PetrolPrices: UK Fuel Prices

I’ve been using this app for a couple of years and have found it very useful. However I opened it today for the first time in ages and find the new version carries on using your location even when you’re not using it, unless you quit completely. I think there should be an option to use location only while using like in most other apps. And, whatever happened to the map view of results? That was far more useful than the list if you don’t know the area well and need to see at a glance what choices are nearby. So, a disappointing update. Please reinstate the earlier functionality.

Have been using this app for a while now and it’s really handy. I’m sure I’ve saved myself a fortune in that time... the difference in price in one area is incredible and this app tells you instantly which is the cheapest. I love what they’re doing with their latest update although the information doesn’t seem as good, a few petrol stations prices that were previously known on the old app now are blank which is a bit disappointing, although I’m sticking with it because I’m sure future update will improve it! If you leave a review for a petrol station please be aware that it automatically uses the name in the first part of your email address which can be your full name if your not careful, you can only change your user name on the website and not the app so please be aware if you are planning on reviewing and don’t want your name visible to the world..

Have been using this app for quite awhile and was keen to download the update. The updated app is a big step back and heading toward being removed from my phone altogether! The maps appear to have gone completely so no longer useful when you’re travelling. How to use it isn’t clear or indeed logical from the UI. It still doesn’t retain what fuel you use so I have to wait for it to download local Petrol prices before I can select Diesel and then wait all over again, and this highlights how slow it is to use with progress bars appearing at three quarter progress and not moving. The biggest gripe is that it hogs Location - even when only access Location When in Use it continues to flash PetrolPrices is Actively Using Your Location after you’ve closed the app - you have to switch it off from Location Services altogether! The UI is a real dogs dinner and I have no idea what the thinking was behind the Leaderboard? All told it is a backward step and an attempt to broaden its appeal by making it less appealing to use!

The app has now lost map function and many prices are missing. iPhone tells me it is actively tracking my location without using it even though I have that setting deactivated New edit Since writing my review it was “updated “ whilst there are more prices now when I search for a location and select the correctly suggested location it tells me my location is switched off can’t find any prices. This goes round and round in a loop. I won’t turn location on as I wrote before you keep tracking my location even when not using the app contrary to my selected settings, contrary to Apple protocol. It is almost as though you are making this a deliberately bad app which I cannot fathom why you would do that. I was using PetrolPrices when it was only a website many years ago. Why are you self destructing? Update 4th June App asks to put in location but after selecting location from drop down it simply replies location services not switched on no results. When I switch on location services choosing ONLY WHEN USING THE APP after closing the app my iPhone flashes a blue warning message PETROL PRICES IS ACTIVELY TRACKING YOUR LOCATION This continues until I switch off location services. This is not how location services are supposed to work and looks very risky to me Update 8th June I’ve been using Petrol Prices for more than 10 years now originally on the website. Today I finally admit defeat and have deleted the app just a waste of time and effort

I have received years of emails with prices and when they produced an app I was really pleased. It really does save you a fortune. The biggest problem now which is why it had the rating is that the view on a map option where you can figure out quickly where to head is no longer available. You have to open each suggestion to see where it is. Which if you are somewhere new is not convenient at all. I am deeply concerned over how it does not like to stop using my location when I don’t have the app screen open (I have background app refresh turned off for it) and that potentially I am appearing on a points bored. The settings on this don’t seem clear at all. Was impressed now very unimpressed and looking at other apps that provide the service I want.