Most answers are on this page. If yours is not, the form at the foot of it
is the quickest way to reach a real person — it asks up front for the things we would
otherwise have to write back for.
How to play
Spot a license plate in the physical world. Open the app, find that state, province or
country on the board, and tap it. Your progress bar fills as the day goes on and the board
resets at midnight in your own time zone.
There is nothing to find inside the app itself. The plates are out on the road.
Common questions
- My streak disappeared.
- A streak needs at least one plate found each day. It resets at local midnight, so a
day with nothing marked ends it. Time-zone changes while travelling are handled, but if a
streak vanished after a flight, tell us below and include the dates.
- Can I change regions without losing my progress?
- Yes. Each region keeps its own board and its own history, so switching between the
United States, Canada and the EU never overwrites the others.
- What are “other US plates”?
- Plates not issued by a state or DC: Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the US Virgin
Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, diplomatic and US government plates. There is a
toggle in settings to include them on the board.
- Can I play US and Canadian plates on the same board?
- Yes. With the United States region selected, switch on Canadian plates in Settings and
the provinces and territories join the states on one board. Today’s finds are kept when you
switch it on or off.
- How do I add the widget?
- Long-press an empty spot on your Home Screen, tap Edit, then Add Widget, and choose
Plates In A Day. It comes in a small and a medium size and shows today’s count and your
streak. It refreshes each time you mark a plate, and resets at midnight with the board.
- Do I have to turn on location?
- No. The game works fully without it. Location is only used to drop a pin where you
spotted a plate so your history has a map, and it is only read while the app is open.
- Will my finds move to a new iPhone?
- Today’s board syncs through your own iCloud account, so a new device signed into the
same Apple Account picks it up. Full history transfers with a device migration or backup.
- Where do I get the app?
- On the App Store, for
iPhone running iOS 26 or later. $1.99, once — there is no subscription.
- How do I delete my data?
- Deleting the app removes everything stored on the device. See
the privacy page for what lives in iCloud.
Get in touch
The form is the way in for both bugs and ideas. It goes straight into the tracker rather
than an inbox, so nothing gets lost, and it only asks what suits the one you pick — a bug
wants your device and what you expected instead, an idea just wants the idea.
Two things still want an email. Screenshots help more than any description and the form
cannot take files, and if the form will not load for you at all, we would rather hear from
you anyway. Either way, support@northarc.co reaches the same
person.
Write in any language — English, Spanish, French, German, Italian or another — and we
will reply in yours.
