Stride: Mileage & Tax Tracker 12+

Easiest app to use for mileage and expenses

I really like Stride compared to the other apps out there. It tracks mileage well and instantly calculates your profit. I like the fact you can categorize by jobs, add photos of receipts, and other expenses all in one place. I would be willing to pay for a premium version. I’d like to see auto detect motion start and stop, similar to MileageIQ. That should be an option to turn on and off as desired, since sometimes I forget to turn it on. My biggest complaint however, is it is not easy to search for added expenses and update or make modifications. There are 2 columns “Deductions and Income”. If I need to search for the expense I have to scroll the entire list looking for it. I should be able to search “dash cam” for example and find every expense associated for that category. II’ll add to my review as I think of more improvements the developers can add.

Necessary App

This app is just like any other expense tracking app. It works. It’s great. I’ve been using it for years. The only isssue is that when tax season comes along. My deductions are clustered into 1 big amount. I can’t see how many miles I have to traveled that I ca use to deduct from my taxes, on the amount of money I saved from tracking those miles. Furthers more when I add supply and food expenses that also gets combined into the grand total of how much money I save. It doesn’t separate the different categories of deductions that I’ve made. It groups it all together and there is no way for me to see exactly how much money I’ve saved from Miles alone and how much money I’ve saved from supplies food etc. because when my accountant asks how many miles I’ve driven I can’t give an exact answer when they ask how much money you’ve spent on supplies I can’t give an exact answer because the grand total is clustered into one giant number of how much money I’ve saved. So this app needs to organize itself in the way that when people choose a category for deductions he can separate it so the user can identify specifically how much miles I’ve driven how much they’ve save from those total miles and from other categories how much money they spent on supplies how much money they can save based off those deductions they can make to just make it easier for when tax season comes around.

Developer Response ,

Hi, Thank you for the feedback! If you're able to navigate to the "Taxes" tab in the app and click on "Get Your 2023 Tax Report", this will send you a summary PDF as well as individual CSVs for your mileage, expenses, and income based on your inputs in the app. This will allow you to get the granular details you're looking for and be able to answer your account's questions. If you have additional questions, please submit a ticket to our support team here and we will be able to take a closer look. https://support.stridehealth.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=19597586627351 Best, Tiffany

PLEASE FIX ISSUE

I use this app regularly. There is one minor design flaw that ends up costing me so much time when it comes to do my taxes. I call this issue the, “Snapback”. Essentially, when I go back to review and calculate my expenses in the Stride app, it has this, very annoying, little feature. If I scroll page down through all my logged mileage, if I select any date and open up the information for that logged trip, after returning to the previous screen, the app snaps all the way back to the top of the list. This is incredibly annoying if I want to go through sequentially and reverify each trip and it’s included notes. When we go through the list , I have to constantly start from the very top of the list and finger scroll each time to the next date (instead of June 16th, June 17th, June 18th…, it’s June 16th, Dec 31st and scroll down, June 17th, Dec 31st and scroll down, June 18th, Dec 31st and scroll down, etc). The screen should just return to the point of the list where I was previously, instead of starting all the way to the top of the list. Its literally hours of extra work come tax time. You really should just create a distinction between business and personal, but the list SnapBack feature should be eliminate regardless

Developer Response ,

Thank you for the feedback! We'll be working on a fix soon for the "Snapback" issue you're experiencing.