No setup rituals, no reporting. Hodos reads the road through the phone in your pocket and turns every ordinary drive into a sharper map of potholes, rough stretches, and speed bumps — for you, and for whoever drives the same streets next.
Effortless by design
Turn it on once, then keep doing what you were doing. Hodos works silently behind whatever is already on your screen.
You never switch screens or tap buttons while driving. On-device motion sensors filter out normal engine vibration and pick up real potholes, speed bumps, and rough pavement automatically.
A single jolt is never published alone. When independent trips hit the same spot, Hodos confirms the hazard and updates the live map for the next person through.
Download a nearby region over Wi-Fi once and the map keeps working through dead zones, tunnels, and back roads — hazards included.
How Hodos stays free
Nothing here is paid for by selling your location. Two quiet funding streams keep the map open to everyone: clearly labeled partner offers, and commercial licensing of aggregated road-quality data.
Anyone with a phone and a road: commuters, couriers, cab and rideshare drivers, motorcyclists, road-trip families.
Native, non-intrusive placements for garages, tire shops, lubricant brands, fuel stations, and gear shops.
Real-time road roughness (IRI), hazard feeds, and corridor health for logistics, ride-hailing platforms, and cities.
Partner offers reach drivers exactly when the road has their attention. Clearly labeled, never blocking the route ahead. Local business? Claim a pin.
Privacy by construction
Aggregated road intelligence and clearly labeled partner offers fund the map. Personal location tracking is never the product.
Explore the live map or opt into road sensing immediately. No sign-ups, emails, or phone numbers required.
Observations near the start and end of your journey are discarded on your device so home and pickup locations stay private.
Partner offers are matched to road conditions and vehicle care — never personal behavioral profiling or invasive ad SDKs.
App code is MIT open source; the corroborated road dataset is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (free for civic use, licensed for commercial fleets).
Questions
Yes. Turn automatic mapping on once and Hodos runs silently in the background while you navigate, accept rides, or follow directions in whatever app you already use.
Two ways, both visible: commercial licensing of aggregated road-quality data to fleets, insurers, and cities, and clearly badged offers from partner shops inside the app and map.
Potholes are shown in crimson, rough road stretches in warm amber, speed bumps in violet, and repaired spots in emerald—keeping your blue location dot unmistakably clear.
Yes. The Android app queues observations locally when you're offline and can automatically cache a 20 km nearby map area over Wi-Fi.
Free for everyone. Explore the live map or download the Android app today.