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 car gets a rarity score. The rarer the car, the bigger the points — and the more impossible to fake.
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 7 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.
Every car gets a rarity tier from Notable to Unicorn. Mass-market daily drivers don't earn any points — your collection stays meaningful. The rest are scored by a private model that weighs several signals together; the rarer the find, the bigger the score. A Unicorn-tier spot can earn 1000+ XP.
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 their profile. When your friend enters your code in the app, BOTH of you get +3 bonus scans. Codes can be redeemed once per user and only by new accounts that haven't spotted anything yet.
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.
