Your car's history should stay yours.

There are lots of websites for keeping a car's service history, faults and running costs. Then the service shuts down, or it changes, and the record you built is gone.

Starting Handle is open source, and you can run it yourself. The cars, the receipts and the history sit in a database you control.

Self-host it yourself

The README on GitHub is the setup guide: Supabase, Google sign-in, and an optional deploy to Vercel.

Or I can host it for you

Sign in with Google and start an empty garage on this instance (https://startinghandle.app). A car stays private unless you invite someone to it.

What it does

Cars
Details, mileage, and the dates for MOT, tax and insurance.
Expenses
What you spent, with a photo or PDF of the receipt.
Fuel and mpg
Fill-ups, and how far the car goes on them.
Services
The work that's been done, the jobs within it, and when it's next due.
MOT lookup
A UK registration checked against the DVSA MOT history.
Photos
A picture of the car, and a wider image for the top of its page.
Sharing
Invite someone by email, as an editor or a viewer of one car.

Coming soon

GPS tracking

Coming soon

Track journeys and the locations of your cars. This is not in the app yet. Nothing here records where a car is.