drovee

drovee

Drive. Explore. Level up.

Tap Start Drive and put the phone away. drovee records the drive on its own — and once you park, it shows you what was in it: XP, a trophy, and the route on a map.

Collect experiences, not kilometres.

Let me know when it ships

We're getting it ready for iPhone. Write to martin@krcek.cz if you want to know when it ships. The app itself is currently available in Czech; more languages later.

The drovee home screen: Experience Level, 5,131 XP, Level 8, and an overview of collected experiences. App interface in Czech.

  • What it is

    A drive log that writes itself. XP for every drive, a trophy for every new experience.

  • Who it's for

    Seventeen-year-olds driving with a companion. New licence holders. Anyone getting back behind the wheel after years away.

  • Why it's different

    It doesn't count performance. It counts how many different situations you already have behind you.

Four steps. Three of them happen without you.

  1. You tap Start Drive

    The phone can stay locked in your pocket. During the drive drovee wants nothing from you: no notifications, no points on screen, nothing worth looking at instead of the road.

  2. You drive

    In the background, drovee notes the route, the time and the weather. If you forget to end the drive, it asks after ten minutes of standing still whether you're still going.

  3. A summary once you stop

    Approximate distance, duration, weather, and the route on a map. You can correct the kilometres before any XP is calculated — GPS isn't a measuring instrument, and drovee says so out loud. That's why it reads ~45 km, not 45.3 km.

  4. XP, a trophy, and a few questions

    How it felt, what was new, who rode with you. Ticking an experience can add XP. It never takes any away. And an unlocked trophy is never revoked.

Not kilometres. The situations that happen for the first time.

First motorway. First drive after dark. First roundabout. First rain that starts halfway there. First time filling up alone at the pump. First car wash. First trip with the whole family in the car and you at the wheel.

Every experience has its place in Journey — a map showing what you have behind you and what is still ahead. An empty tile is not a failure. It's an experience that hasn't happened yet.

Your Experience Level grows with variety, not mileage. It's built so that it can't work any other way:

  • A new experience gives markedly more XP than repeating one.
  • A hundred kilometres in a day gives the same XP as eight hundred.
  • Five hours at the wheel gives the same base XP as one.
  • Five motorway drives mean five different days — not five laps in one afternoon.
  • See what's still ahead of you — with nothing anywhere saying you're behind.
    The Journey screen: tiles for city, out of town, motorway, parking, light and dark, and weather, each with a drive count.
  • After every drive you know where you are and what you could try next.
    The home screen: Experience Level, progress to the next level, and a Next Adventures section with ideas to try.
  • A concrete idea for Sunday instead of “you should drive more”.
    The Challenges screen: in-progress challenges Drive-Thru Regular, Highway x5, Highway Regular and Night Owl, each with a progress bar.
  • Every drive stays, with its route, time and weather. A memory, not a report.
    The History screen: a list of drives with date, approximate distance, duration, weather and XP earned.

    Weather data in this screenshot: Apple Weather.

You're sitting next to them. Not watching a screen.

drovee doesn't send location anywhere. There's no parent account, no dashboard, no reports. It gives you no window into your child's phone and will never tell you where they are or how fast they were going.

That isn't a missing feature. It's the condition on which the app works at all.

The one using the app is the younger of you. The moment it turns into a reporting tool, they delete it — and a tool your kid uninstalls protects nobody. Because drovee sends nothing to anyone, it stays on their phone. That's the only route by which a parent gets anything from it.

So what you actually get:

  • A reason to go out together once more. drovee suggests what to try next — the motorway, a drive after dark, a trip to an unfamiliar town. The idea comes from the app, not from you. In a car, the difference between “you have to” and “the app suggests it” is everything.
  • Variety instead of the same route on repeat. The supermarket run counts as a drive too. But when there have been fifty identical ones, the app shows it — and offers something else.
  • Something to talk about on the way home. drovee asks how it went. You get a conversation rather than an interrogation.

In the app's own vocabulary you are a companion — not a supervisor and not a mentor. There is a rating for the person in the passenger seat, but it's an optional joke between two people; no average, no ranking, nothing is calculated from it.

drovee has no server. There is nowhere for the data to go.

  • No account, no registration, no sign-in. You never enter an email or a password.
  • Drives, XP, trophies and reflections stay on the phone, in the app's own database.
  • Location is used only to record the route, and only for the duration of the drive. The permission is “While Using the App” — drovee never asks for “Always”.
  • iCloud backup is optional and off by default. Turn it on and the data goes to the private part of your own iCloud. The developer cannot reach it.
  • Weather comes from Apple WeatherKit — the query passes Apple a coordinate and a time. Place names come from Apple MapKit.
  • No analytics, no ads, no tracking SDKs, no data shared with third parties.
  • Sharing a trophy means an image you send yourself, wherever you like. It never contains a map, an address, coordinates or speed.
  • Everything can be deleted with one button in Profile.
Read the full privacy policy →

Things you won't find in drovee, on purpose

  • It doesn't grade your driving.

    No driving score, no percentages, no marks. The app can't calculate one, because it deliberately doesn't collect the data for it.

  • It doesn't work with speed.

    Speed enters no calculation and appears nowhere. No number can be derived from it, not even indirectly.

  • It has no daily streaks.

    No “12 days in a row”. It will never push you to get in the car on a day you shouldn't.

  • It never takes XP away.

    XP only ever goes up, and an unlocked trophy is never revoked. “Mistake: −20 XP” cannot happen here, not even by accident.

  • It isn't a logbook.

    Nothing here becomes a report for an authority, an employer or an instructor. Writing a drive down isn't an obligation — it's the reward.

  • It doesn't teach driving.

    That's what driving school and the person next to you are for. drovee only records the experiences you bring back yourself.