Frequently asked questions

Straight from official sources: the DVSA MOT History service for MOT dates and history, and the DVLA Vehicle Enquiry Service for tax status and the tax due date. Motorbook simply reads them and reminds you.

Yes. Your vehicles, reminders and service records stay on your phone. There is no account to create, nothing is sold, and there is no advertising. A plate lookup is passed to the official services to fetch your dates, and nothing more.

You can. Premium is £3.99 a year, or £9.99 once for lifetime access. There is no weekly plan and no auto-renewing trial designed to catch you out. The free tier covers two cars for good.

Yes. Two vehicles are free forever. Add the rest of the family cars, a motorbike or the van on Premium. Each vehicle keeps its own dates, history and reminders.

Yes. Add your insurance renewal date to a vehicle and Motorbook reminds you before it runs out, alongside the MOT and tax. Everything you add stays on your phone.

Motorbook shows fuel prices at stations near you, refreshed regularly. It uses your location only to find nearby stations, and your location is not logged.

Motorbook nudges you about a month ahead, again a week before, and on the day, so you have room to book a slot rather than scrambling at the last minute.

You can register for free GOV.UK MOT reminders by text or email. Motorbook also creates private reminders on your iPhone alongside your tax, insurance and service dates.

Yes. You can use the reference number from a V5C log book in your name, or the green new-keeper slip if you have just bought the vehicle. If you have neither, GOV.UK lets you apply for a new V5C and tax the vehicle in the same journey.

Use Motorbook's nearby fuel map or another Fuel Finder publisher to compare current prices. Motorbook displays official UK Government Fuel Finder data with station locations and update times. View UK fuel prices.

Motorbook publishes current national petrol and diesel averages calculated from official Fuel Finder forecourt prices, with the update time and sample size shown beside every figure. See today's UK fuel prices.

Motorbook's UK fuel price index compares today's national averages with yesterday whenever a matching retained snapshot exists, so you can see the direction and size of the change. See the latest price movement.

Yes. Motorbook reads MOT and tax dates from official DVLA and DVSA data and reminds you before they are due. Download Motorbook free on the App Store.

Motorbook is on iPhone first, and iPad. An Android version may follow. The website works everywhere in the meantime.