I love this thing.
My daughter just started driving, and I wanted to help her make good choices and be safe. This device is perfect.
Set up was a breeze. Download the app on your phone, create an account, then plug the device into the OBD port on your vehicle. That't it. Once you're set up, you have to drive for a bit for everything to sync up and start working. Don't get alarmed if you don't see trip data. It will show up once installation and syncing are complete.
Trip data is comprehensive and accurate. Won't take the time to list all the data that is available, since it is outlined in the product description. Suffice it to say it does everything that is says it does.
No issues with the app. It always seems to run smoothly, and information seems to be up to date.
Why a 4 instead of a 5? I turned on the alerts for extreme braking and extreme acceleration. I purposely did a hard brake and hard acceleration, but I did not get an alert. I was able to reach someone from Bouncie on chat, and they told me that the car is still syncing, and eventually alerts will show up. I'll change the rating and update this review if that happens.
Also integrates nicely with Alexa. I tried it and it works, but my attitude about that is....so what?. Not sure how much (if at all), I will use Alexa with this device.
Overall, this has all the features that you could probably want. One of the biggest bonuses is the monthly monitoring fee. It's $8 per month, which is significantly lower than the $20-$25 that most other GPS/data trackers charge. They also have a 3 for $20 plan. At that price, you could hook up all of your vehicles. At the moment, I'm only using this on the car my daughter drives, but I may decide to add my car later.
Bottom line is I would recommend this.
**Update 11/13/18** I went ahead and bumped this up to 5 stars. As noted in my initial review, my only issue was that I didn't seem to be getting alerts for hard braking or acceleration. The support folks at Bouncie told me it was still syncing, and it was. I get the alerts now. Everything works perfectly, including Geofencing. When my car leaves or enters my driveway, or leaves or enters school, I get an alert. Helps me to know that my daughter got to and from school safely, even if I'm not home.
You think you got problems - my octogenarian parents are less trustworthy than my teenage son. Someday, they might not be able to find their way home but I will be able to find them. This fifty something year old installed the device and app in less than 30 minutes, (without help from my IT personal department (teenager).
Works like a champ. Having Bouncie in the car is like hiring my parents a sitter for $8 a month.
Works great and has an easy-to-use interface. Alerts arrive quickly. Speed bands/rapid acceleration and deceleration enable teen driving conversations and education. Exactly what I was looking for. I contacted customer support with questions and received a response within minutes. Great support. Highly recommend.
We purchased the Bouncie GPS to put in an elderly parents Car because she was living alone and we wanted to make sure she was safe when she was needing to drive. The Bouncie GPS was easy to install into the vehicle and easy to setup the APP on multiple Smart Phones for us to track the vehicle. The Bouncie GPS was very accurate and has many helpful alerts it can send. We were able to find out by tracking the vehicle with the Bouncie GPS that she was driving at unsafe times of the Night and Early morning. It also was alerting us her vehicle having LOW BATTERY which we found out she wasn't turning the car completely off when parking it. The Bouncie GPS helped us to see patterns in our elderly parent that led us to make the hard but necessary decision to stop her from driving anymore and move her to a safer place. Our family is so thankful we were able to use the BOUNCIE GPS to give us all peace of mind now that she is much Safer.
This is AWESOME !!! BEST GPS TRACKER ever!! inexpensive and NEVER have I seen anything so user friendly!!! from the APP, To the instructions, to the tracking to the website! TOP NOTCH 5 star!!! even Online assistance 24/7 via live chat if needed!
its better than a LOJACK if your car is on the HOTLIST get this and see if someone steals your car! it alerts you if it leaves your circle you create! day and night!! the app is also very easy!! this is past 5 stars in mind well worth its weight in gold best $67.00 I ever spent hands down
Feature Product
- $8.00 MONTHLY 3G SERVICE REQ'D Cancel Anytime Save with 3 or more!
- LOCATION TRACKING - 1-Minute Updates - Driving-in-Progress - Pinpoint Accuracy - Trip Start and End Addresses
- NOTIFICATIONS & ALERTS - Acceleration - Braking - Speed - Curfew & More - Easy Sharing
- VEHICLE INFORMATION - Health Diagnostics - Reminders - Renewals
- TRIP HISTORY - Trip Tagging - Mileage Records - Reports - Statistics - Mobile and Desktop View
Description
Bouncie is a 3G vehicle tracking and connected car device that upgrades any vehicle into a smart car in under 5 minutes with no tools or wires required. For just $8/month you get: Location - Bouncie updates the vehicle's location while driving then records it's location when it's parked. Habits - Real-time driving insights. With notifications for speed, acceleration, hard braking, and more, better decisions can be made while on the road. Speed Bands - Speed Bands display your drive in color. Bouncie will uniquely color your drive for each speed range you setup! Vehicle Health Manage the little things before they become big problems. Bouncie monitors your vehicle's health and alerts you when something needs your attention. Geo-Circles It's now easy to stay updated when vehicles arrive or when they leave, using Geo-Circle you can drop a circle anywhere; home, school, a friend's house, the mall! Multiple Logins Share the 'keys' to Bouncie with anyone! Access to the app can be enabled for others so they can stay connected to your vehicles. There is no limit on sharing!
We bought this for business to track employees in a box truck to help with scheduling. Didn't want to pay much for that and this was the least expensive (monthly) tracking device I could find so I was a little nervous. Holy Cow! This thing tells me everything! I can see mileage, speed, fuel level and even set up an oil change notification. I can access it on my phone or a computer. If fuel gets down to 15% it pops up on my phone. If they speed over the limit I set, it pops up on the phone and shows how many hard braking events. The maps are incredibly detailed. I can see which side of the building they park on. In fact, I can see if they go out and move the truck over 5 feet in the parking lot... and how long it took to move those 5 feet!
I always tell myself to post reviews but seldom do. But I can't think of one thing that would improve this device, short of including a body cam to stick on these bone heads we keep hiring! Easy to install. If you can plug in a toaster you plug this thing in.
My own kids will start driving next year and I WILL be purchasing more of these.
my wife is having direction issues and occasionally gets lost this will make it very easy for me to help her over the phone
I had high hopes for this product, and I have been delighted with its performance. Needed it to keep my 18-year old daughter safe, getting to school on-time and leaving on-time, not lending our car to others, and not going over to her (lazy) boyfriend's house when she shouldn't be.
Installing the tracker in our car was very easy and took about 2 minutes. The included directions for setting up the tracking were very skimpy - just enough to download the APP, but I did find a an FAQ online that answered my questions. I wanted to do most of the set-up on my PC, but the PC web interface didn't seem nearly as capable as the phone-app so set-up needed to be done through my cellphone. Despite being a baby boomer, was able to get through that. I set-up just about every feature available, including curfews, geo-fences, customized speed bands, and more. This took some time but if I had just stuck with the basic features I could have been done in 15 minutes.
So far this is working out really well for us. Our daughter has responded very well, we don't have to keep calling her or questioning what she is telling us, she even texts me if she has gone too fast to tell me why because she knows we are keeping an eye on everything. This may seem a little bit like big brother watching but it has solved a lot of problems for us.
I had a Vyncs GPS tracker on a vehicle for the past year but became quite frustrated with it's less-than-optimum web-based interface. The Vyncs device sometimes wouldn't register a trip at all, or at best would have a 20-30 minute delay, which I grew very tired of. Installed the Bouncie tracker and WOW!!!, difference between night and day and well worth the extra expense given the interface (web or phone) and the real-time tracking.
Great tool for teen driver new to car care responsibility. Cancelled $8 tow insurance, because towing is included with this $8 monthly subscription. The mapping lication of car is amazingly detailed. Sending alerts to parents ph of speeding and acceleraton helps parents give the teen gentle guidance when needed. Thank you!!!
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