Mileage Tracker by Driversnote 4+

Update now stops tracking mileage between stops

Been using this for years, and having tried other apps, wouldn’t use anything else, mainly because this app keeps tracking mileage even during stops & continues until you tell it to stop tracking - essential for tracking mileage throughout a day with multiple stops.

But then after the “update” to version 2, there is a new “feature” that automatically stops tracking if I have stopped for a while.

Honestly, why can’t developers just make new features optional? If I wanted to stop tracking between destinations then I could just turn the tracking off, you know? Now I have to try and remember to switch it in between trips ... I can only assume this is to try and make it so annoying to use that everyone will buy the beacon thing. Well, I might have even done that if you’d given me a decent incentive, but making it annoying to use without spending money is more likely to send me to the competition, frankly.

Kehittäjän vastaus ‚

Hi there, I'm sorry to hear that it didn't work optimally for you in the end. We appreciate your review nonetheless.

Driversnote - iBeacon is not accurate!!!

Well, sadly I did not read these reviews before buying!!

I bought the product - paid upfront for the year on the strength that I believed the ‘start tracking a trip’ worked so well, why would the promise of auto-tracking not as well!?!

Well, it has wound me up so much -

DRIVERSNOTE - DONT SELL A PRODUCT OR RELEASE IT UNTIL IT FULLY WORKS - FOR EVERYONE!!!

I have had it three days now, I was so excited on the ‘stating’ that it would automatically record trips, as put - ‘without taking it out of your pocket!’ Just get in the car and drive - how wrong can you be!!

My first trip didnt start and stop when it should have.

My second trip didn’t even record, one trip, I got out of the car for a stop and it didn’t even record the stop, just made a continuously journey of the two which I then had to correct!!

The prospect of this working i suppose would be too good to be true.

I have deleted the app and reinstalled it, taken of the iBeacon and put it back on, still its not accurate and it takes away all the pleasure if you have to keep going on to correct it!!!!

Please folks, DO NOT BUY IT - it doesn’t do what it states on the tin!!

Driversnote - great concept but get it working properly first before you sell it to the public..... company’s cannot get away with this anymore, with social media, it gets revealed and the product is shown up.

Please arrange a reduction and refund for the lack of the ibeacon not working.

Kehittäjän vastaus ‚

Hi Paul

Thank you for your mail and messages on Facebook.

No, from your description it doesn't sound like you have a faulty iBeacon. There's a slight delay before the tracking commences when you enter your car to ensure that the trip is valid. If you drive from a "Saved Location" the app will automatically pick the saved location as your starting or stopping point. You can correct the location, if you should be parking within 500 meters from the actual address.

The app will also keep tracking up to 5 minutes after you have disconnected from the iBeacon. It's unfortunate that you have business stops that are shorter than the 5 minutes limit. Again, the app will pick a saved Location from the last tracked GPS-point where you drove in the speed of a car/vehicle, so the 5 minutes is to ensure that the trip is done. Or if you should make a short toiletbreak or fill up gas.
We revising this limit and I'll forward your message to our product team.

Due that you're within your trial period, we'll be happy to refund your money back to your card, if you send us back our iBeacon. We'll process the refund as soon as we have the iBeacon in our possession.

Looking forward to hearing how you want to proceed.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Perfect app for occasional users.. can’t believe it is free

I just wanted to take a couple of minutes to write and say thanks for making such a great app and website. I only use my vehicle for work trips very occasionally so needed an app that works for my low use and yours does exactly that. Being able to retrospectively add journeys through the website which then calculate the distance and tax allowance is such a great feature and I wish I had discovered your app before having to do my U.K. tax return in January.

One possible suggestion would be the ability to choose route options when adding them in manually, although now I have discovered the app I hopefully won’t have to add things in the future by hand!

I don’t use my car nearly enough to justify a monthly or annual subscription but would happily pay a one time fee to keep the service exactly as it is now. Maybe you could offer the first 20 trips for free then as well as your existing plans offer an “X” trips per month one time purchase for a few pounds? Must be kind of crazy a user is asking to be charged something! I just think there must be other self employed people like me who are very light users who would also just pay once as they can’t justify the ongoing monthly cost.

Anyway, thanks again for making a real great app. I hope that you are able to keep it maintained now I have found it and made it part of my work journeys.