Getting your records out of Fuelly

Whatever you decide to do next, do this part first. Ten years of fill-ups is worth more than any app, and it takes about five minutes to get a copy.

Where things stand

Two facts, so you can judge for yourself:

That's all I'm going to claim. I don't know what's happening behind the scenes and neither does anyone else outside the company. Plenty of people are quite reasonably waiting for the new version — Fuelly's web service still works, and the community there is the biggest in this category by a wide margin.

But if you've stopped waiting, here's how to leave without losing anything.

Export from Fuelly

You do this on the website, not in the app.

  1. Sign in at fuelly.com in a browser.
  2. Open the vehicle you want.
  3. Find the export option in the vehicle's settings or tools and download the CSV.
  4. Repeat for each vehicle — you'll get one file each.

Put those files somewhere that isn't just your Downloads folder. Files, iCloud Drive, a folder that gets backed up — anywhere you'd still find it in two years. This copy is the thing that actually matters; the app you pick next is replaceable.

Then have a look at what's in it

Open the CSV in Numbers, Excel, or anything else, and check two columns before you import it anywhere.

Units. Is the distance in miles or kilometres? Volume in US gallons, imperial gallons, or litres? Fuelly stores what you originally entered, so if you moved countries or changed the setting at some point, one file can contain both. Sorting by date and scanning down the odometer column usually makes it obvious.

Partial fill-ups. Fuelly marks these. If a good chunk of your history is partial fills, be sceptical of the economy figures you've been looking at — not just in Fuelly, but in most apps. Here's why.

Where to put it

I'm not going to pretend the answer is obviously my app.

If you want a website and a community, there isn't really a replacement for Fuelly. Nothing else in this category comes close — it has over 29,000 App Store ratings and a website where owners compare notes. Staying put and waiting for the rewrite is a legitimate choice.

If you're done with subscriptions, Road Trip MPG is $6.99 once with no in-app purchases, and it has the highest rating of anything here — 4.90, checked August 2026. Several people I've read about moved there from Fuelly and stayed.

If your fill-ups are inconsistent, or you'd rather your data wasn't on anyone's server, that's the gap FuelJot was built for. Import the CSV, map the columns, done. Export back out any time, free.

Importing into FuelJot, specifically

Vehicle screen → ••• → Import CSV, then pick the file.

It'll try to match the columns on its own. When it can't — and with a file from another app it usually can't do all of them — you get a screen where you tell it which column is which. Odometer, volume, date, price, whether the tank was filled. Takes a minute or two per vehicle.

Two things worth knowing before you start:

The importer asks whether your file's numbers are in miles or kilometres, gallons or litres. Get this right — it's the one mistake that quietly multiplies every figure you own by 1.6 or 3.8. If your file has mixed units, split it into two and import them separately.

And if Fuelly marked some entries as partial, map that column too. FuelJot will treat those as non-anchors rather than folding them into the maths, which is the whole reason the numbers come out different — and, I'd argue, right.

If it goes wrong

Email me the CSV and tell me which app it came from: support@getfueljot.com. I'll tell you how to map the columns, and if the importer genuinely can't handle your file I'd rather know about it than have you give up quietly.

This also applies if you decide to use a different app entirely. Ask me anyway. I'd rather you kept your ten years of records than used mine.