Fuel 
Fuel Daddy and FuelRadar are two of the few Australian fuel price services that cover all 8 states and territories with government-sourced data. On coverage alone there's not much between them: Fuel Daddy tracks 8,100+ stations, FuelRadar publishes figures around the 8,000 mark. So the choice comes down to how each one is built and paid for. Fuel Daddy is completely free with no advertising anywhere, on the site or in the app. FuelRadar is free with ads, and hiding those ads costs $4.99 through its FuelRadar+ upgrade.
This is our own comparison, so the disclosure up front: Fuel Daddy is our product. Everything below comes from FuelRadar's public website, its App Store and Google Play listings, checked in July 2026. Where FuelRadar is genuinely stronger, we say so.
The quick comparison
| Fuel Daddy | FuelRadar | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free. Optional Pro subscription ($4.99/mo, 7-day free trial) adds price-drop alerts | Free with ads. FuelRadar+ ($4.99) hides eligible ads and raises alert limits |
| Ads | None, anywhere. Site and app carry no advertising | Ads on the website and in both apps on the free tier |
| Data source | Official government price feeds in every state, refreshed every 15 minutes | Government schemes where mandatory (NSW, QLD and others); describes other states as a mix of fixed-price and voluntary data |
| Coverage | 8,100+ stations, all 8 states and territories | ~8,000+ stations, all 8 states and territories |
| Platforms | iOS app + full web app that works on any phone (Android app coming soon) | Website, iOS app and Android app |
| Account needed | No account to use the live map, trends, outages or calculators | Account needed for saved stations and price alerts |
| Extra tools | 14-day trend charts, live outage tracker, Costco prices, trip and budget calculators, suburb directories | Price cycles, forecasts, route fuel planner, brand comparison, budget calculators, embeddable widgets, guides library |
Checked July 2026 against both products' public pages and app store listings. Prices and features change; always confirm on the current listings.
What they have in common
Quite a lot, honestly. Both services lean on the state government fuel price schemes, where stations are legally required to report their prices. That matters because it's the difference between a verified price and a guess: crowdsourced apps can show a price some stranger typed in hours ago. Both cover the whole country, both offer some form of price alerts, and both publish extra content around price cycles and fuel-saving.
One shared caveat: in Victoria and WA, the government publishes price data roughly once a day rather than continuously, so no app, ours or theirs, has minute-by-minute Victorian prices. Anyone who tells you otherwise is overselling.
Difference one: advertising
This is the big structural difference. FuelRadar's free tier is ad-supported on the website and in both mobile apps; its Google Play listing carries the "Contains ads" flag, and its FuelRadar+ upgrade ($4.99 on the app stores) is sold partly on hiding eligible ads while you're signed in.
Fuel Daddy has no ads at all. Not on the free tier, not anywhere. No banners, no interstitials, nothing to hide behind an upgrade. That's a deliberate design decision, not a promotion: the site and app are funded by an optional Pro subscription for power features, so the core product never needs to sell your attention. If you check fuel prices a couple of times a week, this is probably the difference you'll actually feel.
Difference two: what free actually gets you
Both products keep their premium tiers small, which is to their credit. But the free tiers are shaped differently.
With Fuel Daddy, the free version is the whole product: the live national map, 14-day price trend charts, the live outage tracker, Costco prices and the calculators, with no account and no ads. The only thing behind Fuel Daddy Pro ($4.99 a month, 7-day free trial) is push price-drop alerts.
With FuelRadar, the free tier includes the map, cycles and most tools, but with ads throughout, and its account limits on saved stations and price alerts sit behind FuelRadar+. So both charge about the same for their top tier; the difference is that FuelRadar's free tier carries advertising and Fuel Daddy's doesn't.
Where FuelRadar is stronger
Fair's fair. FuelRadar has been around since 2020 and has built a genuinely wide toolbox: a route fuel planner, brand-by-brand comparisons, a monthly fuel budget tool, embeddable price widgets and a large guides library. If you like standalone calculators for every angle of fuel buying, FuelRadar has more of them than we do.
It also has a native Android app today. Fuel Daddy is currently iOS plus a full web app that runs in any phone browser; our Android app is still on the way. If a native Android app is a hard requirement, that's a genuine point in FuelRadar's favour, though it's worth knowing its Android app sits at 3.4 stars on Google Play as of July 2026, so temper expectations.
Where Fuel Daddy is stronger
The ad-free experience is the headline, but the practical stuff matters too. Fuel Daddy's live map works with no sign-up at all: open it, see the cheapest stations near you, done. The outage tracker shows which stations have actually run out of fuel, updated every 15 minutes from the government feeds. The Costco fuel pages track every member-only Costco warehouse in the country. And the suburb directories cover thousands of suburbs across Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia and beyond, each with live prices.
Verdict
If you want the widest set of standalone fuel tools and don't mind advertising, FuelRadar is a legitimate choice. If you want the cleanest possible way to see verified government fuel prices near you, with no ads, no account and nothing upsold on the way to the map, that's exactly what Fuel Daddy was built for.
The good news is they're both free to try, so you don't have to take our word for it. Open the Fuel Daddy live map, check FuelRadar the same day, and keep whichever one you reach for the second time. For the wider field, our full comparison of Australia's fuel price apps covers PetrolSpy, MotorMouth, 7-Eleven and the government apps too.
