An auto project planner that knows what a VIN is. Milestones, parts, budgets, target dates — organized by vehicle, not by sticky notes scattered across your shop wall.
Trello and Asana work fine for sprint planning at a software company. They're built for tasks. A vehicle build is parts, dates, codes, vendors, photos, receipts, mod logs, and an OBD2 scanner you wish was always nearby. A vehicle-specific planner just fits better.
"Engine in by July." "Paint done before SEMA." Milestones live on the project car they belong to — not in a separate project tool that has no idea what car you mean.
Break each milestone into checkable tasks: "order shocks," "remove fuel tank," "send block to machine shop." Set target dates, check them off as you go.
Every part with vendor, part number, cost, ETA, and install date. Search across your whole build in seconds.
Set a budget. Trackara rolls up every receipt, vendor bill, and shop charge against it. The "what did this actually cost" answer most builders avoid until they need to know.
Photos auto-grouped by date and milestone. Two years from now, the whole story of the project is still in order.
Pull diagnostic codes, log every service, attach scan results to the project. The diagnostic data lives next to the planning data.
Most project tools fail because they ask you to think in their structure (boards, lists, sprints). Trackara works the way a build actually flows.
Free to try. Add your first project in about a minute. $3.99/mo or $29.99/yr if you stay.