Learner Driver Hours Log for Permit Practice

Keep a record of every practice drive with the date, start and end time, how many minutes were day versus night, and who supervised. Most states require a set total of supervised hours, with a portion at night, before a road test. Coachseat handles this with a one-tap timer that records each drive and adds it to a running total against your state's requirement.

Yes. Coachseat classifies each minute of a drive as day or night automatically, using the real position of the sun at your location rather than a fixed clock time. That matters for drives that cross dusk: the minutes before sunset count as day and the minutes after count as night, in the same session.

Requirements vary by state — for example, some states ask for 50 total hours with 10 at night, others 30 with 10 at night. Coachseat ships with state goal presets, so you pick your state once and the progress bar tracks the right total and night-hour targets. Always confirm current requirements with your state's DMV, since rules change.

Yes. Coachseat has manual entry for back-dated drives, so hours you already banked on paper or from memory are not lost. Enter the date, the duration, whether it was day or night, and optional details like weather and road type, and they count toward the total like any timed drive.

Yes. Coachseat supports multiple learners in one app, each with their own log and progress toward the state goal. Each drive also records which supervisor was in the passenger seat, so both parents can share the coaching.

Coachseat does not. Every drive is stored on the device itself, so there is nothing to sign into and no server outage or migration that can wipe the record. That design also means a teen's driving data is not sitting in someone else's cloud.

Most states ask for a signed log or certification of the supervised hours when the learner applies for the road test. Coachseat exports a form-shaped PDF with dates, start and end times, day and night minutes, conditions, and a signature line, which you can print and transcribe or attach per your state's instructions. Coachseat is an independent practice log, so verify the accepted format with your DMV or driver-ed program.

Yes. Coachseat generates a real PDF document — selectable text laid out like a practice log form, not a screenshot of the app. You can print it, save it to Files, or share it from the standard iOS share sheet.

A useful log records the date, start and end time, total minutes, how much was after dark, the conditions, and who supervised. Coachseat captures all of these per drive, and lets you add weather, road type, and free-form notes so the record shows real practice variety, not just raw hours.

Coachseat uses your location during the session to compute the actual solar day and night boundary for that date and place. Minutes are attributed to day or night accordingly, which is more accurate than picking one label for the whole drive. Location is used in-session for this classification, not for background route tracking.

Yes. Coachseat can add optional calendar reminders when you still need hours — for example, a nudge that night hours are short — and put planned practice sessions on the family calendar so the drives actually happen.

Coachseat stores drives on-device in the app's container, which is included in your standard iPhone backup, so the log moves with a device transfer or restore. There is no account migration step where the hours could disappear.