Two jobs, done properly, in one app.
Most motorcycle apps either track maintenance or check compliance. Rider Vault does both, because neither makes sense without the other. A bike with a lapsed MOT and perfect chain tension is still off the road. A bike with valid paperwork and a worn sprocket is still a problem waiting to happen.
Here's what it does.
MOT, tax, and manufacturer recalls — watched automatically.
Rider Vault checks your motorcycle's MOT status, vehicle tax status, and any open manufacturer safety recalls against the government's own APIs. Recalls are issued by the manufacturer and published through the DVSA — we surface them to you when your bike is affected. The app runs these checks on a schedule, so you don't have to remember to.
When something's about to expire — or has already — you get told. Once. Not every day. Not with a countdown timer.
Data sources: DVLA Vehicle Enquiry Service (vehicle tax). DVSA MOT History API (MOT results, advisories, and manufacturer-issued safety recalls). Both Open Government Licence v3.0.
A clear picture of where your bike is, in words anyone can read.
Rider Vault tracks the components that matter most — chain, tyres (front and rear), brakes, engine oil, coolant, brake fluid, clutch fluid. You log what you do when you do it; the app keeps the picture.
Health is shown as a colour bar with a plain-English category and reason. Not a number. Not a percentage. Not a score out of a hundred. A bike isn't an algorithm's problem, and quantifying it to two decimal places would be pretending otherwise.
There are three ways to update the app when you've done something:
- Quick log — a single measurement or a small job.
- Full service record — date, mileage, what was done, what it cost.
- Garage maintenance — scan a receipt. The image is read on your phone and immediately discarded. Only the extracted fields are kept.
Your data stays on your phone where it can.
Photos you add to a bike profile stay on your device. They never reach our servers. Sensitive identifiers — your VIN and V5C reference number — are encrypted on your phone before they're sent anywhere, and we only ever hold the ciphertext. We couldn't read them if we wanted to.
All data is stored in the United Kingdom. We don't run ads. We don't profile you. We don't sell anything to anyone. The lawful basis for every data category is listed line by line in our Privacy Policy, and we're registered with the Information Commissioner's Office under number C1907107.
£25 a year standard. £10 for life for the first 2,500 riders.
Standard subscription is £25/year. The first 2,500 riders get a founder cohort price of £10/year, locked for life. A 30-day free trial. Three bikes included. Cancel any time from your phone.
What Rider Vault isn't.
It's worth saying, because most apps won't.
- Not a social app. No feed, no followers, no shared leaderboards. If you want to tell someone about your bike, tell them.
- Not a telematics product. No GPS tracking. No crash detection. No hardware.
- Not a fleet tool. Rider Vault is built for one rider with a few bikes, not a workshop with fifty.
- Not an ad platform. There are no ads in the app, and there won't be.
If any of those things matters to you, Rider Vault isn't the right app. Fair warning up front.