Android App
Driving Log App for Android — Track Your Teen's Permit Hours
Yes — GoTime is a full Android app.
Yes — GoTime is a full Android app.
Not a stripped-down version, not a web wrapper. Every feature works the same on Android as it does on iPhone: automatic GPS tracking, day/night classification, family sync, and DMV-ready exports for all 50 states. It's free today, with no subscription and every feature unlocked.
If you've been searching for a driving log app and keep finding iPhone-only recommendations, this page is for you. Below we cover what's actually available on Android, and — more importantly — how to set your phone up so background tracking doesn't silently stop halfway through a drive.
It isn't your imagination. The teen driving log category skews heavily toward iOS, and the Android options that do exist have real problems.
Dryves, Teen Driver, and the long-running Teen Driving Log from NerdsGeeksGurus are all iPhone-only listings. If you found them in a "best driving log apps" roundup, you found an app you can't install.
RoadReady is available on both platforms, but its iOS listing currently sits at 2.1 stars across more than 3,300 ratings, and recent Play Store reviews describe a rough experience — parents reporting they can't log in, can't add a new driver, and aren't receiving verification texts. One review ends with the parent saying they'll go back to tracking hours on paper. Another Android user reported they couldn't install RoadReady at all because their Android version was newer than the app supported.
Student Driving Log works and is well-liked for what it is, but you type in the date and start and end times after every drive. There's no stopwatch and no GPS. Over six to twelve months of practice, that's a lot of remembering.
OtoZen tracks permit hours, but it's built as a family location tracker first, with subscription pricing. If all you need is a permit log, it's more app than the job requires.
That's the real Android landscape: a few solid manual loggers, one broken incumbent, and a lot of iOS-only recommendations.
GPS records time and distance automatically for the whole session. Tap stop when you park, and the drive saves with everything filled in. No stopwatch on the dashboard, no writing it down for later.
Most states require a specific number of nighttime hours. GoTime uses real sunrise and sunset data for your location to classify each session as day or night — so you're never guessing whether a 7:40pm drive in October counted.
Add Mom, Dad, a grandparent, or a driving instructor to your family group. Everyone logs from their own phone, and the hours combine into one record. Mixed households work too — GoTime doesn't care whether the other supervisor is on Android or iPhone.
Each student driver gets a separate profile, separate progress, and separate history.
Time, distance, day or night, weather, road type, supervising driver, and optional notes.
Generate a driving log accepted by DMVs in all 50 states, or export CSV for a spreadsheet or driving school.
Unlimited drives, unlimited supervisors, every feature. No subscription.
Here's the thing that trips up every GPS-based logging app on Android, GoTime included — and it's worth five minutes to get right.
Android is aggressive about shutting down apps running in the background. That's usually good; it's why your battery lasts. But a driving log needs to keep recording while your phone sits in a cup holder with the screen off. If Android decides to suspend the app mid-drive, you lose the session.
This isn't a GoTime bug and it isn't unique to us. RoadReady's own Play Store listing carries a warning that continuous background GPS can significantly reduce battery life. It's simply how Android works, and it gets more aggressive with each version.
Two settings fix it. Both take under a minute.
Settings → Apps → GoTime → Permissions → Location → Allow all the time
"While using the app" is not enough. That permission only holds while GoTime is open on screen — the moment you lock your phone or switch apps, tracking stops. Android will also periodically re-prompt you about this permission; keep choosing "Allow all the time."
Settings → Apps → GoTime → Battery → Unrestricted
Depending on your Android version this may read "Don't optimize" or "Allow background activity." Any of those is the setting you want.
Samsung's One UI adds its own power management on top of Android's, and it's noticeably more aggressive. Even with the two settings above, Samsung may still put GoTime to sleep.
Settings → Battery → Background usage limits → Never sleeping apps → add GoTime
While you're there, check the "Sleeping apps" and "Deep sleeping apps" lists and remove GoTime if it appears in either.
Xiaomi, OnePlus, Oppo, and Huawei devices have similar manufacturer-level battery managers under names like "Autostart," "App launch," or "Battery optimization." If tracking stops on one of those phones, that's the first place to look.
Menu paths shift between Android and One UI versions. If yours doesn't match exactly, search your Settings app for "battery optimization" or "background usage" and you'll land in the right place.
Take one short practice drive with your phone locked and in a cup holder. When you park, check that the session recorded the full duration and a sensible distance. If it came up short, one of the three settings above didn't take.
If your RoadReady login stopped working, or the app won't install on your current Android version, you don't have to start your hours over.
GoTime imports your existing RoadReady driving log directly from a PDF export. Pick the file, and your sessions come in with their dates and durations intact. You pick up where you left off, with everything in one place.
Yes. Free to download with full access to every feature. No subscription, no per-export charge, no limit on drives or supervisors.
Automatically. GPS records time and distance for the session. You can also add a drive manually if you forgot to hit start.
Yes. GPS continues recording your drive even when you lose cell service, and the session syncs to your family group automatically the moment your phone reconnects.
Requires Android 7.0 (Nougat) or higher.
Either one can log a drive. Installing on both phones means whoever is in the car can start the session, and everything syncs to one record.
Yes. Each gets a separate profile with its own progress and history.
Yes. The family group syncs across both platforms.
GPS tracking uses battery, as it does in any app that records drives. GoTime only tracks while a session is running — it isn't following your phone the rest of the day.
GoTime generates a driving log covering what DMVs in all 50 states ask for. Requirements do change, so check your state's current form before your appointment. See supervised driving hour requirements by state →