A new version of Maintano is out on the App Store and Google Play. Here is what changed, one line each. Over the next few weeks we will explain the bigger ones, one post at a time.
- Log a whole shop visit: several services on one entry, each with its own cost, plus tax and fees once.
- A service list to pick from, grouped and searchable, and your own services when yours is missing.
- Reminders name a service, are grouped by when they are due, and keep a list of what you completed.
- A reminder can hold a place, pre-filled from your last visit, with one-tap directions.
- A maintenance checklist to start a new car, SUV, truck or van's reminders from.
- Tell Maintano whether a car is gas, hybrid, plug-in hybrid or electric to see the services that fit.
- VIN lookup: enter or scan the VIN and the app suggests the year, make, model and powertrain.
- Keep your proof of insurance on your phone: one tap from the vehicle's photo, works offline, and the app reads the details off the card for you to confirm.
- Reports: pick the time range from the top bar and any mix of vehicles, with new distance, energy and reminders-completed cards and charts for where the money goes.
- Log income (rides, deliveries, tips) in a Revenue section kept apart from what you spent, with profit or loss in Reports.
- Share Reports as a PDF; service-history PDFs now carry a letterhead and print every receipt full size.
- Ask AI: send a vehicle's records to ChatGPT, Gemini or any AI app you use.
- Scan receipts flat, or attach a PDF invoice; each page becomes a receipt.
- Places are typed now: a name and an address, with suggestions from the places you have used. The map is gone.
- Service dates, due dates, owned-since and registration dates stay on the day you picked, in any time zone.
- A fresh look: deep-teal bars, clearer cards and fields, in light and dark.
- The odometer you enter when adding a vehicle is saved as its first log.
Privacy changes
The map and place search are gone, so a place is text you type, and nothing about it goes to a map service. A typed place name and address travel with a vehicle when you transfer it, as part of its service history. Entering a VIN sends that VIN, and nothing else, straight from your phone to NHTSA, the public decoder run by the US government. The insurance card stays on your phone, and in your account's cloud copy on a paid plan; the app reads its text on the phone, saves only what you confirm, and never puts the card in a transfer, a PDF or the file prepared for Ask AI. A service you add to the service list is included in usage statistics by name, after the app cleans it on your phone; the analytics switch in Settings stops that. The full wording is in the Privacy Policy and the Terms at maintano.app.
We'll explain each of these in the coming weeks.
Oct 11, 2026