Top Gear is an Android app developed by BBC Worldwide (Ltd) (BBC Worldwide Limited Television Centre 101 Wood Lane London W12 7FA). Others apps created by BBC Worldwide (Ltd) are: BBC News, BBC Sport, Race the Stig, TGSSR.

Top Gear first became available on 10 May 2012. Top Gear has been awarded with the "Top Developer" badge. It is estimated that Top Gear has been downloaded between 100000 and 500000 times from the Play Store.

Top Gear 1.5 requires the following permissions:

Allows an app to access precise location. Alternatively, you might want ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION.

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Allows applications to open network sockets.

Allows an application to read the user's calendar data.

Allows an application to read from external storage.

Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.

Allows an application to write the user's calendar data.

Allows an application to write to external storage.