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About Repair Score
A free, ad-free tool that turns the EU's official repairability data into a single plain-English answer: how long will this phone or tablet stay supported, and is it worth buying or keeping?
What this is
Since 20 June 2025, every smartphone and tablet placed on the EU market must publish an A–E repairability class, battery endurance, IP rating, a minimum OS-update guarantee, and a minimum spare-parts availability period. That data lives in the EU's EPREL registry, but its own site is a raw data dump. Repair Score reads it, computes a forward-looking "supported until at least <year>" verdict and a 0–100 longevity score, and shows it on one fast, mobile-first screen that works offline.
Where the data comes from
Repairability, OS-update, spare-parts, battery and IP data come from the EU Product Registry for Energy Labelling (EPREL), via its free public API. We ingest the smartphones & tablets product group at build time, normalise the fields, and ship them bundled so the app works without ever calling the registry from your device.
Data: EU Product Registry for Energy Labelling (EPREL), © European Commission.
Every result links straight to its official EPREL record so you can verify the source: browse the EPREL smartphones & tablets registry ↗.
The longevity score is our own metric
The 0–100 longevity score and the "supported until" headline are our own interpretation of the EPREL fields — they are not official EU figures or ratings. Only the underlying values (repairability class, update/parts dates, battery, IP rating) come from EPREL. The score is a transparent weighted blend:
- Repairability (40%) — the official EU A–E class. A is easiest to fix, E hardest.
- OS-update years left (30%) — guaranteed software-update years remaining; 6+ years scores full marks.
- Spare-parts years left (20%) — how long the maker must keep parts available; 8+ years scores full marks.
- Battery endurance (10%) — rated charge cycles to 80% capacity, or the EU endurance class.
Weights are renormalised when a field is missing, and if too little data is present we show "Incomplete data" rather than a falsely precise number.
Dates are floors, not expiry dates
The regulation's guarantee periods run from when a model stops being sold — which is unknowable while it's still on sale. So every date we compute is a minimum: we always say "supported until at least <year>", never an expiry. Missing fields show "Not specified" — we never invent a date.
What isn't covered
- Devices sold before 20 June 2025 aren't in the registry — including most phones people already own — and won't be added retroactively. Newer models appear as they launch.
- EU-only data — devices sold only outside the EU won't appear.
- Not a repair-cost tool — it shows repairability and longevity, not what a screen swap costs.
- Coverage is still filling in — the registry is new, so some recent models may not have complete data yet.
How it's funded
Every lookup and the full verdict are free, forever — nothing is behind a paywall. The result screen carries a "Looking to get this device?" buy-slot linking to retailers (refurbished options first). If you buy through one of those links we may earn a small commission, at no extra cost to you. It's a referral on your purchase — never a sale of EPREL data — and it never changes a device's score or which devices we show. There are no ads and no signup in the app.
Privacy
Repair Score has no accounts, no backend, and no cookies. The device data is bundled into the app and searched on your device; we don't see what you look up. We use Cloudflare Web Analytics, a cookieless counter that gives us anonymous, aggregate numbers (page views, referrers, countries) — it stores no cookies, collects no personal data, and can't identify or follow you. The only personal data involved is whatever a retailer collects if you follow an outbound buy-link (governed by that retailer's own policy).
Contact
Questions, corrections, or feedback: hello@repairscore.app. If a device's data looks wrong, please include a link to its EPREL record.
Data quality & independence
The repairability, update and spare-parts data are self-declared by manufacturers and provided "as is" through EPREL; the European Commission does not guarantee its accuracy, completeness or currency. We refresh the bundled dataset roughly monthly and show the "data as of" date in the footer. This app is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the European Commission.