Pocket Mechanic — Photo & Symptom Car Diagnostic

Your car is acting up. A shop wants $150 just to look at it. Look first — yourself, free, in your own driveway.

Pocket Mechanic is the app that should have always existed:

1. Snap a picture of your engine, the leak on the ground, the dash lights — whatever looks wrong.

2. Tap what's it's doing — clicking, smoking, leaking, shaking, lights on the dash. Plain words, no mechanic-speak.

3. It pinpoints the problem — the most likely causes ranked, the exact part and place to look, what to check first (free checks first), what the part costs, what a shop should charge, and a plain STOP DRIVING / FIX SOON / MONITOR call on every result.

Built from a 38-diagnosis field book covering starting problems, noises, smoke colors, leak colors (color + place = the pinpoint), warning lights, brakes, steering, overheating, and electrical.

The money feature: every diagnosis comes with fair price ranges, parts vs. shop. Walk into any shop already knowing what's likely wrong and what it should cost — that's how you don't get upsold.

Plus the AI Photo Read (optional): add your own AI key and the app sends your engine photos straight from your phone for a second, photo-based pinpoint. Your key never leaves your phone except to make that call. Don't have a key? The built-in diagnosis works offline, no signal, no key, forever.

Diagnosis history saves on your phone — show it to your mechanic and start the conversation from what YOU know.

Pocket Mechanic points you at the most likely problem fast. It doesn't replace a hands-on mechanic for brakes, steering, fuel leaks, or anything marked STOP DRIVING.