Cars have become more connected and feature-rich in the past few years. Now, cars offer close integration with your smartphones to offer a more comfortable and safer driving experience. 

Here, we have collated the list of top 5 Android mobile apps that you can download for a more pleasant driving experience.

Infotainment – Android Auto

Android Auto brings functionalities like calling, music, GPS, and more to your car’s dashboard. It is designed to enable the driver to concentrate more on the roads.

Here are some of its unique features:

• Its home screen and a card-based interface help you access Google Maps, calling, and music playback.
• Google’s speech recognition feature enables you to voice control the majority of Android Auto features like commanding Google maps and playing your favorite songs.
• Apps are updated regularly to embrace new developments and data
• All the vital information like caller detail and GPS information is displayed on the car’s infotainment

Navigation – Google Maps

Google maps is one of the most popular apps used by car owners. With Google Maps handy, you will never take a wrong and can also avoid routes with greater traffic.

Here are some of its worth noting features:

In-app media controls

• Directly access features into the app to track current song and shuffle whenever required within a prominently placed bar in the Google Maps’ navigation setup.
• Save any location for easy access
• Share your real-time location with family and friends
• Leverage its driving mode to find out estimated time to destination, average speed, and traffic information

Car Health- inCarDoc

InCarDoc offers two versions of this app on the Play Market and App Store i.e. free and paid. You can download a free version of the app to check adaptor and car compatibility before purchasing the app on the play store. InCarDoc Pro supports ELM327, USB, Bluetooth, and wifi adaptor while also having the ability to work on most new Android devices.

Here are it’s worth noting features:

• Compatible with all OBD2 compliant vehicles on their site
• Read real-time engine and vehicle parameter
• Overlay to display economy data in background mode
• Fuel economy and acceleration widgets5.GPS support

RTO Vehicle Information App – CarInfo

CarInfo offers a host of information about your car. The vehicle registration information app can help you find out the number of challans, ownership, insurance details, and more. You can also find the fair value of your car through CarInfo.

Here are some of its worth noting features:

• Put in the vehicle number to get all the RTO vehicle information like real owner name, age, insurance expiry, registration date, and more
• Enter the driving license number to find out the license holder’s name, validity, age, status, and more
• Get all the info related challans issued to any vehicle or driver by vehicle (RC) or license number
• Check out the fair market price of your used car or motorcycle through its resale value calculator

Dashcam App – Drive Recorder

Drive Recorder helps you record everything while driving. You can also edit the videos after recording. Its playback screen helps you divide your screen in half to see the video on top and a map of the route at the bottom of the screen.

Drive Recorder offers a decent range of configuration options including the maximum video storage size, the GPS update rate, a limit on the recording duration, and whether to record your in-car audio or not. It also offers background recording as a standard feature, whereas other apps lock background recording behind the freemium version.

Wrapping Up

That was all about the top 5 Android mobile applications that you can use to enhance your driving and vehicle ownership experience. All of these apps are available free of cost and you can easily use them for various purposes related to your vehicle.