Roadworthy

Line a number plate up in the box. Find out whether the vehicle is taxed and has an MOT, and if it isn't, report it without retyping anything.

Free, for Android, in the UK and Ireland.

A car's tax and MOT, both valid, with its vehicle details

Check

Put the plate in the box

Fill the box with the plate, or type it. Only what is inside the box is read, so a shop sign or the car in the next bay is not mistaken for the one you are checking.

Private and dateless plates work, and motorcycles have their own box shape. The camera is optional: type the plate instead and the whole app still works.

The camera with a plate lined up in the box

History

Every test, every advisory

Every MOT on record: each pass and fail, the mileage at each test, and every advisory in the tester's own words. The part of a used car's past a seller need not mention. Buying one? What a tax and MOT check doesn't tell you.

A failure and the retest that fixed it are shown as one MOT, because that is what they are. You also see how far it went between tests, and any period it spent with no MOT at all.

A car's MOT history, with a failure and its defects

Costs

What it costs to tax

What the vehicle costs to tax for a year, worked out from the legislation rather than a summary of it, including the bands that stopped applying to cars registered after April 2017, and the ones that never applied to a car registered before March 2006.

And for a car an employer provides, the company car tax band. You supply the P11D value, because it depends on the options fitted to that exact car and no source publishes it.

A car's details with its road tax for a year

Save

Keep an eye on your own

Keep your own vehicles with expiry warnings, and check their insurance on MIB's own service.

Two saved vehicles with their tax and MOT dates

Report

Report it, if you choose to

When a vehicle genuinely is untaxed or genuinely has no MOT, the details are assembled for you. Untaxed goes to DVLA; no MOT goes to your police force, since only they can act on it. Either way you review it, and you submit it.

A car that is untaxed and whose MOT has expired, with a button to report it

Privacy

Photographs never leave your device: plates are read on the phone itself, and there is no account. Tax and vehicle details go straight from your phone to DVLA; MOT history passes through a small server we run, which receives the registration and nothing else. See the privacy policy for the detail.