# MileageWise review (2026): is it worth $8.99 a month? > Mileage tracking app and web log built for IRS audits Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. MileageWise logs business mileage through an automatic tracking app and a web dashboard, and produces mileage logs formatted for IRS records. It can also build a log from a Google Maps Timeline export. Plans are sold per vehicle, with monthly, annual and lifetime options. - **Category:** Spend & Bill Pay - **Made by:** MileageWise - **Website:** https://www.mileagewise.com - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you need receipts or expense reports, as it only logs mileage. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, MileageWise is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $8.99 per vehicle / month, billed monthly. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 14-day free trial, no credit card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Small Biz Monthly | $8.99 per vehicle / month, billed monthly | Web dashboard and mobile app, unlimited trips, auto-classification, trip editing and PDF, CSV and XLSX reports. | | Small Biz Annual | $69.99 per vehicle / year | Same features as monthly; the page says it saves 35% against monthly billing. | | Small Biz Lifetime | $179.99 one-time, per vehicle | Pay once with no recurring fees; the plan can be moved to a new vehicle free of charge. | Read from https://www.mileagewise.com/pricing-mileage-tracker/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with MileageWise before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **35% saving on annual billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page says the Small Biz Annual plan at $69.99 saves 35% compared with paying monthly. Source: https://www.mileagewise.com/pricing-mileage-tracker/ - **Lifetime plan for $179.99** (Lifetime license): A single payment for use from the subscription start date onward, with no recurring fees, tied to one vehicle at a time. Source: https://www.mileagewise.com/pricing-mileage-tracker/ ## Key features - **Automatic trip tracking:** Four methods: vehicle movement in the background, car Bluetooth, phone charging, or manual start and stop. - **Two distance modes:** Calculates an optimal door-to-door distance or records the actual route line, with backup mileage capture if tracking is interrupted. - **Audit-oriented logs:** Checks trips for inconsistencies the vendor describes as IRS red flags before generating a mileage log. - **Google Maps Timeline import:** Turns an exported Google Maps Timeline into a mileage log, useful for rebuilding a past year's records. - **Auto-classification and vehicle expenses:** Trips to a client or place already given a purpose are classified automatically, and vehicle expenses can be recorded in the app. ## Good for - Self-employed people who need a mileage log for tax records - Real estate agents, rideshare and delivery drivers - People reconstructing past years' mileage from Google Timeline ## Worth knowing - Each plan covers one vehicle; drivers using several vehicles interchangeably need a plan for each. - Annual plans can be upgraded to Lifetime only by paying the difference before the end of the calendar year of purchase. - It is built around US IRS mileage logs and does not handle receipts or other expense reports. - There is no free plan; after the 14-day trial a paid plan is required. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. MileageWise tracks business miles automatically and builds logs formatted for IRS records. It does that one job and nothing else, plans are per vehicle, and there is no free plan once the 14-day trial ends. - **Value for money: B.** $8.99 per vehicle a month, $69.99 a year (about $5.83 a month) or $179.99 once, against $8.99 for the cheaper quarter of expense tools. The lifetime price is under two years of the category's middle subscription. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A 14-day trial with no credit card, and no free plan after it. - **Features: C.** Automatic tracking by movement, Bluetooth or charging, two distance modes, audit checks and a Google Maps Timeline import. It does the mileage job fully, but it is a smaller job: no receipts or expense reports. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You choose a tracking method and set up each vehicle before the log is useful. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iOS and Android. No desktop app, and the only integration listed is Google Maps Timeline. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from MileageWise's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among spend and bill pay tools - MileageWise's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 55 of the 76 other spend and bill pay tools we grade, and level with 2. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 61 of 76) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $8.99 a month, against a middle price of $12 for the category: 8 of the 36 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 6 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/expenses ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of MileageWise you could make: expense tracking and reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 1 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.4 is higher than 55 of the 76 other spend and bill pay tools we grade. It costs $107.88 a year. - You could make: Expense tracking and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. 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 617 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/id1526654173 ## Works with Google Maps Timeline **Tags:** Expense tracking, Reports, One-time purchase ## Alternatives - [MileIQ](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mileiq): Automatic mileage tracking and reports for drivers and teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mileagewise-vs-mileiq) - [Everlance](https://toolgpa.com/tools/everlance): Automatic mileage and expense tracking for drivers and small teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/everlance-vs-mileagewise) - [Driversnote](https://toolgpa.com/tools/driversnote): Automatic mileage tracker for drivers and small teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/driversnote-vs-mileagewise) - [TripLog](https://toolgpa.com/tools/triplog): Automatic GPS mileage tracking with expense and time add-ons. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mileagewise-vs-triplog) - [Expensify](https://toolgpa.com/tools/expensify): Receipt scanning, expense reports and company cards, from $5 a member. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/expensify-vs-mileagewise) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.mileagewise.com/pricing-mileage-tracker/ - https://www.mileagewise.com - https://www.mileagewise.com/automatic-mileage-tracker-app/ - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mileage-tracker/id1526654173 Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/mileagewise Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).