Fuel 
Fuel Map Australia deserves respect. Built by WikiCamps, the team behind the much-loved camping app, it built a nationwide crowdsourced database of stations and prices long before most states forced servos to report prices, and more than a million drivers downloaded it on Android alone. Its iOS rating still sits at 4.5 stars from nearly 7,000 reviews. If you were finding cheap fuel in 2018, there's a decent chance Fuel Map found it for you.
But a comparison written in July 2026 has to deal with the 2026 facts, and they're not kind. Disclosure as always: Fuel Daddy is our product; everything below about Fuel Map comes from its public app store listings, its website and recent user reviews, checked this month.
The quick comparison
| Fuel Daddy | Fuel Map Australia | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free, no ads. Optional Pro ($4.99/mo) adds price-drop alerts | Free; Google Play flags ads and in-app purchases |
| Data source | Official government feeds in every state, refreshed every 15 minutes | Primarily crowdsourced; listing claims government feeds for WA, NSW and QLD |
| Last app update | July 2026 (v2.1.0) | October 2022 on both stores, as of July 2026 |
| Website | Full web app at fueldaddy.com.au | fuelmap.com.au showed a hosting placeholder page when checked in July 2026 |
| Standout feature | One ad-free national map + trends, outages, Costco, calculators | Fuel log / fuel-economy tracker; station coverage in remote areas |
Checked July 2026 against both products' public pages and app store listings. Details change; always confirm on the current listings.
What happened to Fuel Map?
We can only report what's publicly visible: neither the iOS nor Android app has received an update since October 2022, and the fuelmap.com.au website currently serves a hosting placeholder instead of the product. Meanwhile recent App Store reviews describe crashes on modern devices and, more worryingly, fake station listings that reviewers say don't get removed. A crowdsourced database needs active moderation, and the reviews suggest it isn't getting it.
None of that erases what Fuel Map got right. Its fuel log, tracking your fills and fuel economy over time, is a genuinely useful feature that most price apps never bothered building, and its community added stations in remote areas official feeds described poorly. If you use it as a fuel diary, that still works.
The bigger shift: crowdsourcing lost its reason to exist
Fuel Map's model made perfect sense when it launched: most states had no mandatory price reporting, so drivers filling the gaps was the only way. That world is gone. Today every state and territory has some form of government price scheme, from NSW's FuelCheck to WA's FuelWatch to Victoria's mandatory reporting. The data problem crowdsourcing solved has largely been solved at the source, by law.
That's the world Fuel Daddy was built for: pull the official feeds from every state and territory, 8,100+ stations refreshed every 15 minutes, and put them on one free map with no ads and no account. Add 14-day trend charts, a live outage tracker, Costco prices and calculators, and the crowdsourced era starts to feel like history.
Verdict
This one isn't close in 2026, and we say that with genuine respect for what Fuel Map built. An app without updates since 2022, a placeholder website and unmoderated fake stations isn't something we can recommend for live prices; its own recent reviews make the case. Keep it for the fuel log if you love that feature. For actually finding cheap fuel this week, use something maintained: our full apps roundup covers the live field, or skip straight to the Fuel Daddy live map.
