Seven iPhone apps that log business miles for the tax deduction, compared by what each is for and what it costs over a year. One of them, Receiptless, is mine. The others are here because they are the ones people actually use, and each is right for someone.
The short version
- Privacy and a one-time price: Receiptless. Drives and receipts stay on the phone; the tax paperwork is $19.99 once.
- The most people use it: MileIQ. Swipe each drive left or right; 40 free drives a month, then a subscription.
- Audit protection and 1099 filing: Everlance, on its Professional plan.
- Free, all of it: Stride. It makes its money elsewhere, so the tracker costs nothing.
- Unlimited automatic tracking free: TripLog. You pay only when you want more than one report a year.
- Employees claiming reimbursement: Driversnote. Built around compliant logs for an employer.
- Income, expenses and taxes together: Hurdlr. Links to your bank and gig platforms.
Side by side
| App | Free tier | To get everything | Where your drives go |
|---|---|---|---|
| Receiptless | Manual trips, first 30 automatic trips, receipts, exports | $19.99 once | Your phone only; no account, no server |
| MileIQ | 40 drives a month | Premium subscription | Its servers, with an account |
| Everlance | Manual trips, 30 automatic trips a month | Starter or Professional subscription | Its servers, with an account |
| Stride | Everything | Free; it sells insurance and tax filing | Its servers, with an account |
| TripLog | Unlimited automatic tracking, one report pass a year | Premium subscription | Its servers, with an account |
| Driversnote | Limited trips | Pro subscription | Its servers, with an account |
| Hurdlr | Semi-automatic tracking, expenses, tax estimates | $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year | Its servers, with an account and bank links |
Plans and prices change; each app’s App Store page is the source of truth. The free-tier and price details above are from the apps’ own store descriptions in October 2026.
Receiptless
This is the one I make, so weigh that as you read. Receiptless notices when you drive and records the trip: date, distance, start and end. Swipe it business or personal, or set Home and Work by address and let the rules sort it. The deduction adds up at the IRS rate for the date, including the 2026 mid-year change. It also reads receipts, on the phone, which none of the others on this list do without a server. Tax Pro, $19.99 once and never again, adds unlimited automatic trips, the IRS-style mileage log PDF and a Schedule C pack. What it does not do: it has no team features, no reimbursement workflow, no bank connection and no web version, because it has no account. If you are an employee claiming miles from an employer, pick Driversnote or MileIQ instead.
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MileIQ
The one most people have heard of, and the simplest to use day to day: every drive shows up as a card and you swipe it left for personal or right for business. The free tier is 40 drives a month, which is enough to find out whether you like it and not enough for anyone who drives for work. Premium is a subscription that removes the cap and adds reporting; team plans exist for employers. Your drives live on its servers. App Store
Everlance
Everlance’s free Basic plan records manual trips and 30 automatic trips a month. Starter makes automatic tracking unlimited and adds expense and receipt logging and IRS-compliant reports; Professional adds automatic expense capture from a linked card, a deduction finder, 1099 tax filing and audit protection. If what you want is someone standing behind your records if the IRS asks, this is the pitch. Both paid plans are subscriptions with a short trial. App Store
Stride
Stride is free, with no premium tier for the tracker. It is aimed at gig drivers and makes its money by selling health insurance and tax filing to the people who use it, which is why the app spends a lot of its screen on those. If you are fine with that and want a zero-cost log, it is a fair deal. App Store
TripLog
TripLog’s distinctive offer is unlimited automatic trip detection for free. The catch is reporting: free users get one seven-day pass a year to generate and download reports, and unlimited reports in PDF or CSV need the Premium subscription. For someone who only needs the year-end log once, the free tier can genuinely be enough. App Store
Driversnote
Driversnote is built for employees and businesses that need accurate, compliant logs, with mileage reimbursement workflows an employer can accept. Automatic tracking can use a small iBeacon in the car, offered with the annual Pro subscription, so the phone only logs drives in that vehicle. The free tier is limited; Pro is a subscription. App Store
Hurdlr
Hurdlr is a bookkeeping app with mileage in it rather than a mileage app. It connects to banks and to platforms like Uber, Square and Stripe to pull income and expenses, estimates your taxes as you go, and tracks miles semi-automatically on the free plan and fully on Premium at $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year. Right for a freelancer who wants one app for the whole picture and is comfortable linking accounts to get it. App Store
How to choose
Decide two things first. Do you want your drives on a company’s server, with an account and usually a subscription, or on your phone? And do you need anything beyond the tax log, such as an employer workflow, audit protection or bookkeeping? If the answers are “on my phone” and “just the log and my receipts”, that is Receiptless. If you need an employer to accept the report, Driversnote or MileIQ. If you want a company to stand behind the record, Everlance Professional. If you want it free and do not mind the sales pitches, Stride or TripLog. Whichever you pick, start it this week; a log that begins in January is worth a whole year, and the calculator will show you how much.
This page is general information, not tax advice. More: IRS mileage rate 2026 · Schedule C mileage deduction · keeping receipts for taxes · mileage deduction calculator · Receiptless