Comparison

Garage vs Beacon (Flare)

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

Head to head
About

Garage

Track your car's maintenance history, including repairs, parts used, and upcoming service reminders. Visualize fuel consumption and mileage trends with detailed charts and notifications.

Highlights
  • Maintenance and repair logging
  • Parts history with autofill
  • Automated service reminders
  • Fuel consumption tracking
  • Mileage charts
  • Defect and comment logging
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Instead of large tables, piles of papers, ridiculous records, during the maintenance and repair of your car. There must be something that will solve the issue of how to store the history of the effort expended. Grouping by mileage and work is only a small part of what the application can boast of. β€’ Noticed a defect or want to record some information? - Use a comment indicating the mileage and date β€’ Is it time to carry out maintenance? - For large-scale work, the maintenance screen will help you record all the data on the work performed β€’ Don't want to write down the name of the part and its numbers every time? - The application can scan the history of used parts and offer you autofill β€’ Don't want to remember how many kilometres you need to carry out maintenance? - The application will send you a notification about the upcoming maintenance. We taught it to calculate the average distance between services. P.S. But don't be upset if it doesn't send you a notification, maybe it needs a little more information β€’ And of course, a graphical representation of the fuel consumption model, mileage per litre, a car mileage chart and many other interesting things in the future The application is based on a real car operation model, we tried to take into account most of the suggestions, make the necessary functions without overloading the design. Since it is impossible to take into account all requests, the development of the application will continue

About

Beacon (Flare)

Features
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beacon turns your screen into a signal. show a message. flash a color. strobe the room. no words spoken, no data sent, no account required. just your phone, saying what you need it to say. -- text display -- type anything or tap a preset. full screen, maximum brightness, landscape locked. toggle between white-on-black and black-on-white. Face ID / Touch ID authentication before every display β€” nothing shows by accident. -- color display -- slide across the full color spectrum to pick your color. preview updates live. lift your finger to confirm, authenticate to display. your message β€” if you have one β€” renders automatically in contrast-optimized text over whatever color you chose. -- strobe -- neon colors cycle across your screen in rapid succession. adjustable speed β€” hold the strobe button to open settings, slide to dial it in from a slow pulse to a full meltdown. get attention from across any room. -- preset messages -- eight messages preloaded: meet me outside. hey. follow me. 5 min. be right back. wait. sos. come here. hold the beacon logo to edit them β€” replace, rewrite, or add up to ten total. yours when you need them, gone from the device when you don't. -- pulse -- a breathing brightness effect that applies to any display mode. subtle. makes any signal feel alive. -- the rest -- quad-tap the display to exit. brightness maxes automatically. screen stays awake while displaying. locks to landscape for distance reading. -- privacy -- zero data collected. the only permission beacon asks for is Face ID / Touch ID authentication. messages live in memory and disappear when you close the app. nothing stored, nothing sent, nothing shared.

Screenshots

Garage4 screens
Beacon (Flare)4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Beacon (Flare) at 15.1 against Garage's 17.0. 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.

Scorecard1 real difference Β· 7 level
Garage versus Beacon (Flare): the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGarageBeacon (Flare)
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews83.3% of reviewsβ€”
Update frequencyFortnightlyβ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeβ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size11 MB27 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperAndrew MashkovDustin Parmenter

In-app purchases

None

Garage

No in-app purchases

None

Beacon (Flare)

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Garage free?
Garage is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Beacon (Flare) free?
Beacon (Flare) is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Garage or Beacon (Flare) have ads?
Neither Garage nor Beacon (Flare) shows ads.

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