Milometry vs Hurdlr

What Hurdlr does well

We think Hurdlr is the most ambitious product on this page. It is trying to be the whole back office for a self employed person, and it goes a long way towards it.

Live tax estimates. Hurdlr tells you what you owe as you earn, rather than in a nasty surprise the following January. For someone with lumpy freelance income, knowing the running number is genuinely useful and it is a feature many freelancers value.

The free tier tracks unlimited mileage. Their own help centre describes the free version as including "unlimited semi-auto mileage tracking, manual finance tracking, and real-time tax estimates". Unlimited is unusual, and worth knowing.

It goes all the way to a P&L. Pro adds invoicing with card payments, bank reconciliation, an income statement, a balance sheet and a trial balance. That is real accounting, not a summary screen.

The scale is real. They report more than eight billion dollars of finances tracked and a 4.7 average rating.

What else Hurdlr is trying to be

Everything. Expenses, income streams, live tax estimates, tax payment tracking, invoicing, card collections, bank reconciliation, chart of accounts, general ledger, and core financial statements.

This is the clearest case on the site of the point we keep making. Hurdlr is an accounting system, and mileage is one feature among many there.

If you need an accounting system, that is a good reason to choose Hurdlr and a bad reason to choose us, and we would say so. But if what you actually need is an accurate record of your business miles, you are buying a great deal of machinery to get it.

Milometry is a mileage and fuel tracker, with no invoicing and no ledger.

What it costs, and how hard that is to find out

Premium is $100 a year, or $9.99 a month. Pro is $200 a year. Hurdlr publishes these figures in help centre articles dated November 2023 and May 2024. They still said this when we checked, but check the price in the app before you buy.

Finding that out is harder than it should be. Hurdlr's own pricing page redirects to the homepage, and the figures are published in their help centre rather than anywhere a prospective customer would naturally look. We have linked both help centre articles in the sources below so you can check them.

We think a price should be on the pricing page. Ours is shown in the App Store and Google Play before you buy, and in the UK it is £9.99.

There is also no UK price. Those are dollars, and we have not converted them.

Where we think the trade goes the other way

£9.99 once against $100 a year. £9.99 once is a little under what nineteen business miles come to at the HMRC rate, and there is nothing more to pay for this app.

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

And Hurdlr's automatic finance tracking works by linking bank accounts and cards. That is a fair trade for what you get back. Milometry needs to know how far you drove. Nothing is linked, nothing is uploaded to us, and there is no account.

Where Hurdlr is genuinely better

Live tax estimates. A real feature, well executed, and we have nothing like it.

Invoicing and getting paid. Entirely outside what we do.

Proper accounting. A P&L and a balance sheet, for people who need them.

An unlimited free mileage tier. If cost is the binding constraint, free beats £9.99.

Which one you should pick

Pick Hurdlr if you want your bookkeeping, invoicing and tax estimates in one place and are happy to link your accounts to get it.

Pick Milometry if you want the mileage part done properly for the UK, in sterling, on a phone, for a single payment, with nothing linked to anything.