Car spotting apps: the 2026 comparison
Ten car spotting apps compared on what their App Store listings actually say: photo identification, rarity system, languages, ratings and release date. We make Carspot, so this comparison is not neutral, but every fact can be checked on the app's listing, and we also say when another app may suit you better.
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What is car spotting?
Car spotting is the hobby of finding and photographing remarkable cars in public places: in the street, at car meets, outside hotels or at races. Car spotting apps add what a camera roll cannot: identifying the model, keeping a collection, and comparing it with other spotters.
Comparison table
Method: data collected on 2 November 2026 from the US and French App Store listings (name, publisher, languages, ratings and number of ratings, release date). Features come from each publisher's own description; “Not stated” means the listing does not mention it.
| App | Publisher | Concept | AI photo ID | Rarity | Languages | US App Store rating | French App Store rating | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carspot | EAZY MEDIA (France) | Photograph real cars and collect them by rarity; badges, quests, challenges, leaderboards, community feed | Yes | 6 tiers, 0–100 score set per model (production, price, age, power, brand) | 16 | 4.5 (2) | 4.4 (46) | Sep 2024 |
| MotorDex | Matteo Farinacci | AI car scanner with a gamified collection | Yes | Rarity tiers | 1 | 4.9 (799) | Not available | Jul 2026 |
| Car Spotting App | Applax Pte. Ltd. | Map of supercars spotted nearby, photo sharing | Not stated | Not stated | 1 | 4.8 (778) | 4.6 (99) | Jul 2024 |
| AutoRadar: Carspotting Map | YODE Pte Ltd | Location-based game: virtual car cards to collect on a map, trading, and real spots shown for 72 h on a world map | Not stated | Virtual cards from Common to Mythic | 1 | 4.7 (493) | 4.8 (147) | Jan 2025 |
| CARFOOLY – The Club | CARFOOLY (France) | Car spotting social network: real-time spots, car recognition challenges, weekly competitions, collectible and tradable cards, car events | Not stated | Not stated | 4 | 4.3 (4) | 4.5 (151) | Apr 2024 |
| Spotit – Car Spotting | EROS STUDIOS LTD | Identify a car from a photo, leaderboards; every feature requires a subscription | Yes | Not stated | 1 | 4.7 (422) | Not available | Aug 2025 |
| Car Identifier – Snap & Scan | Ideas All Day Ltd. | Photo identification and a personal collection | Yes | Not stated | 11 | 4.2 (12) | 5.0 (2) | Nov 2024 |
| Cardentify | Batuhan Kabaktepe | Identification (generation, years), market value estimate, community map | Yes | Not stated | 11 | 4.5 (4) | 4.3 (15) | Mar 2026 |
| Spot It All | Gabriele Leyva | Collectible car stickers, garage, leaderboards | Yes, through paid “Energy” packs | Not stated | 1 | 5.0 (4) | No ratings | Jun 2026 |
| CarCollector: Spotting Game | Anton Richter | 2,000+ vehicles from 113 brands to spot, scanner, map of your spots | Built-in scanner | Rarities | 12 | 5.0 (1) | 4.5 (6) | Jun 2026 |
Carspot's rating on Google Play: 4.2/5 (188 reviews). Other apps' ratings may have changed since the survey.
What sets Carspot apart
- 16 languages, the most of any app in this table.
- A rarity score set model by model from real data (production, price, age, power, brand), not a random card tier: a Ferrari Enzo is legendary because about 400 were built.
- A catalogue of more than 25,000 models, from everyday cars to one-offs.
- Licence plates blurred automatically before a spot is saved or published.
- Free to play on iPhone and Android; the optional Gold subscription adds cosmetics, the map and statistics, never points.
When another app may suit you better
- You want a location-based hunt for virtual car cards, Pokémon-style, rather than photos of real cars: AutoRadar.
- You mostly want a car social network with car meets, events and tradable cards: CARFOOLY – The Club.
- You mainly want to see on a public map where supercars were spotted recently: Car Spotting App or AutoRadar. Carspot keeps its map for Gold members and never shows another player's exact position.
- You want a market value estimate for the car in front of you: Cardentify.
- You are in the United States and want the largest App Store community today: MotorDex, Car Spotting App or Spotit have hundreds of US ratings, Carspot only a few. In France, CARFOOLY – The Club and AutoRadar currently have more App Store ratings than Carspot.
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