Mileage tracker comparisons

The comparisons

How these pages are written

• Prices are taken from each vendor's own pricing page and dated. This category re-prices several times a year; verify before deciding.
• Competitors are described by what they are for, not by what they lack. Every app on these pages is the right answer for somebody.
• MileTruth is disclosed as ours everywhere it appears, and its status — submitted for App Store review, not yet live — is stated on every page it is on.
• Claims that come from a single test or a self-interested source are labelled as such. Where two sources conflict, both are given.

The one number nobody publishes

Every mileage app in this category has a support article about missed trips. None of them publishes a capture rate. That is not a coincidence — it is a number that would invite comparison, and no vendor wants to be first.

Until someone does, the honest position is: assume your tracker is losing something, and measure it. Photograph your odometer, drive a normal week, photograph it again, compare against the app's total including personal trips. Full method.

Questions and answers

Everything in this section

• Against a notes app and a spreadsheet — A notes app satisfies the IRS requirement completely and costs nothing. Where it wins, the one place it reliably fails, and how to work out whether th
• The best mileage tracker apps for gig drivers, compared — MileIQ, Gridwise, Everlance, Stride, Hurdlr, Driversnote, TripLog, and QuickBooks Solopreneur compared on price and their most common complaint, plus
• If you drive passengers rather than parcels — Rideshare produces a different mileage shape from delivery: long continuous sessions, dead miles between fares, and airport queues. What that changes
• If you only drive part time — Part-time driving changes which tracker features matter. Automatic capture matters more, not less; earnings sync matters less; and the free option is
• If you run several apps at once — Multi-apping breaks the assumption most trackers are built on. What actually goes wrong, why per-platform attribution is the wrong thing to optimise,
• Everlance and Gridwise alternatives — What to move to when the 30-trip free cap runs out, when the earnings insights are not worth $107.99 a year, or when trips are going missing. Sorted b
• Mileage tracker app vs a spreadsheet or notes app — A notes app or spreadsheet is free and many drivers already use one. Here's what the IRS actually requires in a mileage log, and where a hand-kept log
• MileTruth vs Driversnote — Driversnote uses iBeacon-style auto-tracking well-rated on both stores, but reviewers report significant battery drain. Here's the trade-off compared
• MileTruth vs Gridwise — Gridwise is the category's earnings-dashboard leader, importing data from 20+ platforms. Here's what it does well, what its own reviewers flag, and ho
• MileTruth vs Hurdlr — Hurdlr bundles mileage with income, expense, and quarterly tax estimates. Here's its pricing, its most common complaint, and how a mileage-first app d
• MileTruth vs Hurdlr vs Driversnote vs TripLog — Three very different products often lumped together — bookkeeping, reimbursement, and the cheapest automatic tracking in the category. What each is ac
• MileTruth vs QuickBooks Solopreneur — QuickBooks Solopreneur is bookkeeping that includes mileage. Its free tier allows five trips. A comparison on what each is for, and when paying for ac
• MileTruth vs TripLog — TripLog is comprehensive, with accounting-software integrations, at $5.99/mo or $59.99/yr. Here's how its scope and complaints compare to MileTruth's