Best Mileage Tracker Apps in 2026: Free Caps and Paid Prices

Pay for a mileage app only when the free plan blocks the trips you drive or the report you have to hand over. A self-employed driver who stays inside that free plan keeps the deduction without a subscription, and TripLog leaves automatic logging uncapped.

A cap drops trips that never reach the return, whether the limit is drives, reports, or a receipt scan.

Toolradar data: Toolradar, the software directory we run, tracks 83 expense management tools as of October 16, 2026, and the median cheapest paid plan is $12/mo across the 36 that publish a price, on the expense management ranking.

A dedicated mileage log sits under that median, so a miles-only bill should come in lower.

These eight apps are for a self-employed driver or a small reimbursement program, and a corporate card rollout belongs with an expense suite.

How we compared: pricing pages, plan cards and the IRS rate table were read on October 16, 2026, and we did not drive with the apps.

Rank follows whether a self-employed driver can keep an automatic log on the free plan, what it costs to remove the cap, then what a per-driver reimbursement program costs. Receipt capture is a separate job, covered in the receipt scanner ranking.

A mileage tracker app records business drives, usually from the phone's GPS, and turns them into a dated log with a distance and a business or personal label.

That log supports a mileage deduction or an employee reimbursement.

The IRS treats a computer record as an adequate record, so an app log can stand in for a paper diary when the fields are there.

Publication 463, the 2025 edition, shows a sample log with the date, the destination, the business purpose and the miles. A yearly total misses that worksheet, and a preparer cannot see where you went or why.

The rate you multiply those miles by was updated for 2026, and it changed on July 1.

A second-half mile is worth more than a first-half mile, so use the rate for the month you drove.

The second-half business rate is 76 cents a mile. The IRS standard mileage rates page lists 72.5 cents a mile for business use from January 1 through June 30, 2026, and the higher rate from July 1 through December 31, on the IRS rates table.

One thousand second-half miles are a $760 deduction, and the same thousand miles in the first half are $725. Shifting trips into the second half raises the deduction, and the app subscription is a separate bill.

Free caps decide whether that deduction is complete.

A driver who logs 60 business trips a month is past MileIQ's free allowance, Everlance's automatic cap and Driversnote's report cap. The familiar free plan is already dropping trips that will not appear on the return.

TripLog Basic still logs every one of those trips, so the subscription stays optional until the report itself is locked.

A reimbursement program is a different bill, because MileIQ, Driversnote and Timeero charge per person and a ten-driver crew multiplies every seat.

Price a year of seats before you keep the brand the owner already uses. A spreadsheet export leaves an individual app as an individual app.

Prices were read on October 16, 2026 on TripLog pricing, MileIQ pricing, MileIQ for business, Everlance pricing, Driversnote pricing, Stride's tax page, Zoho Expense US pricing, Timeero pricing and Hurdlr pricing.

Driversnote prices exclude tax, and where a vendor shows a monthly rate beside a lower annual rate, the table lists both.

Scenario: one self-employed driver, 60 business trips a month, who wants the log for a full year.

MileIQ's free plan covers only part of that month, so Unlimited on the annual rate is $11.66 times 12, which is $139.92 for the year, the cost of drives a free plan would drop.

Everlance's automatic free plan also falls short, so the Starter year is $89.99, and that bill includes receipt uploads.

Driversnote's free reports cover only a slice of those trips, so twelve months of Pro at the monthly rate is $132, with no cheaper annual price published.

TripLog Basic covers that month free, and Premium is $59.99 outside the January pass, the price of the report for the rest of the year.

Stride publishes no mileage charge and no trip cap, so the log is free and the return is filed elsewhere.

One Zoho Expense Standard user on annual billing is $36 for the year, and the free plan also holds receipts for up to three people, which is a cheap path when miles sit in an expense report.

One Timeero Basic user on annual billing is $60 for the year, because the rate is per user per month and the product is a timesheet, so a solo driver pays for a clock as well as a log.

MileIQ Teams Lite is $80 per user for the year, and ten drivers means ten seats, so a freelancer price and a crew price are different purchases.

Zoho Expense Premium adds live automatic mileage capture at $6/user/mo on monthly billing, so the free GPS line does not include live capture.

Timeero Premium adds commute mileage at $12/user/mo on monthly billing, so the commute can stay off the reimbursement. Hurdlr publishes no list price, so it stays out of the arithmetic until a quote arrives. Methodology: vendor pricing pages and the IRS rate table, no hands-on drives, refreshed when a vendor changes a plan.