Comparison

Miles vs Car Maintenance Tracker

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

Head to head
About

Miles

Easily track your vehicle's maintenance needs with service interval recommendations and detailed logging. Get smart reminders to prevent issues and maintain your car's longevity. Supports multiple vehicles and custom entries.

Highlights
  • Track unlimited vehicles
  • Recommended service intervals
  • Log maintenance records with photos
  • VIN scanner for quick entry
  • Smart mileage and time reminders
  • Maintenance timeline with PDF export
  • iCloud sync
Features
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Miles is the vehicle maintenance tracker for people who actually want to take care of their cars. Add your vehicle, and Miles pulls in recommended service intervals from a curated database covering thousands of make/model/year combinations. Log oil changes, tire rotations, brake service, and any custom maintenance you do, with mileage, cost, notes, and photos. Get reminders when service is coming due, before it becomes a problem. Features: - Track unlimited vehicles (Premium) - Recommended service intervals from a comprehensive database - Log maintenance records with photos, costs, and notes - VIN scanner for quick vehicle entry - Smart reminders based on mileage and time - NHTSA safety recall alerts - Maintenance timeline for every car - PDF and CSV export (Premium) - iCloud sync across all your devices (Premium) - Web Access: see and edit your garage at trackmiles.app/app (Premium) - Custom maintenance items Your garage lives on your iPhone, and with Premium it syncs through your own private iCloud. The app needs no account, and there are no ads and no tracking. Premium also adds optional Web Access, so you can see and edit your garage on a computer at trackmiles.app/app. While it's on, a copy of your garage is kept on our server, and you can delete it any time. Built for car owners who want to keep their vehicles running for the long haul.

About

Car Maintenance Tracker

Features
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A car maintenance log that remembers what you had done, and tells you before the next one is due. Most people keep their service history in a glovebox folder, a text file, or nowhere at all — and then find an oil change is nine months overdue, or hand a buyer a car with no paper trail and take less money for it. This fixes both ends: log a service in seconds, and hear about the next one before the interval runs out. DATE OR MILEAGE — WHICHEVER COMES FIRST A real service interval has two triggers. Oil is due every six months OR every 5,000 miles, and for most people one arrives well before the other. Set both and the app watches both, tells you which will land first, and reminds you about a week ahead. Drive a lot and mileage wins; drive a little and the calendar does. Your reminders follow how you actually drive, not an average. LOG A SERVICE IN SECONDS Pick what was done from around thirty common jobs — oil and filter, tire rotation, brake pads, coolant, spark plugs, timing belt, transmission fluid, air filter, inspection, registration — then add the date, the odometer, the cost and the shop. Attach a photo of the receipt if you have one. Same loop whether you did the work yourself or paid someone. EVERY VEHICLE IN ONE GARAGE A car, a second car, a truck, a motorcycle, a camper, the mower — each keeps its own odometer, its own intervals and its own history. Switch between them with one tap. Miles or kilometres, per vehicle, whichever you think in. HISTORY THAT SELLS YOUR CAR A complete, dated maintenance record is worth real money at resale, and "I looked after it" is worth nothing without one. Export your history as a clean PDF and hand it to a buyer, a mechanic, or an insurer. Everything on it is what you logged — dates, odometer, work done, cost. KNOW WHAT IT REALLY COSTS Running costs add up quietly. Once you have logged a few services, see the totals — by month, by job, and per mile — built from your own records and nothing else. No estimates, no averages, nothing invented on your behalf. PRIVATE, OFFLINE, NO ACCOUNT Your vehicles, your receipts and your costs stay on your phone. There is no account to make, no cloud, nothing uploaded, and no ads anywhere in the app. It works in a car park with no signal, which is where you usually need it. Back your records up to a file you keep yourself, and restore them on a new phone. WHAT YOU CAN TRACK • Oil and filter changes, with the reminder set the way your car is actually driven • Tire rotation, new tires, wheel alignment and balance • Brake pads, brake fluid, coolant, transmission fluid, differential and transfer case • Air and cabin filters, spark plugs, belts, battery, wipers and bulbs • Safety inspection, emissions test, registration and insurance renewal • Fuel fills, repairs, detailing, and anything else worth writing down ABOUT SERVICE INTERVALS The intervals offered here are typical figures, there as a starting point. Your own vehicle's schedule is in its owner's manual, and that is the one that counts — every interval is yours to change, and nothing here is presented as a manufacturer's specification. Makes and models are yours to type. This app carries no manufacturer database, reads nothing from your car, and needs no extra hardware — it is a maintenance record, kept by you. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://kanac.github.io/syanac-legal/

Screenshots

Miles4 screens
Car Maintenance Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Car Maintenance Tracker at weekly against Miles's monthly. Car Maintenance Tracker also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Miles sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Car Maintenance Tracker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Miles ships an update monthly, Car Maintenance Tracker weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Miles versus Car Maintenance Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMilesCar Maintenance Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperADAM NICHOLAS NIEDZWIECKIAnthony Chui

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Miles

One-time1
  • Miles Premium$2.99
3 purchases

Car Maintenance Tracker

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly$17.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Miles free?
Miles is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Car Maintenance Tracker free?
Car Maintenance Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Miles or Car Maintenance Tracker have ads?
Neither Miles nor Car Maintenance Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Miles or Car Maintenance Tracker?
Miles ships an update monthly, and Car Maintenance Tracker weekly. Most recently, Miles was updated on October 31, 2026 and Car Maintenance Tracker on October 31, 2026.

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