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Keep a complete service log for several cars with history, receipt photos, and reminders for the next service

Car maintenance

Enthusiasts and multi-car owners

Which apps people use

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  1. CARFAX Car Care

    Rank 20. Review score: 52 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.8★ · 124,458 ratings

    CARFAX Car Care is valuable as a service history repository and recall checker, but unstable behavior after every update and unreliable record saving undermine trust in a tool where accuracy is critical.

    Praised: Service history tracking for multiple vehicles, open recall notifications, ability to store receipts and avoid unnecessary service (one user example: $800 saved on transmission fluid)

    Complaints: After every major update the app freezes on the splash screen for weeks, new records often fail to save, odometer shows incorrect values, the same record gets duplicated eight times

    Best for: Owners of multiple vehicles who care about service history and are willing to tolerate post-update instability

  2. AUTOsist Fleet Management App

    Rank 4. Review score: 68 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.2★ · 343 ratings

    A maintenance log for multiple vehicles with receipt photo attachments. Strong on support and long-term record storage, weak on rigid pricing and login issues.

    Praised: Stores years of service history with attached receipt photos, convenient for owners of multiple vehicles

    Complaints: Occasional login problems, one-vehicle limit on the free tier, upgrading from personal to fleet plan jumps to $100 per month with nothing in between

    Best for: Responsible owners of multiple vehicles who want a complete service history

  3. Car Cave - Car Maintenance Log

    Rank 3. Review score: 71 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.7★ · 338 ratings

    A minimalist car maintenance log. Easy to get started, and the developer responds quickly to bugs, but it lacks data export and receipt uploads.

    Praised: Clean interface, fast developer response to issues, affordable premium version

    Complaints: No record export, no receipt uploads, no back button to the main screen, service intervals cannot be set independently from dates

    Best for: Drivers who want a simple oil and maintenance log without extra features

  4. Fuelly: MPG & Service Tracker

    Rank 17. Review score: 55 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.7★ · 29,171 ratings

    A ten-year veteran for tracking fuel and service work, functional and free, but the iOS app lags well behind Android in features and has not been updated in over a year.

    Praised: Simple fillup and service entry, cross-device sync, free core, large vehicle database, compare fuel economy with other users

    Complaints: iOS version has fewer stats and charts than Android, no updates in over a year, periodically logs you out, stations disappear from the database, cannot insert a missed fillup without a cascading recalculation

    Best for: Budget-conscious drivers who want to track fuel economy and service history without spending money

  5. Road Trip MPG

    Rank 1. Review score: 82 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.9★ · 624 ratings

    One of the best fuel and expense trackers on iOS: has been around since 2009, a responsive developer who answers email directly, no ads, no subscriptions. Downsides are data getting cut off past 3 years and iOS-only.

    Praised: A living developer who replies fast, no ads or subscriptions, detailed expense and mileage analytics, proven across 10+ years of real use

    Complaints: Data silently truncates beyond 3 years, iPad version costs extra, cross-iPhone sync broke after an update, motorcycle support is incomplete

    Best for: Drivers who want an honest expense and MPG history without ads or monthly fees

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