Built for car enthusiasts who notice every detail on the road. Spot supercars, classics, hypercars and rare daily-driven gems — with quality scoring, anti-cheat, AR ghost hunts, and privacy by default.
Fresh from the road, ordered by date. Updated every 15 minutes.
See something interesting on the road? Open Carva.
One tap. Faces and plates blur automatically.
Make, model, year, history, and rarity tier in seconds.
Rare cars haunt your area in AR. Hunt them down.
Rarer cars score bigger. Top the global & country leaderboards.
Every scored car lands somewhere on the ladder. Not every car scores — and that is the whole point.
Carva is a collection of cars that matter, not a traffic counter. If everything scored, a collection would mean nothing — so the daily commute is identified, named and dated, but it does not earn points. Which signals count and how they combine stays private. That secrecy is the only thing keeping the leaderboards honest.
Ghost cars are rare classics that appear randomly on your map. Catch them in AR, walk around them, study every panel, add them to your collection.
A 50-year-old race car you'd never get within ten meters of in real life — sitting in your driveway.
Tap, walk around, examine every panel, capture, keep forever in your Ghost Garage.
Your first three ghosts unlock fast — at 3, 7 and 12 spots: →
Carva is a long answer to apps that treat car spotting like Pokémon-counting.
Any car you photograph counts.
Only rare, interesting cars earn points. A complex rarity model rejects daily drivers — your collection stays meaningful.
Leaderboards full of GPS spoofers and bots.
Real anti-cheat. Spoofing, dupes and automated tools are detected and removed. Your rank actually means something.
Leak owners' exact locations to strangers.
Faces and license plates auto-blurred. Other people's spots show up only after 24 hours, with locations offset by ~5 km.
A list of photos. That's it.
Build a real collection. Read about each car. Hunt ghost cars in AR. Comment, follow, compete. A spotter platform, not a gallery.
Most car spotting apps treat your photos like inventory. Carva treats them like a community responsibility.
Server-side detection blurs faces and license plates automatically. Originals are never stored.
You see your own spots instantly. Other people's spots show up the next day, with a 5 km random offset.
If your car appears in a spot you'd rather not, fill out one form — we'll remove it within 30 days.
Carva offers 10 free scans to try the app. After that, you can either subscribe (Pro $4.99/mo for 20 scans/day, or Pro+ $49.99/mo for 50 scans/day) or buy scan packs ($0.99 for 7 scans, $1.99 for 20 scans, or $3.99 for 50 scans — no expiry, use whenever). Each scan uses paid car recognition regardless of whether you save the result, which is why the app relies on subscriptions or packs to operate.
Three ways, and they stack on top of the 10 scans a new account starts with. Invite a friend: they enter your code, and once they have saved 3 spots you both get +3 scans (up to 10 friends per 30 days). Share a spot: post the spot card publicly to TikTok, Instagram or Facebook with the #carva hashtag and we credit +1 scan once we find the post — the spot has to score at least 50 points (Exotic tier or better), be no more than 7 days old, and each spot pays only once, with at most one rewarded post every 3 days per person. Finish a weekly challenge: those pay 1-2 scans on top of the XP, while daily challenges pay XP only. Full conditions are in the Terms.
Every scored car lands on a 12-tier ladder, from Common (3 XP) up to Immortal (2600+ XP). Where it lands depends on what the car actually is: what it is worth today, how many were built, how old it is, how much real performance it has for its era, and whether it carries genuine motorsport or cultural pedigree — homologation specials, JDM and DTM legends, rally cars, movie icons. The rarer and more significant the find, the bigger the score. The exact weights, and how they combine, stay private — that is the only thing keeping the leaderboards honest.
Because Carva is a collection of cars that matter, not a traffic counter — if everything scored, a collection would mean nothing. Five kinds of vehicle never earn points: campers, motorhomes and RVs; vans, trucks and other commercial vehicles; stretch limousines and hearses; ordinary modern mass-market cars, until they have aged into rarity; and cheap, unremarkable everyday cars with no age, rarity or pedigree behind them. Everything else scores. Age alone is enough to get on the board — an ordinary car that survived long enough is already a rare sight in traffic, and the further back it goes the more it is worth. The car is still identified, named and saved to your feed either way.
There are three reasons a scan does not land in your collection, and the app tells you which one it is. “Already in collection” — you have that exact model already; each model counts once, so a second Golf GTI will not be added. “Too many nearby” — you have saved 5 cars in this area today; that is an anti-farming limit and it resets the next day, or as soon as you move somewhere new. “Too common” — the car is a modern mass-market model and does not score (see above). One thing worth knowing: recognition runs on paid AI the moment you press the shutter, so a scan is spent whatever the answer turns out to be. Pointing the camera at cars you already own, or at the traffic outside, is the quickest way to burn through them.
Ghost cars are rare legends that appear randomly on your map. Walk to one, open the AR view, and study the car from any angle as if it were really there. Catch it to add it to your Ghost Garage permanently.
Yes — every user gets a unique invite code, shown on the profile screen. Your friend enters it in the app, and once they have saved 3 spots BOTH of you get +3 bonus scans. A code can be redeemed once per account, and only if you have not already used someone else's. Up to 10 invited friends can pay out in any 30-day window.
No. You see your own spots at exact coordinates. Other people's spots appear only after 24 hours, with a ~5 km random offset and faces/plates blurred — protecting both the spotter and the car owner.
Suspicious spots aren't "not counted" — they're rejected the moment you submit them and never enter the database. Every photo runs through a battery of checks: is it a real car or a scale model? Are these real-world pixels or a phone screen? Is it a poster, magazine page, or art print? Has the photo already shown up somewhere on the internet? Anything that fails goes straight to the bin. The exact methods stay private — that's the only thing protecting the leaderboards.
Yes — the AI works on any car anywhere. The leaderboard separates global ranking from country ranking, so you can compete with neighbours and the world at the same time.
Free to try. Spot your first car in under a minute.
