Most car-care apps live on someone else's servers, mining your maintenance history for ad data and locking you into a $6-a-month subscription. Ours doesn't. Every service entry, photo, and dollar stays on your device — encrypted by your browser, owned by you, never uploaded. One $19 payment. Lifetime use across every car you'll ever drive.
$19 once. Yours forever. Use it on every device you own, for every car you'll ever own.
Ten years in the auto business taught us which cars cross 200,000 miles without drama and which ones don't make it past 100,000. The difference isn't luck. It's records. The disciplined owners all do the same thing — they write everything down. Oil changes. Tire rotations. The day the alternator started whining. The mechanic who got it right.
Most car-care apps treat that information as their asset. They want it on their servers so they can monetize your data, lock you into a $5-a-month subscription, and use your maintenance history to sell you ads for what to buy next. Most of them require an account, an internet connection, and your consent to terms longer than your owner's manual.
The Garage is the opposite of that bargain. Local-first. Account-less. Subscription-free. Your data lives inside your browser — the same place your bank-login session lives — encrypted by your operating system, owned by no one but you. There is no server to leak it from. There is no company to be acquired and pivot away from you.
You pay $19 once. The app is yours — every feature, every future update, every car you'll ever own. When you sell the car, hand the buyer a printed service report straight from the app — every oil change, every repair, every receipt. The owner who keeps records gets a better price every single time — and now the record-keeping costs less than one tank of gas.
Daily driver. Project car. Spouse's SUV. The one you're flipping. Switch between them with a tap.
Mileage-based and date-based. The schedule from the guide, applied to your odometer and your driving.
Oil. Brakes. Tires. Repairs. Every entry searchable, filterable, exportable as a PDF report.
Log fill-ups. Auto-calculate real-world MPG. Catch a drop early — it's usually telling you something.
Lifetime spend. Cost per mile. Breakdown by category. The truth about what your car actually costs.
Snap the receipt, the brake pad, the leak. Attach to any entry. Backup as a single JSON file, anytime.
Most apps promise privacy. This one is built so that even if we wanted your data, we couldn't get it. There is no server. There is no account. There is no upload. Your garage is local to the device you're holding — just like the gas-station receipt in your glove box.
Nothing to hack. Nothing to subpoena. Nothing to leak. The whole app is static files; there is no backend to compromise.
No email-and-password to remember, no password to lose. Your unlock code is enough — paste once, use forever.
Zero analytics. Zero pixels. Zero third-party scripts. The Garage doesn't know what you're doing inside it — and neither do we.
One $19 payment ends the relationship. You're not a customer to be retained — you're an owner whose data won't be ransomed back to you.
Your browser's localStorage is sandboxed per-site and encrypted by your OS. Same protection as your saved passwords.
One-click export to a JSON file you can save to iCloud, Dropbox, or your hard drive. Restore on any device, anytime.
| App | Pricing model | Year one | Three years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Typical subscription car appaCar, Drivvo, Fuelio Pro — average | ~$5 / month | $60 | $180 |
| Dealership-branded appComes free with the car — until it doesn't | Free, then locked | $0 | $0 · your data |
| Spreadsheet + Google DriveWhat most disciplined owners settle for | Free, but manual | $0 | $0 · your time |
| AutomotiveMust GarageOne payment. Lifetime use. Every car. | $19 once | $19 | $19 |
Subscription pricing is industry average from US app-store listings in 2026. Pay once and the math never breaks against you.
One-time. No subscription. No upsell. No "pro tier." Pay once and you own it forever, including all future updates.
Unlimited. The same unlock code works on every phone, tablet, and laptop you own. Each device keeps its own local garage; back up the JSON to sync between them.
If the Garage isn't what you hoped, email us inside 30 days for a no-questions refund. Your data stays on your device — there is nothing for us to delete.
On your device. Encrypted by your browser, sandboxed by the website's origin — same as your password manager. No server, no sync, no third party.
One payment buys every future version. No "AutomotiveMust 2.0 — upgrade for $9." If we ship it, you have it. The only way the price ever changes is downward for early buyers.
Email us with the address you bought with. Your code is recoverable from your order — we'll resend the same confirmation email and you're back in seconds.
Every fill-up logged, every receipt saved, every reminder met. One $19 payment. The same Garage on every device you own, for every car you'll ever own. No subscription — ever.
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