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iPhones running iOS 15 or later, and Android phones running Android 7.0 or later. It needs a phone with GPS, so it isn’t offered on tablets without one, and it needs precise location and an internet connection while you drive.

Yes. You must be 16 or older, or hold a learner’s permit. If you’re under 18, you can use LimitBeep only with a parent’s or guardian’s consent. In many states, drivers under 18 or with a learner’s or provisional license may not use a phone at all while driving, even hands-free. If that applies to you, set the app up before the drive and keep the phone out of sight; the beep needs no touching.

The first request, when you open the app, is enough to get started. Starting by itself needs more, and each phone handles that differently:

• iPhone only offers “Always” the second time an app asks. When you switch alerts on, the app asks again, and that’s when “Always” appears.
• Android only offers “Allow all the time” in Settings, so the app takes you there: open Permissions, then Location, then Allow all the time.

Without it, your phone won’t restart the app when you start driving.

Approximate location can be off by about a kilometer, which is too far to tell which road you’re on. Without precise location, the app can’t look up the right limit.

No. Once alerts are on, it starts by itself when you drive and sleeps after you park, even if you’ve closed it.

Two things stop that until you open the app again: force-stopping it in Android’s Settings, and swiping it away in the iPhone app switcher. After a swipe-away, iPhone won’t restart it until you open it or restart the phone.

When your speed is over the posted limit by more than your alert margin, which you can set from 0 to 20 mph (+5 by default). There are no alerts where the posted limit is under 20 mph, such as parking lots, and no lookups while you’re below 15 mph. It beeps once when you go over, then every 12 seconds while you stay over, and again straight away if your speed rises another 5 mph or more.

Check these first: you may have been within your margin, the limit may have been under 20 mph, or the app may have shown “--” because it couldn’t confirm the limit.

Alerts can also be late or missed when GPS is weak, the connection drops, the phone is in a battery-saving mode, permissions have changed, or media volume is turned down. No alert never means you’re within the limit.

It couldn’t confirm the limit for the road you’re on, for example where the map data has no posted limit, or when you’ve lost signal. Rather than guess, it stays quiet until it can confirm one.

Alerts play at your phone’s media volume, the one used for music and videos, so keep it turned up. On iPhone, other audio dips briefly while the alert plays, and alerts still sound when the Ring/Silent switch is set to silent.

No. Map data doesn’t include temporary or variable limits, school zones in effect, or road works, and a safe speed can be well below the posted limit. Always follow the signs.

No. Speeds and limits are shown in miles per hour.

No. LimitBeep tells you the posted limit and when you’re over it. It isn’t a radar, laser, camera or police detector.

GPS runs while you drive, which uses some power. Once you’ve been parked for a few minutes, the app turns GPS off until you drive again. On Android, allowing the battery-optimization exemption keeps monitoring reliable.

Yes. Speed limits come from our server, and it uses roughly 1–2 MB of data per hour of driving. If you lose signal, the app pauses alerts and tells you, then resumes by itself within seconds of the connection returning.

Android requires an ongoing notification while an app tracks location in the background. Apart from that, LimitBeep only shows a reminder before a subscription renews (before each annual renewal, and once a year for a monthly plan). It never sends marketing notifications.

Redeem it in your phone’s store. On iPhone, open the App Store, tap your profile picture, then Redeem Gift Card or Code. On Android, open the Play Store, tap your profile picture, then Payments & subscriptions → Redeem code. The offer’s length and the price that follows are shown before you redeem it. When it ends, the subscription renews at the regular price unless you cancel at least 24 hours before.

No. A subscription belongs to the store you bought it from and can’t be moved between Apple and Google.

No. Your location is used to look up the speed limit. Positions go into a shared speed-limit cache without your account ID, and no history of your drives is kept linked to you. The Privacy Policy has the details.

Open the app’s Privacy Policy screen and tap Delete my data, or email us the anonymous ID shown on that screen. The details are on Delete your data.