Privacy

The short version: the app runs on your phone, your garage lives in your iCloud, nothing is collected by us, and a photograph, a video or a question leaves the phone only when you send it to be read or post it.

What the app stores

Your garage — the cars you add, their VIN or plate if you enter one, odometer readings, service history, fuel and charging fills, tyres, documents and photographs you add — is stored on your device with SwiftData and synced through your own iCloud account. It is in your iCloud, not on a server of ours, and we cannot read it.

Settings such as whether you have finished the first run, the fuel price you typed, the language answers come in, and which recall campaigns you have been told about are stored on the device. The home-screen widgets read a short summary of what each car needs next, which the app keeps in a space on the device shared only with its own widgets.

What leaves the device

When you enter a VIN, it is sent to a server we run so that it can be decoded through the US government's vPIC service. The VIN is not stored on that server. The rest of the app's data ships inside the app and is read offline.

When you look up a registration plate, it is sent to the same server and on to the register it belongs to — the Netherlands' RDW or Britain's DVSA. The plate and the answer are not stored or logged on our server.

In Repair, if you subscribe and say yes when asked, what you send to be read — your words in that chat, photographs, and a video with its sound if you record or choose one — goes with your car's record to our server, and from there to Google's Gemini model on Google Cloud (Vertex AI) to be read and, if you asked for another language, translated. Our server keeps none of it and logs no content. Google's paid Cloud service does not use it to train its models. You can turn this off in Settings; off, nothing leaves the phone and the record answers.

Articles under Read are fetched from our server; the request carries nothing about you.

Photographs of car models are loaded from Wikimedia Commons by URL. Wikimedia sees the request the way any website does. Parts links open a shop's own search in your browser; the shop sees that visit as it sees any other.

A subscription is bought through Apple. We receive no payment details.

The community

Reading the community needs nothing. To post, you sign in with Apple and choose a name. We keep a one-way code made from Apple's identifier for you in this app — not your Apple ID, not your email — the name you chose, and what you post. Every post is checked by an automated filter before it appears; anyone can report a post or block a person, and reported posts are reviewed.

You can delete your community account in the app, from the account menu in Community. That removes everything you posted, the replies under your questions, your blocks and your name, at once. If an account was banned for breaking the rules, a nameless record of the ban is kept so it cannot simply sign in again.

What is collected

Nothing else is kept by us. There is no analytics framework, no advertising identifier and no tracking. We do not know who you are, what cars you own, or what you look up.

Because what you choose to send in Repair passes through Google's service, and community posts are kept on our server, the App Store label lists Photos or Videos, Audio Data and Other User Content, used for App Functionality only, and not used for tracking. A community post is linked to the name you chose; nothing else is linked to you.

Notifications

The app asks to send notifications for the reminders you set — a service, an inspection, insurance or a tyre change coming due — and for a recall for a car in your garage that arrived with an app update. You can decline, and you can turn them off in Settings.

Contact

Questions about this policy: the email address on the App Store listing.

Last revised 10 October 2026.