Milometry is an automatic mileage tracker for iPhone and Android that records drives, sorts each trip into business or personal, and totals the claim at the mileage rates published for your country — for a single payment, with no subscription, no account and no analytics.
What is Milometry?
Milometry is a mileage logging app for iOS and Android that detects when you drive, records the route, distance, stops and speeds in the background, and lets you file each trip as business or personal with a swipe. It converts that log into a claim total using approved per-mile rates built into the app for 12 countries, plus real fuel costs derived from your own fill-ups. Output arrives as statements for any month or tax year, exported as PDF or CSV. It is sold as a one-time purchase in the App Store and Google Play, with no account, no subscription and no server-side copy of your journeys.
Key Features
- Automatic trip recording — Milometry notices you leaving a place you parked and starts recording on its own; trips can also begin from a car Bluetooth connection, Siri, a home-screen widget or the lock screen, and recording continues with the screen off.
- Swipe-to-sort deck — unsorted drives stack into cards that replay their route on the map; swipe right for business, left for personal, and Milometry learns regular places so repeated destinations file themselves after the first time. Trips can be trimmed, split, merged or undone.
- Banded rate calculations — approved rates are applied per trip rather than averaged, including a trip that straddles a rate threshold. In the United States the rate is 76 cents per business mile with no threshold.
- Country rate sets — rules for the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, France and the Netherlands, each with its own rate, units and claim year; Japan begins on a common employer rate you can change, and anywhere else you enter your own rate.
- Real fuel cost and extras — fuel cost is calculated from your own fill-ups (real MPG), and parking, tolls and receipts can be attached to a trip.
- Exports and imports — statements for any month or tax year as PDF or CSV, saved to a folder you choose (phone files, a cloud drive or your own network drive); a CSV import wizard matches columns from another app and skips duplicate trips.
- On-device data — no account, no server of ours and no analytics; journeys stay in phone storage, while map tiles and place names are requested from Apple or Google.
- Quiet mode and train detection — a bell toggle on the Track screen, a Siri phrase, a widget button or a calendar event mentioning a train suppresses announcements, and saved journeys matching the shape of a train or bus trip (no corners, steady speed) are offered for deletion.
Who is it for?
- Sole traders and self-employed drivers: log business journeys through the year and export a tax-year statement as PDF or CSV at the approved rate for their country.
- Employees claiming mileage reimbursement: record client, site and temporary-workplace drives, tag home and permanent workplace so commuting stays in the records but out of the claim figure.
- Drivers in more than one country: switch between 12 built-in rate sets with different rates, units and claim years, or set a custom rate for anywhere else.
- Personal drivers: track what a vehicle really costs from fill-ups, split a journey's cost between passengers, or group and total a holiday with no business miles involved.
What can you do with Milometry?
- Build a mileage deduction record: drive normally, swipe a week's trips in seconds, then export a claim PDF or CSV ready for a tax return or employer form.
- Separate work from private driving: tag regular places once so client visits count and the daily commute is recognised and excluded from the total.
- Split a shared journey: use the passenger rate to divide a single drive's real fuel cost between the people who were in the car.
- Reconstruct or migrate a log: import a CSV from a previous mileage app or spreadsheet and merge it with newly recorded drives.
How does Milometry work?
- Drive — Milometry detects that you have left somewhere you parked and records route, distance, stops and speeds in the background, showing live distance on the lock screen; it stops by itself when you park.
- Swipe — unsorted journeys appear as a deck of cards with the route replayed on a map; right files business, left files personal, and regular places sort themselves.
- Claim — approved rates are applied per trip as you go, with fuel costs from your fill-ups and parking or tolls added, and statements generated for any month or tax year.
Pricing
Milometry uses a one-payment model at the price shown in your app store. There is no subscription, no account, no tiers and nothing to cancel. The app's own copy states it was built because competing mileage apps wanted a monthly fee, an account, or both.
FAQ
Does Milometry work in the United States?
Yes. It records, sorts and stores the log wherever you drive, and US rules are built in at 76 cents per business mile with no threshold. Rate sets cover 12 countries; for Japan it starts on a common employer rate you can change, and elsewhere you set your own rate.
Where does my location data go?
Journeys are stored on your phone rather than on any server of the developer. To draw maps and name a trip's start and end, the phone asks Apple or Google as any map app would. Exports go only where you choose: phone files, a cloud drive or a network drive.
Can Milometry miss a drive?
Sometimes. Automatic recording needs location permission set to Always and, on Android, battery set to Unrestricted, and some phones stop background apps regardless. A trip that starts and ends in the same place leaves no gap to detect. Milometry checks gaps and compares odometer readings, offers missing journeys back, and you can add a trip by hand.
Can I claim the drive to work?
Ordinarily no — regular commuting between home and a permanent workplace is the most common way a mileage claim goes wrong. Tag both places in Milometry and those drives are recognised and kept out of the claim figure while remaining in your records. Travel to a temporary workplace, client or site usually does count.
Do the mileage rates update automatically?
No. 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 it is worth checking. If a rate changes before you update, you can enter your own rate there. Claim figures are estimates, not tax advice.
