r/alphaandbetausers • u/Important_Dig_5186 • 3h ago

[Android] Looking for testers: a car logbook app that records your drives automatically, no account needed

I've built Just Drive, an app that keeps a car logbook for you while you drive. It's made for Australia's 12-week tax logbook, but the tracking works anywhere, so you don't need to be Australian to test it.

How it works: put your phone in your pocket and drive. Each trip is recorded on its own: start and end, distance, times and addresses. Once a day you swipe through your trips, right for work and left for private. That's it.

What I need: Google Play requires new apps to have 12 testers stay in a closed test for 14 days in a row before release. If you can:

  • install it from the Play test link I'll email you
  • leave it installed for 14 days and drive as you normally would
  • tell me if a trip was missed, split wrongly, or anything confused you

...that would be a huge help.

Privacy: the app has no account and no analytics. Your trips stay on your phone and in your own backup. Nothing is sent to me.

Cost: free for testers.

Want to help? Leave the email address you use on Google Play here, and I'll send you the test link when it opens: https://forms.gle/9p6mm6yf4ZdyNA3R9

Feedback on the landing page is welcome too: https://cediim8.github.io/just-drive-site/

iPhone version is coming. I'll invite iPhone testers through TestFlight once that's set up. Happy to answer any questions here.

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u/WeaklyFrozen 3h ago

Count me in, I drive a fair bit for site visits and never remember to log anything. Submitted the form, glad theres no account nonsense to deal with too

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u/Important_Dig_5186 2h ago

Thanks, really appreciate it! Site visits are exactly what it's built for: lots of short trips that are a pain to write down. I'll email you the test link once it opens, and post an update here too.

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u/investigatormaker 1h ago

Your Just Drive invitation should distinguish the app's “no account” setup from Google's testing step: testers still need to open the web opt-in link with the Google account used on their phone, then install from Play. For a daily check, ask whether a short stop incorrectly split one drive into two.

I make ThreadFox. For $20 per app, once, Test Rounds places Just Drive with 13 other Android developers who all test each other's apps for 14 days; we send daily reminders and check-ins and replace anyone who stops. You test their apps too, about ten minutes a day, and testing starts once the round fills: https://threadfox.vip/p/dsy3m/rounds

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u/Important_Dig_5186 1h ago

Thank you for your feedback, you're right about how Play testing works.