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Browse Carsales as you normally would. When you find one worth a look, hit Share → TrueCost and it lands here.
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Only the car, its year, km, asking price and state. Never the seller, the ad's link or anything about you. Leaves your device only if cloud sync is on, and is only ever used as averages. Details
Price while you browse Trial
Over the Carsales app & Chrome: Off
Android asks you to switch it on under Accessibility → TrueCost floating price. It reads the year, make, model, price and km of the listing on screen, only while Carsales or Chrome is open.
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Scenario Defaults
Expected return if the purchase price was invested instead. Leave blank to track the published term deposit rate.
Home charging costs you $0/kWh, so your EVs show no energy cost — that is the right answer, not a missing one. Public fast charging is still costed.
Your situation
Set once. Every vehicle you import uses these, so you're never asked again.
Sets your marginal rate for business-use deductions. Leave blank to skip.
Listings sell and prices move, so saved cars age out. Ones you've edited are kept.
Cloud sync
Off by default — TrueCost works entirely on this device. Turn it on to back your cars up and share them with your other Banksia Springs apps.
Sign in with the same account as your invoice app to share data between them and sync across your phone and computer.
Google sign-in is available in the web app. Use your email and password here.
You already have an account for . Enter its password once and both sign-in methods will use the same account and the same data.
Rates & Costs
Edit any value to customise — changes save automatically.
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Fuel Prices
Live Queensland prices with your own token
Queensland's Fuel Price Reporting scheme gives free access tokens at fuelpricesqld.com.au. Its licence lets you use the prices for yourself, so the token stays on this phone and TrueCost reads your area once a day. Without one, prices come from the State's open data, which is about five weeks behind. Android app only.
Annual Registration (est. incl. CTP)
Changes also save automatically when you leave a field.
Unknown Vehicles
Cars an import could not find in the database. Their costs were still worked out from the listing — this is the backlog of what the database is missing, most-seen first.
Data Backup
Export all your vehicles and settings to a JSON file. Use Import to restore on a new device or after clearing browser data.
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TrueCost calculates every dimension of vehicle ownership cost over your chosen period — depreciation, fuel, insurance, registration, servicing, tyres, and lost capital.
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