TACHWIRE

For iPhone and CarPlay

The numbers your car keeps to itself.

Oil, gearbox, boost and revs on a screen you lay out yourself in CarPlay — on a BMW and MINI, from the engine and gearbox units themselves; on most other cars, the standard OBD readings they report.

Download on the App Store
The Live Activity editor with demo data: the card on the Lock Screen with oil, coolant, gearbox, boost, power and the 12 V battery
The Live Activity card follows the same drive on the Lock Screen.

One drive, two screens: in the car and on the Lock Screen

Demo data · Up to 5 pages, tiles of any size, laid out by you or taken from the Gallery; the screen refreshes twice a second, as in the car.

2 600+drives in the logs
31 000+km driven with it
6makes on the road with it

Counted from the drive logs we hold — no names, no VINs. Logs live 30 days on the server, so this is a floor. 11.09.2026–04.11.2026

Your car

Find your car. See it in its paint.

Make, model, generation and version. Each one says what the app reads from it and whether a drive has confirmed it.

Model, body code, engine or year. We never ask for a VIN.

Or pick step by step

On the car’s screen

One morning, told by the screen that rode along.

· Ignition

Dashes first, then the numbers.

Plug the adapter in once. When CarPlay connects, Tachwire finds it, recognises the car from its answers and VIN, and each tile fills as its unit answers. Nothing to press.

· Warm-up

Oil 41°. Blue means wait.

Oil, coolant and gearbox count down to ready, and the screen says how long and up to what revs: below 50° oil, 3,000 rpm. Thresholds are your car’s own.

· On the road

Green. Ready.

Gear, speed, oil pressure and the tyres, each from the unit that measures it; the screen updates twice a second. If oil pressure drops, a voice says so — in eleven languages, made on the phone.

· Road cameras

“Speed camera, 120.”

Speed cameras, average-speed sections, low-emission zones and Italy’s ZTL gates — said out loud where the law allows it, with a window on the car’s screen. Off until you turn it on.

· Closed track

−0.4 s to your best.

Laps time themselves at the line; the gap lives on its own page, never on the map. Records count only full-throttle runs.

· Parked

The drive, judged against your car’s usual.

Every reading on one time line, a verdict with its reason — oil warmed in 3 minutes, usually 16 to 20 — and a 15-second video to share. Sending a drive is your choice; the route is cut out on the phone first.

Oil °C34
Gearbox °C30
Speed km/h0
Demo dataDrag along the morning, or use the arrow keys: the screen shows that minute.

Colours mean one thing everywhere: blue — cold, wait with the revs green — ready yellow — worth a look red — alarm, the only one that blinks

The app

After the drive, it’s all on the phone.

Real screens of the app, with demo data. The car in its colour, every drive judged against your car’s usual, the week at a glance.

On a closed track

The lap is the route.

Track guidance on the car’s screen: the map heading up, one turn at a time, and where you braked on your best lap — the bright zone is the next one.

  1. 1
    It finds the trackAt a circuit from the list, the track preview opens by itself.
  2. 2
    Braking from your own best lap“150 m · Turn 1 · brake point” — to where you started braking on your fastest lap.
  3. 3
    The gap on its own page−0.4 s to your best on the Track page; lap compare shows the three places the time went.
tracks in the list
535
countries
17
with a start/finish line already set
66

Laps, runs and track guidance are for a closed track only. The circuit drawn here is made up.

In motion

Half a minute of Tachwire.

Real screens of the app, in the car and on the phone, playing simulated data.

Demo · simulated data, not a recorded drive

Share

A drive in fifteen seconds.

A flyover of the route with the speed, the gear and the power at each moment — saved to Photos, sized for Stories, or straight to Instagram and TikTok.

  • Every figure carries its source. “211 hp · DME” is worked out from the engine unit’s own torque, not a dyno.
  • No VIN, no time of day — left out by default.
  • On a map, or on the dark grid without one. Made on the phone itself.

On this page: a demo drive on the dark grid — no real road.

Demo · simulated data, not a recorded drive

Privacy

Your route is cut out on the phone.

No account

No sign-up, no ads. The app works the moment it’s installed.

Sent only if you choose

A drive leaves the phone only if you turn sending on — encrypted, with latitude, longitude and heading removed first. Only laps on a track keep their positions. Kept 30 days.

Made on the phone

The voice is made on the phone, and the camera lists live there: once a country is downloaded, alerts need no signal, and your position isn’t sent to find them: only which country’s list to download is asked for.

Everything that can leave the phone →

Get started

Plug in the adapter and drive.

Download on the App Store
QR code: Tachwire on the App Store
Point the iPhone’s camera here to open the app on the App Store.

iPhone with iOS 18.4 or later, and CarPlay, wired or wireless. No account, no ads.

No car nearby? Choose “No car yet” on the first screen and look around every screen on a demo drive.

  1. 1
    A Bluetooth LE OBD adapterInto the port under the dashboard. Which one to buy →
  2. 2
    Pick it in TachwireThe car is recognised from its own answers and its VIN.
  3. 3
    Connect CarPlay and driveYour screen comes up with the car. If a number is missing, the screen says why.

Questions

Short answers

The developer answers at support@tachwire.app

Does it work without CarPlay?

The phone app opens and shows past drives, but it reads the car only while CarPlay is connected.

Will it work on my car?

Most likely, if it was built from 2008 on: most cars since then speak CAN on the OBD port and get the standard readings — revs, speed, coolant and intake temperature, and more where the car reports it — with the tiles, warnings, laps and runs. BMW gives the most: the G-series and F-series are recognised from the VIN and confirmed model by model on real drives. MINI: the John Cooper Works Clubman (F54) is confirmed on its drives. Audi A3 (8Y) and Mazda3 (BP) are confirmed by drives too. Other Audi and Mazda models, and Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Ford, Toyota, Lexus, RAM, Dodge, Jeep, Chrysler, Land Rover, Jaguar, Volkswagen, Škoda, SEAT / CUPRA, Lamborghini, Bentley and Honda, get trial profiles: the app asks them, or some of their models, for more, and a reading counts as working only once a drive log has shown it. The cars page says what each one reads.

Can it change anything in my car?

No. It only reads live values. No fault codes, coding or service resets.

Does it work with a Dragy?

Not in the App Store version yet. The DRG70 works in the TestFlight builds, where with a good fix it times your runs; it comes to the App Store once testers’ drives have proven it.

What leaves my phone?

Nothing about your drives unless you turn sending on — encrypted, with the route removed (only laps on a track keep their positions). Crash reports turn off with one switch.

Android?

No — iPhone and CarPlay only.

All questions →
iPhone · CarPlay · OBD adapterDownload on the App Store