Introducing Hestia Drive Manager

Hestia Driving Practice Log is a simple iPhone app built to help families track supervised teen driving practice without turning the process into another spreadsheet, notebook, or pile of half-remembered estimates. And you don't have to rely on another company's servers, upgrades, and logins - it uses your own iCloud CloudKit profile, so your data is safe, secure, and most importantly...yours.
Designed for parents, guardians, and new drivers, Hestia keeps the focus on what families actually need: who drove, when they drove, how much time was logged, how much of it was at night, and how close the driver is to their required practice goals. Families can add past drives manually, log a drive while it is happening, track road conditions, include supervisor notes, and export a clean PDF driving log when they need something printable.
Hestia is also built for real family use. Driving practice often happens across more than one phone, more than one parent, and more than one car. With iCloud family sharing, a household can keep one shared driving log instead of trying to reconcile separate notes later. Hestia also includes backup and restore options, because a driving log is one of those things you do not want to lose two weeks before a road test.
Hestia includes:
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Driver profiles with customizable total and night-driving goals
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Day, night, and total hour tracking
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Live drive logging with an active timer
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Manual entry for past drives
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Road condition and teen confidence check-ins
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Supervisor names and notes for each drive
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Progress cards showing logged and remaining hours
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PDF export for printable driving logs
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Local backup, restore, and transfer options
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Shared family logs through iCloud
Hestia does not try to be a GPS tracker, a driving coach, or a surveillance app. It is meant to be a calm, practical record-keeping tool for families who need to document supervised driving practice and keep everyone on the same page. Hestia is free to use, with optional support purchases for families who want to help support continued development. No subscription is required, and the core driving log features are not locked behind a purchase.
Hestia is part of the Olympus suite, a growing collection of Apple-first tools designed to make the ordinary work of life feel more organized, manageable, and human.
About Olympus Life Software
As a casual programmer, I was tired of seeing all my favorite apps turn to monthly subscriptions. New features all the time are nice in theory but my preference was always to decide with a major release whether or not it was worth it to upgrade.
On the same note, in some cases I had to pay for 2-3 different apps to get the functionality I wanted. It's my goal to build some simple but powerful tools that help you get your work done and life together, while keeping an emotional health focus by taking overwhelming tasks and making them feel doable.






