Fuel: the top of the apps to find petrol

With its large community, Waze also proposes to identify service stations around your position or on a route. The prices are updated by the “Wazers”, which allows very regular updating, ensuring reliable prices. On the other hand, if the nearby stations are well displayed on the map, with the prices of your favorite fuel, you must go through the list to consult all the information on the station. It is therefore not possible to simply consult on the map the stations of a place far from your position without configuring a route or registering the location. Waze has the enormous advantage of offering guidance to said station.

What applications to find cheaper fuel ?

Which applications to choose to find the cheapest service station ? We made a short overview of the most used smartphone applications to find the best prices around you before filling up.

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Going in search of the cheapest service station around you is often a challenge, especially at a time when the price of fuel has started upwards. So we decided to draw up an overview of the most downloaded applications to compare prices before going to the pump. The different applications tested are based on the collaborative operation of users, each being able to update the price of fuels as well as the different services offered. For our part, we have compared the data of applications with the prices observed in the field, in the Paris region and in the provinces.

Overall, the quality of the information provided by the different applications is quite reliable thanks to updates. However, it should be noted that the Fuel Flash, Essence & Co and Gasoil Now applications benefit from a large community, more quick to inform the prices charged by all stations, even the most remote or the least frequented.

In this little game, Waze is unbeatable, taking full advantage of its very large community of “Wazers” and offering an almost instant update of the prices. If Waze is above all an application dedicated to guidance, it incorporates the possibility of finding the stations around its position or on its route. She is also the only one to offer guidance to the station.

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Gasoil Now stands out for the possibility of displaying the price of the full and even the cost of the journey to get to the station according to your vehicle thanks to the information previously provided: tank size and average consumption. For its part, petrol & co represents a very good alternative thanks to its useful features on a daily basis, such as the display of stations around the home or the workplace.

Here is our noted, non -exhaustive opinion out of the six applications tested among the most relevant found on the Play Store according to user notes, the number of downloads as well as the developer’s update frequency.

Number of downloads: more than 5 million
Google Play Store note: 4.2 / 5
Price: free or € 1.49/year or € 6.99 without advertising.

Fuel Flash is an application downloaded by many users despite a fairly dated design and graphics. Navigation is not very intuitive. Price update is regular. This application makes it possible to search for the cheapest station according to several criteria such as the type of fuel sought (diesel, without a-blomb, bioethanol and LPG), the radius around its position or from an address. In addition, Fuel Flash offers prices history on a range from a day to four weeks as well as the opening hours and the various services offered by the station (washing, shop, inflation, etc.)).

Fuel Flash (Benzinpreis-Blitz)

If you need a service station, do not hesitate to use Fuel Flash. This service allows you to see the prices of service stations nearby in order to find the cheapest fuel.

• Version: 1.31.2
• Downloads: 64
• Release date: 06/09/2023
• Author: MW Webwork – Michael Naegler
• License: Free license
• Categories: Shopping – Travel
• Operating system: Android, online service, iOS iPhone / iPad

• Android
• Online service
• iOS iPhone / iPad

Number of downloads: more than a million
Google Play Store note: 3.1 / 5
Price: free or € 4.99 without advertising.

More pleasant to use thanks to its more modern interface, petrol & co makes it possible to identify the most accessible stations depending on the type of fuel and proximity. In addition, the application has three additional tabs to locate stations around the home, the workplace, or on the journey during a trip. Just enter your destination to find the list of stations on the way. Petrol & Co clearly displays the latest price update. Finally, it is possible to “record” its full in order to obtain follow -up of your fuel budget.

Essence & Co

You are looking to save on your fuel budget ? The Mobile Petrol & Co application will help you find the nearest service station that offers the lowest pump prices.

• Version: 3.36
• Downloads: 66
• Release date: 04/11/2022
• Author: Pierre Auclair
• License: Free license
• Categories: Shopping – Travel
• Operating system: Android, online service, iOS iPhone / iPad

• Android
• Online service
• iOS iPhone / iPad

Number of downloads: more than a million
Google Play Store note: 4.5 / 5
Price: free or 0.99 € / year without advertising.

Diesel night allows you to display the different stations on a map, only thanks to geolocation. In addition to consulting the stations and the prices offered, Gasoil Now allows you to know – on a given route, depending on your vehicle, the type of fuel, the volume of the tank and your consumption – the price of your car as well as that the expense linked to the displacement to the station. A good way to control your budget and maximize savings to choose between a closer station, but more expensive, or distant, but cheaper. Obviously, information on the services offered by the service station and the price history is available.

Petrol / diesel night – Price comparator

Petrol / Gasoil NOW – Price comparator (Gas NOW) is a free mobile application that will save you a few beneficial euros on your full of petrol or diesel.

• Version: 4.4.56
• Downloads: 78
• Release date: 09/18/2023
• Author: 03 July Apps Creator
• License: Free license
• Categories: Shopping – Travel
• Operating system: Android, iOS iPhone / iPad

SLMC STATION The cheapest

Number of downloads: more than 500,000
Google Play Store note: 4.7 / 5
Price: free or € 1.99 / 6 months or € 4.99 without advertising.

Usable only in France, the SLMC application (the cheapest station) goes to the essentials by offering only the display of stations, prices according to the selected fuel and the services offered. It is of course possible to follow the evolution of fuel prices, but the functionality is not as practical or pleasant to use as in competitors.

SLMC: the cheapest station

You are looking for the cheapest service station around you or in a given location ? Do not search and download SLMC: the cheapest station on your Android smartphone.

• Version: 1.9.0
• Downloads: 331
• Release date: 08/14/2023
• Author: Simong
• License: Free license
• Categories: Shopping – Travel
• Operating system: Android

Number of downloads: more than 50,000
Google Play Store note: 4.4 / 5
Price: free or € 2.99 without advertising.

Very simple, the Gaspal application makes it possible to locate stations on a map or on a route. The data is up to date, but the application does not offer other features, except monitoring the fuel budget. It is a simple application, which goes to the essentials. We have noted a frequency of updating prices a little less regular than competitors in the service stations in the provinces.

Gaspal – Price of gasoline

Gaspal is a free mobile application and an online service that helps you save money by indicating the geographic position of the cheapest petrol stations around you.

• Downloads: 40
• Release date: 07/10/2019
• Author: Appsese
• License: Free license
• Categories: Shopping – Travel
• Operating system: Android, online service, iOS iPhone / iPad

• Android
• Online service
• iOS iPhone / iPad

Number of downloads: more than 100 million
Google Play Store note: 4.4 / 5
Price: free

With its large community, Waze also proposes to identify service stations around your position or on a route. The prices are updated by the “Wazers”, which allows very regular updating, ensuring reliable prices. On the other hand, if the nearby stations are well displayed on the map, with the prices of your favorite fuel, you must go through the list to consult all the information on the station. It is therefore not possible to simply consult on the map the stations of a place far from your position without configuring a route or registering the location. Waze has the enormous advantage of offering guidance to said station.

Waze – GPS, Maps & Traffic

Waze is the reference community GPS, it allows you to establish a route and a navigation by knowing the traffic and the dangers of the road. The ultimate application for drivers !

• Version: 4.95.1.0
• Downloads: 2640
• Release date: 09/13/2023
• Author: Waze Navigation
• License: Free license
• Categories: Leisure – Travel
• Operating system: Android, online service, iOS iPhone / iPad

• Android
• Online service
• iOS iPhone / iPad

Fuel: the top of the apps to find gasoline

Where to find gasoline? While many service stations are affected by shortages because of strikes in refineries against pension reform, apps make it possible to identify places where fuel remains.

How to know where to find fuel around home? There are applications for that. And they had incredible success last fall. The three most downloaded apps on smartphone in France, ahead of Tiktok, Instagram and others, were then petrol diesel night, the cheapest and petrol & co -co station. But we can also quote Fuelflash, Gaspal … If we had to remember only one, it would surely be diesel now, very easy to use and free. The principle: the app geolocates you and lists all the service stations around you, and the availability or not of each type of fuel.

The best apps to find petrol
– Essence / diesel night on App Store and Google Play
– The cheapest station on Google Play
– Petrol & Co on App Store and Google Play

By selecting the city of Nantes, we see displayed small logos that correspond to the different types of station, Total, Leclerc, Esso … And if the fuel is available or not (it is striped). With a small green, orange or red marker depending on the prices and, the most important thing, we have the date and time when the information was updated. Normally, it is done several times a day. This is the most important aspect of these tools, their participative side. We can also quote Waze, the navigation app, with 18 million users in France, which has set up a similar system, and it is the users themselves who update information, with the bonus of guidance to the station.

Then we have interactive cards, on the internet. One of them is set up by the government, price-fuels.gouv.fr, and lists all stations, with the availability of each type of fuel. We check the type of fuel on a station and we immediately see if it is available. Regarding total stations more specifically, the company has set up an interactive card, which can be found at the address services.total.fr, update time per hour. We can also cite the unit card.monstishness.Fr. In short, a technological arsenal not 100% reliable certainly, but which makes it largely to avoid unpleasant surprises.

Last tip, practical at the moment: apps also to make a lot of gasoline last longer with the ecoconduite. Google Maps added a very practical and little known feature, “fuel savings”. We offer either the quickest journey or the one, a little longer, that will make you use less gasoline. It was implemented when prices were at the highest with an economic objective. It can also be very practical when you drive on the reserve … You have to go to the parameters and check the box “favor the fuel economical routes”.

Watch out for “fuel savingers”

We also lose a lot of fuel because we do not drive optimally. We pass the reports badly, we have too soft driving … Applications will serve as “driving coach”. We can quote Geco Air. We will use the accelerometer and gyroscope of the smartphone to analyze in real time the softness of acceleration or braking, the maintenance of a constant speed … In short, everything that can make you drive in more efficient way in terms of consumption, with all animals. For example, tell you at the right time that it is time to get upside down to optimize consumption, or tell you that you take too tight turns, that your driving lacks flexibility … All that, these are small things, but over the kilometers, it saves fuel.

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We also find “fuel savings” on the market. But great caution, even distrust … There are full on the market, with internet ads that promise fuel savings of around 30%. Boxes that cost a few hundred euros that we place in terms of fuel intake, which will either “magnetize” fuel with a system of magnets, which will facilitate combustion in the engine, or produce hydrogen, which will mix with usual fuel, supposed to improve yield and consumption. No more performance, we lower the sound level of the engine, we increase its longevity … On paper, it makes you dream, except that there is no serious scientific study which validates the fact that it would work. Therefore distrust, especially since the installation of this kind of device cancels the engine warranty. The false good idea par excellence ..

The best applications to find cheap fuel in 2023

The fuel delivery set up by the government and the movements of strikes in progress for the revision of wages in several Totalnergies refineries have created tensions in many petrol stations of France. To find a station where to provide for fuel at the best price, several applications map all the petrol stations in France and promise to make you make substantial savings. Are they reliable ? How to choose the most efficient ? We give you our opinion, necessarily subjective, but that we hope to enlighten !

• Many search options for a service station.
• The active participation of users allowing the regular update of prices.
• A quick grip with a very sober interface.

Cheaper fuel

• Many possible personalizations
• Rather effective update of data

• Refined interface
• Price alert option

Most comparators are available under iOS and Android. We have chosen to base our comparison on the solutions offered for this last bone.

Some apps surprised us with the quality of their information. Others, on the contrary, gradually seem to fall into disrepair: a comparator that does not benefit from the active support of a large community of users has little interest in interest. To avoid falling into a vicious circle, publishers compete in ingenuity and creativity to offer users fluid and ergonomic interfaces.

• The strength of the community
• 1. Petrol & Co: versatile and practical
• 2. Cheaper fuel: everything is in the title !
• 3. Zagaz: a slightly outdated solution
• 4. Fuel Flash: almost perfect
• 5. Essence / diesel night: the most modern
• 6. Fuelio: a complete tool

The strength of the community

Some European countries provide government data that lists the prices charged every day by the various points of sale. The latter are also supposed to go up their price in a weekly manner. The French government thus offers a dedicated website: https: // www.price-fuels.gouv.Fr/. Most publishers use similar European data sources to update their applications.

However, some small stations are not listed. In addition, prices fluctuate very quickly and impose excellent responsiveness. The strength of the community is then expressed wonderfully, at least for the most efficient apps: users provide the prices charged, almost in real time. This is at least the theoretical promise of developers ..

The reality is unfortunately very different. Low -frequented stations rarely benefit up to date. The system works quite well in large cities. Although imperfect and sometimes outright exceeded, these applications are nevertheless acclaimed by many motorists. Are the savings made so important ? It must be recognized that regular use, in a metropolis well covered by other users, effectively allows several tens, even hundreds of euros in savings per year. The level varies of course depending on the fuel, the mileage and the vehicle used.

But this is not the only reason for the craze of motorists. Indeed, the applications mentioned in this file are not content to compare fuel prices. Most of them also identify the services and services offered by each brand. We can thus know the opening hours, the types of payment accepted, etc. However, we return to the main pitfall of these apps: it is the investment of the community which guarantees the relevance and the news of the information collected.

Let us now see in detail the strengths and weaknesses of each app.