What Car Is That?

Auto & Vehicles In-app purchases Contains ads

Use registration plates or the VIN of a car and find What Car It Is.

Rating: 3.0; 11.6K ratings
Downloads: 1.6M+; on Google Play
Price: Free; In-app purchases
Updated: Sep 19; 2026 · v13.3

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About What Car Is That?

Want to know what's under the hood of a car?
Do you want to recognize a motorcycle?

Grab the license plate and we'll tell you.

It's that simple.

Features of the application:
🔥 VIN decoder
🔥 automatic reading of license plates (LAPI) from a photo
🔥 recognition of invalid or undelivered license plates
🔥 access to MOTOR CODE information useful for finding spare parts

Works with the plates of several countries:
🇫🇷 France
🇵🇹 Portugal
🇮🇹 Italy
🇪🇸 Spain
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇸🇪 Sweden
🇩🇰 Denmark
🇳🇴 Norway
🇺🇸 United States
🇷🇺 Russia (Beta)

⚠️ Not all vehicles are listed. ⚠️

Precision:

No personal data is displayed or saved by the application.
We access a database that contains only information about the vehicle and in no way about the owner. (name, department, registration address ...).

What’s new

Version 13.3 · Updated September 19, 2026

Correction for plate reading from Camera and Gallery Added car images for US market

User reviews

AlexPonto PT O GAJO QUE JOGA À BOLA

When I see I think is fake, but is real, how u do that?

Frank Ferguson

Excellent

Vlad Albu

Vreau sa ajut la promovarea și monetizarea mai eficienta a aplicației, posibil și obținerea unor fonduri de susținere a dezvoltării aplicației. Cu cine ar trebui sa vorbesc?

Krocodilo

It worked with all the license plates I tried. Even the common cars.

Benjamin Loison

Whoawh leaked databases ?

Mikhael Olbrechts Costa

Very good app, works all the time, fantastic

App details

What Car Is That? is a free Auto & Vehicles app for Android with 1,000,000+ installs on Google Play and a 3.0/5 average rating from 11,658 ratings. It was released on July 7, 2017 and last updated on September 19, 2026. It requires Android 7.1 or later. The app contains ads and offers in-app purchases.

Category: Auto & Vehicles
Rating: 3.0 / 5 (11,658)
Installs: 1,603,898
In-app purchases: Yes
Ads: Contains ads
Version: 13.3
Requires Android: 7.1
Content rating: Everyone
Released: July 7, 2017
Last updated: September 19, 2026

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