Milometry vs Hurdlr

What Hurdlr does well

Hurdlr is the most ambitious product on this page. It is trying to be the whole back office for a self employed person, and it goes a long way towards it.

Live tax estimates. Hurdlr tells you what you owe as you earn, rather than in a nasty surprise the following January. For someone with lumpy freelance income, knowing the running number is genuinely useful and it is the feature we hear people rate most.

The free tier tracks unlimited mileage. Their own help centre describes the free version as including "unlimited semi-auto mileage tracking, manual finance tracking, and real-time tax estimates". Unlimited is unusual, and worth knowing.

It goes all the way to a P&L. Pro adds invoicing with card payments, bank reconciliation, an income statement, a balance sheet and a trial balance. That is real accounting, not a summary screen.

The scale is real. They report more than eight billion dollars of finances tracked and a 4.7 average rating.

What else Hurdlr is trying to be

Everything. Expenses, income streams, live tax estimates, tax payment tracking, invoicing, card collections, bank reconciliation, chart of accounts, general ledger, and core financial statements.

This is the clearest case on the site of the point we keep making. Hurdlr is an accounting system. The mileage tracker is one feature inside it, and it competes for attention with invoicing and bookkeeping.

If you need an accounting system, that is a good reason to choose Hurdlr and a bad reason to choose us, and we would say so. But if what you actually need is an accurate record of your business miles, you are buying a great deal of machinery to get it, and the mileage part will only ever be as good as its share of the roadmap.

Milometry is a mileage and fuel tracker. There is no invoicing to build, no ledger to maintain, and nothing else competing for the work.

What it costs, and how hard that is to find out

Premium is $100 a year, or $9.99 a month. Pro is $200 a year.

Finding that out is harder than it should be. Hurdlr's own pricing page redirects to the homepage, and the figures are published in their help centre rather than anywhere a prospective customer would naturally look. We have linked both help centre articles in the sources below so you can check them.

We think a price should be on the pricing page. Ours is £9.99 and it is on every page of this site.

There is also no UK price. Those are dollars, and we have not converted them.

Where we think the trade goes the other way

£9.99 once against $100 a year. Nineteen business miles at the HMRC rate covers the purchase outright, and there is no second year.

And Hurdlr, by the nature of what it does, needs to know a great deal about your finances: linked bank accounts, card feeds, income streams. That is the price of a live tax estimate and it is a fair trade for what you get back. Milometry needs to know how far you drove. Nothing is linked, nothing is uploaded, and there is no account.

Where Hurdlr is genuinely better

Live tax estimates. A real feature, well executed, and we have nothing like it.

Invoicing and getting paid. Entirely outside what we do.

Proper accounting. A P&L and a balance sheet, for people who need them.

An unlimited free mileage tier. If cost is the binding constraint, free beats £9.99.

Which one you should pick

Pick Hurdlr if you want your bookkeeping, invoicing and tax estimates in one place and are happy to link your accounts to get it.

Pick Milometry if you want the mileage part done properly for the UK, in sterling, on a phone, for a single payment, with nothing linked to anything.