Petrol heads -- recommendations for a OBD II interface/app for Android smartphone?

[Aloha_Shooter]

Thanks for the suggestions. I like the way Torque's website gives you a quick summary and review of the various dongles that work with their software (http://torque-bhp.com/wiki/Bluetooth_Adapters). The OBDLink LX is a little more expensive than the ones that go for $10-12 but seems pretty powerful for the money.

[Jer]

Thanks for the suggestions. I like the way Torque's website gives you a quick summary and review of the various dongles that work with their software (http://torque-bhp.com/wiki/Bluetooth_Adapters). The OBDLink LX is a little more expensive than the ones that go for $10-12 but seems pretty powerful for the money.

Those are tested but many also pay a fee to be listed in their website so keep in mind that you're paying for that fee. The orange/blue label larger ones and the translucent low-profile blue ones work just fine and are cheap. The free version of the app is quite powerful and lots of folks just use that for most of their needs. I'm not one to pay for apps often but Torque is one of the few that I have paid the fee to get the Pro version of. Not that it's that much better but the dev has done a fine job developing this app so I like to reward those who put good work into something I benefit from. Most other apps I just use the free version and let them get their money through advertisers or whatever.

[Gman]

The free version of the app is quite powerful and lots of folks just use that for most of their needs. I'm not one to pay for apps often but Torque is one of the few that I have paid the fee to get the Pro version of. Not that it's that much better but the dev has done a fine job developing this app so I like to reward those who put good work into something I benefit from. Most other apps I just use the free version and let them get their money through advertisers or whatever.

Great point. When I needed an app, the Torque Lite version got me what I needed to fix my Tahoe...then I bought the Pro version for the same reason. I could appreciate the work that someone had put into the free version and rewarded them with a few bucks for the Pro version. I need folks like that to keep up the good work.

I saved much more since these tools were made available to me.