Best Fuel Price Apps in Australia 2026: 7 Compared for Road Trips

The short answer

For an interstate road trip, Petrol Spy is the app here that pulls official prices from the most states into one map, and it is free. Inside one state, the government's own tool is the cleanest source: FuelCheck in New South Wales and the ACT, FuelCheck TAS in Tasmania, Servo Saver in Victoria, FuelWatch in Western Australia and MyFuel NT in the Northern Territory.

Queensland and South Australia have no official consumer app; their reporting schemes feed private apps instead, including Petrol Spy. If you are an NRMA member, the My NRMA app adds a per-litre discount at participating stations on top of whatever price you find.

1. Petrol Spy: one map for most of the country

Petrol Spy shows real-time prices for Queensland, South Australia, New South Wales, Western Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory, drawing on official feeds such as FuelCheck and FuelWatch and on Queensland's reporting scheme. It has more App Store ratings than any other app here, about 185,000 averaging 4.8, and users report prices too.

Its listing still describes Victorian prices as user-submitted, even though Victoria now runs mandatory reporting through Servo Saver, so in Victoria compare it with the official app. Price cycle graphs for eight capital cities help you judge whether to fill up today or wait. The app is free with ads; Premium removes them for A$2.89 a year or A$14.99 once.

What we like: one app across state borders, cycle graphs and lots of users reporting prices. What to weigh: advertising in the free version, and a last update in July 2025.

2. FuelCheck: the official source in New South Wales

The NSW Government's FuelCheck app lists over 2,300 service stations in New South Wales and about 60 in the ACT, with prices uploaded by the stations themselves. It is free, carries no ads and is rated 4.8 from about 123,000 Australian ratings.

Beyond the map, it sends price-drop alerts for favourite stations, finds the cheapest stations along a route with My Trip, and shows trends such as the cheapest day of the cycle. You can report a price that does not match the bowser.

What to weigh: it stops at the border, so an interstate trip needs a second app.

3. Servo Saver: Victoria's official prices

Since mandatory reporting started in Victoria, stations must report price changes within 30 minutes and set the next day's maximum price in advance; it applies from 6am for 24 hours. Servo Saver, inside the free Service Victoria app, shows today's prices, and from 4pm it also shows tomorrow's cap, so you can decide where to fill.

It is ad-free and official. The catch for visitors is that it lives inside a broader government app, and it covers Victoria only.

4. FuelWatch: plan around tomorrow's price in Western Australia

Western Australia has the longest-running scheme. Retailers submit tomorrow's price by 2pm, it is published from 2:30pm, and it is fixed for 24 hours from 6am the next day. Knowing tomorrow's price is useful on a long WA leg, where you may pass one roadhouse in a day.

FuelWatch runs on the WA Government website and in the ServiceWA app rather than as its own app.

5. FuelCheck TAS: Tasmania's version

Tasmania uses the same FuelCheck system as New South Wales, in a separate free app covering more than 200 stations. Stations can also report when they have run out of a fuel, which matters on the island's quieter roads. It has a 4.7 rating from about 3,500 Australian ratings.

6. Fuel Map Australia: a simple map from the WikiCamps team

Fuel Map Australia combines a crowd-sourced station database with official real-time prices for Western Australia, New South Wales and Queensland, including WA's next-day prices. It also keeps a fuel log. It is free with ads, or A$2.99 once to remove them.

What to weigh: its last update was in October 2022, and outside those three states the prices depend on users.

7. My NRMA: a discount rather than a price map

My NRMA is a membership app, not a price comparison tool. Members show a code at participating Ampol Foodary stations for 5 cents a litre off premium fuel and 4 cents off regular. The NRMA sells the discount through My NRMA Rewards, at A$5 a month after a free first month, so work out whether your fills over a trip cover the fee.

State by state: where official prices come from

Use this as a quick guide when you cross a border. The ACT has no scheme of its own, but its stations appear in FuelCheck.

Fuel is the biggest cost you can plan

On most road trips fuel costs more than campsites, and the cheapest litre comes from planning the stops rather than from any single app. Knowing the distance of each leg tells you which towns you must fill in and where you can afford to wait for a cheaper price.

AussieCamps does not show fuel prices, but trips in AussieCamps, part of the Pass, show the driving distance and time for every leg between the stops in your trip, which is the number a fuel plan starts from. Pair it with one of the apps above for the price, and fill up before long remote stretches whatever the price.

How we chose

We checked each app's Australian App Store listing on 20 October 2026, and each state's reporting rules on its official government page. Ratings are rounded to the nearest hundred or thousand. Prices you see in any app are reported by stations or users and can lag behind the bowser, so check the pump before you fill.

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