MileTruth vs QuickBooks Solopreneur
These are different products that overlap in one feature. QuickBooks Solopreneur is bookkeeping for the self-employed, at $20/month or $120/year, with mileage as one component among invoicing, expense categorisation, bank connection and a tax estimate. Its free tier allows 5 mileage trips, which is a demo rather than a tier for anyone who drives.
MileTruth does two things and no others: capture every trip reliably, and tell you what the driving actually paid after your vehicle's cost. Planned at $59.99/year, and in development, not released.
The honest split: if you will genuinely use the bookkeeping, QuickBooks is good value at $120/year for what it covers. If you drive for one or two platforms and mainly need a defensible mileage log, you are paying for an accounting suite to get a mileage feature.
Side by side
| MileTruth (ours, in development) | QuickBooks Solopreneur | |
|---|---|---|
| Really a | Mileage tracker + net pay | Bookkeeping product |
| Price | $59.99/yr or $7.99/mo planned | $20/mo or $120/yr |
| Free tier | Feature-gated, no trip cap planned | 5 mileage trips, 2 invoices, 1 bank account |
| Automatic trip detection | Motion + geofence | Yes |
| Bank connection | No | Yes |
| Expense categorisation | Basic | Yes, the core feature |
| Invoicing | No | Yes |
| Tax estimate | No | Yes |
| Cost per mile from your vehicle | Yes | No |
| True net $/hour after car cost | Yes | No |
| 2026 two-rate report | Yes, split at June 30 | Verify before filing |
| Available today | No | Yes |
When QuickBooks is the right answer
- You have expenses beyond the car. Phone, hotspot, insulated bags, supplies, a home-office claim. If your Schedule C has real lines other than mileage, having them categorised as they land is worth money and time.
- You invoice anyone. Gig platforms pay automatically, but many drivers also do private work, and invoicing inside the same tool is genuinely convenient.
- You want one place at tax time. A single export beats reconciling three apps in April.
- You will actually use it. This is the real test. A bookkeeping product you do not maintain is worse than a spreadsheet you do.
Where the free tier fails a driver
Five mileage trips. A delivery driver clears that in one evening. It is a demonstration, not a tier, and any comparison that lists QuickBooks as having a free option should say so.
Compare the free tiers honestly across the category: Stride is genuinely free with no paid tier, TripLog moved to free automatic tracking in 2026, MileIQ allows 40 drives a month, Everlance 30 auto trips, Driversnote 15. QuickBooks at 5 is the least usable of the set for this purpose, because it was never trying to be a mileage product. The full pricing table.
What neither of them being the same product means in practice
Plenty of drivers should use both, and that is a legitimate answer rather than a cop-out. QuickBooks for the books, a dedicated tracker for the miles.
The thing to avoid is having two mileage totals and picking the friendlier one at tax time. If you run both, decide which is the source of truth for mileage, and reconcile it against your odometer monthly. Two records that disagree are weaker evidence than one that is complete. How to run the odometer check.
The question neither answers the same way
QuickBooks will tell you your profit. It will not tell you your net dollars per hour, because it does not know how many hours you were online or what your specific vehicle costs per mile.
Profit is a tax figure. Net hourly is an operating figure, and it is the one that tells you whether Tuesday evenings are worth doing, whether a platform is sending you too far, and what the minimum dollars-per-mile is for an offer to be worth taking. That gap is the reason MileTruth exists alongside products that are better at accounting than it will ever be. Why gross pay misleads.
Whichever you use, check the 2026 report
2026 has two IRS business mileage rates: 72.5¢ per mile through June 30 and 76¢ from July 1. Any 2026 report must apply both on the correct side of the boundary.
Open your app's 2026 mileage report before you file and confirm it splits at June 30. For a 20,000-mile driver the error runs into the hundreds in either direction. The two-rate explainer, with a worked example.
Pricing verified from Intuit's own page in September 2026. Not tax advice. Every IRS claim links to an IRS source.
Questions and answers
How much is QuickBooks Solopreneur?
20 dollars a month or 120 dollars a year. The free tier is limited to 2 invoices, 1 bank account and 5 mileage trips, which is not a usable free tier for a driver.
Is QuickBooks good for mileage tracking?
It tracks mileage adequately, but mileage is a component of an accounting product rather than the product. If a defensible mileage log is your main need, you are paying for bookkeeping you may not use.
Should a gig driver use QuickBooks?
If you want categorised income and expenses, invoicing and a tax estimate in one place and you will actually use them, yes. If you drive for one or two platforms and mainly need a mileage deduction, a dedicated tracker is cheaper and better at the one job.
Does QuickBooks handle the 2026 two-rate mileage change?
Any product that stores a date on each trip can compute it, but you should check your own 2026 report before filing. 2026 has two business rates split at June 30 and a single annual total times one rate is wrong regardless of which rate it used.
MileTruth. “MileTruth vs QuickBooks Solopreneur.” Baker Ventures LLC, September 6, 2026. https://miletruth.bakerventuresstudio.com/compare/miletruth-vs-quickbooks-solopreneur/