimator now uses UK gallons correctly, so estimates for UK drivers are no longer about 20% too high.
• You can pan and zoom the trips map while a recording is running, and the cheapest nearby station shows for everyone again.
• New entries default to your local date (no more yesterday's date just after midnight), plus dozens of smaller fixes.

1.2.3

10 Jun 2026

• Smarter fuel economy alerts, now with a phone notification when your MPG drops and fewer false alarms from partial fills.
• Oil and service reminders factor in how much you actually drive, not just the calendar, so high-mileage drivers get reminded on time.
• Price-drop alerts now show how the new price compares to what you last paid at that station.
• Clearer fuel map in busy areas: it shows the cheapest stations first and reveals more as you zoom in. Your starred stations always stay on the map.
• Driving scores now react properly to hard acceleration, braking, and speeding.
• Fixes for auto trip detection, reminders, and the sale listing generator.

1.2.2

08 Jun 2026

• Fixed a crash on the Fuel screen for drivers with a very large number of fill-ups.
• Fixed the "Manage subscription" button getting stuck on "Opening Stripe...".
• The Mod Showcase "Full strip" now offers a "Try again" button if the merged image fails, instead of getting stuck on a spinner.
• Signing out now reliably stops price-drop alerts for that account on your device.
• Comparing two cars no longer shows a blank screen after signing in on a new device.
• Friendlier dates on sale listings, plus fixes for trip tracking, offline maps, and backup restore.

1.2.1

08 Jun 2026

• Choose TikTok or Instagram when you save or share a Mod Showcase, sized to fit so Instagram no longer crops the top and bottom off your slides.
• Fixed the merged "Full strip" preview showing a broken image after switching between Split and Full a few times.
• The notification icon now shows the BlackBox car instead of a blank white square.

1.2.0

08 Jun 2026

• Fuel price-drop alerts now reach you even when the app is closed. Star a station and BlackBox notifies you the moment its price drops, no need to open the app for it to check.
• Tap an alert to jump straight to the fuel map.
• Refreshed look across the app: every pop-up and dialog now matches the polished onboarding style.

1.1.3

07 Jun 2026

• New Mod Showcase: turn your build into shareable 9:16 slides for Instagram and TikTok, with a summary slide totalling your spend, value retained, and ROI.
• Share as separate slides, or as one continuous merged image that lines up seamlessly when posted in order.
• Cleaner update prompt with clear "Update now" and "Update later" options.

1.1.2

31 May 2026

• Fixed a rare issue where quickly switching accounts could mix data between them.
• Adding a vehicle now saves reliably, with a clear error if it can't, so entries are no longer silently lost.
• Your saved car loads automatically when you reopen the app or sign in on a new device.
• More accurate unit switching and corrected local-date handling for 30-day fuel totals, sorting, and reminder due dates.
• Smoother maps with lower memory use.

1.1.1

21 May 2026

• The status-bar notification icon now shows the BlackBox car silhouette instead of a white square.
• Added in-app updates, so you can move to the latest version without leaving the app.

1.1.0

21 May 2026

• Guests who hit the trip limit while recording now see a clear banner with a sign-in prompt instead of losing the finished trip silently.
• Switching between miles and kilometres no longer drops fields recorded as zero.
• Declared the background-location permissions Google Play requires for trip recording.

1.0.6

18 May 2026

• Sharing a phone is safer: signing in on a device that already holds data now asks whether to keep it or start fresh, instead of silently merging someone else's garage into your account.
• Signing out now fully clears your data, settings, and saved places from the device.
• "Continue as guest" now asks for a second tap to confirm, so you don't enter guest mode by accident.
• Faster vehicle lookups, with DVLA results cached to keep things snappy.
• Fixed plate, MOT, and fuel price lookups failing for signed-in users on the web.
• Fixed a crash on the vehicle check screen after signing out.
• Many reliability and security improvements behind the scenes.