The best mileage tracker apps for gig drivers in 2026

The comparison table

Pricing verified September 2026 from each vendor's own pricing page. Prices in this category move often — check at source before making a decision on price alone.

Who each one is actually for

MileIQ — the polished default, now expensive

The swipe-left-for-personal, swipe-right-for-business gesture that the whole category copied is MileIQ's, and it is still the cleanest implementation. It does one job well and does not pretend to do more.

The problem is the price trajectory. MileIQ ran at roughly $59.99/yr in 2024, $89.99/yr in 2025 and $139.92/yr in 2026 — a bit over a doubling in two years — and App Store and forum reaction has been exactly what you would expect. If you have a Microsoft 365 Business Standard or Premium subscription, MileIQ is included and the cheapest option on this list. If you do not, you are paying a premium for polish. See MileIQ alternatives.

Best for: anyone with Microsoft 365 Business, and non-gig professionals who want the most refined classification experience and do not need earnings.

Everlance — the broad self-employed choice

Everlance targets realtors, contractors and consultants as much as gig drivers. The free tier is 30 auto-detected trips a month, which an active delivery driver exhausts in under a week. Reviewers report battery drain, and the trial has historically required a credit card, which is a documented friction point.

Best for: self-employed professionals with moderate trip volume who also want receipt and expense capture.

Stride — the best genuinely free option, with one real limitation

Stride has no paid tier at all. It funds itself through health-insurance and tax referrals, which is an honest model and worth knowing about. It carries strong App Store ratings and is frequently the recommendation in driver communities.

The limitation is structural: tracking is manual start and stop. That is fine for a driver with a strong habit and costly for everyone else, because the trips you forget are disproportionately the busy ones. If you use Stride, run the odometer check monthly.

Best for: new or occasional drivers, anyone unwilling to pay, and drivers who genuinely will press start every time.

Gridwise — earnings intelligence first

Gridwise's pitch is helping you earn more: multi-platform earnings sync, market insights, airport queue data for rideshare. The mileage tracker is part of the bundle rather than the point, and some flows require manual start, which drivers complain about.

Best for: multi-apping rideshare and delivery drivers who want earnings analytics across platforms and will treat mileage as a secondary feature.

Solo — the pay-guarantee angle

Solo auto-classifies work miles by matching drives to completed jobs rather than asking you to start and stop, and markets a pay guarantee that requires background location set to Always. Independent hands-on testing published by EntreCourier found the app recorded seven of twelve delivery trips and about 51 percent of total miles against odometer readings in that tester's hands — a single test, not a controlled study, but a specific, documented result worth knowing before you rely on it.

Best for: drivers attracted to the guarantee model, provided they verify capture against their own odometer.

Hurdlr — accounting-shaped

Hurdlr is closer to bookkeeping than to mileage: income, expenses, tax estimates, and at the Pro tier invoicing and a filing included. The interface draws consistent criticism as clunky and overcomplicated, and there are documented billing and support complaints.

Best for: drivers who want one tool for full self-employed bookkeeping and will tolerate the interface.

Driversnote — reimbursement-shaped

Clean, focused, and aimed at employees claiming reimbursement as much as at the self-employed. The free tier is 15 trips a month, and pricing is per driver. An optional iBeacon puck in the car improves detection. Battery drain complaints are common.

Best for: employees and small teams doing reimbursement claims, not high-volume gig drivers.

TripLog — the 2026 wildcard

TripLog moved to free unlimited automatic mileage tracking in 2026, which if it holds makes it the most generous free tier in the category. Sources conflict — some still list a 15-trip free cap — so verify directly before switching to it, and re-verify at renewal.

Best for: cost-sensitive drivers willing to check the current terms themselves.

QuickBooks Solopreneur — for people already in QuickBooks

Five free mileage trips, then $20/mo or $120/yr. This is not a mileage product; it is bookkeeping with mileage attached.

Best for: drivers who already use QuickBooks for something else.

MileTruth — capture rate and net pay

Disclosed: this is our app, and it is in development and not yet released. It exists because the two failures above recur across the whole category — trackers lose trips, and none of them tell you whether the driving was profitable.

Its two design commitments are trip-capture rate as the primary engineering metric (motion-activity and geofence wake-ups rather than continuous GPS polling, back-filled trip starts, unclassified-by-default trips) and true net dollars per hour computed from a personal cost-per-mile model rather than a national average. It applies both 2026 IRS rates on the correct side of June 30 in its reports. Planned pricing is $59.99/yr, deliberately matching MileIQ's 2024 price.

Best for: full-time and serious part-time gig drivers who want a log they can trust and an answer to whether the shift paid. Not for you if you need it today — it has not shipped.

The three questions that should actually decide it

1. Does it capture without being told? Manual start is the single largest source of lost deduction in this category. If the app needs you to press something, budget for losing miles.

2. Does it date every trip? In 2026 this stopped being cosmetic. The year has two business rates — 72.5 cents through June 30 and 76 cents from July 1 — and an undated annual total cannot be computed correctly. Read the two-rate explainer.

3. Does it tell you if the work paid? Most of the category answers no. If you only need a deduction, that is fine. If you are trying to decide which platform, which hours and which offers are worth your car, gross earnings will not tell you.

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