VINwiki vs Hemmings
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
VINwiki
Document your vehicle's complete history, including maintenance, upgrades, and mileage. Share your car's story with photos and service records to build its value. Follow friends' cars and see their automotive journeys.
- Create vehicle history reports
- Contribute to vehicle histories
- Curate vehicle history reports
- Add photos and mileage updates
- Document service records
- Track car maintenance and upgrades
- Follow friends' car journeys
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VINwiki is here to change automotive history. It is a platform that invites users to create, contribute to, and curate vehicle history reports. Tell your car's story with photos, mileage updates, service records, and everything that makes it your own. Build value in your car by documenting all of the maintenance, upgrades, and modifications that you perform. Follow your friends and the cars you love so that you can see what happens to them. VINwiki is a great tool to keep track of what your friends do to their cars and where they end up down the road. Come with us on this journey to offer a new perspective on the cars that we love.
Hemmings
Discover and purchase classic and collector cars from a vast marketplace. Connect with sellers, save your favorites, and participate in auctions. Serving enthusiasts since 1954.
- Browse thousands of classic cars
- Search by year, make, model
- Save favorite listings
- Save favorite searches
- Contact car sellers
- Participate in auctions
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Search through thousands of classic and collector cars on sale through Hemmings Marketplace. Serving the collector car community since 1954, Hemmings offers thousands of vehicles for sale by enthusiasts, for enthusiasts. You can search by year, make, model, and more. Save your favorite listings and searches for later, and get in touch with car sellers through our app– or even make a bid on Hemmings Auctions.
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Verdict
VINwiki and Hemmings both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 63% of VINwiki's written reviews are positive against 30% of Hemmings's. Hemmings's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs monthly). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for VINwiki against 4.8 for Hemmings. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4.1K and 5.1K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 63% of VINwiki's written reviews are positive against 30% of Hemmings's.
VINwiki ships an update monthly, Hemmings every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | VINwiki | Hemmings |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4.1K ratings) — better | 4.8 (5.1K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews — better | 30.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4.1K | 5.1K — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | VINwiki, Inc. | HEMMINGS MOTOR NEWS, INC |
Customer experience
VINwiki
Hemmings
User reviews
VINwiki
From 4.1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great community
- 👍 Useful for car enthusiasts
- 💡 Innovative concept
- 👍 Helpful for car history research
- 👍 Easy to use
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy and unstable
- 🔧 Needs major updates and improvements
- 🔧 Lacking key features
- 🔧 Poor user interface
- 🔧 Unreliable data
Hemmings
From 5.1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great app for finding classic cars
- 💡 Excellent source for collector car information
- 👍 Trusted and reliable platform
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy and glitchy app experience
- 💢 Excessive and intrusive pop-up ads
- 🤯 Frustrating user interface and navigation
Bugs and requests
VINwiki
Reported bugs
4 issues- Login and registration issues
- Posts and data disappearing
- Inability to view personal posts and history
- Compatibility problems with newer iOS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to edit and delete posts
- Implement push notifications
- Improve search and filtering functionality
- Add support for international users and vehicles
- Optimize for iPad and larger screens
Hemmings
Reported bugs
3 issues- Inability to close video ads
- Inconsistent login and account management
- Unreliable search and filtering functions
Requested features
3 requests- Improve search and filtering capabilities
- Enhance account and login features
- Optimize app performance and stability
In-app purchases
VINwiki
No in-app purchases
Hemmings
No in-app purchases
