Australian fuel apps, compared.
The verdict up front: FuelNow is national, official data only, and properly free – no ads, no account, no paid tier – and it's the only app here that shows tomorrow's prices in both WA and the NT. The government apps are official but stop at their borders. The big independent apps are national but carry ads, accounts or upsells. The 2026 newcomers sell subscriptions to data the schemes publish for free. Where a competitor genuinely suits you better, we say so below.
Facts checked 12 July 2026.
Side by side
| App | Price | Data | Tomorrow's price (WA & NT) |
|---|---|---|---|
| FuelNow every state and territory | Free – no ads, no account | Official schemes only | Yes – both, from 2:30pm |
| PetrolSpy national | Free with ads, $2.89/yr removal | Official + crowd – VIC crowd-only | No |
| MotorMouth national | Free – account required | Crowd, retailer + official mix | No |
| Fuel Map Australia national, last updated 2022 | Free with ads, $2.99 removal | Crowd + official (WA, NSW, QLD) | WA only |
| State government apps one scheme each | Free | Official – own scheme | WA & NT websites – VIC cap in app |
| My 7-Eleven its own ~750 stores | Free – account required | Its own prices only | No – 7-day price lock |
| New 2026 apps claim national | Free tiers, $1.49–4.99/mo subs | Claim official | Not offered |
When something else is the right choice
- You want crowd-sourced price spotting – PetrolSpy's community reports prices in places schemes don't mandate. FuelNow shows official data only, on purpose: a price is a report, not a guess.
- You only ever buy fuel in NSW – the government's NSW FuelCheck app is official and free. FuelNow does the same job in every state, with a nicer map.
- You only ever fill up at 7-Eleven – the My 7-Eleven app locks its best local price for 7 days. It prices nobody else; FuelNow prices everyone.
App by app
PetrolSpy
The incumbent – national since 2014, with official feeds where schemes allow and crowd reports on top. Victoria is crowd-only, so its Melbourne prices are whatever users typed in. It's free with pop-up ads on opening – the most common complaint in its critical reviews – or $2.89 a year to remove them, and its iPhone app last shipped an update in July 2025. Its data carries a single price per station: no tomorrow prices in WA or the NT. FuelNow shows both, with no ads to close first.
MotorMouth
Its owner, Informed Sources, is the government-appointed aggregator for the QLD and SA schemes – real pedigree – but the app blends user reports, retailer feeds and station operators with those official sources, needs an account for full use, and in some areas rations you to 30 price reveals a week. The 2013-era native app was replaced by a web-page wrapper in 2022 and sits at 2.4 stars on Google Play since. Ad-free and genuinely national; no tomorrow prices. FuelNow needs no account and no reveals – every price is just on the map.
Fuel Map Australia
Once the roadtrip favourite, now abandoned: last updated on both stores in October 2022, with recent reviews reporting fake stations that never get removed – while its developer ships updates to its other app. Ads unless you pay $2.99, crowd prices everywhere except official feeds in WA, NSW and QLD, and tomorrow's prices in WA only. FuelNow's data is official in every state, and the NT's tomorrow prices are on the map too.
The state government apps
Excellent inside their borders and structurally incapable of crossing them. Eight schemes but only two real consumer apps – NSW FuelCheck, which also covers the ACT, and FuelCheck TAS, the same NSW-built platform. Victoria's prices live inside the Service Victoria services app, which shows tomorrow's price cap – the ceiling, not the price. WA's sit inside the ServiceWA app, while the FuelWatch website publishes actual next-day prices at 2:30pm – and since April 2026 the NT's MyFuel website does the same. SA and QLD publish no prices themselves: they hand the data to commercial apps, and in SA the government points drivers to a motoring club's. FuelNow reads all eight schemes – documented on the data sources page – and puts them on one map.
My 7-Eleven
By App Store ratings the biggest fuel app in the country, and a loyalty app: its Fuel Price Lock holds the best price among your five closest 7-Elevens for 7 days. It prices one brand's ~750 stores in five states – no SA, TAS or NT – and needs an account. It answers "where's cheap fuel at 7-Eleven"; FuelNow answers "where's cheap fuel".
The 2026 subscription apps
A crop of newcomers launched in March 2026 – RipperFuel, PumpWatch, PetrolSnap, Fuel Daddy – repackaging the same public scheme data behind ads or subscriptions of $1.49–$4.99 a month, some requiring accounts for basics like price alerts, with between zero and 23 App Store ratings each as of July 2026. The schemes give this data away; a subscription to it is a business model, not a feature.
Quick answers
- Which fuel app shows tomorrow’s petrol prices?
- WA and the NT lock prices daily and publish tomorrow’s at 2:30pm local time, and FuelNow is the only app here that shows both. Of the others, Fuel Map shows WA’s only – in an app last updated in 2022 – the FuelWatch and MyFuel NT websites show their own state’s, and Victoria’s Service Victoria app shows tomorrow’s price cap, a maximum rather than the price. The FuelNow app shows every WA and NT station’s tomorrow price from 2:30pm – free, no ads, no account.
- Which fuel price apps have no ads?
- The state government apps and MotorMouth are ad-free – MotorMouth needs an account, and in some areas limits you to 30 price reveals a week. PetrolSpy and Fuel Map charge to remove their ads ($2.89 a year and $2.99 once, respectively). FuelNow has no ads, no account and nothing to buy.
- Is there one app that covers every state and territory?
- Several claim to. PetrolSpy fills Victoria with crowd reports, MotorMouth mixes user and retailer reports with official feeds behind an account, and Fuel Map stopped updating in 2022. FuelNow covers all eight states and territories on official scheme data alone – and where a feed runs a day behind, as Victoria’s public data does, the price says “yesterday” instead of pretending.
- Does Google Maps show petrol prices in Australia?
- On some station pins, yes – a single price, and not at every station. FuelNow shows every station in all eight official schemes, when each price was last verified, and tomorrow’s prices in WA and the NT – free, no ads, no account.
FuelNow's position in one sentence: FuelNow is the simplest fuel app in Australia – one screen, no ads, no account. It's also the only app in this table that shows tomorrow's prices in both WA and the NT.