Mileage Tracking Apps For iPhone

Keep track of your mileage with ease

Overview

Whether you're traveling for business, charity work, or pleasure, it can be helpful to track your mileage, especially when tax season rolls around. If you are like me, your iPhone is always with you and can be a great tool for keeping mileage records. The following AppGuide will help you decide which mileage app will occupy your home screen.

Essential Apps

• $1.99

  Trip Cubby • Mileage Log for Tax Deduction or Reimbursement

  by App Cubby

  A clean interface, reliable export, online sync for backup, and easy access to recent trips makes Trip Cubby an essential mileage app for your iPhone. The last thing you want when you are traveling is having to take too much time to log your mileage. With Trip Cubby trip details are entered quickly and accurately. Multiple drivers and vehicles may be tracked, and an advanced search option helps you to quickly filter data. Reports are emailed as .csv files for easy import into Excel or Numbers. Lastly, there is a little surprise when you turn your iPhone to landscape; namely, charts and graphs for graphical feedback of your mileage. You really can't go wrong with Trip Cubby.

Notable Apps

• $4.99

  TripLog/1040

  by Stevens Creek Software

  TripLog/1040 is a solid mileage and expense tracking app. It is full featured with support expenses, frequent trips, odometer or distance readings, and export via email. The single-screen interface is both a blessing and a curse. While it is nice to not have to search for buried features, however, because everything fits onto a single screen the layout is a bit crowded and the buttons are small, especially when using the spinning wheels for setting the odometer numbers. TripLog/1040 lacks the visual panache of some of the other mileage apps but it functions well and gets the job done.

• $3.99

  Milog - mileage log tracker

  by SymplySoft

  While Milog has a plain interface, it has an intuitive and clean design. Unique to this app is the ability to turn off features that you aren't interested in. With toggle switches, you may elect to hide fields such as tolls or parking that you may not need. In this way, the app is flexible to fit your needs. The export feature only drafts an email report, not an attachment. Milog also has a free version for trial, which limits your recording to five logs.

• $0.99

  Mobile Mileage

  by Corey Canfield

  Mobile Mileage is light on features for mileage tracking, but sports a unique feature for expense reporting, the ability to attach a picture of your receipts. So if you want to save time from typing in your expenses you may want to try out Mobile Mileage because a picture can be worth a thousand words.

Decent Apps

• $2.99

  MileBug - Mileage Log & Expense Tracker

  by Izatt International

  MileBug is a functional but limited mileage tracker. Support for multiple vehicles and drivers is limited. Exported reports are not attached to an email but instead typed out in the body of the email. Frequent trips are supported but when choosing a frequent trip you still have to enter the ending odometer setting, as opposed to the app remembering the length of the trip from before. Lastly, the app also uses the spinning odometer scroll wheels for entering mileage, as opposed to the easier and more efficient keypad.

• $2.99

  Mileage Tracker

  by TimesToCome Mobile

  Mileage Tracker should really be called "Gas Mileage Tracker," because that is what this app does. If you want to track how many miles to the gallon you are getting, and email those reports as .csv attachments, then this is for you. If you want to track distance traveled for tax purposes, then you should keep looking.

GPS Tracking

• $3.99

  Tap2Track Mileage

  by Intuit, Inc.

  Wouldn't it be great if you could track mileage without typing in those pesky odometer readings? The following apps try and realize the dream of GPS mileage tracking on the iPhone. Tap2Track Mileage has a dead simple interface and a great design. When you start your trip click the big start button and when you arrive click stop. No odometer readings to enter. The app supports multiple vehicles and reports are emailed via .csv attachment. Also, this app is made by Intuit, and so the generated reports are formatted specifically for import into TurboTax. Most GPS tracking apps suffer from the problem of exact mileage accuracy. With Tap2Track, the app calculates the distance between the starting and ending locations, not necessarily how many miles you drove. It doesn't take into account if you took a detour or didn't follow your google map exactly. However, out of all of the GPS tracking apps, Tap2Track is the easiest and most fun to use.

• $2.99

  Trip Journal

  by iQapps

  Trip Journal is much more than just a mileage tracker, it is beautiful app for recording the events and locations for your trips and vacations. The app is rich in design with the ability to include pictures and notes along with your GPS data. The app can select destinations by GPS or manual entry and when you are back home provide statistics, media, and journal entries for your travels. It is really in a league of its own.

• $4.99

  Driverslog Pro

  by Florian Liefers

  Driverslog Pro is a capable mileage tracker, but its GPS functionality doesn't benefit the user much. It essentially saves you time on entering your starting and ending destinations, but doesn't help with distance or odometer data. The exporting is done right, with .csv attachment support as well as detailed reporting with the body of the email.

• $2.99

  DayTracker - GPS Mileage Tracking

  by Research Specialists Inc

  DayTracker uses a simple record button to start and stop your trips. GPS pinpoints your location and then uses Google Maps to record the distance for your trip. Your data can be uploaded to www.thedaytracker.com website, where you can then export to Excel.

• $0.99

  Automilez - Mobile GPS Mileage Logging

  by RED Method, Inc.

  Automilez combines the usefulness of GPS with the practicality of odometer settings. The app tracks your movement but adds the ability to edit and refine odometer settings to improve accuracy. While it is great to have this kind of functionality in a free app, in order to unlock all of the features you have to sign up for a subscription to Automilez logbook. This additional cost will be a deterrent to some users.

• $3.99

  TripLogger

  by proxiMac

  TripLogger combines GPS with odometer input to track mileage, however, sometimes inaccurate data persists. The app lacks all of the fields provided by other mileage tracking apps, such as user-defined categories, multiple vehicles, and multiple drivers. Integration with Address Book is a welcome addition and exporting options via .csv file work well.

• $4.99

  Drivers Log

  by RandiRundi Consulting

  Drivers Log has all of the features of many of the other mileage tracking apps above, but is supported by GPS. The GPS function is less about replacing odometer input, but more about saving you time with data entry. The interface is clean and unique but not completely intuitive, and emailed reports are in the body of the message, not by attachment.

• $0.99

  Driven

  by Shines Brighter Software

  Driven tries to address the problem of most GPS trackers by logging GPS coordinates during travel, not just at the beginning and end of a trip. However, the app doesn't work consistently. In addition to accuracy issues, the exporting features are buggy and the interface lacks maturity. Lastly, if you get a call or leave the app during a trip, it stops tracking your location until you return.

• $0.99

  RoutesMap

  by bioDigits LTD.

  In addition to relying upon GPS for tracking routes mileage, this app also tracks your speed with a very familiar and graphical interface. A database is also maintained of recent trip activity.

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