Know where the cameras are.
Then decide.
Flock U maps automated license plate readers across the United States, shows you which ones a drive would pass, and plans a route around the ones it can — and tells you plainly when it can't.
Android, in testing — installs from here, not the Play Store. Your first 7 days are free and need no card. After that it is $4.99 USD per month, and subscribing adds a further 7-day free trial.
What it does
Honest about the limits of every one of these.
A nationwide plate-reader map
Automated license plate readers, built from OpenStreetMap and community reports, with the survey date shown so you can judge how current an area is. We do not map speed cameras, red-light cameras, or gunshot sensors.
Every brand, not just Flock
Each camera is identified by maker — Flock, Motorola, Genetec, Axon, Rekor and more — and treated by its actual hardware: long-range readers count at their real read distance, and toll gantries are treated as readers that see every lane.
Routes around them
Real driving routes that steer around known cameras where a road exists to do it. Where none does, it says so instead of pretending. Avoid tolls and highways too — applied to both routes, so the comparison stays fair.
Turn-by-turn navigation
Directions with an alert as you approach a known camera, your speed and the posted limit on screen, and it refuses to guide you over a route it cannot verify. Android Auto puts it on the car screen.
Works with no signal
Download the offline camera pack — every known ALPR in the country, about 4 MB — and camera alerts keep working when coverage dies.
The law on your route
Which states a route crosses and how long each keeps plate reads — labelled “by law” when it comes from a statute, “reported” when it is only what agencies disclose. “No data” never silently becomes “no protection.”
Nearby search & handoff
One tap finds gas, food, or coffee near your route. Prefer Waze for the drive? One tap opens your destination there — it sends only the destination point, nothing else.
A sourced library
How these systems work, what courts have actually held, and where the evidence is genuinely contested — cited to primary sources, not advocacy blogs.
What it does not do
It does not make you invisible, and it never claims to. The map covers cameras that are publicly documented — there are certainly others. In dense areas there is often no route that misses every camera, and the app tells you that rather than quietly failing. Nothing here helps anyone damage, disable, or interfere with a camera, and that is not a feature we will add.
Pricing
One product, one price. Everything the app does is included — there is no cheaper tier holding features back.
- 7 days free to start — no card
- Then a 7-day free trial when you subscribe
- The full nationwide camera map — every brand identified
- Unlimited route planning, with toll and highway avoidance
- Turn-by-turn navigation, camera alerts, speed and posted limit
- Android Auto on the car screen
- The offline camera pack — alerts with no signal
- Per-state retention law on every route
- Alerts when a new camera appears in an area you watch
- The full Learn library
Free trial terms
Your first 7 days are free and ask for no card at all — install the app and everything works. Nothing is collected, so nothing can be charged, and there is nothing to cancel if you simply stop using it.
When those 7 days end, you subscribe in the app and add a card then. You are still not charged during the 7-day free trial that follows; when it ends your card is charged $4.99 USD, and $4.99 USD every month after that, automatically, until you cancel. Cancel before that trial ends and you are never charged. Prices are in US dollars. Payment is processed by Stripe; we never see or store your card number.
Cancelling
Cancel any time from Settings in the app, or through the Stripe billing portal we link you to. Cancellation stops all future charges and takes effect at the end of the period you have already paid for. There is nothing to phone and no retention process to sit through. Full detail on the Terms & Refunds page.
What we collect
We teach people to interrogate data practices. It would be absurd not to answer the same questions about ourselves.
Minimal identity
We never ask for an email, phone number, or real name — an account is a handle and a passphrase, and there is no column in our database for anything else. An account and an active subscription are required to report a camera or to vote on one.
No route history
Routes, destinations, address searches and map views are answered and discarded. We keep a daily count and nothing else — there is no table with a column for where you went.
Two locations we do keep
Your confirm/flag votes and any areas you ask us to watch are stored against your account, on purpose. We would rather say so here than bury it. The full list →
Payment identifies you
A card carries a name, so the payment processor necessarily knows who you are — and since a subscription is required, that applies to everyone. We store only their customer ID and your renewal date, and we never send them a location.
Questions?
Email support@waterviewtechnologies.com. A person reads it. Billing questions, refund requests, privacy requests and security reports all go to the same address.
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