hello I'm Wanderer001 and this is a revisit of the Gas Buddy app
it is available for both Android and iOS I normally don't go back and revisit
apps that I've done unless they've had a major redesign or in this case not only
has it been a major redesign but it's just I have a love-hate relationship
with this app I did a review way back when in 2013 it got really spammy with
ads and even though I didn't remove it from my phone I didn't use it all that
often mainly just use it when I went away on trips or vacations things of
that nature but recently with gas prices doing like this lovely swing shift thing
I've started using it a little more and they've made some improvements it is
much less spammy with ads than it used to be but they've also changed their
model for monetization shall we say so when you first log in this is the main
screen that you will see you have find gas near me you have your favorite
stations listed there you also have this pay with Gas Buddy this is kind of what
they're pushing to make money now scrolling down they have this drive more
ways to save it's kind of like in put your car there and they'll tell you some
information and then down here find a station diesel time so this is still
that gamification that they had originally they still have that so we're
just gonna come back up to the top here you have choices if you click on the
magnifying glass over here you can select a station based on places that
you've looked or you can type in a location to search in this case I'm
going to search for Gettysburg Pennsylvania and it will show you all of
the stations that are located close to Gettysburg you will still see ads as you
can see but they are much less intrusive than they used to be so here you also
have a toggle for options clicking on that will allow you to sort by price
distance or price and distance and then you can select the fuel type by which
you would like like to populate so if you're a diesel truck you can select
diesel here you can also select don't show me anything below a certain rating
haven't you that much and you can also select what
amenities you may be looking for and then coming down you can also select
brands so if you're brand specific you can select that doing that and then you
can show the stations based on the filters that you set up you can also
come here selecting price will allow you to see the prices or you know change
them based on prices so it can shift that prices going down prices prices
descending versus prices ascending you can also see the price spread so it's
showing you the lowest based on the query that I made is 275 the most is 299
you can also select what type of gas so in my case I'm just going to leave it on
regular if you don't like this layout which would show you the gas stations in
this table format you can come up here and select map and it will change it so
that it shows you the gas stations in reference to a map so a little harder to
see some of the gas prices here but if you know where along this stretch you
are you can see which gas station may be the closest to you from here you can
also select this which will bring it bring them out directly to where you are
and then we could go back to list view from here if we wanted now let's pick on
Love's here if we select love's the station it will bring up if there is a
picture up here it'll show you that you can get directions to this locations it
will show you the general rating for this particular station you can select
pay with gas but I don't use it so I won't be telling you about that and then
station prices it will show you the station prices you can select report
price right here because if you try and click on those it will bring you
directly into showing you all of them you can change the price by typing in
the value there or selecting confirm if the gas price hasn't changed now gas
buddy still uses people in order to report gas prices now they still use
that gamification which I'll be showing you a little later here you can see
there is an ad there and then these are the amenities for that particular
station you can view all the amenities and I'll just show you right there all
the amenities that it has it will also show you the station rating station
rating is done again by people who have been to the station you can see bad
okay and great and then stars you can also see the top station reviews here
you can read all the reviews and then your top spotters for this location so
that has stayed pretty much the same as it was previously in the old app now if
you don't want to go through the station and then select update gas prices you
can just click on the gas price over here and just like before type in a
numeric or confirm the price now that is searching for a station find a station
will bring you again based on your current location so similar outlook but
based on where you are right when you run the search and then here you could
see the spread for where I am now favorite stations are a listing of
stations that you have that will be hearted or favorited is so if we came
back here and did stations near me if I went into Sunoco here up there in the
corner there's a heart I can save this as a favorite station and it will show
up in my list here so right now New Jersey gas tax has been slowly
diminishing so the prices in Jersey versus where I live aren't as bad as
they used to be so I can actually get gas cheaper where I live as opposed to
trekking over to Jersey now coming down here might be a little blurry I hope
they're not we are currently on home you can select fine gas which will again
another way to find gas based on your current location we need gas is part of
that gamification so you can enter to win a free gas card so it's $100 gas
card if you remember back in the day it used to be $250 so they've changed that
challenges so these are ways of motivating people to get these gas
points by reporting specific types of things on a daily basis monthly
recurring they have all sorts of challenges and then you have my points
which are it shows you how long I've been a member of gas but you don't have
to actually create a profile to use gas buddy however if you wanted to take
point take part in the points challenges you will need to be a member now at the
bottom here if we scroll down you could see the leaderboard and you can view
your achievements if your you know achievement person will show
you what you have their savings this is where I was saying they're starting to
kind of change the monetization of it don't play with this area much because
here you can see they've got offers and it's a light it's like a lot of other
apps that show offers and things of that nature I don't use this except to look
for gas when I'm traveling and more recently like I said locally because
things are changing there's a settings option up they're not going to get into
it last bit on the bottom here is the my car you can add a vehicle you can add a
fuel log you can see if there's any recalls for your particular vehicle in
my case there you can see Subaru of America says that there is a recall for
my particular vehicle so that's good to know if you didn't know that you can
also add parking locations so you again here's a monetization Avenue that they
have and then drives so this will help you identify fuel wasting habits but
we're gonna go back to home cuz I don't use those accepts it really yeah look
for gas up here in the corner they've added more of a personal touch to it so
if you click that profile picture there's your profile you have an inbox
now which pretty much gets spammed with do this hey sign up for this save but
they're all gas buddy related you don't have to play with that going back to the
profile you can see your points from here you can have price hike alerts
which is supposed to alert you if there's you know a ten or five cents
increase in gas near you I've never had this happen which is kind of
disappointing because I really would have liked to be able to get an alert
like that coming back you can share this with people settings is just how you
would change some of the features within Gas Buddy very similar to the original
app for the most part you don't have to change those if you don't want to
so again revisiting Gas Buddy because well it's an app that I've kept on my
phone for quite a few years even though the ads were getting out of control but
this is an invaluable tool if you're traveling to an unfamiliar area and you
want to find the cheapest gas so I suggest putting it on your phone even if
you don't use it all that often I have been Wanderer001 if
you have any questions or comments please feel free to leave them in the
area below and as always thanks for watching