AutoMate - Car Dashboard

Name: AutoMate - Car Dashboard
Rating: 3.8529413 (12876 reviews)
Author: BitSpice

By: BitSpice

The smart driving app for maps, music, messaging, and more, all hands-free.

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This app was removed from Google Play Store on 2025-05-04

Features & Capabilities

AutoMate is a smart driving app designed to make your driving experience safer and more efficient. It provides easy access to essential services such as maps, music, messaging, and phone calls—all hands-free, so you can stay focused on the road. Features include turn-by-turn navigation, nearby place searches, SMS messaging with voice replies, and media controls through buttons or gestures.

Premium features elevate the experience with options like launching AutoMate as your default launcher, gesture controls for hands-free operation, traffic camera alerts, and customizable wallpapers. With real-time engine data integration and contextual information such as weather updates and speed limit alerts, AutoMate ensures that you always have the right information at the right time. Designed for convenience and safety, AutoMate is an indispensable dashboard companion for any driver.

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VARY Last updated: 2021-02-10

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2015-12-28

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BitSpice

Google Play Store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bitspice.automate

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su*****@bitspice.net

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https://www.bitspice.net/automate/

User Reviews

Users appreciate AutoMate's intuitive interface and its ability to emulate Android Auto without changing the car's head unit. It starts and closes automatically with car Bluetooth connection, offering useful features for drivers. However, many report repeated app crashes, especially linked to navigation and switching map apps. Voice commands and message functions frequently fail, and premium features often do not unlock even after purchase. The app requires restarts for settings to apply. Concerns arise about lack of recent updates and ongoing support.

Pros

Acts as a viable alternative to Android Auto providing a similar car dashboard experience
Simple, clean and intuitive user interface design
Automatically launches upon connecting to car Bluetooth and closes on disconnect
Includes numerous features and customization options for driving mode
Free/basic version is stable and functional for basic use

Cons

Navigation is buggy—built-in navigation and switching between navigation apps (Google Maps, Waze) often crashes app or does not work properly
Voice commands and SMS messaging features frequently fail to execute or send messages
App crashes repeatedly, especially when changing settings or during navigation
Premium features often do not unlock properly or function despite purchase
Settings changes do not take effect until app is completely restarted, leading to a frustrating experience
App appears to have been unsupported or infrequently updated since 2021, causing degradation in functionality
Bluetooth audio volume sometimes decreases unexpectedly while the app is running

Recent reviews

Navigation does not work. Changing to waze or google maps does not return to automate after starting direction even with that setting toggle on. Voice commands record, but don't execute. App keeps crashing: more than 20 times in the hour since I downloaded it. I wished I noticed that the last change log is from 2020 and the most recently noted update (not in the change log is from 2021). Is this app still supported? If not, how can it still take money for 'premium' features that don't work?

Ja*****, 2023-01-02

I wanted this to be a good alternative to Android Auto and Google Driving mode. It is not. When I try to use Google maps, it freezes. When I receive a text it reads it, but crashes when I try to reply. It displays the current street accurately about 30% of the time. Usually only displays the street I started on. It is quite useless. I'm disappointed.