Stride: Mileage & Tax Tracker Reviews

After a year of use now, while I’m driving Stride keeps closing unbeknownst and to me. By the time I have to switch from GPS to look at other stuff when I click on the this app app it has closedown so the history of my driving and keeping track of my exact miles, it just draws a straight line for the last place it said I was at and to where I’m currently at now.
So I’ve been using Stride for about a year and a half now. For the past four months it’s been shutting down on its own. It’s open but running in the background as I’m using maps in the foreground. I’ll occasionally click on this app as I’m driving and it’ll be reopening and not accurately tracking my miles. It’ll have a random line going straight from the point when I shut down to the point I reopened it (by reopening it I mean clicking on Stride that’s already open to check my miles to find out they close down while it was open). So it’s a little frustrating, it’s about 65 to 75% accurate. It’s a a good program overall but unless you continuously switch between the apps, Stride randomly closes down if you will, but it’s still open just not accurately tracking your miles.

Hi there developers, I made this review to bring attention to you guys that there seems to be a HUGE bug in Stride currently..
so just yesterday I got recommended to use Stride for mileage tracking purposes from another platform that I use. The process went that I clicked the link in That app which brought me here to Stride page, then I downloaded Stride, opened it to create a profile then out of no where, Stride just.. crashed. And so it took me back to my homepage where I clicked it again to relaunch and it, crashed again.. and again and again.. so I think "hmm" and tried to simply uninstall and reinstall the darn thing and the problem persists. This time it doesn't even let me make it to the loading page to create a profile. it now just crashes the very instant I click Stride ..
now that was yesterday, which brings me to today where I attempt again hoping it'll work. I check Stride compatibility at the bottom of your page and my phone is surely up to speed with it being on update 14.3.. so I'm not exactly sure guys. Seems like something you should handle quickly as I'm sure I'm not the only user experiencing this issue. BEST REGARDS ALL! too-ta-loo

Leaving the location setting to always on drains the phone battery way too much to make Stride worthwhile for me. It would be helpful to have a widget with buttons to start and stop tracking miles so you don’t have to open to app to do that. Because even with the reminder from Stride you still have to open Stride and then press the plus sign and then press track miles. It’s not safe if the reminder only happens when you start to drive away from your home. So having a widget would make tracking easier and safer. And then it wouldn’t be absolutely necessary to leave the location setting to always on either if the track miles function was more readily accessible. Ultimately a more functional Apple Watch integration would be ideal but in the mean time I feel this would suffice as helpful update. Thank you for making Stride free and I’ve found it helpful for tracking expenses. This is the only main issue I found that brings my rating of Stride down.

Overall I’ve been leveraging this for quite some time. I have familiarized myself with all services offered (Not to mention they continue to add more and more benefits) and I can’t express enough how wonderful it is. You have to use it for yourself to really understand the full capabilities but the bottom line is that it is enabling Drivers to finally receive respectable benefits (health, taxes, mileage, etc) that are competitive to what you would normally receive in more structured working environments. Check Stride out ASAP if you are a driver (or gig worker), I rate it a 5 of 5. (Again, there’s always going to be areas that need enhancements or tweaks. But..... in my opinion Stride is (by a long shot) way more superior than any other available alternative out there today.)

A+++

I’ve been using Stride to track rideshare miles driven and I am happy with what it does so far. However, lots more room for improvement in exporting data.

The current generated reports contain unneeded labels in numeric data. For example, the text “mi” in the export of miles or a dollar sign in currency columns. This may be ok for a text report but causes problems in .csv file exports. The fields with the extraneous labels have to be modified to get to raw numbers that can be modified or used in calculations. The header row is where the labels belong, never in a numeric data field.

Also, I’d really like to be able to export data for a specific date range so I can periodically update whatever external spreadsheet or database I am working with. Right now, the only option is for all data of a given year. It’s a nuisance to export the whole year’s data to get the last week or month of data.

Two more additions. Please add the TIME spent driving to the mileage data report. I really want to get a report on time driving. Maybe even some stats on when. Finally, create a report that will let me export the data for each log file as a row of CSV file data. Give me the choice of exporting as one row per file, one row per day, per week, month or quarter.

Finally, include the number of miles and hours driven in the weekly deduction email along with their dollar value.

Stride erases mileage. On numerous occasions it shows mileage and money saved using Stride then a few hours later shows a completely different amount that was less than what was shown a few hours before! It also logs imaginary mileage after I end my session and completely shut down Stride by double tapping the home button and swiping up on Stride . When I go to use Stride the next day, it shows that it is tracking mileage, even though the night before I stopped tracking and properly shut Stride down. It's like I have a magic iPhone that leaves my bedside table and turns Stride on on its own and takes a journey. Apparently my iPhone can fly like Peter Pan because the map shows straight lines like it doesn't follow roads. Beware of Stride. Especially if using it for tax purposes. If it can't even do the basic task of tracking mileage correctly, would you use this app for any other services they provide? Hey this app, how about getting the 1 thing down first before offering other services like finding health insurance! The only thing Stride Strides for is failure!

Part time ridesharing driver, I use it to keep mileage of when I’m out on the road and any expenses for my part time business. Used the data I plugged into this app for my 2017 taxes. this app simplified the tax deduction process. One con was that I had to add all the mileage together from the log. I think Stride should give that option. And the only thing I need this app to do is also keep track of personal and commute miles for when I’m working my full time job or not doing ridesharing. I still keep track of them on Stride but should have a selection button to tell it it’s for personal or commuting mile so Stride doesn’t track the deduction amount. Other than that, awesome app and tool! Saves me a lot of time and money! Thanks!

I have tried number of other mile-tracker apps some weren't FREE. This one is FREE. It doesn't ask for money at all. No ads except life insurance. Even the life insurance window doesn't bother you at all. Stride (in my opinion) is very close to perfect. Missing only 2 things.

1st. As an Uber driver I want to be able to track my miles to deduct. So far Stride does the job very well. No complaining about that. But I want to be able to track my maintenance/insurance/gas expenses too. At the end of a year I want to be able to see both result and get the most tax deduction.
This option would make Stride PERFECT for a driver like me.

2nd. When I was trying number of mile tracker apps one future seemed very useful. Its mile log. If I could, I’d want to set a reminder that would ask me every morning (there can be more options to set the days you work/drive, everyday or Monday through Friday or select the days you work) if I want to LOG my mileage of the car. This data can be used as 2 step verification (double checking) for tracking my miles more accurately.

If these 2 features I mentioned were available within Stride , I will definitely 100% change my 4star to 5star. I’d recommend Stride to all my friends who drive for living.

Update to original review.

Gave Stride another try tonight and once again, halfway through my day, it stopped running in the background and caused me to lose miles. Even with me routinely switching back and forth to it to make sure it was still running.

Original review: I’ve been using Stride for about a month to track Uber Eats mileage. Thought it was great until yesterday when I noticed that the little map of your miles it produces didn’t show a large portion of my deliveries. I checked Google Maps Timeline and it did show my entire route, plus 25% more mileage. this app had failed to log a lot of miles, but interestingly it logged the proper amount of hours. Now I’m going to have to review the past month of miles to be sure. Waste of my time and destroys my confidence in this as a reliable business mileage tracker. Should probably just stick to a mileage log where I input my miles.

I drive rideshare. In 2017, I solely drove for Uber and was late to log my miles that year. At the end of the year, I checked the mileage Uber reported I drove (while driving a passenger) versus the mileage Stride reported. There was a discrepancy but I knew Uber reported more miles only because I was late to report my miles using this app.
In 2018, I drove solely for Lyft and at the end of the year, I did the same check. Lyft reported I drove a lot more miles than what was reported using this app. How is it possible that Lyft shows higher mileage than this app? Both Uber and Lyft only report the miles I drive while having a passenger in my vehicle; I log all miles with this app, whether with a passenger or enroute to pick up a passenger. It makes absolutely no sense that this app shows I drove less. For this reason, I am losing money this year on my Tax refund.
I do not recommend Stride to anyone driving for business purposes.

Super easy to enter info i.e.:
Missed starting a trip and adding ride mileage? It's super easy to add after the fact. Easy
To record tax deductible purchases and it tells you what is and is not a deduction. Going on a tax deductible trip? Just press the plus sign and Stride does the rest! Driving and forgot to start Stride ? It reminds you to do so. Finished driving and forgot to turn app off? It reminds you to do that too! So, so easy and accurate! This will save you THOUSANDS come tax time. Also, exceptional customer service and clear communication. Just look at the replies to comments in the reviews here and you see how quick and clear their communication is. HIGHLY RECOMMEND.

This is the best app for tracking mileage for rideshare drivers. The new v2 series has had a bumpy path with features that have long worked being broken. I'm keeping the rating at 4 stars until we get a couple updates that don't break functionality (saved login credentials and having invalid notifications are the two items that have been broken in the version 2 series but are now working)

Hopefully future updates will be tested a little better before release because this is truly a fantastic app but the v2.x road has been very bumpy.

I guess you don't truly appreciate how wonderful an app is until it gets broken. I'm sure it'll return to its previous stable 5 star quality though.

Love how it helps you track everything and also gives you helpful reminders for insurance and deadlines and for helpful articles to track taxes and why! I only gave it 4 stars only because Stride can be difficult to use simply because it’s hard to find add expenses under weird categories on the bottom. It’s all there and awesome but i keep having a hard time finding tasks to do in Stride . Not so user friendly in my opinion which can be fixed by rearranging things. Thanks for making Stride free to use to track my business expenses! It’s helped me actually learn more about my business and given me experience without fear of failing!!

Is there a way to enable or configure Stride so that miles are also on display without having to click and open the trips to find out. I am having to individually click on each mile link to find out how many miles I drive for each day since only the dollar amount is displayed.

Also. Everytime I scroll down and click a link and get back out it goes back to a default spot. This makes it hard to scroll down to the next item to open. Once I get out of one link it should stay in the same spot so I don't have to scroll back all the way down to the next link.

I think Stride looks really slick compared to some others I’ve seen. However it does say expense tracking, and I’ve been fiddling with it for a while and haven’t figured out how to add an expense. At least that part is not very intuitive. Maybe some thing to improve on since you advertise as an expense tracker as well as mile tracker.

Update—- I found it, just click the plus Icon at the bottom. I think I was looking for a larger button or something because of all the information that kind of gets thrown at you when you login to Stride . Perhaps something a little bit more summery like the moment you open it would be useful rather than all the incentives which distract from the main functionality of Stride .

I have used Stride for nearly 3 years and at first it was awesome, tracked miles faultlessly but of late it’s terrible, so hit and miss that I am starting to not trust it to be accurate.
One day it works great the next day it won’t track properly, starts to straight line between points a to b anytime from start to end of ride, keep getting the same reply “your device suffered memory dumps” I call bs, give them there due they are trying and the guy I’m talking with Adam seems understanding but enough is enough if they cannot fix it then I’m gonna trash can it because it’s very frustrating having to go and edit every ride everyday.
As of now I’m done they have tried and failed to make it reliable and accurate, I shall now rely on my T-Mobile sync up drive to record my mileage from now on......... sorry guys it was a pleasure but it’s turned into a pia

Sadly I never review anything but I just started driving for Uber and downloaded several apps to track my miles, even paying for one because of the name…QB…this app is by far the easiest to use but best of all, because of a message received from Stride , I learned that I was qualified to get health insurance through the marketplace - I’ve tried before & gotten nowhere! I was able to complete the entire 10 minute application on my phone without ever having to go near the marketplace site!I love Stride and would give it 10 stars if I could!

I love the this app app. It really helps track ur taxes for you, so tax day wont be a hassle to file. It seperates in easy categories, of deductions and expenses and it can keep track of your purchases from your bank. No more searching in two different windows. In addition, gas is included when tracking mileage! In fact, its a thing I needed when doing wag or I might start doordash.

They were nice to do a survey of paying me some money, and then give me a bonus for a thank you.

Plus all the nice benefits of searching health insurance, and comming soon, this app rewards, in one app.

The only improvements I would make are to condense the buttons and taxes to one place/ make the buttons simpler. For anyone that does alot of driving, less buttons the better. Add to that, auto sensitivity to when you are driving would be a bonus, but its probably the trade off for being free.

Overall, it still serves what I need to do for free. All though improventments are just minor inconveniences.

Stride has been screwing up on me for awhile and I wish I would have realized it sooner. As another reviewer stated, it deletes mileage. I was paying attention to it today while I was delivering for UberEats and it worked fine for a few hours. Next time I checked it, the time was probably correct (7 1/2 hours) but suddenly I only went 15 miles?! I was keeping track and I had went 88 miles. Even the route line changed. It’s like it got confused with all my back and forth and all over the place and skipped it all. Like I was lying and it condensed my activity.

I’ve only been using this a few months and I hope all my missed miles won’t screw me up on my taxes! I’ve emailed the developer and they told me how to add missed trips. Um...that’s why I had Stride in the first place; to keep track of them!

Time to go the old fashioned paper and pen way!

I love that it tracks my mileage and it has an expense tracker. Here is my biggest issue: the IRS allows either a standard mileage deduction or actual expenses deduction. Unfortunately Stride only allows you to track expenses that follow the mileage deduction. For those of us Lyft drivers who want to maximize their tax deductions, I want an app that will let me track ALL expenses and then decide on which deduction to use based on what will give the biggest return on taxes. this app has said over and over that they do not offer tax advice, we’ll if that’s the case, then they should allow drivers to track every expense.

Ok I loved Stride and the support team are super. BUT after the crash this weekend I got an email advising to update app. After update I can not track my miles with the bottom center plus button. It instead has a screen asking to input my weekly earnings, this doesn’t work for me as I’m a rideshare driver and tolls while on trip, airport fees, booking fees and so on are additional deductions I receive from the rideshare company in a monthly and yearly summary, car washes, Stride refuses/does not have options for. I’m kind of mad now as I may need to install another app for tracking my miles etc. also I inputted all my miles from last year and it showed as a deduction for bit 2018 and 2019 then looked like it erased everything, luckily I’ve written everything down, but ugg please fix these bugs!

Stride is amazing and it’s completely FREE. This is the best companion for any independent contractor, it’s like having a tool and your own tax consultant.

It doesn’t only track your business miles (turn on when you start, off when you are done), but it also gives your other deduction options for your specific job, AND it helps you keep track of all those other expenses that will deduct!!!

Completely free, yes, no in-app purchases, nothing at all.

And the best part, they have a website with a lot of help to do your tax deductions, plus they respond to tax questions in their customer service!

Dang this is the best app I’ve downloaded ever. You end up getting all set for taxes season.

I’ve tried other apps, they make you pay, annoying options like tracking personal trips... I don’t need that, I just wanted to track my Postmates jobs and it’s also helping me with other deductions.

Congrats on Stride and their team! Perfect app.

It will randomly crash when my phone is unplugged from its' charger. This causes the entire phone to shutdown under a so-called total battery drainage, which will delete the entire current unsaved recording session. Once plugged back in, however, the battery % will show at its' position at last plug in, but the lost recorded data now has to tediously be entered manually (which I don't always have time for). I miss the older version where the recording still continues but only stops and saves upon user command, crash and/or closed app or not. You had it right early on. Please consider reverting back. Much appreciated.

I drive rideshare in Chicago and Stride always loses the GPS tracking in the downtown area. When it finally picks the signal back up it draws birds eye lines from where it lost it. If you start downtown and get stuck giving several short rides in the area, it won't show you drove any miles at all! Just shows the amount of time you've been "driving." I have to constantly monitor actual mileage via the Tripometer as it always ends up short in Stride during driving sessions, and then I have to manually enter those lost miles into Stride . Navigation apps don't have this issue downtown. Please fix the bug and also add ability to take photos of other expense receipts!

Rarely a problem, but every app has an issue now and then. Whenever I've contacted this app Drive, I've received a very prompt response. Here is the latest. I contacted Support regarding an issue, got a response within two hours informing me an update would be available within 48 hours. Within 24 hours I was contacted by support explaining a version update was available resolving the problem. I was surprised and impressed this app Drive support went out of their way to notify me the fix was available sooner than expected. They get 5 stars from me.