GasBuddy is a technology company headquartered in Dallas that offers mobile applications and websites for tracking crowd-sourced locations and prices of gas stations and convenience stores in the United States and Canada.
Their platforms offer information sourced from users, gas station operators, and partner companies.
GasBuddy was founded in Minneapolis in 2000 by Dustin Coupal, Jason Toews as a community website for sharing gas prices.
[2] In 2010, the company launched its own mobile apps that allowed users to input gas prices from their smartphones.
[6] In the same year, GasBuddy was involved in a lawsuit with Reveal Mobile, a location-based marketing company, over the sale of user location data.