Filip Brož For many people, the car is the main source of livelihood. Many need to have their mileage, consumption and other valuable data under supervision. Whether you need to estimate the price of gasoline among your friends, or you want to drive efficiently on the so-called fuel consumption. The Czech Driver's Book application can help you quite easily with this.
It recently underwent a fairly large update, with the main changes being a complete redesign of the entire application, which was definitely appropriate. Until then, the application was graphically adapted to the now outdated iOS 6. The main strength and meaning of the Trip Book lies in the clear statistics about your distance traveled, gasoline consumption or time horizon of departure and arrival.
I'll take it practically. You get into the car and start the Log book. First, you choose which car you will drive, which you can specify at any time. Press the button New ride and you will immediately see the basic information: car, date of travel, price, distance traveled, time of departure and place of departure. Like many other apps, this one also uses your location and works in the background, which unfortunately shows in the battery consumption. On the other hand, the developer David Urban, who is responsible for the app, says that he fixed the issue in a recent update.
As soon as you drive the car, the Logbook starts working on its own in the background. Then when you arrive at your desired destination, just press a button End the ride. Then you fill in the purpose of the trip, possibly other necessary data, confirm and save. So you have another way out of your neck. All routes can then be easily found in the ongoing statistics, which can be edited in various ways.
A great advantage of the application is that all measured and recorded data can be exported. Thanks to the iOS 8 environment, you can immediately open all the data in, for example, Evernote, Numbers or send it to yourself by e-mail. Very handy for people who need to share data with their supervisor, for example.
In the application, it is also possible to interrupt the ride in different ways, for example depending on where you stop. Unfortunately, data about stops or breaks cannot be entered into the application in any way, so you always only get data about the start and the finish, no reference points in between. In the same way, the application can be criticized for not recording the route using a GPS locator, so you have no graphic output of your journey.
When it comes to editing the car, you can also configure it to your liking, which will definitely be necessary at the beginning. In addition to the car name, manufacturer and handy icon, you can also fill in your license plate number, car type, fuel, average consumption according to the technical license or billing method. You can then easily jump between vehicles.
The logbook is designed for the iPhone and its price is rather high by the standards of the App Store and what it can do. You can buy it for ten euros. On the other hand, you will not find any other similar application for iPhones that is completely in Czech and above all not connected to any company.
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It has a few bugs, but it's the best that you can get for the money from the AppStore and that I've tried.
Thank you!
I also use it and would have a few points for improvement.
Leaving aside the ergonomic imperfections, the worst thing is that when traveling a longer distance, the recording simply does not hold up and after reaching the destination I find that I do not have the recording.
Otherwise, as you write, given that there is no other choice, it is still the best that can be found.
I guess I'll make some time and start communicating with the developer... :-)
I look forward to :)!
I'm also talking about communication with the developer, but somehow I don't have morals :( I'm currently dealing with x applications that I use and which I need to fine-tune more than the logbook, I'll deal with those errors here.
In the previous post, I originally described what was bothering me, anyway, in the end it occurred to me why solve it via the forums when I can send it directly to him and I changed the post and ctrl+ca ctrl+v sent it to the developer :)
Otherwise, I tried X applications for creating a log book on the App Store, but the only little thing (GPS tracker) has one more in addition to this one, but it costs about 12 Euros and is prepaid for a year... The rest of the apps are just "decorated" Excel...
And can the data be entered back there as well? Do I need to turn on the application if I forget or I don't want to run out of phone battery?
Yes, just add the trip in the logbook and fill it out.
In my opinion, such an application belongs to a much lower price category.
That's what I thought too, unfortunately the market is quite small and the demands are high :)… It's an event for entrepreneurs and you only need to buy once.
I would like to disagree here. Although it is not one of the cheapest and I bought it at the beginning when it was around 4 Euros, I have been dealing with the log book since +- since 2007 and the use of a GPS tracker for this purpose is worth 10 Euros. I kept it on paper, in Excel on my mobile, etc. But this is practically "maintenance free". Try it and you will come to the same conclusion :)
The data can of course be added there, as I write in the article, almost everything can be edited in the application.