Apps for iPhone & Android
Three apps for three completely different crowds — car owners, pet people, and tradespeople who hate paperwork. All built the same way: quick to figure out, no ads, and small enough that a real person answers the support email.
The apps
Three apps for three unrelated crowds. Same standards behind all of them.
Service log, specs & reminders
Every torque spec, fluid capacity, and service interval for your exact car, built in. Log what you did, track the parts on your shelf, scan receipts, and ask the AI mechanic about that noise. Free for one vehicle — no account, no ads.
AI pet portraits
One photo of your dog or cat, 40 art styles, a finished portrait in minutes. Keep it on your phone or order it as a canvas, framed print, poster, or mug — shipped to your door.
Say the job. Send the bill.
Talk for twenty seconds and get a professional invoice with a Pay Now link. Then see what you actually cleared on the job — and hand your accountant a clean year at tax time.
Screens
Straight from the stores — no mockups, no fake data.
How we work
Nobody pays us to put ads in front of you, so we don’t. The apps have to be good enough that people choose to pay for them.
Every screen gets drawn deliberately. No stock template, no six-tab settings menu, no burying the one thing you opened the app to do.
Pop the Hood is free for one vehicle with no account and no ads. Paying unlocks more — it doesn't unlock the basics.
We collect what the app needs to work and nothing to resell. The policies are short, readable, and linked at the bottom of this page.
Pop the Hood has shipped steadily since launch. Bug reports get read by the person who can fix them, and usually land in the next release.
Community
Short maintenance clips and build updates from Pop the Hood. More channels when there’s something worth posting.
Studio
Email about a bug and it lands in an inbox someone actually reads—not a ticket queue, not a bot that suggests three articles first. If it’s broken, it usually gets fixed in the next release.
Being small has an obvious downside: we can’t build everything at once. The upside is that the person reading your bug report is the person who can fix it.
No tier-one script
Bug reports and feature requests go straight to the people writing the code.
A straight answer about “no”
If a feature isn’t coming, we’d rather say so than leave you waiting on a roadmap page.
Paid means paid
No ads, no selling your data, no free tier that nags you every third tap. Subscriptions are the whole business model.
