One plate
Type it once.
Everything else arrives.
Make, model, year, fuel, engine, colour, and the whole MOT record — from eight characters.
iPhone · iPad
Motorfile
Everything about the car you own, from a number plate.
Coming to the
App Store
Free for three cars. No account. Nothing to sign into.
Type it once.
In English
“Nearside front tyre”
means front left.
Every advisory translated out of workshop shorthand, with what it costs and whether it will fail next time.
Every reading, ever
The mileage line
that cannot be argued with.
Each MOT is a dated odometer reading. A line that dips is a clock that has been wound back.
Nothing runs out
MOT, tax and insurance,
counted down.
Thirty days out, then seven — because a garage worth using is booked three weeks ahead.
01 — Your data
It stays on your phone
No account, no sign-in. Your cars, photos and documents are stored on your own device. One thing leaves: the plate you look up, which has to reach the DVSA for the record to come back. Nothing else, and never with your name attached — we do not have it.
- Account required
- None
- Where your vehicles live
- This device
- Photos and documents
- This device
- What leaves the device
- The plate
- Analytics and trackers
- None
- Advertising
- None
- Your data sold on
- Never
The full privacy policy is short, for the obvious reason.
02 — What it costs
Free for the car on your driveway
The MOT data costs us nothing, so the free tier is not a trial that runs out.
Free
£0
- 3 vehicles
- Every MOT, unlimited
- Every mileage reading
- Every advisory, translated
- Tax — typed once
Full
£1.99 / month
- 5 vehicles
- Everything in Free
- Documents and photos
- Running costs and sale record
- 3 checks a month on cars you don’t own
Trade
£10.99 / month
- Unlimited vehicles
- Everything in Full
- Unlimited checks
- For buying, not for keeping
£16.99 a year if you pay annually, or a £2.99 one-off check for a car you are thinking of buying.
This is not an HPI check, and we will never say it is
Outstanding finance, stolen markers and write-off categories come from finance houses, the police and insurers, and we have none of them. This is a MOT and mileage check — thorough on that, silent on the rest. If you are buying a car, get a provenance check too.