Billig Tanken

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What is Billig Tanken?

Billig Tanken shows you the most current fuel prices in Germany, Austria, France and Italy.

Billig Tanken offers features like color coding of prices and data quality, favorite gas stations, search at different locations, exact travel distances, map display and navigation.

Why do I need Billig Tanken?

The E-Control Spritpreisrechner application shows only 5 results, which is very limited. Billig Tanken shows many more results, and will always include your favorite gas stations. Finding the best gas station for you never has been easier.

How does Billig Tanken work?

The main screen of Billig Tanken always shows you the gas stations near you (based on your current location), including any favorites you have selected. The following information is shown for each gas station:

The sort order of the result list (and several other options affecting the results) can be changed in the settings. A star on the left side indicates selected favorites.

There are different color codes in order to help you finding the ideal gas station for you:

Showing a gas station on the map or navigating to a gas station

You can show a gas station on the map or start navigating to the gas station by simply clicking on it (dependent on the configuration).

Both options are also available via the context menu (long press the item and select "Show on map" or "Navigate there").

Adding favorites

Add a gas station as favorite via the star icon or via the context menu (long press the item and select "Add as favorite").

Fuel prices of favorites are always up-to-date, since they get updated with most recent data during a each manual update and each automatic background update.

Note, that favorites are automatically deleted, if there is no price update for 30 days.

Removing favorites

Remove a gas station as favorite via the star icon or via the context menu (long press the item and select "Remove as favorite").

Updating the Result List

The result list automatically gets updated according to the foreground time interval setting.

You can update the list manually at any time via the refresh icon in the menu.

Searching Gas Stations at Different Locations

You can search gas stations at any arbitrary location via the menu "Search at Location". Just enter the location (as you would do e.g. in Google Maps).

The search is limited to either Germany, Austria, France or Italy, so in most cases in it sufficient to enter a city name or a postal code.

Settings

Fuel

Results

Results while Travelling

While travelling (current speed exceeds a specified limit), Billig Tanken can use different result list options. The meaning of the options is identical to those before.

Automatic Updates

Widget

Note, that various settings are not enabled in the Free version.

Widget

You can add a widget of Billig Tanken to your home screen. The widget shows the data of the gas station with the cheapest price per liter. Alternatively, it can show the data of the cheapest favorite gas station (by changing the setting "Prefer Favorites"). Tap on the widget, to start the main application.

The widget data gets updated whenever Billig Tanken retrieves new data, either by the automatic background update, or manually triggered.

FAQs & Troubleshooting

Network traffic

Note, that Billig Tanken causes some network traffic, that is dependent on certain factors:

A typical scenario with 3 favorites and a background update time interval of 2 hours creates approximately 19.5 MB background network traffic per month. A typical complete foreground update with this scenario and 25 results with exact distances creates approximately 180 kB network traffic.

Getting position

Billig Tanken tries to obtain a position via GPS or WiFi. If it is not possible to get a position with sufficient accuracy within 30 seconds, no update based on the current location will take place.

Note, that GPS is only used during obtaining the position.

Results

In Austria the result list contains at least the 5 results you would get from the E-Control Spritpreisrechner, but also contains community provided data.

It might be necessary to tweak the search radius dependent on your location (smaller search radius in urban centers, bigger search radius in the countryside).