TachoClear: Drivers' Hours UK

Your first five shifts are free, with Planner and Week. Breaks, rest and Working Time explained in plain English, with sources, offline, no subscription.

How long can you keep driving today? When is your break due — and what does tonight's rest have to be? TachoClear answers, and shows you the rule that says so.

Built for UK goods-vehicle drivers under the assimilated (EU-derived) drivers' hours rules and the Road Transport (Working Time) Regulations 2005, with GB domestic goods and PSV night-work settings. Unsupported rule combinations are identified explicitly. Made for the people with no transport manager watching their back — agency drivers and new passes especially.

YOUR FIRST FIVE SHIFTS ARE FREE Download TachoClear free and record five complete solo shifts: the live view, explicit Finish shift, the saved summary and the next available start/rest outcome each time, with Planner and Week open throughout. There is no time limit on using them. Every saved shift stays readable and correctable afterwards.

WHAT IT DOES • Live shift tracking — one tap to switch between driving, other work, POA, break and rest • Drive Detection — optional automatic driving/work switching while the app is open. High-confidence motion activity is required; location can corroborate movement. It is off by default, and anything it gets wrong is corrected in two taps • Break countdowns — the 4.5-hour driving clock and the separate working-time break rules, both tracked, clearly labelled • Split breaks done right — 15 then 30, and it tells you when a split won't qualify • Daily rest options — 11h, reduced 9h (max 3 between weekly rests — your budget shown) or 3+9 split, each with its consequences • Weekly rest — the six-day deadline, reduced rest, and a compensation ledger with the payback deadline • Working Time — the 60-hour week cap, your average against the 48-hour limit, night-work rules, POA correctly excluded • EU-style forward planner — "if I start at 06:00…" gives latest break, latest finish, earliest next start • Next available start time — shown after every shift • Lock Screen countdown — your next deadline on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, no unlocking needed • Break-complete alert — take your 45, and the app tells you when it counts • Fix anything — every entry can be edited, split or corrected, with undo • Plain-English rules library — split breaks, POA vs break, multi-manning, ferry rules, mixed GB days and more, offline, with sources and worked examples • PDF and CSV export of your log — included with TachoClear Pro

FREE TO START, PRO FOR ONGOING USE TachoClear Pro is a one-off lifetime unlock for unlimited shifts and history, ongoing Planner and Week use, PDF and CSV export, multi-manning, the full manual-entry practice library and Apple Watch. No automatic charge: nothing is bought unless you choose to unlock Pro. Family Sharing is enabled. Existing paid-download customers receive Pro automatically when Apple verifies their earlier paid acquisition — they are never asked to buy again.

No subscription. No ads. No account. Your driver record stays on your iPhone. Apple may include app data in encrypted iCloud or computer backups when enabled, but TachoClear has not verified a cross-device restore; export PDF or CSV before replacing the phone. Pseudonymous product analytics, crash reports and privacy-preserving advertising measurement are on by default, can be switched off in Settings and never include your hours, dates, GPS location used by Drive Detection, motion, notes or exports; providers may derive a coarse region from network/IP data and receive purchase product, price and currency information. Shift tracking, saved records and the rules guide work offline.

Made for UK drivers: 24-hour clock, dd/mm dates, British English.

IMPORTANT TachoClear is a planning aid, not the legal record — your tachograph is. It is not legal advice. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any government body. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.