Mileage Tracker by Driversnote Reviews

by MCMC2021

Brand new, latest greatest iPhone 13 - time to try tracking I couldn’t do with my old iPhone 6. Tried MileIQ - overly sensitive. Tried this, not even close to accurate. I downloaded MileageTracker and logged in and got it all setup and running. An hour later, I do a trip. I get to my 2nd stop only to find it had logged me out. I never touched MileageTracker after getting it running. Ok, logged in again and finished. Tracked me ok.

Today I make a round trip of about 120 miles. I stop about 30 miles in to get a drink at a gas station. It stops the trip. It doesn’t restart as I continue. 30 miles lost. On the way back, it starts but stops when I get lunch. Does not restart. 30 miles lost. No thanks. Not for me. If I have to babysit this much, I’ll just do the log book thing.

by DessertDiva

I’ve had Driversnote’s iBeacon since July. It worked fine in the beginning. Not so much anymore. It mysteriously starts trips even when I’m not near my car or even driving in a car so sometimes it looks like it takes me 10+ hours to get to work because the trip started at 9pm (for example) and ended the next morning at 7:55am. Sometimes I will exit my vehicle at my desired location but MileageTracker finishes my trip at some completely random spot miles away in an “as the crow flies” path - meaning, according to the green line, I drove straight through homes, business, ignored roads, exited my vehicle there and then somehow got back to my desired location to do my errand because when I get back to my vehicle to go home, my next trip starts exactly where I am, not where the “crow” says I was. Sometimes trips aren't even starting til I’m more than 2 miles into my trip - and not 2+ miles driven slowly in neighborhoods. No, 2+ miles driven at 40+ mph. And even better still, sometimes my trip stops tracking completely even though I’m still in my car, still traveling. I’ve contacted customer service many times and they only responded to my very first problem and didn’t even resolve it. Every email since then has been ignored. I can’t trust MileageTracker. It produces inconsistent, incorrect data. I would not recommend the premium iBeacon service to anyone.

by Snarfblatt36

MileageTracker works well. The interface is easy to use. However, there is a 20 trip per month limit with MileageTracker. That obviously means if you are wanting to track mileage for a full time job, you’ll have to pay in order to keep MileageTracker.

They didn’t say anything about a limit until I hit it. How dishonest. I will not be keeping MileageTracker . And at this point I won’t be downloading any other app made by this developer ever again if I can help it.

You also need to put that limit in MileageTracker synopsis. People need to know about the charge before they download MileageTracker . That’s the thing that seems dishonest to people. A simple statement like “The free version of Driversnote includes 20 trips logs. After that we ask $9.99 per month.” That would be create a much better experience for your users. But, then again, you wouldn’t get as people to try MileageTracker if you put that on the download page would you? Again, it looks like you are trying to hide your limits and pricing structure from the public when you don’t disclose them before a person commits to the download. That is the problem I had with the whole situation. Charge money or don’t charge money, I really don’t care. But let people know about the charges before they subscribe to your product

by Nomadico111

Initially I was enthusiastic about MileageTracker . But I don’t want to track every single mile I drive. It repeatedly complains if you don’t let it track your location ALL THE TIME. Then, if you don’t happen to use it for a few days, they dig into your data and contact you with your last trip and pester you about not using MileageTracker all the time. Ultimately, it feels very unsafe. I’ll pay $7 for my privacy. If it’s free, then YOU are the price of MileageTracker . Deleted.

Give you ANOTHER try??!? You’ve already violated my trust, and I don’t care to offer you the opportunity to violate my trust again... which you will. My $7 replacement app purchase doesn’t store ANY of my data on their servers. Peace of mind (overall) can be less expensive than free.

by AFWriting

Let me start by saying I have been using MileageTracker for almost 2 years and loved it! Being this is provided by a _foreign_ company I figured i could control what is sent to the servers.

Important note: my comments are based on being a PAYING subscriber.

Recently there was an update that requires MileageTracker to turn location services to ALWAYS. If you don’t it will not track mileage. (There is still an option of adding a manual trip).

There is no way around this. When support was contacted was informed the new iOS updates kill apps that have “only while using” permissions.

Strange that I have work around a for those and they work as I need them to.

So instead of giving the user of Driversnote the ability to make there one decision (can use warning like other apps) decided to remove privacy completely.

Also provided very sound info that “it only starts recording location coordinates once it detects a higher speed of movement.”

And the mail in the coffin for me:
“We will not track you all the time, but we need the permission in order to stop exactly that from happening”

I like my perceived control of security. I hope in the future they correct this. Until then, my movements are not mine and this has the potential to be a great revenue stream for geofenced locations.

by Queenjazz1

Glad I’ve been tracking mileage manually and writing down my odometer too. While this is pretty accurate, it’s not completely accurate. Depending on the mileage I drive, it has been off 1-3 miles. While this doesn’t sound like it’s not a lot, it adds up when it’s 1-3 everyday for two months straight. Every mile counts when it comes to being reimbursed. If it being off a little bit doesn’t bother you then you probably would like MileageTracker. But I need something very accurate that would get me reimbursed for exactly what I drive. I looked closely at the map tracking to see why I was missing miles and if you look at the path, it shows a lot of cut corners. Anytime I turn it just shows me cutting through someone’s lawn instead of staying on the street. So I guess all these cut corners add up to 1+ miles depending on how much I’m driving that day. Good for a backup in case you forget to write down your odometer but I don’t solely rely on it. Or also great if you need an estimate and not exact.

by LdyNightshade

Honestly, does an amazing job with keeping up with the GPS.
It doesn’t work for my job. I ran MileageTracker on a month to month subscription for a while before purchasing a year subscription. I tried without and with the iBeacon.
Pros: GPS is accurate to your drive path
Easy to use website for creating reports
Nice feature to be able to set working hours
Cons: Using the iBeacon, it does not time out the trip so I end up having trips combined into one big trip. Instead of being able to go back and place a reason, I have to edit the entire trip.

If I didn’t have to babysit MileageTracker , I would be more than happy to continue using this to log my mileage. It was taking me longer to fill out my paperwork using this than to fill it out manually. If the iBeacon timed out after not moving for, say, more than five minutes, I feel this would improve the functionality of MileageTracker .

by Avoid This App! Shady!

I recently switched from Droid to iPhone and saw this highly rated app. The software is pretty good, a bit clunky in spots, but not bad. What was not clear is that after 20 trips THEY HOLD YOUR INFORMATION HOSTAGE UNTIL YOU AGREE TO PAY THEM $10 A MONTH! Yes, and to top it off a trip - say to the store and back - COUNTS AS 2 TRIPS! So you drive to see a client and back - 2 trips! You go over 20 they warn you...then when you go to do your expense report they block out the information after 20 trips. Cannot believe they strongarm people like this....unethical! Oh - and to top it off - in order to track a trip with your GPS it requires you PERMANENTLY give them access to your GPS....so I think they track their users on top of that. Best to go with another app.

by TomChan87

MileageTracker does what it’s supposed to do, which is track your mileage. A small warning, however, is that it stops tracking if you’ve been still for 2 hours. This is fine in case you forget to stop tracking, but if you are just stationary for a long time you have to remember to restart the tracker. Also, this restarting counts as a whole new trip as there is no way to edit a trip to make it a “round trip”. My theory is that they do this because the free version only lets you have 20 trips per month, so if you’re like me and travel for work but then are in one spot for a long period you can easily hit your 20 trip limit in only 10 work days.

by ΔΞΟΠ

Really like the simplicity of MileageTracker it works and doesn’t go out of its way to annoy you. Also doesn’t have in app purchases and isn’t littered with ads.

The only thing I don’t understand is when manually entering mileage you enter the origin and the destination then you are given 3 different routes to choose from. When you create a trip in reverse the same routes are not available and the mileage differs. The mileage should be the same from A to B and from B to A bit it just isn’t.

This is the only issue. If there is a good reason for this and I’m informed or if it’s fixed it deserves 5 stars.

by Joe Cheesemonger

For over 25 years I have worked as an outside sales rep, and keeping track of business miles has been a major headache for me, especially when I had two or three different cars in one year! In addition to the hassle of trying to keep up with it everyday, I dreaded separating personal miles from business miles and compiling all the data for each car on the IRS Form 2106 at tax time! That task consumed many hours and was a major headache! I just downloaded MileageTracker about 5 hours ago.... still much to learn about it. But this a great mileage app! Now I can easily track my small fleet of four vehicles that I use in one business, plus my personal vehicle. I can easily track mileage for all of them and switch back and forth between “business” use and “private” use with one touch of the screen! Wow! And how easy to print a PDF report for each car by week, month or year.....and it’s so easy to send the file to my OneDrive cloud and save the reports to my laptop! It amazes me that it does all this in the FREE version! Great job, guys! I can’t wait to learn more about the iBeacon automatic tracking feature which apparently tracks your mileage without you needing to turn on your phone! Unbelievable....

by Loro Doordash

I really truly love MileageTracker. I am a Doordash driver and are use this every day that I dash
It tracks your miles so well both virtually with the green line and also numerically. I especially like how you can do reports on your mileage and it figures up the amount of reimbursement by the tax allowedMileage reimbursement that you would use in your own particular state. It is worth it’s weight in gold.

by Wpg1234567890

I use MileageTracker to track business and personal trips for a pharmaceutical company car. Not only does the beacon automatically start and end trips, complete with mileage, it auto detects the addresses to and from. MileageTracker allows you to choose the correct location and easily edit business names—all of which carries over the next visit to that location. The reports are professional, customizable, editable in PDF or excel formats.

The team at Driversnote is accessible, responsive and understanding to the needs of their costumers which, unfortunately, is rare in today’s world—a true customer-centric company that values you and your experience!

by 2737:$:!:$hdhdhdh$:$:

i love MileageTracker i am a real estate courier driving at least 150 miles and MileageTracker makes it easy for me to track not only my hours worked but my distance and how much i should be reimbursed. something i would add however is the option to pause a trip if needed for some reason and pick up under that same trip instead of having to stop and start a whole other trip.

by A_AZ

I’ve had to track miles for my work for 25+ years. That task has always been a major hassle, I’m sure I’ve cheated myself out of several $$ over the years. There are several apps out there, I’ve tried a lot of them. The others were not to my liking functionally or simply destroyed battery life.

I’ve used Driversnote note for four months now and really like it. Keep up the good work!!!

Pulled it out of the box, set it up. No issues at all 🎯🏌️

by Obxbrooks

I have tried a couple of mileage trackers. This one is the best by far because it has a beacon that automatically tracks all trips, and then you categorize them after. The others required starting MileageTracker each time to record a trip, and I didn’t always remember to do it. So this makes it automatic and presents the finished mileage in a convenient way that allows plenty of categorizing and a place for extra notes. It also reminds you that it’s tracking, and it reminds you to enter your odometer readings on a regular basis. It costs more because it’s worth more. Love it!!

by Danny J Nanny

Driversnote is a great tracker that does not need you to keep your location on all the time, although it recommends it. Every other app will zap your battery with your location on even when you aren’t using the apps.
Furthermore, the report is the most excellent and can be emailed directly to your boss, like I do every week. They can see where you went for complete transparency.
Lastly, if you forget to turn it on, it can be scheduled to know when you might be using your vehicle for work, wow. But you can also add untracked travel manually just as easy.
I’ve honestly tried them all and nothing compares to its price, clarity, and functionality.
Thank you Driversnote.

by DaYonghengrande

Because I am self employed and also do charity work, etc... I need to track my miles for various tax purposes. MileageTracker allows me to do that and create customizable pdf reports for my variety of uses. Even better, because I signed up for the standard plan (which is very reasonable and tax deductible) I also was mailed a free iBeacon that I place in my car which turns my app on and starts tracking my miles every time I drive. It was always a frustration to be halfway to an appointment and realize I hadn’t started my mileage tracker, now it does it for me!! Great customer service as well. I sent an email with a question (to headquarters in Denmark) and they respond in 8 minutes!!

by Courtcourtezzell

I truly love that I have found an amazing app to track all my trips. As a business owner of a house cleaning business, I am constantly driving all over town and I was needing a mileage tracker for my tax purposes. And I LOVE using Driversnote over anything else I’ve tried. It has truly made my life so much easier. It’s so simple to change trips from Personal to Business or vice versa, and also enter a trip manually if for some reason it didn’t auto-track a trip for me. But the auto-track feature is amazing and just connects through Bluetooth in your vehicle. For only $9.50/mo, MileageTracker and tracker is SO worth it for my business and it’s definitely the easiest and simplest one I’ve found. Thank you Driversnote!!!

by Whit Hair

This is the best system I have used ever. After 30 plus years of traveling to a five state area and recording mileage each day I don’t have to do that MileageTracker is always on ready to start recording mileage each time I start driving. The hardest part is putting in whether it is business or personal. All it takes is open up tracker and touch either personal or business. If you forget you can go back in and change after trip is over. I have used Driversnote for about a two years and wouldn’t change. Phil Bentley

by Ahepcat

I’ve been very happy With Driversnote until the most recent update to v2.0. Now it does not track my complete journey and has been costing me money. Why it is not tracking the full trip, I do not know. I presume it’s because of some type of auto on/off feature. But I have that turned off, and it should not be affecting it. Even when I start the tracking and then end the tracking myself, it does not have a full record of the trip I just drove...large portions of my drive are left out! The GPS tracking worked fine until this new release.

by LKSmith28

MileageTracker was not able to find two addresses for manual entry, the first of which was my home address, the most important. I let it slide to experience the rest of MileageTracker , and I liked the picture of their reporting pages on MileageTracker Store. It was okay. Unlike other apps, it does not have a track-in-the-background option unless you upgrade and get their external hardware. I continued to try it with the manual entry. Once I hit the second address that couldn’t be found, I canceled my account and moved on.

by Jujuball88

I’ve input data for July through October. In the month view only June July and August are in the toggle. Can’t access September or October even though I have drives documented in those months. The only way I can find them is if I input a new drive for that month and when I’m done it takes me to the month I input for the newest trip. So that’s pretty annoying. If that can be fixed 5 stars. But as is I have to do an annoying work around to find my trips.

by Tblackstone66

I tried out MileageTracker for the convenience of not having to write everything down. To start with it was great, then I started noticing that it wouldn’t let me stop my trips. Eventually it would detect when I was not moving and ask to stop. I don’t think MileageTracker updates quick enough to work well with my iPhone. I like MileageTracker and see potential but the $9.50 a month is way too high to make it worth it to me. I will look at other apps.

by NinjaMD

I’ve been using MileageTracker for nearly a year now. It works well, but seems to forget it’s recording my trip after a few minutes. Once I reactivate MileageTracker , it acts as though it just woke up from a nap and records a straight shot from where it “fell asleep at the wheel” to where my destination is, not following any roads and gypping me several miles driven (it’s as though I was in a flying car for a while, cruising above roads, houses and buildings). Besides that, it seems to work well.

by Farting@40

I recently downloaded MileageTracker, and it everything seems just fine, however, the very first thing I noticed was the the word “organization” was spelled wrong. I understand that this is not deal breaker, but as a business owner myself, I know that first impressions are extremely important, especially when small discrepancies can be easily avoided. Once again, MileageTracker appears to work just fine. I would recommend fixing that typo.

by Shirish S Patil

The Developers did a great job, they kept MileageTracker interface so simple and neat, i always loved the concept “remove things which are not needed” i see that in MileageTracker.

I can track my movements easily.

A good response for the mail i sent them. They answered all my questions.

I am waiting for my IBeacon. 1-2 weeks is bit long though for delivering it

One suggestion would be that when we use a IBeacon it should pop up a dialogue box for keying in the notes and the selecting the type of trip after the end of trip. So that people don’t have to remember where they went while pulling out the report.

114$ is bit expensive, if they work on that they can get more users.

by Yairar

I tried MileIq and this is way better. It tracks my mileage and doesn’t stop and reset at lights or in traffic which is good to track my mileage for business purposes. I also like the notes features it allows me to add/edit information about the trip. I have recommended this to my coworkers who also track mileage.

by DebGallops

Love MileageTracker!! Have been using it for over a year, now. Just renewed my subscription because it is so darn convenient. I have the iBeacon, too, which recognizes my phone when I get in the car and automatically starts tracking the trip! Used the report feature to send the mileage log to me for tax purposes. Easy peasy!!