Garage Story
Service Log & Recall Alerts
Your vehicle's complete history in one place: cars, motorcycles, and RVs. Log service, fuel, and repairs with photo receipts, get recall alerts, and keep everything backed up privately to iCloud. No accounts, no servers.
On the App Store this is listed as Car Maintenance: Garage Story.
The Challenge
No single service is hard to remember. The hard part is keeping track of all of them, across every vehicle you own. Intervals differ, receipts scatter, and the service you forgot is the one that leaves you stranded. Most owners run on memory and a glovebox full of paper.
Our Approach
Garage Story keeps your complete record (service history, fuel fill-ups, repairs, and photos) for every car, motorcycle, and RV you own, backed up privately to your own iCloud. There are no accounts, no subscriptions, and no servers. Your data stays yours, restorable on any of your devices.
Key Features
- Service & Repair Logging. Record every oil change, tire rotation, and repair, with photo receipts attached
- Fuel & EV Charging. Track fill-ups and charging sessions, and watch your real-world efficiency over time
- Private iCloud Backup. Multiple snapshots, restorable across devices, with no third-party servers involved
- Recall Alerts. Anonymous NHTSA lookups warn you when your vehicle has an open recall
- PDF Reports. Export a clean, shareable service history when it’s time to sell
- Cost Insights. See where the money goes and compare spending against national benchmarks
- No Tracking. No analytics, no ads, no data selling
Results
Garage Story turns scattered receipts and guesswork into a single trustworthy record, making maintenance proactive, resale easier, and ownership costs visible.
Free Maintenance Schedules
The database behind Garage Story is browsable on this site: maintenance schedules with cost estimates for over 1,000 vehicles: every interval, and what each service typically costs at a U.S. shop.
Common questions
Garage Story, listed on the App Store as Car Maintenance: Garage Story, is an English-language iPhone and iPad app for tracking upkeep on cars, trucks, motorcycles, RVs and bicycles. Each vehicle gets a factory-style maintenance schedule drawn from a bundled database of more than 1,400 make, model and year ranges with U.S. cost estimates, plus a health score built from its own logged history. Logging a service, fuel-up or issue takes one tap, and photo receipts attach to any entry. The app is free to download; the free tier covers one vehicle, ten log entries and one reminder, while photo attachments and iCloud backup and restore stay free at any tier. Garage Story Pro is a one-time $12.99 purchase in the US, not a subscription, and unlocks unlimited vehicles, entries and reminders plus NHTSA recall alerts, cost forecasts and benchmarks, and a PDF service report. Records stay on the device with optional private iCloud backup, and there is no account, no advertising and no analytics or tracking. It does not read fault codes from the car, and recall checks match by make, model and year rather than VIN.