Milometry vs TripLog

What TripLog does well

TripLog's free plan is one of the most generous here: automatic tracking with no monthly trip cap. Full reports need Premium or its once a year 7-day pass.

Free tracking means free tracking. Where MileIQ caps you at forty drives and Everlance at thirty automatic trips, TripLog's Basic plan gives you automatic GPS mileage tracking with no monthly trip cap, plus basic expense management, at no cost. Every user also gets a 7-day Premium pass once a year to create an annual report. If that is all the reporting you need, it is a genuinely generous position for a company to take.

It has real hardware. TripLog Drive at $79.99 and TripLog Beacon at $19.99 (£67.99 and £16.99 on its UK pricing page) solve the problem software cannot: telling the difference between you driving and you being driven. If passenger journeys pollute your log, hardware is the honest fix.

It plugs into serious accounting. QuickBooks and SAP Concur integrations, OCR receipt capture, bank and card linking. If you are running expenses through a finance system, TripLog is built to feed it.

It is cheap for what it is. $4.99 a month billed annually is the lowest paid tier of the American apps here, and its UK pricing page shows £4.24 a month, paid annually as £50.99.

What else TripLog is trying to be

Expense tracking, bank linking, receipt scanning, time tracking at $4 a month (£3.40 on the UK page), hardware trackers, and integrations with two enterprise finance platforms.

None of that is a fault. If you want one app that covers mileage and expenses and hours and pushes it all into QuickBooks, TripLog is a reasonable answer and we are not.

But it is worth being clear about what you are choosing. TripLog covers a good deal of small business expenses. Milometry is built around mileage and fuel, on a phone. Which of those you want depends on whether your problem is "my books are a mess" or "I keep forgetting to log my miles".

What it means for a British driver

TripLog shows UK prices on its UK pricing page and is on the UK App Store. Its tax guidance and integrations are mainly American, so check its reports suit HMRC before you rely on them.

The sterling figures on this page are the ones TripLog's UK pricing page shows. Check at checkout which currency you are charged in.

Milometry knows the HMRC bands, the taper after ten thousand miles, the April tax year and the passenger rate, because it was built here for that.

Where we think the trade goes the other way

£9.99 once against £4.24 a month billed annually, which is £50.99 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 the log stays on your phone. We have no server of ours and no account, so the record of where you have driven is on your phone and wherever you choose to export it. If where your drives are kept matters to you, check with TripLog how its plans handle it.

Where TripLog is genuinely better

The free tier. Unlimited automatic tracking for nothing, with a report once a year, is better than £9.99 if £9.99 is the constraint. Say so plainly.

Hardware. The Beacon and the Drive solve passenger detection properly. We cannot.

Accounting integrations. QuickBooks and Concur out of the box. We export CSV and PDF and leave the rest to you.

Expenses and time. A wider tool if you want a wider tool.

Which one you should pick

Pick TripLog if you want a free automatic mileage log and are happy to check its reports suit HMRC, if you need hardware to filter passenger journeys, or if your expenses run through QuickBooks or Concur.

Pick Milometry if you drive in Britain, want the HMRC arithmetic done properly in sterling, and would rather own a focused app than rent a broad one.