Vintage Car Monitor / Release Notes
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Vintage Car Monitor

Release Notes

What’s New

Every update so far. Each one grows out of your feedback and what we notice driving our own vintage cars.

1.7.0 Oct 20, 2026 New

Match your car’s odometer & clock designs

  • Enter your stock and current tire diameters, and the app counts ODO and TRIP to match your car’s odometer. You can match the speedometer too — a thin red needle shows your actual speed
  • New “Cockpit” clock design with a black face and red hands, selectable per vehicle
  • Night mode now lights the dial from the rim to around the numbers with a soft bulb glow
  • Fixed distance occasionally being counted slightly short when Background GPS is off
1.6.1 Oct 10, 2026

Safer restore from backup

  • Before restoring, the app now keeps a copy of your current data automatically
  • The backup file is now checked before restoring. If any part of it cannot be read, the restore is cancelled and your current data stays as it is
  • On Android, exporting now tells you the file was saved to the Documents folder
1.6.0 Oct 8, 2026 New

Night Mode Light Color

  • Choose the night mode light color: warm bulb or green. Green recreates the green gauge lighting of the Mexican-built Beetle
1.5.1 Oct 6, 2026
  • Night mode: the bulb light now reaches the speed numerals
1.5.0 Oct 4, 2026 New

Choose How Fuel Economy Is Shown / Measurement Fixes

  • Show fuel economy in L/100km or UK mpg. UK gal (imperial gallons) added as a fuel unit
  • Fixed measurement ending when you take a call or use voice input during Bluetooth Link (iPhone)
  • Fixed measurement sometimes stopping while you use another app (iPhone)
  • Fixed the speed display getting stuck after an area with weak GPS reception
1.4.0 Sep 28, 2026 New

Automatic Backup / Gas Station Search

  • Choose a location once and the app backs up once a day, keeping the last 14. Backups survive deleting the app
  • Tap the FUEL mark on the Drive screen to find the nearest gas stations in your map app
1.3.1 Sep 22, 2026
  • Fixed the app not launching on iOS 27
1.3.0 Sep 21, 2026 New

Torque Specs

  • Keep tightening torques for each car, shown in N·m, kgf·m or lb-ft
  • Fixed fill-ups being recorded incorrectly when the fuel unit was set to gallons
1.2.1 Sep 14, 2026
  • Better battery life while driving
  • Added PW SAVER, a power-saving view that hides the gauge and turns the screen black
1.2.0 Sep 9, 2026 New

Night Mode

  • After sunset the gauges glow softly like a bulb-lit instrument cluster. Set times are also available
1.1.0 Aug 19, 2026 New

Bluetooth Link

  • Connect to your car’s Bluetooth audio to open the Drive screen; measuring ends when you leave and it disconnects
  • A sword-shaped needle modeled on a real VDO meter
1.0.15 Aug 3, 2026
  • Set the speedometer’s maximum speed (120–300 km/h) and needle color for each car
1.0.14 Jul 26, 2026
  • Added Type 4 and Porsche 911 / 912 / 914 to the vehicle list
1.0.13 Jul 21, 2026
  • Fixed the screen turning off from auto-lock while the app was open
1.0.12 Jul 14, 2026
  • Fixed icons showing as text where there is no signal, such as tunnels and mountain roads
1.0.11 Jul 7, 2026
  • Fixed the START button sitting off-center on some devices
1.0.10 Jul 6, 2026
  • An after-fill amount over tank capacity can now be confirmed and recorded as a full tank
  • Fixed the fuel gauge and range sometimes not updating while driving
1.0.9 Jul 5, 2026 New

Share Your Fuel Economy

  • Share a fuel economy card to Instagram, X and more
1.0.8 Jul 1, 2026
  • Fixed small issues in edit screens and number fields
1.0.7 Jul 1, 2026 New

Fuel Economy Graph

  • A fuel economy trend graph on the Fuel tab, switching between full-tank and per-fill on the spot
  • Fuel, oil and maintenance records now page 10 at a time
1.0.5 Jun 29, 2026
  • Start and stop measuring by hand with START and STOP
1.0.4 Jun 19, 2026 New

Fuel Gauge and Clock

  • Swipe the Drive screen between speedometer, fuel gauge and clock
1.0.3 Jun 16, 2026
  • Improved stability
1.0.2 Jun 14, 2026
  • Smoother needle, plus custom images above and below the meter
1.0.1 Jun 12, 2026
  • Match the app’s ODO to your car by entering the real reading when you log a record
1.0.0 Jun 10, 2026 First release

Vintage Car Monitor launched

  • GPS speedometer, ODO/TRIP, fuel tracking, carburetor settings, oil changes and maintenance records

Dates are when each version went live on the App Store. Google Play may differ by a day or two.

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