One tap to log a drive
Pick who's supervising and start. The timer, the route and the supervisor are saved together, and the drive is written to your phone every 30 seconds. If the app closes, the drive is recovered at the next launch.
Driving Hour Tracker for Android
The learner driver logbook app for Android.
Log your supervised driving hours on any Android phone or tablet. One tap records each practice drive, night hours are worked out from sunset along your route, every drive goes on Google Maps, and a tidy PDF logbook report is always ready. No account, no ads, and the logbook stays on your phone.
On iPhone? See the app for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.
- No account
- No ads
- Saves every 30 seconds
- Android 14 or later
The app
A driving log app for learner drivers, made for Android.
Material 3, the L-plate look, a Start drive button that's never more than a tap away, and dark mode. Captured on a phone; tablets and unfolded foldables show the logbook and the open drive side by side.
The logbook
A driving hours tracker that does the counting for you.
Everything the iPhone app does with a drive, the Android app does the same way. Same rules, same reports, same backup file.
Night hours, worked out
Sunset and sunrise along your recorded route split every drive into day and night. Night is always shown inside the total, never on top of it, and you can edit the minutes on any drive.
Every route on Google Maps
See where each drive went, with the distance on every one. Routes stay in your logbook and are left out of reports. Record time only whenever you'd rather not share your location.
Your goals, your count-down
Set the total and night hours you're aiming for: a 120 hours logbook for New South Wales or Victoria, 100 for Queensland, a 50-hour permit log for a US state, or your own number. The front page shows what's left.
A tidy PDF report, and CSV
Every drive with its date, times, night hours and supervisor, as a PDF for your records or a spreadsheet. Import a spreadsheet of drives you logged somewhere else.
Backup that moves with you
Save a backup with everything, routes included, and restore it on any Android phone or tablet. A backup made on iPhone restores on Android, and the other way round.
Built for Android
Start a drive from the home screen, the shade, your car or your wrist.
The iPhone app has Siri, Control Center and a Live Activity. The Android app has the Android ways of doing the same things.
Home-screen widget
Your total and night hours against your goals, your last drive, and a Start drive button. While you record it shows the live timer and opens the current drive.
Quick Settings tile
Add Practice drive to the notification shade. One tap starts a drive with your usual supervisor; while recording, one tap finishes it.
The timer in your notifications
While a drive is recording, an ongoing notification shows the timer and your progress, with Pause and Finish right there. On Android 16 it's a live update.
App shortcuts
Press and hold the app icon to start practice, log a past drive, open your progress, or start with a particular supervisor.
Start from your car's Bluetooth
Choose your car once. When your phone connects, the app starts a drive or asks you first, and finishes it when the car disconnects. No background location needed.
Wear OS companion
Your hours and recent drives on your watch, a supervisor picker, and start, pause and finish while the phone is nearby. A tile and complications for your progress, night hours and a Start button.
Permissions, plainly
What the Android app asks for, and why.
Nothing is needed to time a drive by hand. Each permission is asked for when you first use the feature that needs it, and each can be turned off again in Android's app settings.
Location
Only while a drive is recording, to draw the route and work out night hours. The app never asks for "Allow all the time" and uses no location between drives.
Physical activity
If you turn on driving suggestions: to notice when you're in a vehicle and when the driving stops, so the app can suggest a drive and offer to finish one. Nothing is stored.
Notifications
So the live timer can show while you record, and so a driving suggestion or a car start can ask you first. Without it recording still works; the timer just stays hidden.
Nearby devices
Only if you set up Start from car Bluetooth, so Android can tell the app when the car you chose connects and disconnects. The app doesn't scan for anything else.
Read the privacy policy for the detail. There are no accounts, no analytics and no ads on either platform.
Android and iPhone
The same logbook. A few honest differences.
The Android app is a full port of the iPhone app, with the same rules and the same backup file. Three things are iPhone-only, and the Android app has its own extras in their place.
iCloud sync
On Android the logbook lives on one phone. Save a backup to keep a copy or move it to another device.
Sharing with a supervisor
There are no invitations on Android. Hand a supervisor the PDF report, or a backup to restore in their own app.
Siri, Control Center, Live Activity
Android gets the widget, the Quick Settings tile, app shortcuts and the notification timer instead.
Start from your car's Bluetooth
Pair the car once and a drive can start and finish with the connection.
Recording, night hours, goals, reports
Saved every 30 seconds, recovered after a crash, flagged for review when something's unsure. The PDF and CSV are identical.
Backup and restore
One file format. A backup from either platform restores on the other, routes and all.
The full feature-by-platform table is on the home page.
Android questions
Before your first drive on Android.
Which Android phones does Driving Hour Tracker support?
Any phone or tablet running Android 14 or later. Tablets and unfolded foldables show the logbook and the open drive side by side. A Wear OS watch paired to the phone can run the companion app.
Does the Android app sync or share the logbook like the iPhone app?
No. On Android the logbook stays on the phone: there is no iCloud sync, no sharing and no invitations. To keep a copy or move it, save a backup file; to show a supervisor your hours, give them the PDF report or a backup to restore in their own app.
Can I move my logbook from iPhone to Android?
Yes. On the iPhone, open Settings, Export and backup, and save a backup. Open that file with Driving Hour Tracker on the Android phone and choose Restore. Everything comes across, routes included, and a backup made on Android restores on iPhone the same way. Step by step on the support page.
What permissions does the Android app ask for?
Location, while a drive is recording, for the route and night hours; Physical activity, if you turn on driving suggestions, to notice when you drive and when you stop; Notifications, so the live timer can show while you record; and Nearby devices, only if you set up Start from car Bluetooth. None are needed to time a drive by hand. What each one is for.
Why doesn't the timer show in my notifications while recording?
The Notifications permission was declined. Recording still works and the drive is still saved every 30 seconds, but Android hides the timer. Allow notifications for Driving Hour Tracker in Android's app settings and it appears on the next drive.
How does starting a drive from my car work?
In Settings, open Start from car Bluetooth and choose your car once from the list Android shows. From then on, when your phone connects to the car the app either starts a drive with your usual supervisor or shows a notification asking first, whichever you chose, and finishes the drive when the car disconnects. A drive the car starts records time only until you open the app; choose Ask me first to get the route as well.
Does the Wear OS app work without the phone?
No. The phone does the recording; the watch shows your hours and sends start, pause and finish to it. Keep the phone nearby and connected. If the watch can't reach the phone it says so, and the command isn't queued.
Does the Android app work offline?
Yes. Recording, the timer, night estimates, the logbook, reports and backups all work offline. Only the Google Maps picture behind a route needs a connection to load; the route itself is saved either way.
Your first drive is one tap away.
Driving Hour Tracker is on Google Play for Android phones, tablets and Wear OS, and on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.
