Features & Capabilities

Sardines makes organizing carpools effortless — right inside iMessage. No accounts, no downloads for your friends, no switching between apps. Just open Sardines in any conversation and start filling seats.

Create Ride Polls in Seconds Pick your vehicle, assign a driver, add passengers to seats, and share the ride poll with your group. Everyone in the conversation can see who's riding where at a glance.

Multi-Vehicle Trips Need more than one car? Add multiple vehicles to a single trip and assign passengers across all of them. The message preview adapts automatically — from a detailed single-car view to a compact multi-vehicle summary.

Your Vehicle Garage Save your cars, vans, and SUVs with their exact seat layouts. Support for regular seats, shotgun, car seats, and boosters — so you always know who fits where. Switch vehicles with a tap when plans change.

Names That Stick Sardines remembers your drivers, passengers, and trip names. The more you use it, the faster it gets. Names from rides other people send you are saved automatically too.

No Accounts. No Servers. Everything stays in iMessage. Your ride details are encoded directly in the message — no sign-ups, no cloud storage, no tracking. It just works.

Trip Scheduling Add a date and time to any ride so everyone knows when to be ready.

Built for Real Life Whether it's the daily school run, a weekend trip, or coordinating rides to the game, Sardines keeps everyone on the same page without the group text chaos.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
Robert Mc Cord Hoehn
Rating:
4.70
(12)
Version:
2.2 Last updated: 2026-04-01
Version code:
884000231
Creation date:
2025-04-21
Compatible devices:
Size:
13.72MB
URLs:
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Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-06-06
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Developed by:
Robert Mc Cord Hoehn
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sardines-carpool/id6744044111
Website:
https://sardines.app

User Reviews

The best app for carpool comms!
by mo*****, 2026-05-07

Friends in Burlington were using Sardines so my first experiences with the app were as a passenger. I dug it. Now that I'm organizing my own rides, I'm realizing it's even more valuable than I'd originally realized. My use case is kids activities--never not a headache. While Sardines can't sign fun park waivers or help people get dressed, it solves a very major pain point: getting places without a ton of back-and-forth texts while adulting is trying to happen. Its beauty is in its simplicity and utility.
by Jo*****, 2026-03-28

yes, it's really just iMessages between folks! it's the simplest way to communicate between drivers and riders, with everyone getting immediate updates. clever!
by FB*****, 2025-11-23
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