Garage Story
Private Service & Evidence Log
Keep a private ownership record for cars, motorcycles, RVs, and bicycles. Log service, fuel, issues, and condition evidence; prepare shop visits; review potential recall matches; and optionally back up to your private iCloud container.
On the App Store this is listed as Garage Story: Shop Visit Log.
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 owner-entered record (service history, fuel fill-ups, repairs, issues, and photos) for cars, motorcycles, RVs, and bicycles. Core records stay on the device and can be backed up to the app’s private container in your iCloud account. There is no Studio AM account, advertising, analytics, or subscription.
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. Keep multiple restorable snapshots in the app’s private container in your iCloud account
- Potential Recall Matches. NHTSA year/make/model lookups surface campaigns to verify by VIN with NHTSA or the manufacturer
- Service Visit Workflow. Prepare a shop brief, then preserve invoice lines, issue decisions, warranties, and follow-ups
- Reports & Evidence. Export service reports or build a selective Evidence Passport with conservative source labels
- 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 into one owner-controlled record, making shop handoffs, follow-up, resale preparation, and ownership-cost review easier.
Free Maintenance Schedules
The planning database behind Garage Story is browsable on this site: curated maintenance templates with cost estimates for over 1,000 vehicle year/make/model ranges. Always compare a template with the owner’s manual and current manufacturer guidance.
Common questions
Garage Story, listed on the App Store as Car Maintenance: Garage Story, is an English-language iPhone and iPad app for maintaining owner-entered records for cars, trucks, motorcycles, RVs, and bicycles. It matches curated maintenance-planning templates by year, make, and model when available and labels generic fallbacks; maintenance-plan status is based on the history the owner has saved, not a mechanical inspection. Logging service, fuel, issues, or condition evidence can include receipt and camera photos. A free Service Visit Brief prepares selected issues, due tasks, recent history, questions, and a timestamped NHTSA check for the shop; closeout records invoice lines, decisions, warranties, and follow-ups. The free tier covers one vehicle and ten combined service, fuel, and issue entries. Pro is a one-time purchase that adds unlimited vehicles and entries, unlimited reminders, advanced insights and reports, potential recall-match alerts, and the selective Evidence Passport. Core records stay on the device with optional backup to the user’s private iCloud container. There is no Studio AM account, advertising, analytics, or cross-app tracking. Recall checks match by year, make, and model rather than confirming VIN applicability; the separate VIN decoder sends a VIN to NHTSA only after an explicit tap.