Milometry vs Everlance

What Everlance does well

Everlance is a polished product. It says it is used by more than four million drivers and solopreneurs. That is a lot of people who are not wrong.

The deduction finder is clever. Link a card and Everlance scans transactions for things that might be deductible and asks you about them. Plenty of self employed people miss deductions they never noticed, and this attacks that directly. We do nothing of the kind.

Expenses and mileage in one place. Photograph a receipt, attach it to an expense, and have it sitting alongside the drives in the same export. If your tax return is a shoebox problem rather than a mileage problem, that is the right shape of tool.

It goes all the way to filing. The Professional tier includes 1099 tax filing and what they describe as a million dollars of audit defence. That is a long way past logging a drive, and for an American freelancer it may be exactly what is wanted.

The swipe works. Label a trip work or personal with a flick, same as everyone else, done well.

What else Everlance is trying to be

Bank and card linking, automatic expense categorisation, receipt management, a deduction finder, team reimbursement, audit cover and tax filing.

Everlance is not a mileage app with extras. It is a deduction and expense platform, and mileage is one input into it. That is a legitimate and useful product. It is just a much larger thing to invite into your finances than a tracker. Its deduction finder and automatic expense capture work by linking a bank account or card.

Milometry asks for none of that, because it does none of that. It knows how far you drove and what your fuel costs, and nothing else about your money.

What it means for a UK driver

Everlance now sells in the UK through the App Store, in sterling, and its UK listing talks about HMRC's 55p rate. Its web pricing and its tax filing and audit cover are American. If you want mileage, expenses and deductions in one app and are happy to link a bank account, it is worth a look.

There is also a plain difference in posture on data. Everlance's own copy says: "All your data is securely stored in the cloud and private to you." That is a fair description of a well run cloud service, and plenty of people are happy with it. Milometry's version of that sentence is that there is no cloud of ours: no account, no upload to us, no server of ours holding a list of everywhere you have driven.

What it costs

Free for thirty automatically detected trips a month, plus unlimited trips you start and stop by hand. Starter is $89.99 a year or $10.99 a month. Professional is $119.99 a year or $19.99 a month. Starter and Professional both have a seven day free trial.

Thirty automatic trips can run out well before the month does for anyone driving for work, so the price to plan around on Everlance's own site is $89.99 a year. In the UK App Store it sells in sterling: check the price and the billing period there before you buy.

Where we think the trade goes the other way

£9.99, once, in sterling, from a company in the UK, for an app built around HMRC's rules. £9.99 once is a little under what nineteen business miles come to at the HMRC rate, and nothing recurs.

Prices here are for the UK. Outside the UK the app store sets our price in your currency.

Where Everlance is genuinely better

The deduction finder. A real feature that finds real money, and we have no answer.

Expense tracking with bank linking. Much more than we do.

Tax filing and audit cover. We do not go near this.

Team reimbursement. They have it, we do not.

Web access. They have a dashboard, we are a phone app.

Which one you should pick

Pick Everlance if you want mileage, expenses, deductions and, in the US, filing in one place, and are comfortable linking a bank account or card to get it.

Pick Milometry if you drive in Britain, want the HMRC bands handled properly in sterling, and want a mileage log that stays on your phone.