Your AI Assistant, Talking to Your Car
BetterKey now ships an open-source bridge that lets AI assistants like Claude or Cursor lock, unlock, and locate your car on your say-so. You mint the key. You keep the control.
Latest from BetterKey
Product updates, engineering notes, and release highlights.
Home Arrival: Your Apple Home Knows When the Car Pulls In
Draw a Home area in BetterKey, connect it to Homebridge, and Apple Home fires a motion trigger when your car parks inside it—without sending your Home address or coordinates to BetterKey or Homebridge.
BetterKey Now Comes with an Owner's Manual
The new BetterKey Owner's Manual explains how commands reach your car, what each automation needs, and where connected-car technology has limits.
Try BetterKey Before You Connect a Car
You can feel BetterKey work on your own phone before you connect a car. Real Live Activities on your Lock Screen, real rows in your Activity log, driven by a simulated timeline instead of your sensors.
BetterKey Shows Its Work
An app that watches your car should show you what it saw. Activity keeps a week of recent BetterKey notifications and Cars-screen commands on your device.
Walk towards your car. BetterKey lets you unlock from your wrist or Lock Screen.
BetterKey notices when you're walking up to your parked car and offers an unlock right on your Lock Screen and Apple Watch. No hunting for the app.
Rain Coming, Window Open: BetterKey Tells You First
BetterKey checks the precipitation forecast for the spot your car is parked, and if a window is reported open, it lets you know before the rain shows up.
Park your car. Walk away. It locks.
BetterKey notices when you've parked and walked away, then can lock the car before you have to wonder.
You Parked. BetterKey Remembers the Spot.
BetterKey saves your parking spot the moment you walk away, matches it to the right car, and has it waiting for you when you get back.
How BetterKey Protects Your Car Access
A plain-English tour of the protections BetterKey uses to keep your sign-in, your vehicle connection, and your lock and unlock commands safe.
Find My Car. Right Where You Left It.
BetterKey Find My Car shows your vehicle's last reported location, with walking directions in Apple Maps or Google Maps, a ride home in Uber or Lyft, and one-tap refresh on iPhone and Apple Watch.
Before You Add Your Car to BetterKey
Before you try to add your car to BetterKey, make sure it already works from your car brand's app. Here's how to know if setup will work and where to find the full step-by-step guide.
How to Lock Your Car When CarPlay Disconnects
Use a CarPlay Disconnect automation in iOS Shortcuts to lock your car after you park, with a short delay so you finish unloading first.
How to Lock Your Car When You Arrive at a Location
Use an iOS Shortcuts automation to lock your car after you arrive at home, work, or any saved place — with a short delay so you are fully parked first.
Your Car, On Command: BetterKey with Siri and Shortcuts
BetterKey brings native Siri voice control and Shortcuts automation to your car, with fast vehicle selection, secure authentication, and backend command handling built for real-world reliability.
Your Wrist. Your Voice. Your Car.
Control your car in seconds from Apple Watch or Siri with BetterKey. Fast lock, unlock, and resilient command delivery built for real-world use.
How to Automatically Lock Your Car at Night
If you want extra peace of mind, you can run a scheduled nightly lock for your car with BetterKey and iOS Shortcuts.