The full walkthrough
From mounting the phone to reading the debrief — here is exactly what ClutchUp does, what it looks at, and what you stay in control of.
Everything is set up before you move. You never touch the app while driving.
Mount the phone, pick Free Drive or a Guided Route, and choose your analysis mode. All of it happens before you set off.
If you've enabled a camera mode, ClutchUp runs a quick road check — and, in face mode, a face check — so you know the framing is right.
Start recording and drive normally. Sensors, GPS and any enabled cameras run in the background while you concentrate on the road.
End the drive and the analysis runs. Your examiner-style report is ready to read while it's all still fresh.
Structure when you want it, freedom when you don't.
Drive wherever you were going anyway — the shops, a lesson route, a motorway-free practice loop. ClutchUp records the whole thing and works out the junctions and manoeuvres from the map data as you go, so your debrief still knows where the tricky bits were.
Follow a planned learner-safe route with the manoeuvres laid out in advance. Because ClutchUp knows what's coming, it can open its mirror-check window at exactly the right moment on the approach to each planned turn.
Analysis modes
You pick a mode before every single drive, and camera use is entirely optional. Your choice is shown during the drive and stated on your debrief, so if a section is missing you always know why.
Thirty seconds of setup that stops you finishing a drive and finding the camera was pointing at the ceiling.
Before a camera drive, ClutchUp takes a single still through the rear camera to confirm the phone is actually mounted facing the road. If the framing is wrong it tells you how to adjust the mount before you start.
In face-view mode only, the app takes a few front-camera snapshots to confirm the camera can actually see you, and tells you how to adjust if not. They're analysed in memory and discarded immediately — neither the images nor the result are stored or uploaded. If it can't see you, you can still drive in a lower mode.
Mirror checks
As you approach a turn, the app opens a short window — around twenty seconds at most, and capped per drive — and measures head movement on-device to see whether you made a real mirror check.
Written the way an examiner would talk you through the drive you just did.
A headline read on the drive, with faults grouped the way a test report groups them — driver faults, serious, dangerous.
Braking, approach speed, cornering, positioning and observation — each with the moments in your drive that produced the mark.
Tied to the focus areas you picked during onboarding, so the advice connects to what you actually want to improve.
AI-generated feedback can be wrong. It may miss faults, flag faults that didn't happen, or mis-estimate a speed. Treat it as a learning aid and always defer to your instructor, your supervising driver, the Highway Code and the law.
Mirror-check analysis happens on your phone, using Apple's on-device Vision framework to measure head movement. No facial images are ever uploaded or transmitted. Only derived results leave the device — whether a check was detected, head-turn angle summaries, timestamps and the turn's location.
Road-facing camera stills are only captured at detected events, never as continuous video. And if you'd rather no camera opened at all, telemetry-only mode gives you a full debrief without one.
Free to start. Pro is bought inside the app through the App Store.
ClutchUp is a learning aid and does not replace a qualified driving instructor. Always drive safely and legally. Not affiliated with the DVSA.