# MercuryGO: Safe Driving App

> Drive Safe and Save

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1519252936](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1519252936)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1519252936`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Mercury Insurance Company
- **Category:** Navigation
- **Rating:** 4.00 / 5 (469 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.2.2
- **Last updated:** 2025-12-23
- **First published:** 2020-06-19
- **Size:** 141 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-20
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mercurygo-safe-driving-app/id1519252936)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://privacy.mercuryinsurance.com/mercurygo-privacy-policy.html](https://privacy.mercuryinsurance.com/mercurygo-privacy-policy.html)

## Description

MercuryGO is Mercury Insurance’s safe driving app that combines a virtual driving simulator with coaching to help you drive smarter. It provides feedback on your trips, shows trip history, offers practical safe-driving tips, supports multiple users, and assigns driving scores and badges to recognize progress. By encouraging safer driving, it can help reduce your car insurance costs.

Availability and discounts vary by state. You must be a Mercury Insurance customer and participate in the MercuryGO program to use the app. Download MercuryGO today to start learning, improving your driving, and saving on insurance.

## Rankings

- #79,516 — Overall
- #74 — auto save

## Review summary

MercuryGO promotes safer driving by tracking trips, providing a scoring history, and offering a passenger mode to avoid false positives. Users cite ease of use, clear feedback, and potential insurance discounts as key benefits. However, its reliability is a concern: speed-limit and speeding detections are frequently inaccurate, and phone-use detections can misfire when parked or as a passenger. Thresholds feel rigid, and constant background tracking raises privacy worries. Rideshare or bus trips can be misclassified as driving.

### Pros

- Helps focus on safe driving and reduces phone use while driving.
- Provides a visual scoring/history to track driving improvement over time.
- Potential auto insurance discounts for safe driving.
- Easy to use and offers a set-it-and-forget-it experience.
- Allows passenger mode to avoid false positives when not driving.

### Cons

- Inaccurate speed limit detection and speeding alerts, leading to false penalties.
- Frequent false positives for phone usage and other non-driving activity (e.g., parked or passenger usage).
- Rigid speed thresholds with little leeway and fixed 10 mph over triggers.
- Privacy concerns due to constant background location tracking.
- Misclassification of rideshare or bus trips as driving.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1519252936)