MileIQ: Car Mileage Tracker 4+

I trialled this app before upgrading, took a few journeys to get used to, but now I just love it. It is so simple to use and for me as a self employed person, just needing to record business miles for tax reasons, I don’t need anything more complicated. I have 3 personal categories and 5 business categories. Even if I forget for a few days to select the purpose it is easy to work out what it was because the date and time as well as start and end points are noted. So I can refer to my calendar.

Non-driving miles can easily be deleted, and the only journey that has gone wrong for me was a 12 mile drive ending at a train station. Hilariously I had to get out of the car and run for the train, so the app didn’t realise there was a break in the journey and merged the car and train trips. Next time I will arrive with more time to walk to the platform!

I’ve been using the app for a couple of years now & while I read reviews it’s improving I actually feel the opposite. When logging the trips as business or personal it gives start & finish times of each journey but once logged it only gives one time which I generally find to be slightly after the start of the journey, while this might not affect most users I find it helpful to log hours as well as miles & therefor the app used to double up as an hour log for each destination however I cannot rely on it for this purpose any more. I also find it’s not recording every journey now. I’ve always suspected it didn’t but as I only used to really check it at the end of the month I would assume my phone battery had run flat or something however I’m now checking it much more frequently & there’s just no reason I can think of for certain journeys not to be logged. I’ll continue to use the app until something better is an option as it’s helpful but I would love to be able to really rely on its accuracy which I don’t feel I can at present.

I love MileIQ it saves so much time and doesn’t rely on me recording every journey.
There are probably 2 features I would change. The first (which has been mentioned before) is the fact that ‘round trip’ doesn’t give details so unless you are very up-to-date with designating personal/business. It can be hard to remember where you went. Luckily, I rarely have a round trip. The second would be an option to enter mileage on the app as I lost my phone a couple of days ago and for the journeys taken during this time, there was no means of recording on the app. It’s not a huge problem as can record in accounts xls but would have been nice simply to add to monthly report.
Overall it had made life much easier for me!