Milometry vs Everlance

What Everlance does well

Everlance is the most polished product in this comparison. It has been featured by Apple, it carries a 4.9 rating, and it says it is used by more than four million drivers and solopreneurs. That is a lot of people who are not wrong.

The deduction finder is clever. Link a card and Everlance scans transactions for things that might be deductible and asks you about them. Most self employed people lose more money to deductions they never noticed than to mileage they never logged, and this attacks that directly. We do nothing of the kind.

Expenses and mileage in one place. Photograph a receipt, attach it to an expense, and have it sitting alongside the drives in the same export. If your tax return is a shoebox problem rather than a mileage problem, that is the right shape of tool.

It goes all the way to filing. The Professional tier includes 1099 tax filing and what they describe as a million dollars of audit defence. That is a long way past logging a drive, and for an American freelancer it may be exactly what is wanted.

The swipe works. Label a trip work or personal with a flick, same as everyone else, done well.

What else Everlance is trying to be

Bank and card linking, automatic expense categorisation, receipt management, a deduction finder, team reimbursement, audit cover and tax filing.

Everlance is not a mileage app with extras. It is a deduction and expense platform, and mileage is one input into it. That is a legitimate and useful product. It is just a much larger thing to invite into your finances than a tracker, and it requires linking your bank account to get the value out.

Milometry asks for none of that, because it does none of that. It knows how far you drove and what your fuel costs, and nothing else about your money.

Why a UK driver is not who it is for

Everlance publishes no UK price. Its compliance language is IRS throughout, its filing product is 1099, and its phone numbers are American and Canadian.

There is also a plain difference in posture on data. Everlance's own copy says: "All your data is securely stored in the cloud and private to you." That is a fair description of a well run cloud service, and plenty of people are happy with it. Milometry's version of that sentence is that there is no cloud: no account, no upload, no server holding a list of everywhere you have driven.

What it costs

Free for thirty automatically detected trips a month. Starter is $69.99 a year. Professional is $99.99 a year.

Thirty trips is a fortnight for anyone doing this for a living, so the real number is $69.99 a year, in dollars, with no UK price to compare against.

Where we think the trade goes the other way

£9.99, once, in sterling, from a company in the UK, for an app that knows what HMRC is. Nineteen business miles at the HMRC rate covers it, and nothing recurs.

Where Everlance is genuinely better

The deduction finder. A real feature that finds real money, and we have no answer.

Expense tracking with bank linking. Much more than we do.

Tax filing and audit cover. We do not go near this.

Team reimbursement. They have it, we do not.

Web access. They have a dashboard, we are a phone app.

Which one you should pick

Pick Everlance if you are an American freelancer who wants mileage, expenses, deductions and filing in one place, and is comfortable linking a bank account to get it.

Pick Milometry if you drive in Britain, want the HMRC bands handled properly in sterling, and want a mileage log that never leaves your phone.