Ehrenschrauber
Ehrenschrauber is an AI assistant for car mechanics and DIY car enthusiasts. Scan a vehicle registration document, upload a photo or ask out loud, and get a reasoned repair answer in seconds. Available as web and mobile apps.
What is Ehrenschrauber?
Ehrenschrauber is an AI assistant aimed at car mechanics and at the German-speaking DIY repair culture the name points to: a Schrauber is someone who works on cars, and the prefix is a term of respect. Its publisher, SBR Software GmbH of Salzburg, calls it its flagship product.
The tool is built around three ways of asking a question. You can scan a vehicle registration document, which the app reads to extract the vehicle's data. You can upload a photograph so that damage or a component can be analysed. Or you can simply ask, by typing or by speaking, with the voice route designed so that a mechanic does not have to put down a tool to use it. The site advertises a well-founded answer in seconds, and illustrates it with a worked example about freeing a seized exhaust bolt, answered as a numbered sequence of steps.
Beyond question answering, the app generates repair instructions, reports and summaries on demand. Its terms describe a subscription tier that opens access to vehicle data, repair data, maintenance recommendations and further technical information. The underlying AI is not proprietary: the publisher names Google Gemini, OpenAI and Azure AI as the engines it works with.
Ehrenschrauber runs as a web application and as a native mobile app on both iOS and Android, with a free download on both stores. The interface ships in English and German only. On the App Store it holds a 3.8 rating, but from just five reviews, which is far too small a sample to mean anything.
One structural point deserves attention. The app is older than the company that publishes it: the first iOS release dates from February 2025, while SBR Software GmbH was only entered in the Austrian commercial register on 17 March 2026. The company is run by three managing directors and has two shareholders. The product has no website of its own — its only shop window is a section of its publisher's corporate homepage, which otherwise sells software development and consulting services.
What it does
- Answer repair and diagnostic questions in natural language
- Scan a vehicle registration document and extract the vehicle data from it
- Analyse an uploaded photograph of damage or of a component
- Take a question by voice, hands-free, in the middle of a job
- Produce repair instructions, reports and summaries on demand
- Give subscribers access to vehicle data, repair data and maintenance recommendations
When to use Ehrenschrauber / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Ehrenschrauber is the right fit.
When to use Ehrenschrauber
- Workshop technicians who need a fast diagnostic second opinion without putting their tools down
- Service advisers and parts staff who have to read a vehicle registration document quickly and accurately
- Car owners who want to understand a fault before booking a garage appointment
- Apprentice mechanics using the step-by-step answers as a learning aid alongside formal training
- Independent garages in German-speaking markets that want an AI helper without any setup work
When not to use Ehrenschrauber
- Anyone who needs a published price before testing a tool: no amount is disclosed anywhere
- Workshops wanting to embed the assistant into a DMS or garage management system: there is no API
- Organisations that require a signed data processing agreement, which the publisher does not offer
- Teams working in a language other than English or German, the only two interfaces shipped
- Anyone expecting a certified diagnosis: the publisher states its answers do not replace professional advice
How to use Ehrenschrauber
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Download the app from the App Store or Google Play, or open the web version
- Create an account: registration is required before any content is accessible
- Sign in with an email address and password, handled through Firebase
- Choose how to ask: scan a registration document, upload a photo, or type your question
- Alternatively dictate the question by voice, hands-free, while working
- Read the answer, which is returned as reasoned and where relevant numbered steps
- Take a subscription if you need the vehicle data, repair data and maintenance content
- Pay in advance by PayPal or credit card for the term you selected
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Three complementary input routes — document, image and voice — which is unusual in this niche
- Voice input genuinely designed for workshop conditions, where hands are rarely free
- The AI-generated nature of the answers is flagged in plain sight, not buried in the terms
- Voice recordings are discarded after transcription, and the policy says so explicitly
- Subprocessors are named one by one, with a full company name and address for Shakebugs
- A real, verified presence on both app stores, published under the same company as the website
- Free to download, so the tool can be tried without committing any money
Cons
- No price is published anywhere: no amount, no tier, and no pricing page at all
- No API, so the assistant cannot be connected to a garage management system
- No data processing agreement is published or offered, which blocks regulated professional use
- The App Store rating rests on five reviews and carries no statistical weight
- The publishing company is very young, registered only in March 2026
- The interface is limited to two languages
- The privacy policy is a generic template describing a Shopify shop, Meta and TikTok pixels that do not exist here
Pricing & Plans
The application is free to download on both app stores. Beyond that, the publisher discloses no figures at all. Its consumer terms state that access to the content requires a paid subscription depending on scope, and that the customer may choose between different terms and pricing models, but not a single amount, tier or currency is published on the website, in the terms or on either store listing. Payment is taken in advance by PayPal or credit card, subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled, and a 14-day right of withdrawal applies from the conclusion of the contract. Because no public amount exists, no entry price is recorded in this listing rather than an invented one.
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Ehrenschrauber handles your data.
GDPR overview
The publisher is established in Austria, so no Article 27 representative is required and none is named. The privacy policy is written around the GDPR and cites its legal bases article by article, covering Article 6(1)(a), (b), (c) and (f). Consent is collected through a cookie banner for anything beyond strictly necessary cookies, SSL encryption is declared for transmission, and transfers outside the EEA are said to be limited to countries with a recognised level of protection, the example given being the United States under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. Two gaps are worth naming. The site never states in so many words that it is GDPR compliant, so no compliance claim is recorded here. And no data processing agreement is published or offered anywhere in the collected material.
Who owns the data?
SBR Software GmbH is named as the data controller in its privacy policy, with office@sbrsoftware.com given as the data protection contact. The policy states that personal data is treated confidentially and is not passed to third parties without the user's express consent, outside four legal bases it cites explicitly (Article 6(1)(a), (b), (c) and (f) GDPR). Users are told they may at any time request access, rectification, erasure, blocking, restriction of processing and data portability, and may withdraw consent at any point. The competent supervisory authority is named: the Austrian Datenschutzbehörde in Vienna. The policy does not assign ownership of user-generated content to the publisher, and it says nothing about model training.
Reuse rights
The privacy policy describes what happens to each kind of input rather than granting the user any reuse right. Scanning a vehicle registration document may capture and process personal data including the holder's name, the number plate and the vehicle identification number. Uploaded photographs, which may themselves contain personal data, are analysed and processed. Voice input is converted to text before processing and the audio recording is explicitly not retained; only the resulting text is used to answer. Processing is carried out with named subprocessors: Google Gemini through Google Ireland Limited, OpenAI through OpenAI Ireland Ltd. and Azure AI through Microsoft Corporation, with Firebase (Google LLC) for authentication and storage and Shakebugs for error analysis. Nothing in the collected documents grants or restricts the end user's right to reuse the answers the tool produces, and nothing addresses whether inputs feed model training.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
No hosting country is declared for the application's user data. Authentication and storage run on Firebase, provided by Google LLC, but no region is specified. The privacy policy does state that data collected through Google Analytics and Google Maps is transferred to and stored on Google servers in the United States, and that transfers to third countries are limited to jurisdictions with a recognised level of protection, giving the United States under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework as its example. On the AI side, two of the three engines are contracted through European entities, Google Ireland Limited and OpenAI Ireland Ltd., while Azure AI is contracted with Microsoft Corporation. The marketing site itself is served from a content delivery network, which describes the website's infrastructure and says nothing about where product data lives. Anyone with a jurisdictional requirement should therefore ask the publisher directly rather than infer an answer from these statements.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Ehrenschrauber.
- The domain is second-hand: registered in April 2026, it served an unrelated Chinese furniture site in 2020 and was listed for sale at 280 USD in 2022
- The app predates its publisher — released on iOS in February 2025, while the company was registered in March 2026 — suggesting a transfer the site does not document
- The privacy policy is an unedited template describing a Shopify shop, Meta and TikTok pixels and Google AdWords that exist nowhere on the site, so any fact drawn from it needs separate corroboration
- The consumer terms also describe merchandise sales through an online shop that cannot be found
- Answers are AI-generated and the publisher excludes any warranty of accuracy: acting on a diagnosis without professional verification carries real mechanical and safety risk
- Scanning a registration document sends the holder's name, plate and vehicle identification number for processing, which is more personal data than users may expect to share
- The website is the publisher's corporate site and mostly sells development and consulting services, which are outside the scope of this listing
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Very low. There is nothing to install beyond the app itself, no hardware, no connector and no API key. The only prerequisite is creating an account with an email address and password, after which all three input routes are available directly in the interface. A subscription is needed to unlock the paid content, but that is a commercial step rather than a technical one.
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Behind Ehrenschrauber
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Frequently asked questions
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Should you pick Ehrenschrauber?
Ehrenschrauber is a focused, unpretentious tool that knows exactly who it is for. Its three input routes are well chosen for the reality of a workshop, and the voice option in particular addresses a genuine constraint rather than a marketing one. The publisher's honesty is worth noting too: the AI-generated nature of the answers is displayed rather than hidden, voice recordings are discarded after transcription, and every subprocessor is named.
The reservations are practical rather than technical. The complete absence of published pricing is the single biggest obstacle: a professional cannot budget for a tool whose cost is only revealed after registration. The lack of any API and of a data processing agreement closes the door on deployment across a garage network or on any use governed by a formal compliance framework. The interface covers only English and German, which confines the tool to its home market.
Two facts should temper any judgement of maturity, in opposite directions. The publishing company is very young, registered in March 2026, which is little history to rely on. But the application itself has been in production since February 2025, so the product has more track record than its publisher does. The five App Store reviews behind its 3.8 rating say nothing reliable either way.
For an individual mechanic or a curious car owner, the free download makes the tool easy to assess first-hand, and that is the sensible way to approach it. For a workshop considering it as equipment, the missing pricing, API and processing agreement are questions to put to the publisher before going further.
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