Fuel & cost log for iPhone

Log the fill-up your way: snap the receipt, or type it in.

Tankbook is a car cost log. Fuel, charging, service and the rest – kept on your phone, added in seconds through either door, checked by arithmetic you can watch.

FreeNo account neededExport always free

Not on the App Store yet – no badge, no fake ratings. The mail reaches a human.

Tankbook's Log screen: a Volvo V60 at 123 600 km, average consumption 5.3 L/100km set large, August spend 390 €, and a stream of real entries

The real app, not a render – note "Type it" sits beside the camera.

The two doors

Snap it or type it – both take seconds.

Snap it

Point the camera at the receipt. The scan fills in what it can read – you check the numbers, correct the rest, and it remembers your corrections. A head start, not an answer.

The Capture screen framing a Shell receipt: 42.30 L at 1.679 per litre, total 71.02 EUR, inside taillight-red corner guides

Type it

Date, odometer, litres, total – a form built for thumbs, and price per litre fills in from total ÷ litres. Typing is a front door of its own, never the failure branch.

The manual fill-up form: date, odometer with its live sanity check, station suggestion, fuel choice and the three-number card

Neither door is a fallback – a poor photo means correcting two fields, never starting over.

Checks as you type

The maths runs where you can see it.

Litres × price has to equal the total. When it does, the line locks with a tick – trust you can look at, not magic you're asked to believe.

42.30 L 1.679 €/L

= 71.02 €

And when it doesn't add up, the odd field gets an amber underline and a tap-to-fix – never a silent guess.

The fill-up card mid-entry: total 71.02, litres 42.30, price 1.679, with the cross-check line reading 'checks as you type'

Live in the entry card, on every fill-up.

Your data, yours

On your phone. Not on a login wall.

No account, ever needed

Everything works signed out. Sign-in exists only for sync and restore – the app never asks first.

Offline is normal

The log is a database on your phone. No screen waits for a server, at a pump or in a garage with no bars.

Export always free

CSV or JSON, every field, whenever you like. Your own data has no paywall – and never will.

Nothing of yours is logged

Amounts, stations, notes, coordinates: never in our logs – at any level, in any build.

One history

Every powertrain, every currency.

  • Petrol
  • Diesel
  • Hybrid
  • EV

Litres and kilowatt-hours live in one stream, each with its own consumption maths – fuel burns taillight red, electricity glows headlight cyan, the same code everywhere in the app.

Fill up across a border and the entry keeps both amounts – what you paid and what it was worth at home, at the rate on the day of the fill-up, never today's. Rate snapshots are immutable: they never rewrite your history.

A fill-up in Poland: currency chips with PLN selected, total 289.50 zloty, 47.30 litres at 6.120 per litre, the cross-check locked with its tick

289.50 zł, kept with its euro value at the Aug 21 rate – the day it happened.

Next

Pump-display capture – point the camera at the pump itself, before the receipt prints.

Also on the bench: importers from the app you're leaving, and CarPlay. What's shipped, what's next and what we deliberately cut – all on one honest page.

See the roadmap →

FAQ

Questions, answered straight.

Do I need an account?

No, and the app never asks first. Everything works signed out; signing in exists only to sync and restore across devices.

Does it work offline?

Yes. The log lives on your phone and no screen is gated on a server. The network is only for the optional things: a cloud assist on a hard scan, sync, restore.

What does a scan actually do?

It gives you a head start, not an answer. The scan fills in what it can read and shows what it's unsure about; you correct the rest, and it remembers. A poor photo means fixing two fields, never starting over.

What does it cost?

Nothing right now – TestFlight is free while we finish. Three things stay true after launch: multiple cars in the free tier, export always free, and limits never change retroactively.

I have years of data in another app.

Import works review-first: your file is parsed into candidate rows, you review and edit every one, and only you commit them. My Fuel Manager CSV is supported today; more formats are on the roadmap.

I drive a petrol car and an EV.

One history for both. Fill-ups in litres, charges in kilowatt-hours, and consumption maths that knows the difference – colour-coded apart at a glance.