From real Reddit threads
The best mileage tracker according to Reddit
We read what drivers actually say about mileage tracker apps on Reddit, then grouped the real quotes by what people care about: accuracy, price, battery, and taxes. No marketing, no vendor posts.
Updated June 2026. Quotes are verbatim from public Reddit threads.
The short version
Reddit does not crown one winner. The recurring themes are clear, though: the biggest paid app (MileIQ) gets the most accuracy complaints, the free options (Stride) work but glitch, and battery drain hits every app that tracks in the background. The drivers who feel safest are the ones who keep an editable log they can correct before tax time.
Accuracy and missed trips
The loudest complaint by far. Drivers report auto-trackers silently dropping trips or logging impossible routes, which is the one failure that costs you a real deduction.
“I used MileIQ for a couple years. They miss at least 20% of my miles. Normal Ubering. Now I manually track miles daily.”
“MileIQ has been wildly inaccurate unless you take a minute between each ride. On multiple occasions I have driven over 100 miles plus without taking a break and the tracker says it was 44 miles or something much much shorter.”
“They falsely promise to automatically track your miles but even with all the correct permissions, thousands of miles were not tracked.”
“Stride didn't track my miles as it should have either. I looked at the map and it glitched often. Just made like a straight line between two points on the map and it went over building and properties.”
“I use Hurdlr as well. I like it and it seems really accurate to me.”
Price and value
Drivers weigh the subscription against how much it actually saves them, and several churn the moment the price stops feeling worth it.
“I want to like MileIQ but the monthly cost is way high and I don't completely trust it. It misses a lot of trips and the logged dollars keeps resetting to zero.”
“The problem for me was that it incorrectly detects a trip ending when you're waiting at a restaurant. I had to classify about 30-40 trips per day and switched to Gridwise because it was simply too annoying, and I save $60/year.”
“If you pay I suggest Triplog for $40 a year. If you pay you have cloud storage and you can easily edit on the desktop browser. It automatically log full addresses so you can spot instantly what is work and what is private use.”
Battery drain
Constant GPS is hard on a phone, and most drivers cope by keeping it plugged in all shift. The apps that handle background tracking efficiently get noticed.
“Stride is nice, until my phone turns into a toaster by 3pm. Any battery-saving settings you use?”
“It's buggy in stupid little ways and a battery hog (but they all are, you can't not be with constant GPS monitoring), but it's done just fine for me over the last 15k miles, at least for being free.”
“I've contacted the support about the missing trips and they told me sometimes if I'm low on battery the app just stop tracking.”
Free tiers and their limits
Free is popular, but the caps bite fast and the truly-free options trade away polish.
“They give you only the first 40 trips for free (which I hit by the 3rd) then want you to pay the monthly fee. Lame.”
“I use Stride. I don't like it very much at all, but it mostly works and it's free. All other apps I've looked at are paid or have limitations on the free version.”
Taxes and audit confidence
The drivers who trust their app most are the ones who still cross-check it against their odometer. A clean, editable log is what holds up.
“I also use stride for tracking miles and deductions, it's free and works pretty well.”
“Also make a milage log and use your odometer too. Always match what the app says to your odometer. I lose connectivity in certain areas and lose out on mileage. Stride has been really good and I trust it the most.”
What drivers actually recommend
No single winner. Stride leads on free, Hurdlr and TripLog on reliability, MileIQ on the swipe-to-classify habit, each with the trade-offs above.
“Triplog works perfectly for me. Never had a problem in 2 years.”
“I LOVE Mile IQ. It automatically tracks my mileage every time I'm in the car, and you swipe left / right to quickly classify drives as biz / personal. It learns patterns over time.”
“I use Stride and it does what I need.”
Where TruMile fits
Honest note: TruMile is newer and does not show up in these threads yet, so we are not going to put words in anyone’s mouth. What we can say is how TruMile is built against the three complaints Reddit raises most:
- Price. TruMile is $7.99 a month or $59.99 a year, the lowest paid tier in this group, with 40 auto trips a month free. See the full price and feature comparison.
- Bloat. It is a 19.8 MB, single-purpose tracker, not a fleet suite or finance app bundled into one binary.
- Missed trips. Every trip is editable, so you can review and correct the log before you export it for taxes. The drivers above who trust their app most are the ones who verify before filing.
How we gathered this
Quotes are real comments pulled from public Reddit threads in driver and self-employed communities, including r/uberdrivers, r/doordash, r/UberEATS, r/InstacartShoppers, r/smallbusiness, and r/selfemployed. Each quote links to its source. We collapsed line breaks for readability but did not change wording.
We excluded comments posted by company representatives, promotional posts, and duplicated or seeded comments, so this reflects driver opinion rather than marketing.
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