LiveGasCost
Privacy by design

Your drives are yours.

Everywhere you go is sensitive. LiveGasCost is built so that your location data stays with you — your drives never reach us, no cloud of ours, and never for sale. The only thing we collect is anonymous crash reports. Here's exactly how it works, and exactly what that is.

Four promises we built into the app

These aren't policy fine print — they're how the software is architected. It couldn't work another way if we wanted it to.

Your data lives on your phone

Your trips, locations, and history are stored on your device and never reach us. The app works fully offline. There is no server of ours holding a copy of your drives.

We don't sell your location

Full stop. Your movements are not a product. We don't run ad networks, we don't broker location data, and there's no third party quietly riding along.

No cross-app tracking

Maps come from OpenStreetMap and your location is processed on your device — never through an ad platform. We collect anonymous crash reports to fix bugs, with no advertising ID and nothing that identifies you. Your driving isn't feeding a profile of you.

No account to make

No sign-up, no email, no password to use the app. Open it and drive. We can't lose what we never asked you for.

How your data actually flows

"Local-first" isn't a slogan — it's the design. Here's the path your trips take.

  1. 1

    Recorded on your device

    When you drive, the trip is captured and saved directly in the app's private storage on your phone.

  2. 2

    Your phone is the source of truth

    Everything you see — history, costs, stats — is computed from the copy on your device. No internet connection required.

  3. 3

    It stops there

    There is no upload step. No account, no cloud, no sync: the drive you just finished sits on your phone, and no copy of it is ever sent to us. Your phone's own iCloud or Android backup may include it, the same as any other app's data — that copy is in your account, not ours.

  4. 4

    Delete means delete

    Remove a trip and it's gone from your phone — the only copy there was. Delete the app and every drive goes with it.

What we never do

Sell, rent, or broker your location or trip data
Show you ads or track you for advertising
Track you across other apps or websites
Attach your name, email, or an advertising ID to anything we collect
Upload your drives to a server — there isn't one
Ask you for an email, a password, or an account to use the app

None of this is a setting you have to find and switch on. There is no account and no server, so there is no sharing to opt out of — it is what the app is, not what it is currently configured to do.

What we do collect

Crash reports. That is the whole list.

Crash reports, so a bug on a phone we don't own still gets fixed
With each crash: whether it was a real phone or an emulator
With each crash: which part of drive detection failed, and whether it was a permission, a licence, or something else

We collect only anonymous crash reports, to fix bugs. We never track you across apps, and we never sell your data. None of it carries your name, your email, an advertising ID, or a single one of your routes. Nothing counts how you use the app: the drive-health evidence the app keeps is written to a log on your phone, and it leaves only if you choose to send it.

One exception, while it lasts: the TestFlight build currently on iPhones is older than the removal and still sends the anonymous counts this app has since stopped collecting. This note comes down when the next iOS build reaches you.

That is the complete list. If it grows, this page changes in the same release — a counter that ships before it is written down here is a bug we treat as seriously as a broken drive.

Built to the standards that matter

Privacy law, handled the boring, correct way.

GDPR & CCPA-minded
Access, export, and delete your data. Privacy is the default, not a setting you hunt for.
Almost nothing in transit
Your drives aren't uploaded, so there is no sync channel and no server copy to secure. What does leave — crash reports, plus your planner stops and your searches (with roughly where you are, so nearby places win) while you are planning a trip — goes over an encrypted connection to servers we run ourselves.
Your records, kept by you
Your history is yours to keep for as long as you want it — on your device, where you can see it.

Watch every mile. Your drives never reach us.

A driving app that respects your location shouldn't be the exception. With LiveGasCost, it's the whole point.