Coming to iPhone

Car spotting for people who know cars

Look past the badge.Know the car.

Point your phone at a car on the street and OttoSpot tells you what it actually is: the generation, facelift or pre-facelift, the trim and the years. Then it files the catch in your own garage with a rarity tier.

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What makes it different

Every other app stops at the badge.

The interesting part is which generation, whether it is the facelift, what trim, what chassis code. It is exactly the part they skip, and it is the only part an enthusiast actually argues about. That depth is the whole point of OttoSpot.

Most car appsResult
Concept GT.

A make and a model. That is where most of them stop, and it is where the conversation starts.

Generation
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Facelift
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Trim
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Confidence
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OttoSpotIdentified
Make and model
Concept GT-01
Body
Grand touring coupe
Generation
First generation
Facelift
Pre-facelift
Model year
2026
Rarity
Legendary, tier 5 of 6
Confidence
High

When it is not sure, it says so, and you can correct any identification yourself. Concept GT-01 is a fictional car used here for illustration.

How it works

Spot. Identify. Collect.

The OttoSpot camera, framing a car
01 / Spot

Point and shoot

A proper camera built for the moment a car goes by, with ultrawide, standard and 2x lenses.

OttoSpot identifying a car
02 / Identify

Know what it really is

Generation, facelift, trim and years, with an honest confidence signal instead of a confident guess.

A garage of collected cars
03 / Collect

Build your garage

Every catch is filed with a rarity tier. Keep a streak, finish quests, and level up.

Inside the app

Privacy review: cover the plate before saving
Every catch has a rarity tier
Complete quests and level up

Rarity

Six tiers. Most of what you see is Common.

Rarity is how unlikely a car is to cross your path, not what it costs. That is what makes an Exotic worth stopping for.

CommonTier 1
UncommonTier 2
RareTier 3
EpicTier 4
LegendaryTier 5
ExoticTier 6
A studio-lit grand touring concept car

Garage cards

Turn a catch into a garage card.

OttoSpot can restyle your photo into a clean studio shot. Caught it from behind? Render it from another angle and see the front.

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  • Share it anywhere. One tap sends the card to Instagram, Messages or wherever your friends are.
  • Honest about what it is. Other angles are illustrated from the identification, and the card says so.
  • Collectible cards. Frame any catch as a numbered card with its rarity, the date and how it was caught, in four styles, and save it to your photos.

Keep coming back

Streaks, quests, crews and friends.

Spotting is better with a reason to look up. OttoSpot gives you a few.

  • Streaks with a reminder. Catch a car a day. The evening reminder is set on your phone, so nothing about it is sent to us.
  • Daily and weekly quests. Earn XP, level up, and unlock crew crests along the way.
  • Crews. Start one with people you actually know, or find one in the directory.
  • A leaderboard ranked by rare finds, not by who photographs the most traffic. It is opt-in.
  • Follow friends. See their catches in a feed and react with Fire, Clean or Grail. No comments, no noise.
  • A map of what is out there. See catches from spotters who chose to share, an hour late and only to the nearest kilometre.

Privacy

A licence plate identifies a person. We treat it like one.

OttoSpot is built to hold as little about you as it can.

Plates blurred into the photo

You cover the plate and any faces before a spot is saved, and the blur is burned into the image itself. The unblurred original is never stored.

Private unless you choose

No account needed to catch, identify and keep a full garage. Profiles are private until you switch them on, and never show your photos or where a car was.

No tracking, no ads

No analytics, no advertising, and nothing in the app that reports what you do to anyone.

One thing worth knowing. Identifying a car sends that photo, once, to our identification provider, before you blur it. That is how the identification works, and you are asked first. The privacy policy spells out everything that leaves your phone.

Watch

Coming to a street near you.

Teaser
Short

Follow along

Watch it get built.

Car design history, the build, and the occasional argument about chassis codes.

Your next catch is parked outside.

OttoSpot is in testing now and coming soon to iPhone. Android comes later.

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