# Hurdlr review (2026): is the free plan enough?

> Mileage, expense and tax tracking app for freelancers

Checked Nov 12, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA.

Hurdlr is an app for self-employed people and small business owners that tracks mileage, income and expenses and estimates taxes as they go. A free version covers semi-automatic mileage and manual tracking, Premium automates the tracking, and Pro adds invoicing, double-entry accounting and annual tax filing for US users.

- **Category:** Accounting & Invoicing
- **Made by:** Hurdlr, Inc.
- **Website:** https://www.hurdlr.com
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android
- **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want automatic mileage and finance tracking for free, because both are Premium.
- **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026

## Pricing

As of Nov 12, 2026, Hurdlr has a free plan, and paid plans start at $8.34 per month, billed annually ($100 a year; $9.99 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Unlimited semi-automatic mileage tracking, manual income and expense tracking, real-time tax estimates and report exports.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | Semi-automatic mileage tracking, manual finance tracking, tax estimates and exports. |
| Premium | $8.34 per month, billed annually ($100 a year; $9.99 billed monthly) | Adds automatic mileage and finance tracking, custom expense and mileage rules, detailed tax estimates, tax payment tracking and work hours. |
| Pro | $200 per year | Premium plus invoicing, general ledger, journal entries, accountant invites and annual tax filing (federal plus one state) for US non-enterprise users. |

Read from https://university.hurdlr.com/en/articles/1072143-what-are-the-premium-features-and-how-much-do-they-cost on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Hurdlr before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Annual Premium plan** (Annual discount): Premium is $100 a year, against $9.99 a month on the month-to-month plan. Source: https://university.hurdlr.com/en/articles/1072143-what-are-the-premium-features-and-how-much-do-they-cost

## Key features

- **Mileage tracking:** Free accounts get semi-automatic tracking; automatic trip detection comes with Premium.
- **Income and expense tracking:** Links to bank and credit card accounts and to Square, Stripe, Shopify, PayPal and Uber, with rules for categorizing expenses.
- **Tax estimates:** Real-time federal, state and self-employment tax estimates with payment reminders; Premium adds detailed calculations and payment tracking.
- **Invoicing:** Branded invoices with credit card payment collection, on the Pro plan.
- **Accounting and reports:** Pro adds double-entry accounting, a chart of accounts, journal entries and statements such as the income statement and balance sheet.
- **Annual tax filing:** Pro includes annual tax filing for US users, covering federal plus one state, unless the account is provided through an employer or tax professional.

## Good for

- Freelancers and gig workers who drive for work and want mileage logged
- Self-employed people who want a running estimate of what they owe in tax
- Owners who want light accounting without bookkeeping jargon

## Worth knowing

- Pro is priced at $200 a year; the help page read shows no monthly Pro price.
- Annual tax filing is a US feature and is not included on enterprise accounts.
- Subscriptions bought directly from Hurdlr are non-refundable under its terms; app-store purchases follow Apple's or Google's refund rules.
- The help-center pricing articles read are dated 2023 and 2024, and the main site has no pricing page, so recheck prices in the app.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Hurdlr tracks mileage, income and expenses and estimates your tax, with a free version and Premium at $100 a year. The free version only tracks mileage semi-automatically and expenses by hand, and the pricing pages we could read are dated 2023 and 2024.

- **Value for money: A.** Premium is $100 a year, about $8.34 a month, under 60% of the $14 where the cheaper quarter of accounting tools starts. Pro is $200 a year.
- **Free plan and trial: B.** The free version has semi-automatic mileage tracking, manual income and expense entry, real-time tax estimates and report exports, with no trial needed. Automatic tracking is Premium.
- **Features: C.** Mileage, expenses, tax estimates, invoicing, reports and US tax filing. The filing is a US feature, and it is a freelancer tool, not full accounting.
- **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You connect bank accounts and set up rules before it runs on its own.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iOS and Android, with 5 integrations on record. No desktop program.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Hurdlr's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among accounting and invoicing tools

- Hurdlr's GPA of 2.8 is higher than 56 of the 65 other accounting and invoicing tools we grade, and level with 5.
- It stands best on value for money (A, above 58 of 65) and worst on ease of use (C, above 1).
- Its paid plans start at $8.33 a month when paid by the year, against a middle price of $18.09 for the category: 13 of the 54 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 4 tools score higher and cost less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/accounting

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Hurdlr you would be making live feeds from your bank, which take an agreement with each bank or a service that has them. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.8 is higher than 56 of the 65 other accounting and invoicing tools we grade. It costs $100 a year.

- You could make: Expense tracking, invoicing and reports: an app builder makes these well.
- You could not: Live feeds from your bank, which take an agreement with each bank or a service that has them.
- You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Square, Stripe and Shopify among them.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## What people say

- **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.7 out of 5 from 21,132 ratings in the United States, read Nov 13, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id951737201

## Works with

Square, Stripe, Shopify, PayPal, Uber

**Tags:** Bookkeeping, Expense tracking, Invoicing, Reports

## Alternatives

- [Wave](https://toolgpa.com/tools/wave): Free invoicing and bookkeeping for US and Canadian small businesses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hurdlr-vs-wave)
- [FreshBooks](https://toolgpa.com/tools/freshbooks): Invoicing and accounting for freelancers and service businesses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/freshbooks-vs-hurdlr)
- [QuickBooks Online](https://toolgpa.com/tools/quickbooks): Cloud accounting from Intuit, from a free plan to 25-user Advanced. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hurdlr-vs-quickbooks)
- [ZipBooks](https://toolgpa.com/tools/zipbooks): Browser-based invoicing and bookkeeping with a free starter plan. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hurdlr-vs-zipbooks)
- [Shoeboxed](https://toolgpa.com/tools/shoeboxed): Receipt scanning by app or mail-in envelope, with mileage tracking. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hurdlr-vs-shoeboxed)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026:

- https://university.hurdlr.com/en/articles/1072143-what-are-the-premium-features-and-how-much-do-they-cost
- https://university.hurdlr.com/en/articles/3703110-what-are-the-pro-features-and-how-much-does-it-cost-pro
- https://university.hurdlr.com/en/articles/2577320-refund-policy
- https://www.hurdlr.com/
- https://www.hurdlr.com/accounting

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