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GasBuddy for iPhone Gets Major 2.0 update!

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

Our largest update in Bottle Rocket history! GasBuddy is already the most feature-rich fuel finder on the iPod and iPhone. But we’ve raised the bar again with over 32 important improvements, feature additions and tweaks. We listened to our customers and picked the top 30 requests (plus two more). They are:
- Address and name on list views
- Additional station logos to help you identify your favorite brands
- Improved price reporting screen
- Metric conversion setting
- Maps show your current location or center of ZIP code based on search type
- New Savings screen
- New GasBuddy screen with direct access to support
- Improved and better implemented customer support and FAQ’s
- Station location on maps more accurate
- Added ability to report price for unlisted station
- Added refresh to price report screen
- Added ability to report prices in areas where you are not currently
- Shortened Recommend email. Please recommend GasBuddy to your friends
- Added all keys to keyboards for optional GasBuddy.com member login
- Added help to On Fumes screen
- Added price data to On Fumes pins, when available. Remember that On Fumes is only for finding the nearest gas station when in an emergency.
- Added direct navigation to station in On Fumes screen.
- Added 96 hours to the price aging options
- GasBuddy now searches outside the search range to always find more stations for you
- Rewrote the GPS location code to use latest iPhone software
- Improved server connectivity to app
- Added help text in Settings screens
- Now diesel-owner friendly
- More stable
- Added more alert dialog messages

GasBuddy now fully Canadian-Friendly:
- All screens reformatted to be more Canadian friendly
- Canadian station detail view
- New Canadian price list view shows cents/liter with decimal
- New Canadian map pins
- Added Canadian price reporting screen
- 15 new Canadian station logos added
- Metric conversion
- Canadian Savings screen

The update has been submitted to Apple and should be approved in mid June… And here’s the great thing: Most every time you use GasBuddy when filling your tank, you save more than what the app costs. And, for example, in Dallas, TX a GasBuddy user will save as much as $300 a year (your mileage may vary). Truly amazing!

Get GasBuddy on the App Store now. Everyone who buys it will get the update for free.

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GasBuddy One of Five iPhone Apps That Might Change Your Life

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

In the April 2009 copy of their premium in-flight magazine Hemispheres, United Airlines picked GasBuddy as one of five iPhone apps that might change your life.

Also mentioned were Lonely Planet Audio Phrasebook, SitOrSquat, HearPlanet and FlightTrack.

Covering both USA and Canada with 181 web sites and over 1 million volunteer price spotters, GasBuddy is the most complete source of retail gas and diesel prices in North America providing more than 100,000 updates per day.

GasBuddy has also been lauded by CNBC and Time Magazine.

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CNBC Says GasBuddy Will Save You Money!

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

CNBC reminds viewers GasBuddy saves them money.

CNBC reminds viewers GasBuddy saves them money.

CNBC reminded its viewers today that a lot of iPhone apps are designed to help you SAVE money, not just spend more. In this climate of belt-tightening and cost-cutting, GasBuddy, and apps like it that help users save money, are becoming increasingly more popular.

In fact, GasBuddy can help you generate real world savings of between $100 and $300 per year depending how how well you stick to the program. And it easily pays for itself in the first fill up.

The CNBC article also covered other apps that will save you money.

You can learn more about GasBuddy here.

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GasBuddy.com named “50 Best Websites in 2008″ by Time Magazine!

Monday, January 5th, 2009

We’ve been saying all along that we think GasBuddy is an extremely useful app and should be one of the usual suspects on any iPhone.  It looks that we’re not alone.  Time magazine actually selected the GasBuddy website as one of their 50 Best Websites in 2008. See below or read about it here:

 

 

Inquiring minds want to know: Where’s the cheapest gas? GasBuddy can tell you. The site collects real-time prices from some 750,000 volunteer price “spotters,” who send in daily updates from their local stations. With prices varying by up to 50 cents from one station to the next in some cities, it pays to stay informed. A heat map displays where prices are currently the highest (California) and lowest (Wyoming). GasBuddy also shows you how prices have changed over time and can send mobile updates to your phone. Other similar but less comprehensive services include MapQuest’s Gas Prices and Gas Price Watch

As the only official GasBuddy app, it goes to reason that having a portable version in your hands only makes the best better.  Think about it.  When do you REALLY need to find a gas station?  When you’re surfing in front of the computer or when you’re actually driving in your car?  How about when the needle reaches the E? Get the useful information on GasBuddy.com when you need it most. Download GasBuddy, the app, today.    

Time Magazine 50 Best of Websites 2008 Article.

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