Short answers to what drivers ask about mileage rates, claims and the app, each with a link to the longer version.
General information, not advice. Written as general information and correct as far as we know on 27 September 2026. Tax rules change, and how they apply depends on your own circumstances. This is not tax, legal or financial advice: check with an accountant, a tax adviser or HMRC before you rely on it.
Whether it records drives without being asked, whether it uses the rates your own tax authority publishes, what it exports, where your location data is kept, and whether you pay once or every month. Milometry records automatically once it is set up, has the published rates of several countries built in, exports PDF and CSV, keeps the log on your phone and is a single payment.
FeaturesMilometry is one. You pay once through the App Store or Google Play, and there is no subscription, no paid tier and no in-app purchase for this app. It is not free and there is no trial.
PricingMilometry does. There is nothing to sign up for: no email, no password and no account of ours. Your log is stored on your phone, and place names and maps come from Apple or Google.
Your log stays on your phoneMilometry can, once it is set up. It needs location set to Always and, on Android, battery set to Unrestricted. Some phones stop background apps anyway, so it also looks for drives it did not record and offers them back to you.
Drives that log themselvesYes. Milometry runs on iPhone, iPad and Android. A purchase on the App Store and one on Google Play are separate.
DownloadYes. Milometry itemises each month and each tax year with claim values and expenses, ready to share as a PDF or a CSV.
Paperwork that is already doneA claim for business travel is only as good as the record behind it. A log that gives the date, the start and end, the reason and the distance of each journey can be checked line by line. A round figure worked out from memory cannot.
What a mileage log has to prove, wherever you file itRecord each journey when it happens, not at the end of the year. A notebook or a spreadsheet will do it if you keep it up. An app that records the drive for you leaves less to remember, and Milometry is one of those: it records, you sort each drive into business or personal, and it keeps the log.
Drives that log themselvesUsually the journeys themselves and not only the total: the date, the places, the distance, whether each one was business, the rate applied and the amount. Milometry exports that as a spreadsheet, and a claim document as a PDF with the business journeys, the rates and the totals. Ask your own accountant what they want.
Turn a year of driving into a claimMilometry handles the mileage and leaves the books to your bookkeeping software. It is not accounting software and does not post into one. It exports each month or tax year as a PDF or a CSV, and the CSV opens in any spreadsheet.
Paperwork that is already done55p per business mile, banded to 25p past 10,000. Published by: HMRC. The 55p rate applies from 6 April 2026, replacing the 45p that had stood since 2011. Checked against the source on 24 August 2026.
Mileage rates in the UKIreland uses the civil service motor travel rates, which depend on engine size and on how far you have already driven this year, so there is no single figure to apply. Take your rate from the Revenue table. Electric vehicles use the 1,201-1,500cc rates. Checked against the source on 24 August 2026.
Mileage rates in Ireland76 cents per business mile, with no threshold. Published by: the IRS. The business rate is 76 cents a mile from 1 July 2026. Miles driven between 1 January and 30 June 2026 are at 72.5 cents. Checked against the source on 24 August 2026.
Mileage rates in the US73 cents per business kilometre, then 67 cents past 5,000. Published by: the CRA. Provincial rates for 2026. In the territories the limits are 4 cents a kilometre higher: 77 cents for the first 5,000 km, then 71 cents. Checked against the source on 24 August 2026.
Mileage rates in Canada91 cents per business kilometre, capped at 5,000. Published by: the ATO. The cents per kilometre method is capped at 5,000 business kilometres per car per income year. 91 cents applies for 2026-27. Checked against the source on 24 August 2026.
Mileage rates in Australia$1.20 per business kilometre, then 37 cents past 14,000. Published by: Inland Revenue. Petrol rates for 2025-26, the latest Inland Revenue has published. It publishes each year’s rates after the year ends, so 2026-27 rates follow in mid-2027. Diesel is $1.30 then 38 cents, petrol hybrid 90 then 24 cents, and electric $1.22 then 23 cents. Tier 1 covers the first 14,000 km of total travel. Checked against the source on 24 August 2026.
Mileage rates in New Zealand30 cents per business kilometre, from the first one. Published by: the Finanzamt. The Kilometerpauschale for business travel by car is 30 cents a kilometre, for every kilometre driven. Commuting is different: the Entfernungspauschale counts one way only, at 38 cents a kilometre from the first kilometre from 2026. Checked against the source on 24 August 2026.
Mileage rates in Germany50 cents per business kilometre, capped at 30,000 km. Published by: the BMF. The amtliches Kilometergeld is 50 cents a kilometre, up to 30,000 business kilometres a calendar year, and 15 cents a kilometre for each passenger you carry. Both figures rose in 2025, from 42 cents and 5 cents. Checked against the source on 24 August 2026.
Mileage rates in Austria0.4440 euro per business kilometre, reindexed quarterly. Published by: FOD BOSA. The federal kilometre allowance is reindexed every quarter against fuel prices. The figure here, 0.4440 euro, covers 1 July to 30 September 2026. Check the quarter you are claiming for before you rely on it. Checked against the source on 24 August 2026.
Mileage rates in Belgium26 cents per business kilometre, tax free. Published by: la Agencia Tributaria. Employers can reimburse 26 cents a kilometre free of income tax, plus tolls and parking with receipts. The rate rose from 19 cents in July 2023 and still stands. Checked against the source on 24 August 2026.
Mileage rates in Spain25 cents per business kilometre, untaxed. Published by: de Belastingdienst. The untaxed travel allowance is 25 cents a kilometre from 1 January 2026, up from 23 cents. The same figure is what the self-employed deduct per business kilometre. Checked against the source on 24 August 2026.
Mileage rates in the NetherlandsFrance uses the barème kilométrique, which varies by fiscal horsepower (up to 7 CV), by distance band, and by whether the car is electric, so there is no single rate. Take yours from the official table. Tolls and parking are claimed separately. Checked against the source on 24 August 2026.
Mileage rates in FranceJapan has no standard per-kilometre business rate. What the National Tax Agency sets is a monthly tax-free ceiling on commuting allowances, banded by one-way distance, and journeys under 2 km are taxable in full. Business mileage is whatever your employer’s policy pays. Checked against the source on 24 August 2026.
Mileage rates in JapanThe approved mileage allowance payment rates for cars and vans are 55p a mile for the first 10,000 business miles in a tax year and 25p a mile after that. The 55p rate applies from 6 April 2026, replacing the 45p that had stood since 2011. Motorcycles are 24p and bicycles 20p, with no threshold.
Mileage calculatorYes. It resets on 6 April. It counts your business miles in every car or van you use for one job, not per car. A job with an unconnected employer has its own 10,000.
Mileage calculatorYour employer can pay up to 5p a mile for each colleague you carry on a business journey, free of tax. Paying it is optional. If they do not pay it you cannot claim tax relief for it, and there is no passenger rate for the self-employed.
Mileage calculatorYou can claim tax relief on the difference through Mileage Allowance Relief. If you drive 4,000 business miles and are paid 25p a mile, the approved amount is £2,200 and you were paid £1,000, so you claim relief on £1,200. Worth about £240 to a basic-rate taxpayer. Claim it through Self Assessment, or a P87 if you do not file a return.
Mileage calculatorNo. Travel between home and a permanent workplace is ordinary commuting and does not qualify. Travel to a temporary workplace, between sites, or to a client usually does.
Mileage calculatorFor each business journey: the date, the start and end points, the reason for the trip, and the distance. Employees who file a tax return: keep records for at least 22 months after the end of the tax year. Self-employed: at least 5 years after the 31 January filing deadline. If you might backdate a claim, keep the records for every year you claim.
Mileage calculatorYour journeys are stored on your phone, not on any server of ours. To show maps and name the start and end of a trip, the phone asks Apple or Google, like any map app. If you turn on syncing, exports go only where you choose: your phone’s own files, your cloud drive, or your own network drive.
Yes. Recording carries on with the screen off and while you use other apps. If you swipe the app away mid-drive, Milometry tells you usually within a quarter of an hour and keeps everything it recorded up to that point.
Sometimes. Automatic recording needs location set to Always and, on Android, battery set to Unrestricted, and some phones stop background apps anyway. A trip that starts and ends in the same place leaves no gap to spot. Milometry looks for gaps between the journeys it did record and checks your odometer readings against the log, and offers anything missing back to you. You can always add a trip by hand.
Your phone leaves the place you parked at speed either way, so the journey is recorded. Two things stop it becoming miles. Quiet mode, from the bell on the Track screen, a Siri phrase, the widget, or a calendar event that mentions a train, keeps Milometry from announcing anything. And every saved journey is checked for the shape of a train or a bus (no corners and a steady speed, or gentle stop-start at town pace) and offered up for the bin, or binned for you if quiet mode was on. Tell it when you normally drive under Travel hours and other days go quiet by themselves.
The rates are built into the app and change when you install an update. After an update, the Mileage scheme screen in Settings offers any new figures, so check it. If a rate changes before you have updated, you can enter your own rate there.
It should not. GPS runs only while a drive is recording. Between drives the phone watches a ring around where you parked, and on Android an optional watcher uses the motion sensor, which is designed to cost very little. If you would rather it did nothing in the background, turn departure detection off and press Start yourself.
Almost certainly not. Ordinary commuting (the regular journey between home and a permanent workplace) is the most common way a mileage claim goes wrong. Tag your home and your workplace in Milometry and it recognises those drives and keeps them out of the figure, while still keeping them in your records. Travelling to a temporary workplace, a client or a site is a different matter, and that usually counts.
Not at all. Plenty of driving is just driving. Milometry records any journey, works out what it really cost from your own fuel economy, splits that between whoever was in the car, and shares a single drive as a PDF. A holiday can be grouped and totalled without a business mile anywhere near it.
Yes. Export a CSV from your old app or a spreadsheet, then match its columns to Milometry in the import wizard. Duplicates of trips you already have are skipped.
£9.99, paid once. For scale, that is the approved amount for 19 business miles at 55p. There is no subscription, no account, no tiers and nothing to cancel. It was built because the mileage apps we tried wanted a monthly fee, an account or both, for something quite simple.
Yes. You pay once through the App Store or Google Play, and there is no subscription or recurring charge for this app. There are no in-app purchases, no paid tiers and no adverts inside it. If we make a new, separate app one day, buying it would be your choice, and your copy of Milometry would not be switched off.
Updates to Milometry are included at no extra cost. While we sell it, we keep releasing updates that fix problems and keep it working on current versions of iOS and Android, and you install them from the store when you choose. Paying once is not a promise of development without end: the terms say exactly what it does mean.
No. There is no free version and no trial. If you buy it and change your mind, refunds are handled by Apple or Google under their own rules, and our terms explain how to ask. If the app is faulty, email us and we will put it right.
Yes. Apple and Google set the price in each country’s currency and show it before you buy. The price at checkout is the price you pay, including VAT or other sales tax where it applies.
Yes, on the devices your Apple or Google account allows: install it on each one with the account you bought it with. A purchase on the App Store and one on Google Play are separate. Your log is stored on the device that recorded it, and there is no account of ours to copy it between them, though you can export it.
No. There is nothing to sign up for: no email, no password and no account of ours. You buy and install it with the Apple or Google account already on your phone.
Your log is stored on your phone, so you move it yourself. In Settings → Export & sync, save a full backup, then use Restore from backup on the new phone. If automatic export goes to a cloud drive or your own network drive, a full backup goes with it each time. Install the app again with the account you bought it with. A purchase on the App Store does not carry over to Google Play, or the other way round.
Apple or Google took the payment, so ask them first. On the App Store, use Purchase History or reportaproblem.apple.com. On Google Play, ask from your order history within 48 hours of buying; after that, email us and we can refund you through Google Play. If the app is faulty, email us and we will put it right.
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