About TruMile
We built TruMile for self-employed drivers who want a mileage tracker that catches every drive without draining the phone or charging like an enterprise SaaS product.
Why we built it
The mileage tracking category was dominated by older apps that had grown heavy with features, ballooned in install size, and steadily raised prices. The leading apps were shipping installs of 100MB or more and charging $100+/year. Self-employed drivers were paying for fleet-management features they would never use.
We thought the right answer was a focused single-purpose app: catch every drive, classify with one tap, export an IRS-ready report at year end. Native SwiftUI. Lean install. Pricing that does not drift upward every 18 months.
What we believe about mileage tracking
Three principles guide what we ship and what we do not:
- The trip data belongs to you. Trip classification runs on the device, not in our cloud. Your location history does not leave your phone unless you explicitly export or share it. More on on-device classification.
- Catch the trip first. Auto detection that runs on the lowest-power iOS APIs, escalates to high accuracy only during a confirmed drive, and uses Doppler speed plus CoreMotion to maintain accuracy when GPS is poor. Battery is the engineering constraint, not the product.
- Honest pricing, stable over time. $7.99/month or $59.99/year for Pro. 40 auto trips a month free, every month. No surprise renewal hikes. We track our pricing on the App Store and do not change it without notice.
What we do not build
TruMile is a single-purpose tracker for solo drivers and small-business owner-operators. We do not ship enterprise fleet management, multi-driver admin dashboards, FAVR plan tooling, or invoicing. Other tools do those things; we focus on tracking mileage well.
Where the app ships
TruMile is built for iPhone (iOS 17+). The app also runs on iPad in iPhone-compatibility mode, with iCloud sync via the same Apple ID. The codebase uses Apple-native frameworks: SwiftUI, SwiftData, CloudKit for sync, CoreLocation for tracking, CoreMotion for stop detection, App Intents for Siri Shortcuts, and WidgetKit for home-screen widgets.
Roadmap honesty
We do not pre-announce features that are not in TestFlight. When a feature ships, you see it in the App Store. We hold ourselves to the same standard for marketing claims that the IRS holds drivers to for mileage logs: contemporaneous, honest, and defensible.