Odometer vs OpenHood
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Odometer
A private car logbook for tracking expenses, fuel, and service. It offers smart reminders for maintenance and provides insights into your vehicle's costs. Data is stored locally by default, with optional cloud backup.
- Log fuel, service, repairs, and expenses
- Smart reminders for maintenance
- Track fuel efficiency and spending
- Private data storage on device
- Optional cloud backup
- Receipt and document attachment
- AI receipt scanning
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Track work mileage and keep your car maintenance history in one app. Start and stop GPS trips on your iPhone, or enter odometer readings. Mark trips business or private and export PDF or CSV reports, free on every plan. Keep service and fuel records and get maintenance reminders. TRIPS FOR WORK - Start a trip from Home, a Home Screen or Lock Screen widget, Control Center, the Action button or Siri. - GPS measures the distance. Rather not share your location? Use odometer readings at the start and end instead. - Follow the trip on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, and stop it from there. - Mark each trip business or private, and add a purpose, places and notes. - Add a past trip by hand, or repeat a frequent one. MISSED A DRIVE? With Motion & Fitness permission, Odometer can find drives from the last 7 days of your iPhone's motion data. Review each suggestion and add the drives you want to keep. Motion data stays on your iPhone. REPORTS, FREE ON EVERY PLAN Export a PDF trip report for the period and car you choose, with business and private totals and business use per car, based on your odometer readings or logged trips, or a CSV that lists every trip. Report formats for the United States, Australia (including the 12-week logbook), Canada, the United Kingdom and South Africa set the year, the trip details shown and the layout. The service history PDF is free too. SERVICE, FUEL AND EXPENSES Record fuel, service, repairs and expenses, and itemize a receipt into line items when you want to. Records keeps your vehicle's service, fuel and expenses in one list. SMART REMINDERS Oil change every 5,000 miles. Insurance every year. Odometer reminds you before service is due, by date or by distance. Reminders are free. ONE SEARCH Search records, reminders and trips at once: a category or name, notes, places, purposes or the car. INSIGHTS See your spending, last service and fuel average on Home, and open Insights for your trips: distance, business and private totals, and business use per car. Every chart is free. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Odometer uses your location only while a trip is recording. GPS trips keep their route points on your iPhone, and Premium backs them up with the trip. Your records live on your device: no sign-up to start, no ads. CHOOSE YOUR PLAN Free: one vehicle, service and trip records, reminders, statistics, 60 trips a month, and every PDF and CSV export. No account needed. Lifetime (one-time purchase): multiple vehicles, 100 trips a month, and receipts and documents attached to records and trips on your device. Pay once. Premium (monthly or yearly): Lifetime's features, plus more than 100 trips a month, cloud backup and sync of your vehicles, records, reminders, readings, photos, attachments, trips with their places, and trip settings across your devices when you sign in, and AI receipt scanning: snap a photo and Odometer can read the date, mileage and cost for you. Odometer. Log it. Remember it. Own your car's history. Terms of Use: https://odometerapp.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://odometerapp.com/privacypolicy
OpenHood
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OpenHood is the maintenance logger built for people who actually work on their own vehicles. Whether you're a seasoned home mechanic or just want to stay on top of your car's upkeep, OpenHood keeps every service record organized and accessible — no subscriptions, no cloud accounts, no fuss. Log Every Service, Every Time Record oil changes, tire rotations, brake jobs, fluid top-offs, and any other maintenance you perform. Add notes, mileage, and dates so you always know exactly what's been done and when. Stay Ahead of What's Due OpenHood tracks your service intervals and surfaces upcoming maintenance before it becomes overdue. No more guessing when your last oil change was. Your Data, On Your Device Everything is stored locally on your phone. Your vehicle history is private, fast, and available even without an internet connection. Built for Multiple Vehicles Manage all your vehicles in one place — cars, trucks, motorcycles, whatever's in your garage. Quick Actions, Zero Friction Log a service in seconds with customizable quick-action tiles. Built for people who'd rather spend time under the hood than staring at their phone. OpenHood. Know your vehicle. Own your maintenance.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: OpenHood at none against Odometer's 3. OpenHood also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). Odometer's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks). On price, ads and device support 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. Odometer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. OpenHood asks for nothing beyond the download.
Odometer ships an update every 2 weeks, OpenHood every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Odometer | OpenHood |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matvey Strelsky | Jacob Pallikunnel |
In-app purchases
Odometer
- Premium Monthly1 Month trial$7.991 Month
- Premium1 Month trial$59.991 Year
- Premium Lifetime$79.99
OpenHood
No in-app purchases








