buy the cheap obd2 apps instead.

this is a toy not a tool. it is also one of the most poorly thought out pieces of software i have ever seen. if you want to try and diagnose your engine issues i suggest you buy something else. anything else. for the price this is by far the worst app i have ever bought at the app store.

1. there is no way to just select and view standard obd2 raw outputs. you have to cycle between multiple “dashboards” that each have limited customization options according to the designers concept of what some 19 year old might think is cool (including a bunch of useless calculated stuff). there is a second set of customizable analog gauges but even after reading the manual it seems all you can change on these is appearance. i could not find a way to customize them to show the obd2 outputs you want on one screen and analog dial gauges are not what you want if you are diagnosing anyway.

2. the menu organization and controls are just appalling. just getting to and from the main menu is a chore and there is a second main menu with less options for no apparent reason. totally counterintuitive and needlessly dead ending layout. also had popup menu display problems with my iPad.

3. every time you turn the app on it hangs up while it wants to connect to an obd2 scanner. including when you just want to look at your logged/saved data.

4 it’s a battery pig.

5. there is no way to view the datalog as a a graph unless you have a pc computer and buy their other software. they sell iPhone apps but they don’t support macs! you can export a raw data excel spreadsheet but it takes the app 3 or 4 minutes to convert the file for export and the output is a disaster. it took me twenty minutes just to sort the standard obd2 outputs it logged from all the junk fields. which is when i discovered how few outputs were even logged.

6. for no apparent reason it does not recognize a bunch of obd2 outputs on my toyota that i have seen working on a standard non-toyota specific obd2 scanner. even when you drill down into the settings manual it does not seem to log all obd2 data. just the stuff the designer thought would be sexy. want something as basic as voltage? too bad.

krutov17 about DashCommand - OBD-II gauge dashboards, scan tool, v4.6.15