Marmalade Insurance

Cambridge Mobile Telematics

About this app

The Marmalade app puts you in the driving seat to become a safer driver and to earn your No Claims Discount. The app shows your driving score, trip summaries including details of where you’ve driven well and areas for improvement, helping you to develop safe driving habits. Plus, you can earn streaks and badges for great driving!

Ratings and reviews

I've found it works well enough, but it's not quite fit for purpose. 1 - Ability to split a journey - there and back with separate drivers 2 - do some basic maths to verify sensor readings. The app will pick up g force from sensors on your phone, and anything over 1/3g is considered bad. This is fine, but it needs to rule out anomalies. Too often you'll get an event, it will tell you Xmph in Y seconds. This often calculates as less than 0.2g. That's simple maths and something the app must do.

Overall it is a decent app, has some nice features, and I would give it 5 stars if it worked, however the GPS tracking is quite broken. I've got several trips where I have 'cornered harshly' but the map interprets me going round a roundabout and taking the third exit(right) as me going the wrong way round the roundabout. I have numerous examples of it, so I'd be delighted if you could improve the tracking.

App is absolute trash and not worth the slightly cheaper insurance. If I'd known about how bad it was beforehand i would have chosen a different insurer... And definitely won't be renewing. Extremely temperamental, doesn't seem to be recording most trips, doesn't allow your phone to be used at all, even by a passenger, or pressing the 'recenter' button on Google maps. Also having a 'streak' for hard braking is irresponsible and should be removed, sometimes it's essential.

What's new

Bugfixes and Updates