Comparison

Garage Record II vs EVLog

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Garage Record II

Features
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Garage Record II is a complete rewrite of the original Garage Record. This version fully supports iOS and iPadOS and utilizes Apple’s Core Data for persistent on-device data storage. In addition, this version also supports iCloud, so your data is securely shared with all your devices. 
I added to the Oil Service Record a default suggestion for the next oil change: current mileage + 3000. This default suggestion can be modified by tapping the β€œChange Interval” button. I also added the ability to export the Vehicles saved in the database. 

 The design of this record-keeping app is modular. Most times, when I go to the shop to get one of my vehicles serviced, I cannot afford the long laundry list of service suggestions, so I pick and choose and schedule others for a later service. This modularity of record-keeping is the idea behind this app. Create a vehicle record by tapping β€œAdd Vehicle.” You can change the icon now by swiping right to edit a row. Swipe left to delete a vehicle and all its associated service records. Tap on the vehicle record row in the main home screen, which takes you to the β€œService Records” screen, and choose the service component by tapping on Add Service Record. Service Records are listed by date, the newest at the topβ€”swipe left on a record to delete the record from the database. At the bottom of the Service Record screen, you can export all records for the particular vehicle. Blessings, β€”Mark Spaulding Founder, Foundation Software

About

EVLog

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EVLog is a native iPhone client for your own TeslaMate server. It reads the data your instance has already collected β€” drives, charges, statistics, battery health β€” and gives it an interface built for the phone, rather than a dashboard squeezed onto a small screen. It talks only to servers you run yourself. It never connects to Tesla, there is no account to create, no service in between, and nothing leaves your network. Until a server address is in place the app runs in a built-in demo β€” three weeks of example data β€” so you can try every screen before you point it at your own server. A switch in Settings takes you back to the demo any time. OVERVIEW Battery ring with range, what the cable is doing right now, TeslaMate's own status glyphs β€” preconditioning, the battery heater, open doors and windows, tyre pressure and more β€” plus lock state, Sentry, location, inside and outside temperature, degradation, the countries the car has driven in, software version, and how long ago the car was last heard from. Degradation opens a battery page: capacity against mileage, charge by charge, and how long the pack has sat at each charge level. The car's name opens a spec sheet: model, VIN, efficiency, and with a Tessie key the car's own configuration. From here you reach a map of every place the car has been over any period you choose, on a plain map or satellite imagery, and a range map showing how far the current charge takes you β€” using a detour factor from your own trips. TIMELINE Drives, charges and the parking in between, as one flow per day, going back as far as you choose: the last week, the last month, this year or everything. A parked row says how long the car stood and what it cost the battery. When the odometer shows the car moved while nothing was logged, the row says so instead of pretending the car stood still. Software updates get a row of their own. Swipe inside a drive or a charge to step through the day without going back to the list. DRIVES The route on a map, a speed graph you can drag along to follow the car through the trip, the elevation profile beneath it, energy and regen, consumption, and efficiency as a percentage of rated consumption. Drives where the battery heater ran are marked. CHARGES AC and DC told apart, the charging curve with a readout under your finger, added and used energy, average and peak power, cost, and what the battery heater and cabin climate drew while the car charged. A card names what set the pace: the charger, a cold battery, the heater, or a DC start above half full. A car left plugged in across several charging processes is shown as one charge. Costs TeslaMate never receives from Tesla can be filled in from Tessie, if you use it. STATISTICS Week, month, year or any span of days you pick, drilling down to a single day and its drives. Charging statistics with what charging costs in all, per kWh and per 100 km, top locations, AC/DC split, and a weekday-by-hour heat map. Destinations: where the car goes most often and where it covers the most distance, each opening into the drives behind it, weekdays against weekends, and a heat map of when you drive. Temperature and consumption: consumption grouped by outside temperature, the coldest fifth of your driving against the warmest. FREE AND OPEN SOURCE No ads, no in-app purchases, no analytics. The source is on GitHub under the MIT licence. WHAT YOU NEED Nothing, to look around β€” the built-in demo needs no server at all. For your own data: β€’ A running TeslaMate instance β€’ teslamateapi reachable from your phone β€’ Optionally Grafana, for the visited-places map, battery health and a few queries the API does not expose β€’ Optionally a Tessie API key, only to fill in costs TeslaMate never records Light and dark, metric and imperial, costs in your own currency. This project is an unofficial community tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or supported by the official TeslaMate project.

Screenshots

Garage Record II4 screens
EVLog4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: EVLog at every 6 days against Garage Record II's every 6 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Garage Record II ships an update every 6 weeks, EVLog every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference Β· 5 level
Garage Record II versus EVLog: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGarage Record IIEVLog
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 6 days β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad β€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.618.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size2 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMark SpauldingMartin Stockzell

In-app purchases

None

Garage Record II

No in-app purchases

None

EVLog

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Garage Record II free?
Garage Record II is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is EVLog free?
EVLog is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Garage Record II or EVLog have ads?
Neither Garage Record II nor EVLog shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Garage Record II or EVLog?
Garage Record II ships an update every 6 weeks, and EVLog every 6 days. Most recently, Garage Record II was updated on September 19, 2026 and EVLog on October 29, 2026.

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