A Fuelly alternative that also tracks the rest of your spending

Fuelly is a fuel-economy log with a large community dataset behind it. You record fill-ups, it works out your economy over time, and — this is the part no single-user app can copy — it lets you compare your numbers against other owners of the same make, model and year. If your question is "is 7.4 L/100km normal for this engine?", Fuelly is genuinely the right tool, and nothing here replaces that community average.

Fuelly is a vehicle log. It is not a household ledger, and it doesn't try to be. There are no categories for groceries or rent, no accounts, no budgets, no salary. So the fuel spend it records sits in its own world — accurate, and completely disconnected from what you can actually afford this month.

Which is how most people end up with the double-entry problem: the fill-up goes into Fuelly for the economy chart, and the same €89.60 goes into a budgeting app for the Transport category. Two apps, one gas station, every single time.

There's a narrower, more practical limit too. Fuelly's economy math is built on brimming the tank — it derives consumption from the difference between full tanks, so a partial fill-up gets no figure of its own and folds into the next complete one. That's a sound design, but it makes filling right to the top the one habit you can never skip.

One entry covers both sides. A refuel records the odometer reading, the liters or kWh, the price per unit, the fuel product and which tank mark it hit — brimmed to full, or the low-fuel light — and the money lands in your budget under Vehicle → Fuel at the same moment. Nothing to export, nothing to reconcile.

On the vehicle side you still get the things you came to a fuel log for:

• consumption measured full-to-full or empty-to-empty — the low-fuel warning light works as an anchor too, so brimming the tank isn't the only habit that yields a figure — shown as L/100km, L/km or MPG, your choice per fuel type;
• cost per kilometer and average price paid per liter or kWh over time;
• multi-fuel vehicles: a plug-in hybrid's gasoline and electricity averaged separately, bi-fuel LPG conversions kept apart from gasoline;
• service history with parts and labor split out, plus distance- or date-based reminders;
• as many vehicles as you like, including motorcycles, vans, boats and hour-metered machines.

And on the other side: budgets that can be a fixed amount or a percentage of the income you actually received, 150+ currencies with historically accurate conversion, and a dashboard you lay out yourself.

If what you want is the community comparison — benchmarking your economy against thousands of other owners of the same car — keep using Fuelly. That's a network-effect feature and a private ledger can't reproduce it. Likewise if you have no interest in tracking household spending at all, a dedicated fuel log is a simpler tool for a simpler job.

The case for switching is specific: you want your vehicle costs and your living costs in one place, entered once.

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