CarKit: Car Widget Maps Drive

CarKit turns your iPhone into the dashboard your car doesn't have.

Mount the phone, start driving, and one landscape screen shows what matters: your speed, a heading-up map, what's playing, and the shortcuts you actually use. No extra hardware, no cable to a head unit — just the phone you already have, in the cradle you already own.

A DRIVE HAS A BEGINNING AND AN END
Most car apps forget the moment you get in and the moment you get out. CarKit treats the drive as an event. When the car connects, a greeting sound plays and the session starts. When it disconnects, CarKit drops a pin where you parked and closes the drive with a summary. You don't have to open anything — it runs with the app closed, driven by an automation you build once in the Shortcuts app.

BUILT FOR THE WINDSCREEN
• Big, glanceable speed readout, straight from GPS — no adapter needed
• Heading-up map with place search, route preview and hand-off to Apple Maps
• Now-playing card, so you can see and skip a track without hunting for it
• Quick tiles that open your phone, your messages and the apps you drive with
• Stays awake while you drive, dims when idle, and eases off when the phone runs warm

LAYOUTS, NOT ONE FIXED SCREEN
CarKit ships a layout system rather than a single face. Start on the free layout — a clean speed readout — then switch to a composed dashboard, an analogue gauge, a data-dense panel, a map-first view or a minimal digital readout. Pick the one that suits your car and your mount.

WHERE YOU LEFT THE CAR
Every drive that ends drops a parked-car pin with the time since you parked, on the map and in a Home Screen widget. Trip history keeps what actually happened: how long you drove, plus distance and top speed when the driving screen was open. Nothing is invented to fill a row.

WIDGETS FOR THE HOME SCREEN
Small, medium and large widgets for your parked car, your last trip, the weather, a photo, a countdown, a date or a line of text — plus a tile that starts driving mode in one tap.

FREE AND PRO
The free version gives you a driving layout, the map and the launcher tiles, and the connect/disconnect bracket runs free for your first three drives. Pro unlocks the rest: the other layouts, the sound packs, the parked-car pin, trip history and widgets.

CARKIT PRO
• Plans are weekly, monthly or yearly; some plans include a free trial
• Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase
• Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period
• Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings

YOUR DRIVES STAY YOURS
Your location is used while you are using the app and stays on your device. We do not sell your trips, your parking history or any other personal data. We follow GDPR and CCPA privacy practices.

Privacy Policy: https://getcarkit.app/privacy
Terms & Conditions: https://getcarkit.app/terms

Set the automation up once. Every drive after that just works.

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