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Gas Cubby • Fuel Economy (MPG) & Vehicle MaintenanceCurrent 2.4.1

Gas Cubby is the ultimate tool for tracking gas mileage and vehicle maintenance. Whether you're a hypermiler, or just want a reminder to change the oil, Gas Cubby will save you money and keep your vehicle operating at its peak.

Gas Cubby is also available as a free, sponsored app called "Gas Cubby FREE."

"App Store Pick of the Week." —Apple

"Ten Best iPhone Apps for Dad" —CNN

"Gas Cubby makes its mark not only with its power, but with its flexibility." —Kyle Baxter - Macworld

"It’s well designed, full featured, and is incredibly stable." —Jason D. O'Grady - ZDNet

For more information visit: www.gascubby.com

Features:

• Tracks gas mileage and vehicle maintenance

• Online sync

• Charts: MPG, stats, gas price, gas expenses, service expenses

• Customizable service reminders

• Supports multiple vehicles

• Store vehicle data: VIN, License Plate, etc.

• Excel compatible email reports (CSV attachment)

• International Units: MPG (US), MPG (Canada), MPG (UK), MPG (Imperial), L/100km, gal/100mi (US), gal/100mi (Imperial), km/L, km/gal (US), km/gal (Imperial), and mi/L

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Gas Cubby • Fuel Economy (MPG) & Vehicle Maintenance Review

Mileage and service tracker makes its mark with powerful, flexible features

Tracking expenses is always important. During a recession, it is crucial.


It’s a Gas: Gas Cubby can track fuel mileage, gas costs, and maintenance, but the app’s real strength lies in its flexibility—you can track as much or as little as you like.

App Cubby’s Gas Cubby for the iPhone tracks gas and car maintenance expenses, charting your miles per gallon, the cost of gas over time, and services expenses. It also reminds you when it’s time to change your oil, your brakes, or perform other maintenance. The app costs $10, though there’s also a free version called Gas Cubby Lite that limits you to five records.

The App Store offers many mileage trackers of varying quality. Gas Cubby makes its mark not only with its power, but with its flexibility. Users can take advantage of the full complement of the app’s data tracking capabilities, or they can only enter the information they’re interested in. Don’t think one of Gas Cubby’s fields is all that important? Use the app’s settings to hide the fields you don’t need, keeping the overall interface nice and simple.

Gas Cubby’s charts are very useful. They show, over different periods of time, how many miles per gallon the car is getting, how much the price of gas is, and what service costs. Seeing historic miles per gallon information allows the user to see how efficiently they’re driving—quite beneficial when it comes to figure out how well your car is running.

Ultimately, Gas Cubby’s real strength lies in the fact that it’s as powerful as you want it to be. The app is a great tool for users who need to track everything about their car, but just as useful if the only data point you care about begins and ends with miles per gallon.

AppCubby is compatible with any iPhone or iPod touch running the iPhone 2.x software update.

[Kyle Baxter writes and publishes the Mac weblog TightWind.]

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Gas Cubby

What a wonderful app I run multiple cars and multiple drivers. I really appreciate the ability synchronize across many devices. Maintenance schedules are great. Easy to use and when I have had questions I have been able to get help. All of this for under $5.00 amazing! Thanks App Cubby


Gas Cubby - Great App

I drive 65,000 miles per year and use this app everyday. It is easy to use when I am filling up on the road. The service reminders are also helpful. I bought a new iPhone and some installation problems and customer service helped me make the transition. This app is well worth the money.


What I Was Looking For

I was using a different gas tracker app but I wanted one that would track my maintenance, track my gas, remind me of maintenance and also sync to my Bride's iPhone as well. This app does all that. Thanks Gas Cubby for putting some thought into your product.


Love it

Its a great App. It gives you MPG on your last tank, or the whole accumulated history of fill-ups, or a combination of vehicles you are tracking. I have three years of back data in mine. It exports, backs up, and is as solid as a rock. Mine's never crashed, nor have I ever lost data. Its easy enough to use at the pump while you are filling up. Done and done and on your way.


Great for keeping records

For me, it's a nice App to keep track of my oil changes and service. Nice interface and functionality.


Gas Cubby - Don't leave home without it!

This is one of my favourite apps and great support from developer. I use it to track the gas consumption and repairs on my motorcycle and car. important data for me. A GREAT App.


Exceeds Expectations

I have owned this app for over 6 months now, and I absolutely love it. I use it every time I fill up my gas tank, and it keeps track of everything I need, plus more. I also keep track of all my maintenance with it as well. Highly recommended. A app.


My most consistently used app

I can't think of another app that I've used as many times or as consistently as Gas Cubby. The devs really put some thought into it, and came out with a fantastic gas milage, cost, and car service tracker. I had been writing everything down on the blank pages of my service manual, but having to do the calculations myself meant it took a few extra minutes at the station to do so. With GC, everything is done instantly once you input the data, and it has tons of info you want to know, but never felt like calculating yourself. Overall a very helpful app for budgeting as well, as I can track how much I spend per month on gas and car maintenance. Thanks guys!


An excellent tool for mileage

When I drive on long trips, I like to hypermile (modify my driving/car so that I get the best mileage). Gas Cubby makes it super easy to keep track of my mileage, which helps me figure out the best ways to drive to get the most out of my gasoline. Not only does hypermiling save me money, but it's also a more efficient use of gas, which means I go farther on a smaller amount of fossil fuel. Gas Cubby is the perfect tool for keeping my car in top shape, which means I save money and keep the air cleaner.


Excellent App!

I have been looking for a App to replace the paper/pencil log for car maintenance that I keep in the car. Since my phone is always with me, this works great. The developer has paid great attention to detail, making this App one of my favorites. I don't use the gas mileage part as I don't really need it. The car service maintenance section alone makes this App worth the money. I like the ability to add "services" in order to customize it for my needs. I track lots of things and do preventive maintenance. The service reminders are very helpful. My 1997 Camry is approaching 300,000 miles due to preventive maintenance. This App will help me continue to take care of my car. I recommend reading the "manual" on their web site before beginning. Click on the "eye-ball" shaped icon on the bottom left of the front screen and then "Open User Manual in Safari." This is an excellent App if you want to take care of your car. Most mechanics will say, "Pay me now or pay me later." Preventive maintenance is the way to go!


The price drop makes it worth it

This is a great app to track you mileage and service on your car. The interface is very clean and they pay a lot of attention to detail. I was really frustrated by the $10 price, but I am happy to pay 3-5 for it. I actually enjoyed it so much that I bought the Health Cubby app as well. The sync is a definite plus! If you can find it on sale (less that 10 bucks) do not pass it up!!


Just what I was looking for

This app has many strong points to it:1. Incredibly easy to use interface. Ability to re-use different aspects (locations, tags, etc)2. 'At the pump process'. While creating it simply walks you through step-by-step to put in the information. The app is informative of the progress (step X of X), and doesn't have any crazy requirements for the fields.3. The app learns. As you add more data, it becomes easier to use and quicker to load in data when you stop.4. Reports. This has to be one of the best parts, for me. Being able to quickly see overall stats, quickly sort and filter them, and even export reports based on criteria. This gives you a nicely formatted email, with a CSV attachment of the report, allowing me to have full control of my data.Most importantly: This app gets out of the way. It let's you achieve your task without being pesky. It is extremely stable and intuitive.Well worth the price point and more. Thanks to the AppCubby team for their work on this app.


I wish every app was Appcubby quality

I search around the appstore for months trying to find a good vehicle data app. I almost bought Carcare many times but I held off. Im glad Gascubby hit the store and I bought it right after it did. It is great and will fill all of your needs. The guys over at Appcubby are awesome people. Try out the lite version of course but there's no doubt you'll be hooked.


Your Car's "Medical" History

I'm a bit of an OCD record keeper with regard to my vehicles. Inside the glove box of my car there is a little book for recording gas fill-ups. This current book has over 4 years of data inscribed on its pages. I like the "old school" of it, but it can be a bit of a chore to calculate all the averages and other "reports" I might desire from such a hand-managed record. I have a desk drawer devoted to maintenance documentation.Enter Gas Cubby from App Cubby. I installed this application on my iPhone back in early May and couldn't be more pleased. It's more than just a means to record your fill-ups and garner all the relevant data in so doing—you can also record the vehicle's maintenance (car care) history as well as see all that data beautifully regurgitated for your consumption. You'll know how long before you need to rotate/balance your tires, change your oil and even check to see how much your gas-guzzler is running you at the garage.The usability of this app is incredibly easy and rather intuitive. I like to record as much information as possible per fill-up, so it takes me maybe 30 seconds longer to enter the extra data that I hadn't before (Station used, location, tire pressure). As an information junkie, I certainly don't mind. You can alter the Settings to record as much or as little as you like.The charts are incredibly easy to read and can give you quick, at-a-glance data regarding the performance of your car. You can select a slice of time from 1 week to 1 year. There are five charts to examine: MPG, Gas Stats, Gas Price Per Gallon, Total Gas Expenses and Total Service Expenses. Each one quickly digestible and even fun to look at (unless it's the Gas Expenses chart which, in this economy and our thirst for fuel, can be gut wrenching).The maintenance portion of the application is just as robust, allowing you to enter as much or as little data as you think is relevant to your concerns. You can select your view of records to be service, gas or bot


Quality app

I've used the lite version of this app for a few weeks now. I love how easy it is to measure your gas usage, and the awesome reporting. The thing that really sets this app apart is the fact that it syncs to a server so you never lose your information, something that is missing from many available apps. Personally I'm hoping the price drops a bit on this product, but it's a really solid app overall! Nicely done!


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