OBD2 Scanner: Torque & FixD turns your Android phone into a powerful car diag…
Metaverse LabsSerious warnings 2 confirmed warnings. Checked: 400 reviews and the Android app’s code.
From our automated analysis, 26 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 5.0 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-26 .
The store currently lists version 5.0, updated 2026-09-22.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
OBD2 Scanner: Torque & FixD turns your Android phone into a powerful car diagnostic and performance monitoring tool.
Compatible with leading OBD2 adapters like FixD, ELM327, Carista, RepairSolutions2, FastLink, and more — it's the all-in-one app to help you scan, monitor, and maintain your vehicle.
Whether you’re a DIYer, professional mechanic, or everyday driver, this app gives you real-time data, error codes, performance metrics, and emissions status—all from your smartphone.
Works with Popular OBD2 Tools:
- FixD
- ELM327 Bluetooth & Wi-Fi
- Carista
- Micro Mechanic
- RepairSolutions2
- FastLink
- Advance Auto Parts tools
- Torque Pro & compatible scanners
Key Features:
Read & clear Check Engine Light (CEL)
Scan diagnostic trouble codes (DTCs) with detailed explanations
Real-time sensor monitoring: RPM, temp, fuel, throttle, boost & more…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Findings that met the published evidence standard.
Bundles 16 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, BidMachine, Chartboost and 12 more
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:98d35b40b0711227c1ad98a5029f5853ce4054bb5dea97eaf33ae399a9875f97Progress is gated behind watching an ad: "Watch Ad to unlock this feature"
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
Package artefact
sha256:98d35b40b0711227c1ad98a5029f5853ce4054bb5dea97eaf33ae399a9875f97Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.
Offers a one-time or lifetime purchase: "- Subscribed users have unlimited use of the Remote and access to all of its Premium features, without any ads. - Non-subscribed users can continuously use the app with advertisements, and have a li…
The app's own text offers a one-time or lifetime purchase, or reviewers report that the price is stated clearly.
Package artefact
sha256:98d35b40b0711227c1ad98a5029f5853ce4054bb5dea97eaf33ae399a9875f97The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
The app's own text says: "We apologize for your bad experience. Tell us more at: [email protected]"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
Package artefact
sha256:98d35b40b0711227c1ad98a5029f5853ce4054bb5dea97eaf33ae399a9875f97The app's own text says: "You need to connect to OBD-II Adapter before using this feature. Or you can choose Demo Car to preview the data of the feature without connecting to a real vehicle.."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
Package artefact
sha256:98d35b40b0711227c1ad98a5029f5853ce4054bb5dea97eaf33ae399a9875f97The app's own text says: "Continue as Guest"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
Package artefact
sha256:98d35b40b0711227c1ad98a5029f5853ce4054bb5dea97eaf33ae399a9875f97The app's own text says: "Downloads"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own copy describes working without a connection — offline mode, downloading for offline use, or content saved for later. Shown because readers filter on it; it is a feature, not a fairness property, and never counts for or against an app.
Package artefact
sha256:98d35b40b0711227c1ad98a5029f5853ce4054bb5dea97eaf33ae399a9875f97400 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
sooo many ads, they want you to subscribe for something that should be included with your purchase of the scanner. Just get a plug in scanner with a dedicated screen and save the headache
lots of ads. no real utility. I was not even able to get to maim screen without playing 11 ads. would have given zero starts. total time waste
Total garbage! non stop ads and can barely hold connection worthless !
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
Android package 5.0, scanned 26 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 5.0 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-26 .
The store currently lists version 5.0, updated 2026-09-22.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
No release notes were provided for this version.
obd2-scannerAssessed 2026-10-26 from 400 user reviews and the app's package.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
This assessment is produced automatically. Four independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
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