Carly — OBD2 car scanner

Carly — OBD2 car scanner

Diagnose, Code and Service

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category
price
Free (IAP)
Reviews
4.7 (8.8K)
United States United States
Description
Diagnose, Code and Service
Carly is the most versatile OBD2 solution, offering diagnostics, engine live data, and guides for car repair and maintenance.
It's helped over a million car owners to save up to $2,000 per year for car-related topics.

Get the Carly app and the Carly Universal Scanner to access data through the OBD2 port of your car.

Unleash your inner car hero with Carly!

It works for Audi, BMW, Ford, Lexus, Mercedes, Mini, Opel, Porsche, Renault, Seat, Skoda, Toyota, VW, and almost all other car brands with an OBD2 port.

As every car is unique, which specific Carly features are available will vary with every model, build year, hardware, and software.

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BASIC FEATURES INCLUDED IN THE (FREE) BASIC PACKAGE

Diagnostics (OBD), Live Data (OBD), and Emission Check (OBD) enable you to have control over the most important systems — engine and transmission.

ADVANCED FEATURES INCLUDED IN THE PREMIUM PACKAGE (YEARLY LICENSE)

• UNDERSTAND YOUR CAR'S HEALTH
With Carly Diagnostics, you can read and clear fault codes from all built-in electronic control units (ECUs), including engine, transmission, ABS, airbag, and multimedia, keep track of your car’s health, gauge the severity of problems, and more.

• POWERCHARGE YOUR REPAIR SKILLS
Get expert repair guides for your specific issues to help you understand and fix the issues by yourself.

• MONITOR ENGINE LIVE DATA
Live parameters or live data can help you take the guesswork out of understanding what your car needs and narrow down the fault causes.

• PERFORM CAR MAINTENANCE INDEPENDENT OF THE WORKSHOP
The Carly Maintenance feature helps you step-by-step to service your car yourself, reset your service and keep track of your service intervals directly from your phone.

• VIEW THE CONDITION OF YOUR BATTERY
The Carly Battery Check function helps you monitor the status of your car's starter battery, which will help to increase your batterie lifetime.

• CODE AND UNLOCK HIDDEN FEATURES
Access hidden features set by the manufacturer and customize your car to fit your needs. This feature is only available on certain car brands/models, and the coding options vary between each control unit.

• DETECT MILEAGE MANIPULATION
Mileage manipulation is on the rise. Don’t get tricked when buying a used car — use Carly to perform a used car inspection before buying.

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HOW IT WORKS

Step 1: Check which features are available for your car model
Step 2: Order your Carly Universal Scanner
Step 3: Plug the scanner into the OBD2 port and log in on this app

THE CARLY UNIVERSAL SCANNER — THE MOST ADVANCED OBD DEVICE

The OBD2 device was designed to support almost all car brands with an OBD2 port and to enable advanced Carly features. The scanner comes with:
• A lifetime warranty
• Premium customer support

Take the health of your car into your own hands!

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You can purchase a subscription for an individual car brand or for all car brands.
This is a yearly subscription. The subscription automatically renews for one year if not canceled at least 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. The subscription can be managed in your purchases and the automatic renewal can be deactivated there.

Terms of Use: https://bit.ly/35Mxg5s
Privacy Policy: https://bit.ly/35Rruze
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This company is a scam!!

Do not buy their products! They do not provide true warranty to their hardware, since they only sell you the software! The hardware is “free” in their argument. And the subscription is billed yearly before even after you purchase the package for your car. Stay away from this company!

flintswoodThu, May 9, 2024
United StatesUnited States

Slow and Poor customer service

Product and features are strong. Think subscription and pricing are confusing and deceptive. Should offer lifetime license. Very slow and poor customer service. Told in December 2022 that BMW full license had been renewed until November 2023. App worked fine beginning of January, then next time opened and did car scan showed full license as locked. Now been simply trying to get customer service to unlock my full license subscription for several days. This shouldn't be this much trouble! Application no longer clears fault codes previous able to clear. Too expensive for value derived. Requested refund and 3 days later no response.

Bobcat_MarkFri, Apr 19, 2024
United StatesUnited States

Won’t update, circular reasoning, everything wrong!

It was good when I first got it. But now, it wants me to update to iOS 16 and my little iPhone 5SE is not capable of running it. So lame! It wants me to update so I go to the App Store, I click open and it wants me to update the iOS which I can’t do. If Carly cared, they would fix this.

OldgrumpusThu, Apr 18, 2024
United StatesUnited States

Been using for years, now terrible

I’ve been using Carly for years. Recently, the app has gotten worse and customer support non-responsive. Look at reviews in time sequence, you can see it’s gone downhill. Avoid it.

LouieManTue, Apr 16, 2024
United StatesUnited States

Questionable Product

I don't trust this app or the folks who peddle it. I've used the Carly BT dongle and app on a number of vehicles and the final straw that made me toss this into the garbage was when we pulled a report from my son's 2008 Jetta and it reported historical information and implied the information was current (obvious subscription upsell tactic), but here's the worst part: Th Jetta had a P071 lean code (very common O2/MAF or maybe air filter). That code is very common and is nothing to get worked up over. Except Carly didn't even identify it as a code, it gave us a Christmas decoration report with a bunch of "critical" and "severe" codes that were all either historical, or just plain false. CARLY DID NOT IDENTIFY THE ACTUAL P0171 CODE! Of course, to "fix" all these historical and false codes all we need to do is pay Carly's subscription fee. I actually did use the paid subscription a year or so ago, it wouldn't work with my vehicle (200 series Land Cruiser). When I used it on our Tacoma, it didn't do anything I couldn't just do through the vehicle settings screen. Basically, just go to your local autoparts store and buy yourself a $30 ODBII reader. That, and a computer with internet access, is all you will ever need. Most of the "extra control" stuff that Carly peddles either wont work on your make and model, or it just won't work at all. The output does not clearly identify historical codes and the output contains codes that are often false. I think all the hype and positive reviews are a combination of paid-reviews combined with a whole lot of non-mechanics who are bedazzled by the pretty lights and colors that app has and how the app creates false issues for the proposes of selling subscriptions. I suspect the developers have become a bit too greedy. Since the developers have basically turned the app into a scam, the actual dongle is worthless as well. It doesn't even read codes correctly from one of the most common vehicles in the world: a Mark 5 VW Jetta.

Xtern01369Sat, Apr 13, 2024
United StatesUnited States

Completely worthless on BMWs

TL;DR Don’t waste your money on this tool. I have tried to use Carly on E series and G series BMWs and the results have been largely useless. Carly will show a multitude of issues, and many will be just made up issues. For example, Carly will give you error codes that do not even exist. They are quite literally Carly hallucinations. Additionally, Carly will show issues for features that were never part of the car, for example, indicating there were errors trying to communicate with iDrive, yet on the E series car being scanned, it doesn’t include iDrive. I really wish this tool was worth just half the amount I spent on it.

BabsKetchumMon, Apr 8, 2024
United StatesUnited States

Never stranded on the side of the of the road

I know what to repair so I can do it myself and save thousands on BMW maintenance

ThomasvjT3Fri, Mar 29, 2024
United StatesUnited States
Download & Revenue
DOWNLOAD 19.9KApr 2024Worldwide
REVENUE$189.8KApr 2024Worldwide
download revenue
About
Bundle Id
com.iViNi.BMWhatLite2
Min Os. Version
16.0
Release Date
Fri, Oct 7, 2011
Update Date
Mon, May 13, 2024
Content Rating
4+
Has IMessage
No
Support Watch
No
Support Siri
No
File Size
144.8MB
Has Game Center
No
Family Sharing
Yes
Support Passbook
No
Supported Languages
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish
What's New
version
41.24.051318
updated
2 days ago
- All Carly brands in ONE app
- New app dashboard design & easier access to features, please check it out!
- Improved diagnostics for VW, Audi, Seat and Skoda models between 2015 and 2022
- Extended repair & maintenance guides for all available vehicles in Carly starting 2007
Top In-App Purchases

Name

Price

Carly for BMW Full-Version
$59.99
BMW and Mini
$63.99
All Brands
$82.99
Smart Mechanic
$35.99
All Brands + Smart Mechanic
$118.99
BMW and Mini + Smart Mechanic
$99.99
All Brands Upgrade
$78.99
Volkswagen, Audi, Seat, Skoda
$53.99
Mercedes
$28.99
Toyota
$21.99
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