FareMeter questions and answers

It measures the ride with GPS and applies your tariff: base fare, plus a price per km or mile, plus a price per minute, with an optional minimum fare, and then adds any extras. In the classic mode, distance is charged while you move and time while you are stopped or crawling below a speed you set, the way a cab meter does. You enter the rates; the app does the arithmetic on every trip.

Yes, and you have to, because the rates are yours to enter. You can create as many tariffs as you need and give each one a time window and days of the week, so night and weekend rates switch in by themselves. Airport is a one-tap extra charge, not a separate tariff, and there is no built-in toll button: add a toll as a custom extra with its own name and amount.

No. A meter that is legal for hire is tested and sealed under your local authority's rules, and a phone app is not that. FareMeter is a tool for your own records and for showing a passenger how a fare was reached.

Yes. Any saved trip can be shared as a text receipt or sent by email in the free version. A PDF receipt with your business details, receipt number and a QR code, plus printing, needs Pro. Exporting the whole trip log as CSV is also a Pro feature.

Yes, noticeably, because GPS is on for the whole ride and that costs power no matter how you tune it. Keeping the phone on the car charger for the whole shift avoids this. If that is not possible, switch GPS precision in Settings to Balanced or Battery saver instead of Maximum precision — the saver setting trades a little accuracy on short trips for a lot less drain.

Both exist. Pro is offered as a monthly subscription, a yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. The yearly plan is the one shown first, so pick the option you actually want before you pay.

It is as accurate as your phone's GPS in that place, which is usually good in open streets and weaker among tall buildings. FareMeter ignores movement under 1 m/s (3.6 km/h), so GPS drift while you sit at a red light does not add distance. It is a good estimate, not a calibrated measurement.

A gap in GPS of up to 30 minutes is counted as waiting time, never as distance. That means the meter never invents kilometres it did not see. On a long tunnel run the fare may come out a little lower than a sealed meter would show.

Yes, if you allow location access "always". The trip keeps counting with the screen off or with a navigation app in front, and the fare shows on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Background location is only used while a trip is running or paused.

Because the fare is built from the distance and speed that GPS measures. Without location access the meter has nothing to count. The app does not need an account and your trips stay on your phone and in your own iCloud account if you are signed in.

The free version shows ads, and iOS requires that question before an app can show personalised ads. Saying no does not change how the meter works. Pro removes the ads.

No. The watch app is its own meter with its own GPS and its own default tariff. It does not receive or mirror the trip you started on the iPhone. The Apple Watch app is part of Pro.

Not directly, which is worth being upfront about rather than letting the button mislead you. Collect payment hands the amount off to Square, SumUp or Zettle if you already have one installed, sends your own payment link, or opens WhatsApp or Telegram with the amount filled in. Tap to Pay on iPhone sits in that same list but does not work yet.

Up to 10 saved trips in total. When you reach the limit, a rewarded ad lets you save one more trip, or Pro removes the limit. The meter itself keeps working either way.

Yes. The Fare Calculator in the Work tab takes a pickup and a destination address, gets the route distance and driving time, and prices it with the tariff you choose, using the same pricing as the live meter. Address search needs a data connection, and real traffic can make the final fare differ.

No. FareMeter records trips, expenses and payments and can export them as CSV with Pro, which you or your accountant can use. It does not file a tax return or tell you what you owe.

Yes. Each tariff has its own distance unit, Kilometers (km) or Miles (mi), and its own currency code. The currency decides the decimals used when rounding: two for EUR or USD, none for JPY.

No. FareMeter is an iPhone app, with a separate Apple Watch app in Pro. There is no iPad, Mac, Android or CarPlay version.