No installation
Mount your iPhone, open DashMap, and record your drive. No adhesive mounts, wiring kits, SD cards, or dedicated camera setup.
iPhone dash cam app
A smart dash cam from the iPhone you already have.
DashMap records your drive, maps your route, remembers where you parked, and helps you save important moments — no extra hardware required.
Private by default: drive videos stay on your iPhone unless you choose to share them.
No hardware required
Record your drive
Dashcam without hardware
Dashcam-style protection without installing hardware.
DashMap is a phone dashcam and driving recorder app for people who want a useful record of the drive without buying, wiring, or maintaining a separate physical dash cam.
Portable across cars
Use the same dash cam app in your own car, a rental car, a borrowed vehicle, or any road trip where your iPhone comes with you.
More than raw footage
Each drive can include video, route context, parking memory, hard braking, sharp turns, and saved moments instead of a folder of anonymous clips.
Easy to review and share
Review trips on the phone you already use, jump back to important moments, trim video, and share only the clips you choose.
Private local storage
Private by default. Controlled by you.
DashMap stores drive videos locally on your iPhone. Your footage stays on the device unless you choose to share it, and you can set storage limits so older footage is cleaned up automatically. When your iPhone gets warm, DashMap can adapt the recording frame rate to help the drive keep recording.
Read the Privacy PolicyLocal video storage
Physical dash cam alternative
DashMap vs. a physical dash cam.
A physical dash cam is still better for permanent always-on recording. DashMap is better when you want a portable dash cam app with route context, parking memory, and useful trip summaries from the iPhone you already carry.
| Need | DashMap | Physical dash cam |
|---|---|---|
| Setup | No extra hardware. Use your mounted iPhone as a dash cam app. | Requires buying, installing, powering, and maintaining a separate camera. |
| Always-on coverage | Best for drives you intentionally record, with CarPlay reminders when supported. | Better for permanent, automatic, always-on recording in one vehicle. |
| Portability | Works across your own car, rental cars, borrowed vehicles, and road trips. | Usually fixed to the vehicle where it is installed. |
| Driving context | Pairs video with route maps, parking memory, saved moments, and trip summaries. | Often centers on raw footage; route and app review features vary by model. |
| Review and sharing | Review, trim, and share from your iPhone. | May require an SD card, a companion app, or a cloud subscription. |
| Privacy and storage | Videos stay local by default, with storage limits and automatic cleanup. | Depends on the camera, memory card, companion app, and cloud settings. |
Driving memory
Understand what happened after every drive.
DashMap turns each recorded drive into a useful trip summary with route, video, parking location, hard braking, sharp turns, and saved moments.
Record with route context
Use DashMap as a driving recorder app that captures the road ahead and maps the route behind it, so the video has location context when you review it later.
Save important moments
Need a dash cam app without a destination? Start Quick Record right away, then save moments during the drive and find them again during playback.
Review the full story
After the drive, review the route, video, parking location, hard braking, sharp turns, and saved moments together instead of hunting through raw footage.
Useful drive context
A road trip recorder with the details around the video.
01 / Search
Find the place you are driving to.
Choose a favorite, search nearby places, or use voice search when you want route context alongside the dash cam recording.
02 / Routes
Bring your own road trip route.
Import a GPX file and keep planned routes alongside recorded trips when you want DashMap to work like a road trip recorder.
03 / Map appearance
See the drive the way you remember it.
Switch among navigation, streets, satellite, and dark views when reviewing the map context around a saved drive.
04 / CarPlay
Start recording from the screen already in your car.
Use recording controls, navigation controls, and reminders when CarPlay connects, while your mounted iPhone records the road.
Portable dash cam
Your dash cam travels with you.
DashMap works as an iPhone dash cam app in your own car, rental cars, borrowed vehicles, and road trips because the recorder is the phone you already carry.
Free to download. Optional subscriptions are available in the app.
Move between vehicles.
Use DashMap as a physical dash cam alternative when you switch cars, borrow a vehicle, rent for a trip, or want a recorder without permanent installation.
Remember where you parked.
After a drive, DashMap can save your parking location so the driving memory does not end when the recording stops.
You choose how much space it uses.
Set a 5, 10, 20, 40, or 60 GB video limit. When the limit is reached, DashMap removes the oldest footage first without interrupting the current recording.
Recording adapts when your iPhone gets hot.
If your iPhone gets too warm, DashMap automatically lowers the recording frame rate. It restores your selected frame rate after the device cools down.
Your next drive
Try DashMap on your next drive.
Turn your iPhone into a smart dash cam with route maps, parking memory, saved moments, and private local video storage.
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