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Could you give an example or two of their best competitor?


Automatic seems to be mostly aimed at consumers who wish to have statistics more than to perform optimizations or do diagnosis, but here are a couple that are fairly common in the aftermarket:

Stats, Tuning, Android App, Bluetooth dongle: http://www.superchips.com/Store/VIVIDLINQ.aspx

App to work with any number of bluetooth OBD-II dongles: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.prowl.torq...

Personally, as someone who regularly changes drivetrain, tires sizes, gearing, etc. on vehicles, I'll stick with things like VIVID which do work pretty well for the most part. I can see a market for people who just want an easy app that tells them statistics and such (but those do already exist, just not as easy for the average user since they've been the domain of tuners for a while).



The first link is a $50 piece of software that still requires a dongle. The suggested dongle is $99.

The next piece of software is $40 and works with three listed 3rd party dongles each over $100 (unable to find price from the one in Germany).

If these are Automatic's best competitors, they're going to clean up. They control the whole widget and they appear to have a good UI.


It depends what you're after. Most sports cars are programmable to tweak different things about the engine and transmission. Some companies that sell handheld devices that read, record, and write data are: SCT, AccessPORT, and Diablo.





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