Press kit
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You may use everything in this press kit in coverage of Pelican. For other material, or for a review build, write to press@clutch.engineering.

Key facts
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Name: Pelican
What it is: A navigation app that gets to know your car, how you drive, and helps you navigate the road ahead.
Latest version: 5.1, September 2026
Platforms: iPhone (iOS 18 or later), CarPlay, Apple Watch (watchOS 11 or later)
Price: Free. Pelican+ membership from $6.99/month with a two-week free trial, or Pelican+ Lifetime once. ScanPlan sold separately; Connected Accounts is an add-on for Lifetime members.
Languages: 19 in the app, 33 for spoken guidance
Availability: App Store, worldwide
Developer: fearless design, LLC DBA Clutch Engineering
Categories: Navigation; Utilities

Boilerplate
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Pelican is a navigation app designed by Clutch Engineering. It provides turn-by-turn directions with live car data and road reports from the Pelican community and public agencies. Drivers can share hazards with Scout reports and suggest corrections to OpenStreetMap, helping improve the map for everyone.

Key features
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- Pelican Navigation, an on-device navigation engine powered by OpenStreetMap
- See speed cameras, red light cameras, license plate readers, surveillance cameras and toll gantries on the map
- Scout reports: hazards, police, closures and heavy traffic from drivers and from official road-authority feeds
- Map edits improve OpenStreetMap
- Live OBD data powered by the OBDb, the world's largest open database of OBD facts
- Drag-and-drop widget layouts and head unit mode
- Powerful and customizable map layers: The Danger Zone and The Fog
- All-day battery-preserving trip logging

About Clutch Engineering
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Clutch Engineering is a bootstrapped studio in New York. Besides Pelican, it makes CAN Studio, a Mac tool for reading large datasets of car data; ELMCheck, a tool for checking the authenticity of OBD scanners; and Watchmen, an app that maps the surveillance cameras in public places. It maintains the OBDb, the open database of vehicle signal definitions, and became a corporate sponsor of the OpenStreetMap Foundation in 2025. Pelican began as an Apple Watch app for one electric car. More than 100,000 drivers now use it. The legal entity is fearless design, LLC DBA Clutch Engineering.

Contact
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Press: press@clutch.engineering
Support: support@clutch.engineering
https://pelican.clutch.engineering/press
