PartsPal: A Free App That Puts Your Whole Car in One Place
Owning a car is a coordination problem dressed up as a mechanical one. The last oil change is on a receipt in the glove box. The tire size is in a screenshot from 2023. The part number you almost ordered last month is in an eBay tab you closed. The mechanic your friend recommended is in a text thread you can't find.
Each piece is small. The pile is what makes car ownership feel like a low-grade chore that never ends.
PartsPal collapses the pile into one app.
What PartsPal does
PartsPal is a free, all-in-one tool for everyday car owners. You save your vehicle, track its maintenance history, save the parts you want to buy or have already installed, look up parts by name or part number, and find mechanics nearby — all from the same place.
It's not built for shop owners with diagnostic rigs or enthusiasts running spreadsheets. It's built for the driver with one or two cars who currently keeps everything in their head, their inbox, and a stack of receipts.
What's broken about the alternative
The default car-ownership stack is improvisation. A notes app for the VIN. A calendar reminder for the next service. An eBay tab for that one bushing. A Google Maps pin for the mechanic someone mentioned. Maybe a folder of glove-box receipts as backup.
None of those tools know about each other. The reminder doesn't know which part you needed. The notes app doesn't know when the last service was. The mechanic pin doesn't know what's wrong with the car.
So the same questions get asked over and over — what year is the car again, when was the timing belt done, did I ever buy that part, who did the last brake job — and the answers live in five places that all need to be searched separately.
PartsPal connects them. The vehicle is the anchor. Maintenance history, saved parts, reminders, and mechanic options all hang off it.
How it works
Saved vehicles — Add a car once. Year, make, model, and details live in one record that everything else attaches to.
Maintenance tracking — Log services, kilometres, checks, and what's coming next. Reminders surface before the next service is due, not after.
Saved parts — Track parts you want to buy, have already bought, or have installed — organized under the vehicle they belong to. No more wondering whether you already ordered the thing.
Part search — Look up parts by name or part number. PartsPal links out to places like eBay so you can buy directly.
Mechanic finder — Find nearby mechanics with reviews, ratings, phone numbers, and directions. The shop your friend recommended actually gets saved this time.
Who this is for
Everyday car owners who want to stop running their vehicle off memory and receipts. People who'd rather not learn a fleet-management tool to keep on top of one or two cars. Drivers who've missed a service, double-bought a part, or forgotten which mechanic did the last repair — and decided that's enough of that.
PartsPal is free.
Try it
Open PartsPal — or see the PartsPal listing on ShipBoost for category context.
