The best automotive apps

AutoZone

AutoZone is one of the largest retailers of aftermarket automotive parts and accessories in the United States, selling parts, batteries, brake components, wipers, oils, and tools for cars, trucks, SUVs, and motorcycles through thousands of stores across the US, Mexico, and Brazil. The chain built its business around DIY repair, pairing its parts range with free in-store services — battery testing, loan-a-tool, and diagnostic code reading — and the AutoZone Rewards programme.

Advance Auto Parts

Advance Auto Parts is a major American automotive aftermarket retailer selling parts, batteries, tools, and performance accessories to both DIY customers and professional garages, through a large store network and online. The company stocks industry-leading brands across maintenance and repair categories, and combines retail with trade supply to independent workshops.

Canadian Tire

Canadian Tire is one of Canada's best-known retailers, selling automotive parts and service, tools, sports and outdoor equipment, and home and garden goods across hundreds of stores nationwide. Its Canadian Tire Money loyalty currency, issued since 1958, is a national institution, now operating digitally through the Triangle Rewards programme.

Summit Racing

Summit Racing Equipment is an American performance auto parts retailer stocking more than 1.5 million performance and stock replacement parts, from engine and drivetrain components to tools and workshop equipment. A fixture of the US motorsport and hot rod scene, the company publishes technical content through its OnAllCylinders title and runs a presence at car shows and racing events across the country.

CarParts.com

CarParts.com sells replacement auto parts direct to consumers, with a catalogue of more than a million components priced well below dealership and traditional parts-store rates. The business operates its own distribution network across the US and focuses on the repair and maintenance market — body panels, lighting, brakes, suspension, and engine components — rather than performance tuning.

Euro Car Parts

Euro Car Parts is the UK's leading distributor of parts for all makes of cars and light commercial vehicles, carrying millions of components from more than 1,250 brands covering over 40 million vehicles. Part of the LKQ group, it supplies both trade garages and retail customers through a large national branch network alongside its online store.

MX Locker

MX Locker is an American marketplace for powersports gear, connecting riders buying and selling new and used equipment — riding gear, parts, and whole vehicles across dirt bikes, ATVs, UTVs, street bikes, and cycling. Built by riders for riders, it handles the logistics of peer-to-peer selling: list an item with a photo and a price, and a prepaid shipping label is issued when it sells.

Matco Tools

Matco Tools sells professional hand tools, power tools, toolboxes, and diagnostic equipment to mechanics, through a franchised network of distributors who visit workshops directly. The mobile-distributor model is the business: technicians buy from a van that comes to them, often on payment terms, rather than from a store.

AUTODOC

AUTODOC is one of Europe's largest online retailers of car parts and tyres, selling spares from trusted manufacturers across dozens of European markets. The company pairs a broad catalogue with detailed product specifications and a compatibility checker, and publishes a large library of repair tutorials aimed at owners doing the work themselves.

Faster-Minis

Faster-Minis sells performance parts and accessories for pit bikes and mini motorcycles, serving the minibike racing and backyard-riding scene in the US. The business is a specialist supplier rather than a general parts retailer, stocking engine, suspension, and cosmetic upgrades for the small-displacement machines its customers build and race.

Speed Society

Speed Society is an American automotive lifestyle brand and media business, selling apparel and merchandise alongside running car giveaway sweepstakes. The company built a large following through automotive content and video long before it sold anything, and the giveaways — where entries are earned through purchases — remain as central to the business as the merchandise itself.

Discount Tire

Discount Tire is America's largest independent tire and wheel retailer, selling tires and rims for cars, trucks, SUVs, trailers, ATVs and UTVs through a nationwide store network, and trading as America's Tire in parts of California. The company competes on selection and price across the major tire brands, and fits what it sells through its own stores.

Renegade Products USA

Renegade Products USA makes polishing and detailing products for metal, paint, and aluminium, aimed at the trucking and automotive detailing trades. The business specialises in polishes, compounds, and buffing equipment for restoring polished aluminium — the finish on show trucks and tankers that ordinary car care products cannot handle.

RPM Tesla

RPM Tesla makes and sells aftermarket accessories for Tesla vehicles, spanning interior upgrades, exterior trim, and lighting, with a catalogue of well over a thousand parts covering the current Tesla line-up. Based in Rancho Santa Margarita, California and trading since 2013, the company has shipped hundreds of thousands of orders worldwide and pairs its products with detailed DIY installation videos, lifetime warranties on selected parts, and no restocking fees.

DC Audio

DC Audio makes high-end car audio equipment — subwoofers, amplifiers, and speakers — aimed at the competitive sound-off and custom install scene rather than at casual upgrades. The brand designs and builds its own products in the US and sells direct to enthusiasts assembling complete systems.

GSF Car Parts

GSF Car Parts is a UK and Ireland motor factor supplying parts, batteries, oils, tools, and accessories for all makes and models through more than 190 branches as well as online. The company serves both independent garages and retail customers, competing on parts availability and on same-day collection from its branch network.

AMSOIL

AMSOIL is an American manufacturer of synthetic motor oils, lubricants, and filtration products, having introduced the first synthetic motor oil to meet API standards in 1972. The company sells direct to consumers as well as through dealers and retail accounts, with product ranges spanning cars, motorcycles, powersports, and industrial machinery.

Infinity Wax

Infinity Wax is a Scottish car care and detailing brand established in 2014, manufacturing its entire range — waxes, sealants, shampoos, and detailing chemicals — at its own factory, Infinity House, which is open to the public on weekdays. The company sells direct across the UK mainland with next-day delivery, aimed at both enthusiast detailers and professionals.

Simply Carbon Fiber

Simply Carbon Fiber makes carbon fibre accessories and automotive parts, including wallets, phone accessories, and vehicle interior and exterior trim. The American brand works almost exclusively in the one material, selling everyday carry items alongside car components — customers are buying the carbon weave and its weight as much as the object it has been made into.

Crowley Marine

Crowley Marine supplies genuine OEM replacement parts for outboard motors and marine engines, covering Johnson, Evinrude, Mercury, Yamaha, and other major manufacturers. The American business is built around parts diagrams: customers identify the exact component they need from exploded views of their specific engine model.

CT Carbon

CT Carbon is a British automotive styling brand specialising in carbon fibre body parts — splitters, spoilers, diffusers, side skirts, and bumper corners — made for specific performance models. The company sells direct with global delivery, serving owners modifying the appearance of German and other performance cars.

Image Wash Products

Image Wash Products makes professional-grade detailing chemicals and wash products formulated to be safe on polished aluminium, chrome, and stainless steel. The American business serves truck and fleet detailers in particular, where those finishes are common, and stocks accessories and washing gear from established detailing brands alongside its own line.

Carolina Detail Supply

Carolina Detail Supply is a full-service American distributor of automotive detailing chemicals, supplies, and equipment, based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The business supplies professional detailers and serious enthusiasts, carrying established chemical lines alongside the pads, towels, brushes, and machines that go with them — the consumables a working detailing bay gets through every week.

Motocard

Motocard is a Spanish motorcycle equipment retailer with more than forty years in the trade, selling helmets, jackets, gloves, boots, and protective gear, and increasingly cycling equipment alongside it. The business carries the major protective brands — Alpinestars, Shoei, Dainese, HJC, Fox, AGV — through its stores across Spain and its online shop.

Chemical Guys EU

Chemical Guys EU is the European arm of the American car care brand, supplying car wash chemicals, body-shop detailing supplies, buffing pads, and professional accessories. It serves distributors, resellers, and professional detailers as well as enthusiasts, carrying the full Chemical Guys line-up across the European market.

HornBlasters

HornBlasters sells train horn and air horn kits for vehicles, along with the compressors, tanks, air management systems, and hardware needed to install them, serving truck owners and car enthusiasts who want a genuinely loud horn. The company backs its products with a help centre and a network of authorised installers, and is known in the enthusiast community for the sheer volume of its kits.

Late Model Restoration

Late Model Restoration sells performance and restoration parts for 1979-onwards Ford Mustang, Lightning, and Bronco models, serving the American muscle car restoration and modification scene. The company is a specialist rather than a general parts retailer, stocking everything from period-correct restoration components to modern performance upgrades for the platforms it covers.

4 State Trucks

4 State Trucks is America's largest semi-truck parts superstore, carrying more than 100,000 parts and accessories for Peterbilt, Kenworth, Volvo, Freightliner, International, and Mack rigs. Based in Joplin, Missouri, the business serves owner-operators and fleets with everything from mechanical components to the chrome and lighting that customise a working truck.

Exact Auto Parts

Exact Auto Parts is a British retailer of car parts and accessories, selling both genuine and aftermarket components across most makes and models. The business is built around getting the fitment right first time, with search and comparison tools that narrow a catalogue to parts that suit a specific vehicle.

Braaps

Braaps is an American marketplace built specifically for powersports enthusiasts, covering riding gear, parts, accessories, and whole vehicles across dirt bikes, ATVs, and UTVs. The platform exists to gather buying and selling into one place rather than leaving it scattered across general classifieds and forum threads, and was built by riders for a community that trades equipment constantly as machines and kit are upgraded.

Silverlake Parts

Silverlake Parts is a British supplier of recycled car parts, salvaging and reselling components at a fraction of the cost of new. The business operates one of the UK's larger vehicle dismantling and parts recycling operations, with an inventory searchable by vehicle so buyers can find a guaranteed-fit used component.

WRS

WRS is an Italian motorcycle parts and accessories retailer, carrying a catalogue of more than 100,000 items covering special parts, screens, and performance components. The business serves riders and race teams across Europe, specialising in the aerodynamic and handling parts that general motorcycle shops rarely stock.

Hotrod Motorcycle Shop

Hotrod Motorcycle Shop sells motorcycle gear and accessories, covering helmets, communication headsets, and general bike supplies. The shop carries the equipment riders need for both maintenance and kit, selling direct online to a small customer base rather than through motorcycle dealerships or the larger gear retailers.