Meet Drivescribe, the new app that turns your smartphone into a mobile safe-driving coach. If you are delusional driver who doesn’t know why you keep getting speeding or careless driving tickets or wearing your brakes out quickly. If your teaching your teenager to fine tune his or her driving. If you just want to know how well or bad of a driver you are. If you answered yes to any of the previous inquiries, this app is for you.
You can begin using it as soon as you register. Just hit the ‘Start Trip’ button before driving off and hit ‘End Trip’ when you’re finished, the app does the rest. Let’s dive into what the app does in between driving.
*We were compensated for this sponsored review by Erie Insurance but our opinions are 100% our own.*
The App Side Of Drivescribe
The Drivescribe app utilizes your device’s GPS + accelerometer along w/ advanced mapping data to monitor your driving behavior. From accessing the speed limit at your location + seeing if you speeding past that to hard braking and more. All of your data (violations & good driving) goes to their servers to be displayed on the desktop app.
Every time you drive you acquire points. Drivescribe uses a Safe Driver Score to rate your driving. The lower the score, the better. The more times you drive without violations, the less amount of points you acquire.
As far as the app communicating with you, it actually tells you and warns you. You get a warning when you go about 5mph over the speed limit. You the speed limit sign on the app goes Yellow and when you go over that, it goes Red. In regards to speeding, you get 3 warnings before the violation is recorded. For other alerts like hard braking, excessive turning, excessive acceleration, or yielding instead of stopping at a Stop sign – you get immediate violation recorded.
The app looks great but is a bit of the basic side in regards to seeing your metrics. The Android version of the app automatically blocks incoming phone calls + tests while on iOS, the feature isn’t there yet. For that, you will have to sign in on a computer. Hopefully future updates will open it up to view them from the app but for now nothing.
The Desktop Side Of Drivescribe
This where you go to see all of your metrics and in-depth. You get to see your point total. Where and what violations you accrued if any. How many times you went out for a drive. How long was each drive. A leaderboard to compare your score among other users.
And for those of you utilizing the paid version, can turn your points into gift cards of your choosing on the desktop app. The monthly fees are broken up into 3 tiers: Basic, Standard, & Premium. The Basic is $3 monthly w/ monthly cap of 300 points, the Standard is $5 monthly w/ a monthly cap of 500 points, and the Premium is $10 w/ a monthly cap of 1,000 points. I would suggest using the free version first then see how many points you regularly before upgrading to one of the paid versions.
“It will make you a better driver but it will may cramp your driving style.”
Using this app I got to see how reckless of a driver I was. And here I think, I’m driving along w/ everyone else. Overall, the app will offer tips on better driving which can result in improved fuel efficiency and reduce uneven tire wear in the process. But it will may cramp your driving style.Drivescribe comes in a free version for Android and iOS but if you want to take advantage of their point system to turn yours into gift cards, you’ll have to subscribe to the paid version.
