Frequently Asked Questions

Fuel Meter shows the official maximum retail fuel prices in North Macedonia, breaks each price down into what it is actually made of, keeps a year of history, and puts every filling station in the country on a map. It is released as Гориво Метар (Gorivo Metar).

Fuel Meter is the English name for the product. Гориво Метар is the release that exists today — it is how the app is listed and how it appears on your home screen. It is one product, not two.

No. It is free, has no advertising, and has nothing to buy inside it.

No. There is no sign-up and no sign-in. Nothing in the app is personal, so there is no account to create and nothing to lose if you change phones.

iOS and Android. Both store listings are being prepared for release. The website at gorivometar.mk works in any browser today.

Not usefully. Every price in it is a Macedonian regulated price and every station on the map is in North Macedonia, so there is nothing for it to show elsewhere. It works perfectly well from abroad if the Macedonian price is what you want — that is a real part of who reads it.

Possibly, under the Fuel Meter name. It would take more than a translation: the whole product is built around prices being nationally regulated and published with their components, which is not how most fuel markets work.

The app itself is Macedonian only. The website carries the same prices and the same breakdown in Macedonian, English and Albanian.

Directly from the decisions published by the Energy Regulatory Commission of North Macedonia. Nothing is copied from another price website, and the decision each price came from is linked so you can read it yourself.

Once a week. The Commission usually meets on a Monday and the new maximum price takes effect at 00:01 the following day. Fuel Meter checks for a new decision every six hours.

Because there is no cheapest station. One maximum price is set for the entire country, and retailers essentially never sell below it. Driving further to save money is not a thing here — which is why the map sorts stations by distance and shows no price on a pin.

They are the maximum permitted prices, published by the regulator. A retailer may legally sell below one, though in practice almost none do. Treat the app as informative and check the price at the pump.

What one litre is made of: the purchase cost of the fuel itself, excise duty, VAT, the retailer’s margin and storage, transport, and two levies. Those figures are published in the decision, so the breakdown is arithmetic rather than an estimate.

OpenStreetMap, which is also what the map on Android is drawn from — the pins and the map beneath them come from the same survey. Station data is used under the Open Database License.

Yes. The last prices and stations it downloaded stay on your device, so it still reads on a motorway with no signal. It refreshes whenever it can reach the network.

Only to sort the station list by how close each one is to you and to centre the map. Your position is used on your device and is never sent to us or stored. If you decline, everything else works as normal.

It converts between an amount of money and a number of litres at the current price, shows how much of that is duty, and works out what a journey costs from the distance and your vehicle’s consumption.

Turn them on and you get a notification when a new decision is published, so you find out the price moved without opening anything. You can turn them off in your device settings at any time.

Because the price does. A regulated price holds flat for a week and then jumps. A smooth curve would draw movement on days the price provably did not move, and put the line’s midpoint at a value nobody ever paid.

Effectively none. No account, no name, no email, no tracking, no advertising, and no analytics software. The only thing stored per device is a push notification token, and only if you turned on price alerts. See the Privacy Policy (Android) or Privacy Policy (iOS).

There is no account to delete. To remove the one thing stored per device, see Delete Your Data.

Tell us — a wrong number is the worst thing this app can do. Email info@bearacle.com with the fuel and the date and we will check it against the decision.

Station data comes from OpenStreetMap, so the best fix is to edit it there: the correction reaches the app on the next weekly sync, and it also improves every other map built on the same data. Write to us if you would rather we did it.

Email info@bearacle.com, or use the contact form on bearacle.com.