NFC + Photos + Reminders, in your pocket

Tap. Open. Log.
Done.

Pair a Chip.IT NFC tag to your truck, bike, boat, or generator. One tap with your phone — even from a locked screen — and the entire service history is on screen. Log oil changes the day you do them. Get reminders the morning maintenance is due. Sell the rig? Hand over the chip and the records, in 30 seconds.

Free for personal garages iPhone & Android No app store install
What it does

Everything you'd write in a paper logbook — except this one never goes missing.

Chip.IT is a Progressive Web App with NFC at its core. It runs on whatever phone you already have, installs to your home screen with one tap, and lives offline at the back of the shop where the signal won't reach.

One-tap NFC pairing

Stick the chip on the dashboard, frame, or under the hood. Tap with any modern phone — locked or not — and the vehicle's records open instantly.

Smart service log

Curated service tiles + a searchable catalog. Log oil changes, tires, brakes, fluids — with photos, cost, shop, and notes — in under a minute.

Mileage-based reminders

Push notifications when something's due — by mileage, by date, or by the OEM service interval. The morning of, not the week after.

VIN super-decode

Paste any VIN — or scan one with your camera — and we auto-fill year, make, model, trim, engine, transmission, and pull every open NHTSA recall.

Carfax-style timeline

Year-by-year, chip-tap-verified service history with photos. Export the whole packet to PDF when it's time to sell or hand over the keys.

OBD-II Bluetooth sync

Pair a $20 ELM327 dongle and we'll pull odometer + clear codes automatically. No more "did I write that down?"

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Under the hood

NFC-grade hardware. Web-grade software. Zero friction.

Chip.IT chips are passive NTAG NFC tags — no battery, no app, no pairing dance. They work with the same NFC reader your phone already uses for tap-to-pay.

Chip.IT NFC tag
NTAG · 13.56 MHz · Passive
1

Stick & pair

Adhesive-back tag goes anywhere flat — dashboard, frame, engine bay, transom. Tap once with the app open to lock it to that vehicle.

2

Tap to open

Any phone with NFC turned on (every iPhone since the 7, every modern Android) reads the chip from a locked screen and opens the vehicle page.

3

Log & remind

Voice shortcuts, OBD-II auto-sync, manual one-tap log — everything funnels into the same timeline. Reminders fire by mileage or by date.

4

Hand over

Selling? Transfer the chip to the new owner in 30 seconds. They get the full record. You stop getting recall pings for a truck you don't own.

Tap latency
~0.4s
From locked screen to page
Compatible phones
1.4B+
All iPhones since 2016 · all major Androids
Battery
None
Passive NFC, powered by the phone's reader
Re-writable
Re-pair to a new vehicle anytime
Inside the app

This is what your truck looks like in your pocket.

Every chip tap opens the same clean dashboard: the vehicle, its mileage, the service log, what's coming up, and the chips paired to it. No menus to dig through, no loading spinners, no "please update the app." It just opens.

  • Live service log — most recent entry is always on top, with the date, mileage, and a chip-verified badge.
  • What's coming up — the brake fluid you scheduled, the tire rotation by mileage, the registration that expires next month.
  • Paired chips — every chip stuck to the vehicle, with last-tap timestamp, in case one ever goes missing.
  • One-thumb logging — bottom action bar puts "Log a service" and "Update mileage" exactly where your thumb already is.
How it works

From zero to first tap in under five minutes.

No installs, no accounts to verify. You're logging real services on day one.

Sign up free

Email + password (or Google sign-in). Your garage is empty for about 30 seconds.

Add a vehicle

Truck, bike, boat, generator — anything with a serial or VIN. Snap a photo and you're done.

Pair a Chip.IT tag

Tap any blank chip with your phone. We lock it to your account so nobody else can hijack it.

Tap to log, tap to view

Every future tap of that chip opens the full history. Add a service in two taps.

The killer feature

Sold the truck? Hand over the keys and the history.

A vehicle's resale value lives in its records. With Chip.IT, transferring those records is a single email.

One email, atomic transfer.

Hit Transfer on the chip, type TRANSFER to confirm, enter the buyer's email. They get a one-time claim link, sign in (or create a free account), type ACCEPT, and the chip + every service log + every photo + every reminder moves into their garage in a single database transaction. Yours instantly forgets it.

  • Re-verified by typing TRANSFER — no accidental clicks.
  • Buyer types ACCEPT in their own browser. Same speed bump.
  • Cancel any time before they accept — offers expire after 14 days automatically.
  • Vehicle and the chip move together. No file-copying, no broken photo links.
Stolen recovery

If it's stolen, your chip becomes a beacon.

Flip the Stolen toggle, paste the agency's email, and we send a full dossier. Every chip on the vehicle now serves a public recovery screen — and you get an alert the moment someone taps one.

  • Full dossier auto-emailed to law enforcement
  • Public recovery screen on every chip tap
  • Instant alert when a chip is scanned in the wild
Built for

If it has an engine — or doesn't — it can have a chip.

Cars, bikes, boats, RVs, generators, snowblowers, ride-on mowers, farm equipment, e-bikes, rental fleets. Anything you'd hate to lose the records on.

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Cars
🛻
Trucks
🏍️
Motorcycles
🚤
Boats
🚜
Tractors
🛵
Scooters
🚐
RVs / Vans
⚙️
Generators
🚲
E-bikes
🛶
Jet skis
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Equipment
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Aircraft

Ready to give your garage a memory?

Open the app on your phone, add your first vehicle in under two minutes, and start logging like a pro.