The Wonkometer story

The Wonkometer is made by SavvyVan — the UK team behind bespoke touchscreen control panels and software for campervans. We spend our days building friendly, clever tech for vans, and our weekends out using it.

The idea arrived the way most good van ideas do: on a sloping pitch, late, with the kettle waiting. Squinting at a bubble level and shuffling on and off ramps felt like a problem software should have solved years ago. So we solved it — a little Bluetooth sensor and a free app that tell you exactly how much to raise each wheel, in centimetres, first time.

The first Wonkometer was a tangle of wires and a prototype board taped inside our own van — tested on every sloping pitch, tilted driveway and suspiciously "level" field we could find. Somewhere between attempt one and attempt one hundred, the rule that shaped the whole thing emerged: don't tell people that they're wonky, tell them what to do about it. Everything else — the one-tap calibration, the per-wheel centimetres, the app that quietly does the trigonometry — followed from that.

The name? Well, it measures wonk. We're an engineering company, not a poetry society.

Today the Wonkometer is a proper little product: a sensor smaller than a bar of a soap bar, a free app that speaks campervan, motorhome, caravan and trailer, and the same SavvyVan team behind it — designing, building and answering support emails from here in the UK. Level vans. Happy fridges. Kettle on.