Car ownership and maintenance apps
Apps that help car and motorcycle owners log maintenance, fuel and expenses with service reminders, plus adjacent tools for used-car buying checks, diagnostics and parking location.
Built for: Car and motorcycle owners
Projects since May 04
211
Different builders
203
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
▼ -22%
AI is the core
14%
Projects per week
Mostly web app (46%), mobile app (45%), browser extension (2.4%) · from r/SideProject, r/SaaS, r/vibecoding, r/IMadeThis
Latest
- Provides AI-based automotive repair and maintenance help for car owners doing their own work.“Built an AI mechanic app because I do all my own work and at the time didnt find anything i really liked on the Play Store.”
- Carmind — Reminds drivers of car maintenance deadlines such as inspection, insurance, tires, and license renewal, and tracks car expenses offline.“Carmind — offline Android app that reminds you about car maintenance deadlines”
- MileHatch — Logs business mileage automatically from a Tesla or from natural-language messages and exports IRS-compliant mileage reports.“I built a mileage log that fills itself in from my Tesla (or from a sentence to Grok)”
- Lotbridge — Creates Facebook Marketplace vehicle listings from dealership website inventory and tracks price changes and sold status afterward.“I built the Facebook Marketplace tool I kept wishing existed. How would you find your customer outside your network?”
- beforeUBuy — Surfaces known issues, recalls, maintenance problems and fuel economy discrepancies for a product model before buying it.“beforeUBuy”
- RattleSift — Narrows down possible causes of a car noise from user-described symptoms and suggests safe basic checks.“I built an AI tool to help diagnose strange car noises”
- Chiptune — Lists engine tuning garages on a city map and offers a car power-gain simulator that sends quote requests to the garage.“43 fois plus de chances d'avoir des leads. Voici ce que j'ai compris en bossant avec des garages de reprogrammation moteur”
- MotoGhoom — Tracks motorcycle fuel, expenses, maintenance history, service reminders and rides in an offline iOS app.“I kept forgetting how much I was spending on my bike, so I built an app to track it”
- DriveTone — Plays simulated engine sounds with RPM, shifting and engine braking in an EV, driven by phone GPS and IMU data.“I got bored of my EV sounding like a fridge, so I built this.”
- Saves the user's parked car location with one tap so they can find it later.“Built a one-tap free "where did I park" app after losing my car in one too many garages”
- SHIFT — Logs drives, fuel-ups, maintenance and OBD2 car data, including fuel consumption per trip.“Criei o SHIFT, um app tipo um Strava para carros. 🚗”
- Outlaw Division — Turns customers' car photos into physical collector cards styled as case files, including earlier build versions.“I make custom collector cards of real cars and their histories”
- GearsTrack — Tracks car build parts, costs and build logs, and publishes shareable build pages.“I spent way too much on Meta ads for my car-build app. 11 paying subs. Here's what I learned”
- Carboot Sales Near Me — Lists UK car boot sales searchable by town or postcode, with practical details for each listing.“I built a UK car boot sale finder. Keeping opening dates trustworthy is the hard part.”
- Carvia — Manages independent dealership vehicle inventory, costs and listing photo preparation, including AI background and lighting edits.“I’m building Carvia for car listings — where would you draw the line on AI photo editing?”
- Bay — Shows nearby parking spots with restrictions, filters, and live availability where data exists.“I spent more time finding parking than driving there. So I built Bay 💀”
- DashLock — Locks screen rotation and sets brightness when the phone connects to a car's Bluetooth, then restores the original settings on disconnect.“An app that locks the screen brightness and orientation the moment I get in the car”
- RouteRide — Finds used car listings along a driving route and ranks them by the extra travel time needed to stop there.“I am building a tool that finds cars for sale along your road trip route”
- alsofits — Catalogs interchangeable car parts across marques so owners can find cheaper alternatives to dealer-priced components.“I made an app to help users find cheaper parts for their enthusiast car”
- LogiCar — Gives a second opinion on car problems and repair quotes, estimating the likely cause and fair job cost from symptoms, warning lights, or pasted shop quotes.“[LogiCar] - an AI mechanic that checks your repair quotes so you don't get ripped off”
Most discussed
- DriveTone — Plays simulated engine sounds with RPM, shifting and engine braking in an EV, driven by phone GPS and IMU data.“I got bored of my EV sounding like a fridge, so I built this.”
- WherePark — Automatically detects when the user stops driving and saves the parked car's location on the phone.“I made WherePark: an app that automatically notices when I park my car, so I stop forgetting where it is.”
- konfiguratorspz.cz — Renders Czech license plate previews with validation of text format and registration availability.“How I created License Plate generator and dominated Google Search”
- Lets strangers send a message to a car owner by scanning a QR sticker, without revealing the owner's phone number.“I made QR stickers that let strangers message you about your parked car without seeing your phone number”
- Garveno — Logs fuel and expenses for a vehicle and calculates what the car costs per kilometer.“I ran Google App campaigns for my Android app. 1,131 installs, zero sales.”
- GearMind — Diagnoses vehicle issues and guides users step by step through repairs.“My first ever project as a young founder ⭐”
- AutoCodex — Tracks car service history, fuel, expenses, reminders and routes locally on Android and exports backups or PDF reports.“I've built a car manager app. I need honest thoughts on monetization and if it's even worth pursuing”
- CarCare — Keeps a vehicle's maintenance costs, documents, mileage, and service history in one place with reminders.“I underestimated how much harder distribution is than building the product”
- AutoSwiper — Lets users swipe through car listings to browse and buy vehicles, and list their own car for sale.“I made tinder for buying cars”
- theautobodydirectory.com — Lists body shops across the US using state license and business records, shown on a map with 160,000+ pins.“I'm not a coder, i manage Claude like an employee and it built a nationwide body shop directory. here's how, review my website?”