Carnote vs AutoNode
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Carnote
Manage all your car's expenses, services, and upcoming maintenance in one place. Easily log fuel, repairs, and documents, and receive smart reminders for essential tasks. Features AI-powered insights and visual customization options for your vehicle.
- Expense logging
- Service reminders
- Fuel consumption tracking
- AI-powered mechanic chat
- Document storage
- Visual car customization
- PDF service reports
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Carnote keeps the whole life of your car in one place: what you spent, what you serviced and what is coming up next. START IN 10 SECONDS Your first entry in one tap: fuel, oil change, car wash or insurance. Just add the amount. TRY ON A NEW LOOK How would your car look in another colour, in a wrap, on different wheels or with tinted windows? Pick one of 833 real wraps with their codes, set up wheels, tint and calipers — and see your car before and after. Try it on the studio portrait or on your own photo, and make the version you like your main photo. FILL IT IN WITHOUT TYPING Photograph a receipt and the amount, date and category fill themselves in. Say out loud what you did and it becomes a record. Point the camera at your registration document and the car appears with its make, model, year and VIN already in place. KNOW WHAT YOU SPEND Every fill-up, repair, wash and fine in one history. Fuel consumption, cost per kilometre, spending by month and by category - worked out from your own records, not from averages. NEVER MISS A SERVICE A maintenance schedule calculated for your engine, year and mileage rather than a generic table. Reminders by date or by odometer reading: insurance, inspection, oil, brakes, timing belt. Tyre changes by the weather in your city: Carnote tells you when it is time for winter or summer tyres. ASK THE AI MECHANIC A chat that has read your records. What did I spend last month? When did I last change the oil? What is worth checking at this mileage? It answers about your car, not about cars in general. A REPORT FOR A BUYER OR A GARAGE The full service history as a PDF or a link that works for 30 days. A documented car sells for more. DOCUMENTS ALWAYS TO HAND Registration, insurance, receipts and warranties photographed once and always with you. FREE FOREVER Records, reminders — including weather-based tyre-change reminders — history, statistics and documents by hand - without limits, for one car. Plus one free try-on. CARNOTE PRO AI chat, voice entry, receipt and document scanning, more than one car, unlimited reports, a maintenance schedule recalculated when the car changes, and 3 try-ons a month. 3.49 USD per month or 33.99 USD per year. Free trial: 3 days on the monthly plan or 7 days on the yearly plan. Try-on attempt packs — 10, 30 or 100 — are one-time purchases, not a subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage it in your Apple ID settings. Terms of use: https://carnote.fun/terms Privacy policy: https://carnote.fun/privacy
AutoNode
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AutoNode is the simple, beautiful log for your car. Your vehicle greets you on the home screen, a fill-up takes a couple of taps - or a photo of the receipt - service reminders never slip, and the stats answer the questions that matter: what does a kilometer cost, and is LPG actually saving you money? NO ACCOUNTS. YOUR DATA STAYS WITH YOU • No sign-up. Open the app and start. • Odometer, plate, VIN, photos and full history live only on your phone. • Backup goes to your own iCloud. We never see your data and never store it on our servers. FILL-UPS IN SECONDS • Liters, amount, odometer on a smooth ruler instead of a keyboard. • Petrol grades, diesel, LPG/CNG, electric, and several tanks on one car. • Full or partial tank, station, note, receipt photo. • Honest consumption: computed only from consecutive full tanks. When there is not enough data, the app says so instead of showing a random number. SCAN A RECEIPT (PRO) • Photograph a fuel receipt, a service invoice or your instrument cluster - the app reads the amount, litres, date and odometer and fills them into the entry. • You always review the fields before saving: recognition fills the form, it never saves for you. • Three scans free, then Pro. • Straight about the trade-off: only the photo itself is sent for recognition, and it is stored nowhere. Your plate, VIN, odometer history and other photos are never sent. The app explains this before your first scan. REMINDERS THAT DO NOT FORGET • Inspection, insurance, oil, tires, timing belt, by date, by distance, or both. • A notification on the due day and a heads-up before it, so you can book in time. • Mark it done and the next due date rolls forward automatically. EXPENSES AND STATS • Categories: service, repair, wash, parking, fines, insurance, or your own. • Cost per km, monthly and yearly spend, year-over-year comparison. • A shareable year-in-review card. • LPG payback: how much you have saved so far and when the install pays for itself. HOME SCREEN WIDGET • Odometer, next reminder and a Fill-up button without opening the app. YOUR DATA, PORTABLE • CSV import and export, so your records are always yours to take. BUILT FOR KAZAKHSTAN, READY FOR ANYWHERE • Tenge, rubles, dollars, euros and more; km or miles; liters or gallons. • Local inspection rules, fuel grades and plate formats preconfigured. • Russian, English and Kazakh interface. AUTONODE PRO One car is free, forever. Pro unlocks several cars in one garage, cost-per-km comparison between them, unlimited receipt scanning and extended analytics. Monthly or annual subscription, cancel anytime in your App Store settings. Terms of Service: https://autonode-landing.vercel.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://autonode-landing.vercel.app/privacy
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Verdict
Carnote and AutoNode are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Carnote sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.49 per month and AutoNode sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Carnote | AutoNode |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ivan Bobrov | Arslan Aimenov |
In-app purchases
Carnote
- Carnote Pro - Monthly$3.491 Month
- Carnote Pro - Yearly7 Days trial$33.991 Year
AutoNode
- AutoNode Pro Monthly3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Pro Yearly3 Days trial$14.991 Year





