MileLogger Reviews

I just wanted an app to track my miles so I don't have to remember to do odometer readings or to reset my trip measure. MileLogger fails in all areas of functionality, first it demands that it needs always on GPS access to even work. Why not work with “While Using App”? Even when I turned Always on GPS it failed to log any trips properly on my IPhone 7+ (never jailbroken, most current iOS).
After opening and closing several times it suddenly showed one trip from the end of my street to my house for 28 miles (nowhere even right). I figured at least it seems to have near the right mileage and attempted to export it several times. All exports were blank csv’s.
Do yourself a favor and use something else or just write down odometer readings.

Update #3. Seems to be recording my walks.
Also noted that it recorded a trip of .67 miles and gave that a $4 and change value. Weird and hard for me to keep up with.

Update #2. I have not driven today and yet it has recorded a short trip. It’s done this before. The link in >app support< takes me to a stocks update type page and I haven’t found a support link searching the web. Looking for another miles tracker.

Update to my review. It wasn’t tracking my drives at first so I had to keep track manually but it started tracking everything after a couple weeks. I’m happy enough but it sometimes logs a trip end at long traffic lights. Not sure anything could be done about that. what would improve this is to include month along with date/day. Sometimes I don’t always keep up with classifying and thus can accumulate drives from different weeks and months. Can be hard to know what month i’m looking at.
Also, if the user could name frequent stops- that would make classifying so much easier!

I was completely happy with MileLogger until a month ago. I work freelance and need to track my business drives, I was able to do just that and i had a lot of confidence in MliLogger. Then all of a sudden a bunch of trips didn't get logged, then they appeared all of a sudden a few weeks later. A month after that a bunch of drives never got logged and I don't have any idea what happened. It's annoying because I was driving for work a lot that time and hadn't checked in MileLogger for a while. When I had an off day I checked in to log my drives and nothing was there. They still have never come up. New drives are being recorded now but I think I'll have to switch unless this issue gets resolved.

I’ve been using MileLogger for almost 2 years and while it is descent at tracking mileage, there is definitely room for improvement. My biggest complaint is that it takes a long time to register a trip, sometimes days. I drive a lot and I’d like to categorize a trip while I still remember where I went. Also, if you take a short trip it doesn’t register it. My office is less than a mile from home and it never registers my trips to and from there. Another issue is that once you have several months logged, the toggle button to switch to see your personal vs business trips gets hidden behind the monthly summaries. I can’t tell you how many times I miscategorized a trip and just couldnt get to where I needed to categorize it correctly. Lastly, sometimes it doesn’t log starting and/or end points so I’m left wondering if this was an actual trip i missed or a glitch. If you need to somewhat track your mileage this is a good app to do it. But if you need to keep accurate track, this is not MileLogger .

I’ve been using MileLogger since February 2018, it’s now mid May. MileLogger worked well at first but during the last few weeks I’ve noticed it’s missing trips and sometime losing whole days. I’ll get the notification that I have new trips to log, example from yesterday was 7, I’ll click on the icon to open MileLogger and the trips aren’t there and don’t come back.
It’s frustrating. I need MileLogger to work all the time. I drive about 50,000 miles per year for my own business so the write off aspect is important. I’m considering other apps now and will likely change unless you be developers find some way to fix this issue.

I’ve tried everywhere trying to find an email to report a bug—-but no luck. I liked MileLogger until recently when I’ve found a bug. I accidentally marked some business Drives as personal but I cannot get to them to reclassify. The reports screen should won’t let me toggle between business and personal due to the 2020 total miles covering up the buttons. So I can’t edit the trip. I can get to the biz miles to edit but not the other way around which is what I need. Really annoying that you can’t fix it if you mess up!

Initial setup is less than intuitive. I thought I had everything configured but it still wasn’t tracking. Finally I went into location sharing and manually granted access to MileLogger .

The auto logging feature is awesome... when it works. I haven’t figured out a pattern to when it decides to track and when it doesn’t.

The ability to simply swipe to categorize trips is very easy. Unfortunately there doesn’t appear to be a way to change your mind after.

As others have noted, sometimes a trip can get fragmented. Fortunately there is a very easy way to merge trip segments into a single trip. Unfortunately it’s not clear in the interface which segments are being merged and (you guessed it) there’s no way to split them apart again.

For someone who logs business miles daily, this could be a useful tool. If your business miles are less frequent, I think you would be better off sticking to your paper log book

I wish there was an option to input missed/list trips manually. I drive up to 6 hours a day to see different clients and nothing is more frustrating then to have some trips logged and others not with no way to input the missed trips. I’d say as far as logging trips, it’s been pretty hit or miss, maybe actually logging 75% at best. I like that I don’t need to login like other similar apps, but I wish there was more consistency or at least an option to put in those missing trips so I’m not stuck tracking in separate places. I’ve been using this for over 3 months and this is what I’ve noticed.

Hello this is more like a problem I have, I just installed it, had a few trips categorized them as personal and I can not see them after, they are just gone, on the reports area I cannot tap on personal as the empty reports are covering the buttons. So far it looks simple but I have nit been able to navigate it because of the misplacement of the reports section, would love to add a screenshot. as it is now it is useless, will see whenever I have a business trip to see if that fixes the problem. Thanks

rate it long time ago, problem is still there useless to classify if you can only see business trips.

I used to use another miles app (until it stopped working and wouldn’t even open anymore); MileLogger is noticeably less functional.
It doesn’t seem to track my logs correctly and it’s difficult to edit; the swipe motion is hard to use and it keeps choosing “personal” when I’m trying to choose “edit” so now I also have to change the classification as well (several times because once i try to go into “edit” again, it just chooses “personal” again)
And it’s difficult to see my notes; I have to go into edit just to see my notes. Wish there was a way to see your notes easily, instead of 1 by 1. And I can’t even see the notes I’m typing as I’m typing; I have to click “done” which closes the page and now I have to swipe back in just to see what I just typed).
I am self-employed and need to log all my business-related trips; I like how you don’t need to remember to turn on/off, but MileLogger feels unreliable so I might as well hand-write my logs. I like that it’s free unlimited features because I don’t drive enough to make purchasing an app worth it, so I’m hoping they can fix these bugs.

First, I’d like to acknowledge that it’s free and is functional. It logs my destinations and gives me the ability to mark personal or business. It also gives me the ability add drivers and a few other items. That being said, the maps within the destination or stop record cannot be expanded to read some of the names of places. Also, the calendar date doesn’t indicate the month, it just keeps on logging a day of the week and day of the unnamed month, so if you’re scrolling through to see which day you were where a few months ago, you have to carefully count as you scroll. Guys, if your listening, fixing those items would make it great!

Not too bad for a free app. The only problem I have is when I want to access the personal report, possibly needing to change a trip categorized as personal over to business because of a mistake, the button is partially covered by trip reports which prevents any toggling to the personal reports for viewing or editing. On the rare occasion an advertiser has bought the space above the reports, the button is visible and it works fine. But again that is on a rare occasion… I’m running it on a second gen SE iPhone. As a small business owner though I do appreciate the free mileage tracker. It just seems like it’s time to spend a little more on development and find some advertising clients.

I used to love MileLogger. Not having to worry about constantly writing down mileage entries and keeping track of miles driven was awesome. Sure, the locations weren’t always 100% accurate, but they were close enough and I just needed the miles anyway. However, it hasn’t been updated in multiple years and recently, I don’t know how this just started happening, but I can’t even switch between reports anymore. I loved how you could categorize between Business and Personal miles, but if you can’t even switch reports between the two, MileLogger becomes unusable, as the sole function was to track both my Business and my Personal miles. Unless this is fixed, which I doubt it will be, I’ll be looking for a new app.

I use MileLogger for my consulting work and make frequent stops throughout the day. In the first month of using MileLogger I was very pleased with how easy it was to use and how it automatically tracked my stops without me having to log each visit manually. After the first month the auto-tracking stopped being accurate and combined trips together when I clearly stopped and got out of my car with the phone on me at each point along the way with locations services set to “always.” Since I only get reimbursed once I have hit my first destination combining these trips together is causing me to lose out on large amounts of money in mileage. I have never written a review before but after missing out on my much needed reimbursements I had to chime in. MileLogger (when it works properly) is great. Just wish it was more consistent with the auto tracking. Too hit or miss to give it more than 3 stars. Going back to writing my mileage down in a log. That way I don’t miss any more trips.

I am a Pampered Chef consultant and as such I travel. With other apps I would have to remember to start/stop app. This would often lead to forgetting and losing out. With Mile Logger running in the background I never have to think about it, it just does it.

My only question is if there is a way to change a trip type? I accidentally made a personal trip a business trip. Can this be changed without deleting? If it can't I would love to see this feature added in a future release.

I’ve been using MileLogger for about a year and a half now. Seems to work pretty well. Easy to swipe for personal or business and categorize each trip. I like that I don’t have to open MileLogger for it to calculate my trips because I would forget to if I had to. My only complaint is that the reports don’t work. You can’t access the toggle between personal and business because the reports cover it up. If that could be fixed it would be great. It’s a pain to have to download the reports and format the data because I can’t toggle the buttons anymore. Please update MileLogger to fix that.

In the last year it has missed a total of 3 business drives I’ve done. The first 2 were very short drives so only missed out on a couple of dollars. Yesterday it missed one after being great for months and it was probably $9 of drive. There are no other truly free apps like this one that I can find and I know. I’ll miss more drives if I manually keep track of it, so will continue using MileLogger for now. Only missing 3 business drives in 12 months isn’t terrible. This is why I rated it 4 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ and not 5. Hope I don’t miss too many more.

I check my drives daily to make sure a business drive isn’t missed. Not worried about personal.

MileLogger does what I need it to, with no limits, for free. That’s pretty great. However, there are some issues, and some improvements that could be made.

A major problem is that it’s always asking me to log in, but there’s no option to create an account. When the login page pops up, the “cancel” button is completely off the screen, and I have to turn my phone sideways to access it. Ridiculous, since having an account isn’t even necessary.

One thing I really liked about Mile IQ is their automatic sorting. If you make the same trip repeatedly, it will ask you if you want to automatically sort that specific drive. I’d love to see that feature implemented here.

If this were a paid app I’d give it three stars, but I’ll give it a pass since it’s totally free.

Have used MileLogger for several years and it works great. It has one bug where you can’t switch from business to personal under the report section as the button is obscured. For a free app it’s great. I would pay a small annual fee if it had some upgrades like ability to zoom in on maps and maybe a pop up to record a trip at the end of a journey. Definitely needs an update from the developer.

This is a great app. It tracks where you went and you can enter multiple drivers, vehicles, enter notes and account for parking/tolls. At tax time I pull a report which is easy to read in excel format. The only thing I have to do with the report is add the totals on the bottom for my accountant.

I share it with him and it also serves as contemporaneous records which is required by the IRS. You separate business from personal travel by a simple swipe right/left and can delete travel in case you are on the train or in someone else’s car.

I think it works wonders.