Carista OBD2

Complete and utter waste of your time. The App simply doesn't work and I don't know why you would get this when your existing OBD linking device and software work just fine. Basically the App help menu just links to a webpage claiming your vehicle is compatible. However the App itself can't even identify your vehicle on it's own, and once you put in the model information manually, it scans through the OBD device several minutes before stating your vehicle is incompatible. Cust svc no help.

does not connect to a 2013 Audi A4. Tried for hours. deleted and unpaired every Bluetooth connection on my phone. powered down and restarted numerous times and disconnected and reconnected Bluetooth. brand new Samsung Galaxy S22 phone. not even a month old! spend your money elsewhere...Carista simply does not work!

Automatically charged for yearly subscription, without consent. Charged £35 for subscription, without using the app at all. I was charged both years without using the app once. Unable to get a refund once payment made. What a scam!

Purchased for my gr yaris,not really a lot I could do with it,I've tried the windows up via the remote,other than that nothing else I would use,shame there's no live gauge viewing,ie boost/ rev etc,perhaps they could update to do this.

Thanks a lot to the developers, the application is just super! I activated a lot of settings, which at the dealer cost several times more than in the application. If you also add an entry to the memory of a new key, then I am sure that it will be in demand, because. often, when buying a car from the secondary market, there is only one key, and buying and "sewing" into the car's memory usually costs from $100. I'm sure the community will be very grateful to you for such a feature.

It's genuinely crazy- you buy an adapter...and then they force you to buy the software subscription just to use it! After the 30 day "free trial" expires im stuck with a useless tool. And it's a lie that it gives you "basic" codes even without the subscription, it rarely might but usually it's all blocked out. Total waste of money, just get a relatively inexpensive real hardware scanner...

It's a bit of a rip off. Very limited. The tool I got from Amazon and was supposed to get a deal on the subscription which I didn't get. Then it cost me £9.99 for a month but what it fails to tell you it billed me that every month. I'm returning it to Amazon as it's a total con for what it does. I'm an ex vehicle technician fully qualified and with over 29 years experience. It's rubbish don't buy it.

It was confusing at first to use. Nothing work except to read. Once I was in contact with support, it work after the full subscription was pay. I was able to reset a few thing on the wife car. Also found things the car did not have some option. In all, I have to say, it did save us money than going to the dealer. I recommend Carista has to post on their site to on full pay subscription will grant all option. Thanks again for the support.

Outstanding support! Works fine in my 2021 Toyota, but would not work on my cousin's 2022 Volkswagen Tiguan. Submitted a support request through the app and got an answer overnight that VW requires the hood to be open to write settings. This app (especially it's support) is worth the premium cost IMHO.

Should be one off cost rather than subscription. Left a previous rating and obtained a response. Paid a yearly subscription and forgot to cancel. So paid two years. Wanted to turn my headlight washers on for an Mot and had to pay £9.99 FOR ONE CHANGE. The payment should be a one off payment. Now everytime I want to change one setting it costs me £9.99 as a months subscription. The diagnostics is a waste if time and there have been no updates in years. Not worth getting. Better versions available

Didn't realise I still had a subscription for this until the payment has just been taken. Not had my module for over half a year since someone borrowed it so can't even use the thing I've just paid £35 for, for the next year, no option for a refund or to cancel the payment either. Wouldn't say it was worth it when I did use it, manufacturer specific devices are a lot better.

I was able to make two changes to my car and avoided the dealer expense and time but I will say options are very limited. There are only a few things that you can only do through the app versus the in car options. I only did the one month subscription because I can't see the need to have a yearly since you will make changes once and your done. I had my own obd2 adaptor so made using the app more cost effective. It's good but would be great if if had more customization options.

Found 14 errors and if i want to clear them need to pay. I paid 9.99 per month and clean all the errors but the most important thing and that why i bought this OBD is to customize my car but can't customize my bmw 520 F10 seems like is not available for this model and in the description they said is for bmw 520 F10 too. Really disappointed Not happy send him back.

Easy and Functional The customization feature is awesome. Worth the price of admission. Which means to get the app fully functional, you need to buy a subscription. Still cheaper than going to the dealer to have them do the same thing and charge each time you want to try a new setting. Very happy, we have three Toyota's in our family, all are customizable.

The app works fine for scanning the modules of my 2017 VW Passat. I did the trial upgrade to the 'Pro' version so that I could make some changes, then cancelled my subscription. This app is definitely NOT worth $40 per year for the minimal amount of programming options given. A plus+ is that it worked with my cheap ELM327 bluetooth adapter. Since this is lacking extended coding options, the subscription service is overpriced and really a non-competitor to OBDeleven and other 'more powerful' tools. I see no reason to pay indefinitely for it's limited ability. If anything, the subscription service should be considered a R&D fee. It has potential, but I just don't see the value at this point.

Slow support and stupidly over priced subscription, there's another well known app that's more up front but the usability is so much better. As part of the beta I tested and fed back, with no response to the parts that don't work which is most of it for a 7.5 Golf. Don't waste your money on this and use the other one. Would of been one star but the three things I managed to get to work actually worked correctly. Makes me wonder what the charges are for!

While I was not able to activate my 30-day free trial I have paid for services from carista. I was able to change settings such key fob actions,turn off daytime running lights,change the brightness of my turn signals and automatic transmission shift point prefference! For personal use with one or two vehicles it's well worth it. I have several Vehicles all different makes and models. Only complaint is the software for each vehicle year make model is sold separately. Still an amazing platform!

App managed to pick up some OBD errors which other apps didn't display, in my case for the A/C pressure sensor in my Audi A4 B8. Very cool, replaced the sensor and now everything is running well. Also enabled the ADS and green menu for the MMI, all worked without issue. However, I tried enabling the remember state for the auto stop/start button, which sadly had no effect. No idea why, or if it's something relevant to my vehicle only. Car: Audi A4 B8 8K 2010 2.0 TFSI 180PS / MMI + Nav

I get it, I really do, to keep an app running, they need money. However, it used to be free just to SEE the trouble codes. I didn't mind it when they required me to pay to reset the codes or do other extra stuff, but now I have to pay to do a basic function (which, might I add, takes forever to load all the codes)? No, no more. This reminds me way too much of Gameloft. I'm ditching this tool and buying a dedicated scanner that doesn't need a cash-cow app. It was good while it lasted. EDIT: Nice try, Carista, but that isn't true. It hasn't always been a paid-for feature to SEE codes. I used this app for two years, and I could see codes just fine without a subscription until now. If you're going to try to deceive people, at least make it believable. I'm never returning to this sketchy brand. Buyer beware!

Avoid....Had this purchased for me over 3 years ago for full content and been working great but since new phone it now wants me to pay weekly or monthly and company now saying my full purchase was a scam purchase which is total rubbish so be aware they are money hungry....

Be extremely careful to check this items compatability with your vehicle, especially if purchasing via a 3rd party. It's advanced features are only supported by a very limited amount of cars. Tbh for the amount of times I've used this I have to conclude its a waste of money. If you are a dealer you'll have access to better tools and if you are a layman you'll only ever use it once or twice. Save yourself the money and don't bother is my opinion.

I don't like the yearly subscription business model is you just keep paying these people forever. I paid for a one-week subscription to deal with a single problem inadvertently changed some presets and now I can't get it back. It would be nice to have a factory reset to default values that is not buried behind a paywall. I'm stuck paying again just to put my car back to normal.

Meh. Bought the dongle, which doesn't fit in my car's obd2 port because of those ridiculous corners, but managed to jam it in eventually. Get to the app, start the trial then immediately cancel the subscription. 2 days later, the modifications needed to be done were done, app has no live data value, so it's just car furniture, but in 3 weeks from now they'll want £10 if i ever want to plug it in and check something. Yay. I'd rather pay considerably more on the dongle and have no subscription.

The app and dongle is very good, but I purchased the 1 month free subscription, to be charged for the Yearly amount... I'm disputing it at the moment with my bank but with no success at the moment

A list on the site of which features are free and which are not would be great. This way people will know that they can't do anything with it without a subscription. Realy!? I cannot even scan the car for errors whenever i want for the 30€ i paid for the adapter, the error codes are not shown without buying the Pro version?! And the free month is not granted if you don't buy a subscription for a year?! Get a real scan tool from a company that doesn't rip you off, people!

There is zero reason for an OBD app to be a subscription. Every competitor is a a single purchase, even if the amount is much higher that is preferable.

First time user, but already saved the purchase price and annual subscription by having 2 sets of codes read and cleared ... looking to get further use over time to get maximum benefit.

I love the app and the device. I can do so much to my VW mk6 gtd, more than i expected and a lot more than I could do when I used the same Carista OBD on my Audi s4. Happy as always.

Not worth the money, all of these wonderful features are listed but I'm yet to find a car that this device works properly with. Diagnostic doesn't seem to connect properly on most cars. Haven't been able to customise the majority of the cars I've owned in the last year despite them being listed as compatible.