MileTruth vs Hurdlr vs Driversnote vs TripLog

Side by side

Hurdlr — bookkeeping, not mileage

Hurdlr is a self-employed accounting product. Income, expenses, tax estimates, and at Pro ($200/yr) invoicing and a federal and state filing included. Premium is $9.99/mo, around $100/yr.

Choose it if you want one tool for the whole self-employed picture and mileage is a component rather than the point.

Know before you buy: the interface draws consistent criticism as clunky and overcomplicated, there are documented refund and auto-renew complaints alongside poor support, and The Rideshare Guy has called it a battery hog. None of that makes it a bad product — it makes it a product with a specific personality you should meet before committing annually.

Driversnote — built for reimbursement

Clean, focused, and genuinely well made. The shape gives it away: pricing is $11/month per driver, the free tier is 15 trips a month, and annual subscribers get a free iBeacon (a Bluetooth puck for the car, roughly $40 value) rather than a discount.

Per-driver pricing and a 15-trip free tier are the signatures of a reimbursement tool — an employee submitting a handful of claims a month, not a delivery driver doing 40 trips a night.

Choose it if you claim mileage back from an employer, or you run a small team doing reimbursement.

Know before you buy: battery drain is a recurring complaint, with reviewers reporting 20 percent or more of daily battery, and Android users reporting it running after being swiped away. The iBeacon exists precisely because reliable trip detection is hard — it is a hardware answer to the same problem motion-activity and geofence detection solve in software.

TripLog — the value answer, with a caveat

TripLog moved to free unlimited automatic mileage tracking in 2026. If that holds, it is the most generous free tier in the category by a distance. Premium is around $4.99/month or $59.99/year, and TripLog is SOC 2 certified, which matters if you have any institutional requirement.

The caveat is real: sources conflict. Some still list a 15-trip free cap, and the claim about the change comes substantially from TripLog's own and affiliate content. Verify on TripLog's own pricing page before switching, and re-verify at renewal. We are not going to build a recommendation on a number we cannot confirm at source.

Choose it if the free tier is what it says, and you want automatic tracking at zero or near-zero cost.

Where MileTruth is different

Not better at their jobs — different job. Two commitments:

Capture rate as the primary engineering metric. Motion-activity and geofence wake-ups rather than continuous GPS polling, back-filled trip starts so a trip is not short by the detection distance, and unclassified-by-default trips so nothing is silently bucketed. Notice that battery complaints and missed-trip complaints appear in the same review sections across this whole category — they are the same architectural problem. How to measure your own app's capture rate.

True net dollars per hour. A personal cost-per-mile model built from your vehicle and costs, applied to every mile including the unpaid repositioning miles that are 30–50 percent of delivery driving. None of these three attempts it. Why gross pay misleads.

Whichever you choose, check the 2026 report

2026 has two IRS business mileage rates — 72.5 cents through June 30, 76 cents from July 1. Any app's 2026 annual report must apply both on the correct side of the boundary. An annual total times one rate is wrong regardless of which rate it used.

Open your app's 2026 report before you file and check it splits at June 30. The two-rate explainer with a worked example.

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