car-stories.com

What It Is

Car Stories is a digital vehicle history and showcase platform by Klemenda Software, positioned around the idea of “Your car. Your story.” It is not a traditional fleet dispatching tool. Instead, it combines vehicle records, maintenance, expenses, story content, and community-style presentation, targeting use cases such as cars, motorcycles, classic cars, collectible vehicles, as well as garages and repair shops.

Core Features

Based on the captured content, the platform supports creating and managing vehicles, recording repairs, maintenance, modifications, reminders, and personal stories, and attaching images and files to each entry. This builds a timeline-based history for each vehicle over time. For expense management, it can track per-vehicle costs, total costs, fuel consumption, and refueling history, with automatic analysis. For service planning, it includes maintenance intervals, repair plans, reminders, to-dos, and AI-assisted service suggestions. For garages and business users, it also mentions customer vehicle management, service history, team access, parts inventory and planning, plus PDF/Excel export for sales, insurance, tax, or archiving purposes.

Pricing and Collaboration

The pricing page clearly lists two tiers: Free and Driver. The Free plan costs €0/month and supports 1 vehicle, 10 files per story, cost management, and story writing. The Driver plan costs €3.9/month and supports 3 vehicles, 20 files per story, and service suggestions. The page also mentions multi-user access, roles and permissions, a +5 users Addon, and garage management, but the full pricing for higher-tier plans was not captured. The FAQ also states that private users can register and use the service for free.

Pros and Cons

The main advantage is its clearly defined vertical use case. It is especially suitable for users who need to prove a vehicle’s history, improve transparency when reselling a used vehicle, or document a restoration process. Web/iOS/Android syncing also lowers the barrier to use. The downside is that the public materials lack details on third-party integrations, APIs, payment methods, customer support SLAs, data security, and compliance, so they are not sufficient for directly assessing enterprise deployment risk.

Who It’s For and Access from China

Car Stories is suitable for individual vehicle owners, collectors, classic car restorers, small garages, and repair teams. If you need large-scale fleet dispatching, work order billing, or in-depth parts inventory and purchasing/sales management, a more specialized fleet or repair shop SaaS may be required. Access from China cannot be determined from the text alone. Payment methods are also not disclosed, so users in China should test network access, registration, and the availability of euro-denominated subscription payments. Alternatives include domestic fleet management software, repair shop systems, or building your own vehicle records in Notion/Airtable.