Fuel prices & EV chargers · iPhone · iOS 26+
Fuel prices near me, and where they honestly exist
The WrenchTime Price Radar plots the fuel stations around you by real direction and distance, with the cheapest one highlighted and one tap to navigate. Real pump prices come from official public registries, so coverage follows what governments publish: Italy, France and Spain work immediately, Germany works once you add your own free Tankerkönig key, and everywhere else the radar lists the stations around you from Apple Maps without prices rather than pretending to have them. Electric charging points are a separate answer and work worldwide, with the plugs each site carries, how fast they are, who runs them and when they were last verified, but never with a price, because no market publishes a charging price that can be compared. The radar is free, inside the app, and needs no account.
In which countries does WrenchTime show real fuel prices?
In the ones that publish them. There is no world feed for pump prices: each country that publishes at all publishes differently, and most do not publish at all. Rather than show a half-empty map everywhere, WrenchTime reads each market's own official registry and says plainly where it has nothing.
- Italy the MIMIT Osservaprezzi carburanti registry, searched by radius around you, with self-service and served prices told apart. Nothing to set up.
- France the government's own open data portal, searched by radius. Nothing to set up.
- Spain the MITECO Geoportal de gasolineras, published per province, so a search near a border is complete inside the circle and the screen says which province it came from. Nothing to set up.
- Germany Tankerkönig, with your own free key entered once in Settings. Their terms allow one request a minute and forbid background refreshes, and the app enforces both rather than hoping.
- Everywhere else the stations around you from Apple Maps, without prices. The United States, Japan and China have no usable per-station price source at any price a free app can pay, and for two of them that is structural rather than temporary.
What happens when there are no prices for my country?
The screen becomes a different instrument rather than a broken one. There is no apology banner and no empty column: when the zone you are in has no price source, every element that exists to show a price is simply absent. The price column, the cheapest and average tiles, the sort-by-price picker, the best-price badge, all gone, and what remains is a ranked list of the stations around you with their distance and direction, and one tap to navigate. The same is true when a source exists but carries no price for the fuel you picked. The only states left are offline and failed, which are real errors and are shown as such.
How does the radar itself work?
A scope, a map and a list over the same zone. The scope draws each station at its true bearing and distance, so a station above the middle is the one ahead of you when you tap the compass, and turning the ring around the scope sets how far it looks. The map shows every pin wearing its price and pans anywhere to search another area. The list ranks by distance or by price. Turning the ring never costs a request, because the zone already in hand is filtered locally, and every station offers Apple's own place card, which is the only route to live opening hours and whatever Apple knows about the place.
Where are the EV charging points, and why is there no charging price?
Charging is the answer that works everywhere. Switch the radar to EV and it finds charging points anywhere in the world from Open Charge Map, the global public registry, with Apple Maps underneath as a floor so the answer is never an error screen. Each site carries the plugs it has and whether each is AC or DC, the power in kW, the operator with its contacts, the reported status per plug, the access notes, the date it was last verified and the latest community check-in, fetched one station at a time and cached because the registry's fair-use policy asks for exactly that. Each location credits its data provider and its licence, which the terms require to be visible. What it never carries is a price: per kWh, per minute, session fees, roaming markups and membership tariffs coexist at the same plug, so there is no comparable number to show, and WrenchTime shows the operator's own cost note verbatim instead of inventing one.
- Your car's own plug the connector filter opens on the plug your vehicle carries and can be changed by hand. Eight connector families, from Type 2 and CCS to CHAdeMO, NACS and GB/T.
- Minimum power filter out the slow posts when you need a fast charge, applied locally to the zone already loaded.
- Verified and checked in the last verification date and the most recent check-in are the closest thing to live availability that any free source publishes, and they are labelled as what they are.
Does the radar send my location anywhere?
It sends a coordinate and a radius to the price registry for the country you are in, and nothing else. No identifier, no account, no history: there is no WrenchTime account and no WrenchTime server in the path at all, so the registry sees a query and we see nothing. Answers are cached for a few minutes so panning and zooming cost no further requests, the cache is on your phone, and if you never open the radar no request is ever made. Where no registry covers you, the search is Apple's own, under Apple's privacy terms.
Does it cost anything?
No. The Price Radar, including the worldwide charging point finder, is on the free tier along with the rest of the app's core. Germany is the only market that asks anything of you, and what it asks is a free key of your own from Tankerkönig, which takes a minute and means your searches run on a quota nobody else draws on. You can do the same for charging points if you want to, with your own free Open Charge Map key.
Frequently asked questions
Which countries show real fuel prices in WrenchTime?
Italy, France and Spain with nothing to set up, from their official public registries, and Germany once you enter your own free Tankerkönig key in Settings. Everywhere else the radar lists the stations around you from Apple Maps, without prices.
Why are there no prices in my country?
Because no public registry publishes them there at a price a free app can pay. The United States, Japan and China are the largest examples, and for Japan and China the absence is structural rather than a gap waiting to be filled. The radar still shows the stations around you, and the screen drops every price element rather than showing empty ones.
Can it find EV charging points?
Yes, worldwide, from Open Charge Map with Apple Maps as a fallback. Each site lists its plugs and whether they are AC or DC, the power in kW, the operator, the reported status, the last verification date and the latest check-in, and you can filter by your own vehicle's connector and by minimum power.
Why is there no price on a charging point?
Because no market publishes one that can be compared. Per kWh, per minute, session fees, roaming markups and membership tariffs coexist at the same plug. WrenchTime shows the operator's own cost note exactly as written and invents nothing.
Where do the prices come from?
Italy from the MIMIT Osservaprezzi carburanti registry, France from the government's open data portal, Spain from the MITECO Geoportal de gasolineras, Germany from Tankerkönig with your own key, and charging points from Open Charge Map. Each answer credits its source in the app.
Is the Price Radar free?
Yes, on the free tier, and it needs no account. Germany asks for a free Tankerkönig key of your own, which is a one-minute sign-up on their site.
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