Milometry vs TripLog

What TripLog does well

TripLog has the best free tier in this whole comparison, and it is not close.

Free means free. Where MileIQ caps you at forty drives and Everlance at thirty, TripLog's Basic plan gives you automatic GPS mileage tracking with no monthly trip cap, plus basic expense management, at no cost. If your only requirement is an automatic mileage log and you do not care about integrations, you can use TripLog forever without paying, and that is a genuinely generous position for a company to take.

It has real hardware. TripLog Drive at $79.99 and TripLog Beacon at $19.99 solve the problem software cannot: telling the difference between you driving and you being driven. If passenger journeys pollute your log, hardware is the honest fix.

It plugs into serious accounting. QuickBooks and SAP Concur integrations, OCR receipt capture, bank and card linking. If you are running expenses through a finance system, TripLog is built to feed it.

It is cheap for what it is. $4.99 a month billed annually is the lowest paid tier of the American apps here.

What else TripLog is trying to be

Expense tracking, bank linking, receipt scanning, time tracking at $4 a month, hardware trackers, and integrations with two enterprise finance platforms.

None of that is a fault. If you want one app that covers mileage and expenses and hours and pushes it all into QuickBooks, TripLog is a reasonable answer and we are not.

But it is worth being clear about what you are choosing. TripLog is becoming a small business expense platform. Milometry does two things, mileage and fuel, and has no ambitions beyond doing them well on a phone. Which of those you want depends on whether your problem is "my books are a mess" or "I keep forgetting to log my miles".

The problem for a British driver

TripLog publishes no UK price. Its figures are in dollars, its compliance language is IRS, and its integrations are American finance platforms.

We have not converted their prices anywhere on this site, because converting would quote a figure nobody charges and would be wrong again as soon as the exchange rate moved. But it does mean that as a UK driver you are buying an American product in dollars and doing the HMRC translation yourself.

Milometry knows the HMRC bands, the taper after ten thousand miles, the April tax year and the passenger rate, because it was built here for that.

Where we think the trade goes the other way

£9.99 once against $4.99 a month billed annually. Nineteen business miles at the HMRC rate covers the purchase, and there is nothing after it.

And the drives stay on your phone. TripLog keeps yours on its servers, which is what makes the web app and the integrations work. We have no server and no account, so the record of where you have driven is only ever in one place.

Where TripLog is genuinely better

The free tier. Unlimited automatic tracking for nothing is better than £9.99 if £9.99 is the constraint. Say so plainly.

Hardware. The Beacon and the Drive solve passenger detection properly. We cannot.

Accounting integrations. QuickBooks and Concur out of the box. We export CSV and PDF and leave the rest to you.

Expenses and time. A wider tool if you want a wider tool.

Which one you should pick

Pick TripLog if you want a free automatic mileage log and do not need HMRC specifics, if you need hardware to filter passenger journeys, or if your expenses run through QuickBooks or Concur.

Pick Milometry if you drive in Britain, want the HMRC arithmetic done properly in sterling, and would rather own a focused app than rent a broad one.