Meet Garagebook — Your car's service binder, offline

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Garagebook

Your car's service binder, offline.

Every feature, from the first launch.

No account, no login, no cloud. Everything runs on your device and works fully offline — nothing in this post is hidden behind a wall.

What Garagebook does

Garagebook is the offline service log for the 284 million vehicles on US roads — built for the owner of an aging car (the average US vehicle is now 12.8 years old) who just wants a clean record of what's been done and a reminder when the next oil change is due.

The car-log category is broken: Drivvo buries the tiny font under huge ads and paywalls PDF export, AUTOsist charges fleet pricing ($59/mo minimum) absurd for a household, and Fuelly is a web-first social network that wants an account for your own mileage.

What Garagebook does:

— Per-vehicle service history. Log oil changes, brakes, tires, fluids, batteries, inspections — date, mileage, cost, shop, notes. Photo the receipt; VisionKit reads the total and odometer. — Bundled service intervals. Garagebook ships sensible defaults (oil every 5,000-7,500 mi, tire rotation every 6,000, brake fluid every 2 years) and reminds you by mileage or date. No VIN lookup, no network. — Fuel log. Fill-ups with gallons + cost → automatic MPG, cost-per-mile, and a trend chart. — The resale binder. One tap exports a clean PDF of the full service history — the document a buyer or mechanic actually trusts. Print it or AirDrop it. — Multiple vehicles. The whole household's cars, one app. — Reminders that work offline. Local notifications for upcoming service. — No account, no ads, no subscription, no cloud. Your maintenance records live on this phone.

For the 26 million American DIY car owners and every household keeping a car past its warranty.

A look inside

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What's inside

Garage — All vehicles with next-service-due badge
Log service — Type, date, mileage, cost, shop, notes; OCR receipt
Fuel log — Fill-ups → MPG + cost-per-mile trend (Swift Charts)
Reminders — Mileage/date interval reminders, local notifications
Resale binder — One-tap PDF of full service history via share sheet

Why we built it

Owners of aging cars want a simple per-vehicle service log with interval reminders and a shareable PDF history, but Drivvo is ad-heavy and paywalls export, AUTOsist is fleet-priced, and Fuelly requires a cloud account.

What makes it different

Garagebook is the only car-maintenance app that works entirely offline with no account, ships bundled service-interval reminders (no VIN API), reads receipts/odometers via VisionKit OCR, and exports a clean resale-binder PDF for free — Drivvo paywalls PDF export and buries the UI in ads, AUTOsist charges $59/mo fleet…

Who it's for

Anyone who values a small, sharp, single-purpose tool that does one job well and stays out of the way.

In one line: Your car's service binder, offline.

Try it

See the Garagebook app page for the full feature list, the info table, and support links.

Use Garagebook, found a bug, or have a feature request? Comments are open below — anonymous is fine.