Car Home Ultra

I've had this app for many years and it's been very useful. Now, not so much. I used to be able to use direct dial shortcuts with this app, but they no longer work. When I try to use a direct dial button, I get a "this app may not be compatible with Car Home Ultra" even when I'm using this apps own built-in direct dial feature. I'm using a Pixel 3 with Android version 9. This feature worked fine with my previous phone, the original Google Pixel, which also had Android version 9.

Has been my go-to dock app for years but when I switched to an LG G6, it became less useful. It seems the app cannot override the G6's auto-off setting for the screen. No matter how I adjust it in the app, the screen will ALWAYS turn itself off after the set time. The only thing that corrects this is adjust the setting to "never" in the phone settings (which is not a solution). This doesn't happen when I'm in navigation for some reason, though. Please fix this!

The bad first: Compass off by about 180 degrees (while other compass apps on my phone are working fine). Advertised auto SMS function does not exist. I would like to be able to freely choose the number of pages I use. Music player control keeps crashing. Now the good: Despite the above, this app does a SUPERB job at keeping the information and functions that I need while driving easily accessible with minimum distraction, while keeping everything that I don't want off my mind. Thank you!

Good App, gets the basics done easily. My only real issues are no native voice commands and the biggest one, the fact that when I use it, I can't use my Sat Nav App, Sygic without it being forced into landscape mode. Unfortunately I can't position my phone in landscape in the car, there's simply no room. Makes Sygic unusable when launched from your app.

Once upon a time, this was my go to app for auto interaction. Back then, my biggest complaint was the integration with the phone app. Now in 2021, there have been no updates in 2 years and definitely does play nice with Android 11. For instance, I have CHU exit when the initiating Bluetooth device shutdown. Or a least I thought it worked. Now, even with the Bluetooth device turned off, CHU keeps turning itself on until I do a force stop of the app. Not cool!

It beats Android Automotive because it is much more customizable. However there are some improvements I'd like to see. CHU doesn't manage switching to Pandora from other media playes very well. The "CHU features" should include optional on/off toggles for wifi, bluetooth, and cellular data. When I try to edit an icon it takes me to my photos, not icon files. I agree with another reviewer that the tiles should be draggable. The media page should include a link to Audio Affects.

Purchased this to replace the excellent, but now defunct iBolt Dock'n Drive app. Thus far, this app seems to be a reasonably worthy substitute, however, it does have drawbacks...more fiddly 2-step process to return to home screen from Google Maps navigation screen while driving, rather than being able to use home button of phone to return to Car Home Ultra home screen via single button push as with iBolt. Requires more time with eyes off the road while driving. Significant safety overlook IMO.

I have a new favorite home screen while driving! My phone is mirrored to the nav screen on my dash. Until I discovered CarHome Ultra I'd used Torque as my primary display. Now I can easily toggle between apps/media player/instant dial of phone calls without taking my eyes from the road thanks to the giant buttons. Great work Spinninghead! BTW, I also enjoyed the YouTube video showing the apps assorted operations. It helped me understand how the speed warning is supposed to work.

Truly useful app. From being a full 5 star app stops one thing only. Please make the pages number editable so that one can choose how many pages they want to see (there's no need for all of them to be visible if one wants only 3) And a suggestion please add an option to have two different media pages ie. one for one player (music) and the second one for an other player (audiobooks)

Media page does not work well, keeps changing back to previous selected player. Temp home resets on exit, which works perfectly with other similar apps. Design looks like something from Gingerbread. You are forces to have 6 or 8 shortcuts, unless you want empty squares with default selection text. You are forced to have 3 or 5 pages, even if you only need 2. This app needs some serious update, and could be great if it did. The idea is on the right path...

Since Google has replaced Android Auto by Google Assistant Driving mode in Android 12, I have migrated to Car Home Ultra. It is a far better alternative. I do not know why Google shoot himself in his foot with the Driving mode which is a serious downgrade of Android Auto but at least it allows me to check third party products (I've tested a lot) and Car Home Ultra is the best for features and reliability (bugs).

Now, I have nothing bad to say. This app is very, very good now. if you have a good phone, you are not supposed to have problems. for me, no others apps can work excellent than this one. This app has a beautiful interface, weather, speedometer, compass and many rooms including room for music. This app is clean, you van change the interface at anytime and you can downloaded themes too at Google play.ect. Good job stapp. Thanks.

Love it. Automatically opens with Bluetooth connection to the car stereo. Big honkin' app shortcuts, so I don't pile into anyone while driving. Downloaded the free 30 day trial, and bought the full version within one day. Very customizable with clock, compass, maps, GPS speedometer, etc.

Update 1/20/2019 - Per the reply from the app's author, i sent them email and received a successful work around in less than 24 hours. Revising my rating for the app to four stars and an extra star for great customer service! ----------------- As of about 1/8/2019, I can no longer launch or use Waze when this app is running. Since that is my go to mapping app, this software is no longer useful in the car. Too bad as I otherwise like it much more than the alternatives such as Android Auto...

Had to re-install the app (Paid for) on a Note8. Now it diverts all call to voicemail without ringing, even when the app isn't on. I had to ring my provider and get voicemail reset so that I can once again receive calls.The app itself is pretty out of date and when installing it it was suggested that I check for an update. I emailed the supplier but got no answer. DON'T INSTALL THIS APP UNLESS YOU WANT PHONE PROBLEMS!

Best car environment to use. Keeps the music and navigation apps as they are, unlike android auto, that make Tidal, Spotify or Plex or Waze, Google maps, etc. look weird. The only issue I have found is that on the music viewer page. The covers from Tidal do not work (controls do, but no covers). This doesn't happen with Plex, plexamp, Spotify, amazon music, etc. All those show music covers fine. There is something with Tidal that makes it a bit incompatible. I hope someone fixes this issue.

Very good card dock. Only issue I have is the speed widget if you are doing over 99 the first digit is cut off when you have 3 digits. If the font was slightly smaller, it would resolve the issue. Other than that it is perfect. Thank you.

I have used this app for years. Pity google made them remove auto reply. It was nice to let it notify people when you were driving. I would like it more if they could adapt the speed warning to the actual speed in the area but that is a minor issue. The current implementation is great.

An excellent alternative to Android Auto. Autostart option when connected to cars Bluetooth. Very customisable and reliable. Includes reliable info on where you are, a compass and direction of travel and speedometer (not needed).

Not bad, but too unstable (keeps crashing and/or stopping music when launching waze and errors when first launching and trying to start music), too bright (background is tinted instead of black, so trying to make it red just makes the whole screen red), and should be able to mix music control and app buttons on one screen.

Excellent app, would have given it a full 5 stars but it is missing the option to show a clock in my opinion. I'm sure it would be an easy addition but would make the app so much better. Apart from that small thing, an excellent all round app.

Hi, I have used the app on my Samsung S7 edge for years with no problems. I recently upgraded my phone to a Samsung S10+ and the app is not compatible with the new phone. If you guys could update the app, I (we) would really appreciate it. Thank you.