The phone knows the posted speed limit for the road you are on, shows it in big numbers beside how fast you are actually going, and says something out loud when you are well over it. Nothing to read, nothing to tap, no account, no sign-up.
All 50 states, coast to coast. The road data for every state has been built, so the posted limit shows wherever you drive, from Georgia to California to Alaska and Hawaii. It all lives on the phone, so it keeps working where the signal does not.
100% free, and staying that way. No card, no account, nothing collected. Your trip log, your marked signs and your saved places stay on your device and nowhere else.
What it does
- The posted limit, and your speed, in numbers you can read at a glance. Mounted on the dash with the screen on, there is nothing to operate.
- A voice, not a beep. When you are meaningfully over, Crispy says something — a different line each time. Same idea if you are crawling along a road built for speed.
- It works with no signal, in all 50 states. The map for your area is kept on the phone after the first time you drive through it, so a dead zone changes nothing.
- Go anywhere in the country. Search any town or city nationwide, set it as your destination, and Crispy shows how far it is and your arrival time once you are moving.
- Where the map is wrong, you can fix it. Mark a sign as you pass it and your own number beats the downloaded one from then on. And when your own speed keeps disagreeing with the posted number, Crispy raises it herself, at the sign, where you can see it: “Old Mill Road, the map says 55. Is that right?” Say no, say the number on the sign, say yes to save it.
- Tap once and talk. Mark this spot. What’s the limit. How am I doing. Hush. She answers out loud, so none of it needs the screen — and when she is the one asking, the microphone opens on its own.
- Say “help” and she shows where you are. The nearest street address, a landmark you would recognise, and the coordinates, big enough to read out to somebody — with 911 and your own emergency contact one tap away. She never dials for you: she puts the number on the screen and you press it.
- Nothing leaves the phone on its own. No account, no cloud, no tracking. The trip log, your marked signs and your saved places are on your device and nowhere else — which is why there is an export button, and why it nags you to use it. Two things do reach out, and only when you ask for them: looking up a road’s name, and the help screen, which send that one position to a mapping service to turn it into an address. Nothing else travels with it.
Where the speed limits come from
Speed limits come from OpenStreetMap — © OpenStreetMap contributors. They are sometimes missing and sometimes wrong, and the road signs are what count. Crispy is a passenger with an opinion, not a legal authority: she is there to catch the moment you had stopped noticing, not to be argued with in court.
Street addresses on the help screen are looked up by LocationIQ and by Nominatim, both built on the same OpenStreetMap data, with some place names from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). The house number is the nearest one on record and can be a door or two out; the coordinates are exact and need no signal at all.
Crispy is free, and staying free. If it earns a place on your dash, the other tools at The Helper Hub are worth a look.