Find out what the summer actually cost.

This one's Pro

Stats is part of Stops & Stays Pro, alongside unlimited stops, unlimited trips and vehicles, and data export. Ten stops are free to start; the charts on this page are part of what going Pro is for. Pricing lives in the app, where you can see it before you commit to anything.

Charts made the cut for Pro because they're what the logging builds towards. Everything below only works if you've been recording your trips, and the free tier exists so you can decide whether you're that person before paying.

Costs, drawn rather than guessed

Ask anyone what a six-week run through France cost and you'll get a shrug and a number rounded to the nearest five hundred quid. The real answer is scattered across pitch fees, fuel receipts, péage tickets and a ferry booking from four months earlier.

Stops & Stays already holds all of it, because you logged costs as you went: per stop, per fuel fill, per toll, per ferry leg, in whatever currency you paid. The charts pull those numbers into cost views for the trip. Not an estimate: the charts are drawn from the amounts you logged at the pump and the barrier.

Fuel consumption you can trust

Log the odometer alongside each fuel fill and the app can chart your consumption over a trip, rather than leaving you with a fistful of forecourt receipts and a guess. A laden motorhome doing the North Coast 500 drinks differently from the same van on the A1, and the chart shows it, which is worth knowing before you plan the next long haul.

Trends across a season

One trip tells you what France cost in May. Five trips tell you whether ferries are actually getting dearer. The charts let you see how things move across your trips over time, so "it feels like this is getting more expensive" becomes a line you can point at, or one you can stop worrying about.

Your logbook, in a spreadsheet

Pro also exports the record as CSV: every stop, every favourite, every vehicle, in a file any spreadsheet on any machine will open. A year of travelling arrives as rows you can sort, filter and total however you like, with the GPS coordinates still attached to every entry, so the numbers behind each chart are yours to take away and do your own sums on.

A logbook you can only read inside one app is on loan. Years of stops, notes, costs and readings should still be yours in ten years, whatever you make of us by then, and Vanlife Stuff would rather earn next year's subscription than hold the door shut. The paper logbook this app grew from never locked anyone in either.

Or a month, if there is no trip

Everything above assumes a trip with a start and an end. Plenty of people have neither. Reports, reached from Trips, takes a calendar month or a from-and-to date range instead, and totals every stop inside it across all your trips at once: spend per currency, distance, fuel, gas, an itemised breakdown of where it went, and the charts alongside.

The daily figure there divides by the days in the period rather than the gap between the first stop and the last, so a month spent mostly in one place still reads as a month. That is the number a full-timer is actually after. Stops & Stays for full-timers.

The export earns its keep hardest for that reader too. If the van is where you live, a year of rows is a year of household accounts, ready for the accountant, the budget spreadsheet, or your own curiosity about where January went.

The charts are only as good as the log

None of this involves extra work. The data comes from the logging you're doing anyway: the same entries that build your map and timeline feed the charts. Log the fuel stop at Ardgay with the phone glaring in the sun, and months later it's a data point in a consumption curve. For the figures before you have your own, the guide to what a day on the continent really costs is the honest version.