Editor's pick
Best mileage tracker apps with no subscription (offline), 2026
No subscription and offline are the two rules on this list, and for mileage they point at the same design decision: whether the app runs a background location tracker. MileIQ, the mainstream choice, does. It detects drives automatically, which is genuinely convenient for a rep doing thirty stops a week, and it charges about $60 a year for unlimited drives after a 40-drive free tier. The costs of that convenience are the ones drivers complain about: a battery that runs down, location permission set to Always, an account, and a fee that eats into the deduction the app exists to capture. Everlance and Stride sit on the same model. The apps below log a trip when you tell them to. MileWay is a one-tap start/stop log that uses when-in-use location only, classifies each trip (business, medical, charity, moving) in a tap, and exports a tax-ready report with the correct IRS rate already applied per category. Gigday handles the other half for rideshare and delivery drivers, netting out fuel, commission and repairs to show what a day and an hour actually paid, so you can see which platforms and shifts are worth the gas. Both run entirely on the phone with no account and no platform login, and both keep working in the dead zone between towns.
