Last updated 17 September 2026. Covers version 1.0 for iPhone and iPad, published by Trident Media.
Glovebox Keeper is an organiser for the paperwork that follows a car around. It is built for drivers in Australia and New Zealand, it runs entirely on your device, and it needs no account and no internet connection.
Open the Garage and add a vehicle. The nickname is the only part that really matters; fill in the rest as you find the details. The odometer reading and tank size make the fuel and service figures more useful later.
For most people that is registration. Enter the expiry date, choose how many weeks of warning you want, and add the issuer and reference number if you have them to hand.
Tap the camera button to use the document scanner, or pick an existing photo from your library. A paper holds up to six photos, which is enough for both sides of most documents.
The app asks the first time it needs to schedule a reminder. Say yes and the reminders are set on the device from then on.
The service log, fuel log and roadside kit can wait until you need them. If you would rather look around first, load the sample garage from Settings and delete it when you are done.
Open the Garage tab and tap the add button. Give the vehicle a nickname, then add whatever details you have: make, model, year, plate, your state or territory (or New Zealand), body style, paint colour, fuel type, tank size and the current odometer reading. You can edit any of it later, and you can keep as many vehicles as you like.
When you save a paper with an expiry date, the app schedules a local notification the number of weeks beforehand that you chose, and a second one the day before it expires. The service log adds a due-service reminder, and you can switch on a weekly driveway check nudge for your roadside kit. Everything is scheduled by iOS on your device, so reminders work with no signal and no server. Change a date and the reminders are rebuilt automatically.
So you can photograph a document. The camera is used only by the document scanner, only while you are using it, and the images stay in the app's private storage. If you would rather not grant access, you can still add photos from your library, or skip photos entirely and keep only the dates and reference numbers.
No. There are no accounts, no servers, no cloud sync, no analytics, no advertising and no third-party components, and the app makes no network requests at all. Your records live on your device, plus a shared container on the same device so the widget can show what is due next. The one exception you control yourself: if your device is backed up to iCloud or a computer, the app's data is part of that backup, under Apple's terms.
Open Settings in the app and choose your preferred units. Fuel economy can be shown as L/100 km, miles per gallon (imperial) or miles per gallon (US). Switching converts how existing entries are displayed; you do not need to re-enter anything.
Economy is measured between two full tanks, so it needs at least two fills marked as full tanks, each with an odometer reading. Until there are two, there is no distance to divide by and the figure stays empty. If a result looks wildly wrong, check the odometer readings for a missing or extra digit.
Touch and hold an empty part of your home screen until the icons jiggle, tap the add button in the corner, search for Glovebox Keeper, choose small, medium or large, and add it. The widget reads from the app's storage on the same device. Give it a few minutes after a large edit, since iOS decides when widgets refresh.
Everything filed under it goes too: its papers, photos, service entries and fuel entries, along with the reminders attached to them. There is no undo. If you are selling a car but want to keep its history, hold on to the record rather than deleting it, or save any photos you want to keep to your photo library first.
No. Glovebox Keeper is free, with no accounts, no sign-in, no subscription and no in-app purchases. There is nothing to restore and nothing to cancel.
Yes. Settings has an Erase everything option that clears all vehicles, papers, photos, logs, kit items and progress from the device in one step. It cannot be undone. Deleting the app has the same effect.
No. It is a record of your paperwork and a set of reminders, not a legal substitute. You still need to carry, hold or keep whatever your state, territory or country requires. The Road Guide articles are general information, not legal or mechanical advice.
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