5 Free Mileage Tracker Apps for Android

Updated August 2026 · Verified against the Play Store listings on 20 August 2026 · the price column replaced by what each free tier allows and by what the listing prices, a Data Safety column added, and a tax rate claim removed from the FAQ

Five apps with a live Play listing, weighed on the thing that decides the choice: how many trips each free tier detects before it stops, what lifting that limit costs, whether the listing carries advertising, and what each Data Safety section declares about collecting and about sharing.

Best overall on the free plan

Rating 4.7 from 35,497 reviews · Installs 1,000,000+ · Free to install · In-app purchases $10.99 to $119.99 per item · Developer Everlance Mileage Tracker · Listing updated 19 August 2026 · Contains ads: No · checked 20 August 2026

Google Play listing · 4.7 (35,497) · read 20 August 2026

Everlance is the best overall free mileage tracker on this page. It is free to install, its listing carries no advertising label, its free Basic plan detects 30 trips a month for you, and manual start and stop tracking stays unlimited on that same plan. The blunt con: trip 31 in a busy month is yours to type in, and lifting the cap means a paid plan, where in-app purchases run $10.99 to $119.99 per item. It is rated 4.7 from 35,497 reviews.

Everlance answers the question in its own words on its pricing page: Yes! You can use a basic version of Everlance with a free plan that includes up to 30 automatically detected trips per month. No credit card is required when signing up. The plan grid further down the same page says it a second way, listing automatic trip detection as 30 a month on Basic and unlimited on the two paid tiers.

• Good: Its own pricing page puts 30 automatically detected trips a month on the free Basic plan, and asks for no credit card
• Good: Unlimited manual start and stop tracking stays on the free plan, so the cap applies to automatic detection only
• Good: Rated 4.7 from 35,497 reviews, the highest score on this page, on a listing updated 19 August 2026
• Con: Automatic detection stops at 30 trips a month, so a busy month ends in manual entry
• Con: In-app purchases run $10.99 to $119.99 per item, the highest entry price of the paid apps here
• Con: Everlance’s own pricing page disagrees with itself about what the free plan carries: its FAQ says upgrading to Starter or Professional is what unlocks income and expense tracking, tax filing and audit protection, while the plan grid on that same page ticks receipt photo capture, custom expense categories and self employed tax filing for Basic, so anything beyond the mileage log is a question Everlance does not settle in one voice

Skip this if. Skip it if you make more than about 30 work trips a month and want every one of them detected for you.

Choosing between them. Choose Everlance over MileIQ for the higher rating and because its Data Safety section declares no sharing, and MileIQ over Everlance for the larger free allowance.

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Best free pick, nothing priced separately

Rating 3.0 from 20,812 reviews · Installs 1,000,000+ · Free · No in-app purchases listed · Developer Stride Health · Listing updated 31 July 2026 · Contains ads: No · checked 20 August 2026

Google Play listing · 3.0 (20,812) · read 20 August 2026

Stride is the free pick here, and the reason is what its developer publishes rather than what it leaves out. Stride Health says on its own site that the app is free to use with no hidden fees, and the Play listing carries no advertising label and lists no in-app purchases at all. The blunt con: it is the lowest rated app on this page at 3.0 from 20,812 reviews, and that gap is worth weighing before a whole tax year goes into it.

Stride Health answers its own question on its savings page, where Do I have to pay for the app? is answered Stride is free to use! When you use Stride to enroll in insurance, the only cost is the cost of the carrier’s plan. Higher up that same page the product is introduced as One free app. Everything you need. The Play listing description lists Automated GPS mileage tracking among the features that free version carries.

Neither Stride Health’s site nor its Play listing publishes a monthly allowance of automatically detected trips, where Everlance and MileIQ both publish one. That is a finding about what Stride Health publishes, not a measurement of what the app does, and this page does not turn the silence into a promise of unlimited tracking.

• Good: Its developer’s own site says the app is free to use with no hidden fees
• Good: No in-app purchases are listed at all, so no part of the mileage log is priced separately
• Good: Its Data Safety section declares no data shared with third parties
• Con: Rated 3.0 from 20,812 reviews, the lowest score on this page
• Con: No monthly allowance is published anywhere, so there is no figure to hold the developer to
• Con: Insurance and everyday savings sit around the mileage log, which makes the app broader than a tracker needs to be

Skip this if. Skip it if you want a published number you can plan a month of driving around.

Choosing between them. Choose Stride over Everlance when you want nothing priced separately at all, and Everlance over Stride for the far higher rating.

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Largest published free allowance

Rating 4.6 from 72,404 reviews · Installs 1,000,000+ · Free to install · In-app purchases $5.99 to $139.99 per item · Developer MileIQ · Listing updated 17 July 2026 · Contains ads: No · checked 20 August 2026

Google Play listing · 4.6 (72,404) · read 20 August 2026

MileIQ publishes the largest free allowance on this page, 40 drives every month, and it is free to install with no advertising label, rated 4.6 from 72,404 reviews. The blunt con is not the cap. Its Data Safety section is the only one here that declares the app may share data with third parties, and a mileage log is a record of where you were and when. Lifting the cap means in-app purchases from $5.99 to $139.99 per item.

MileIQ prices the cap in the same table as the cap itself, on its own pricing page, where the free plan reads 40 free drives every month and the Unlimited plan is listed at $13.99 per month, or $11.66 per month billed annually. Its Play listing description compresses the whole arrangement into one line: Free 40 drives per month, with unlimited tracking in MileIQ Premium.

One more thing that pricing page settles: it carries the copyright line of Bending Spoons US Inc., while the Play listing still names the developer as MileIQ. On the one app here whose Data Safety section declares sharing, the company holding the location history is worth knowing by name.

• Good: 40 automatic drives a month on the free plan, the largest published free allowance here
• Good: Its own pricing page prints the free allowance and the cost of lifting it in the same table
• Good: Rated 4.6 from 72,404 reviews, a large sample and the second highest score on this page
• Con: Its Data Safety section declares it may share data with third parties, the only app here that does
• Con: In-app purchases reach $139.99 per item, the highest ceiling on this page
• Con: 40 drives a month suits light work driving rather than daily client visits

Skip this if. Skip it if you drive most days, or if third party sharing is a line you will not cross.

Choosing between them. Choose MileIQ over Everlance for the larger free allowance, and Everlance over MileIQ because its Data Safety section declares no sharing.

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Best for expenses and income together

Rating 4.2 from 9,038 reviews · Installs 100,000+ · Free to install · In-app purchases $5.99 to $99.99 per item · Developer Hurdlr, Inc. · Listing updated 14 January 2026 · Contains ads: No · checked 20 August 2026

Google Play listing · 4.2 (9,038) · read 20 August 2026

Hurdlr is the entry to read closely before installing anything. Its own listing calls the free version semi-automatic and places Auto-Mileage Tracking inside Hurdlr Premium, so automatic drive detection is withheld from the free plan rather than capped on it. It is free to install, its listing carries no advertising label, and in-app purchases run $5.99 to $99.99 per item. The blunt con follows from the first sentence: if automatic detection is why you want a mileage app, the free plan is not it.

Read this first. The Hurdlr listing description has not been rewritten in years. Read today it still names the 2019 and 2020 tax years and quotes a per mile deduction rate from that period. This page does not repeat that rate and does not state a current one, because no rate on any store listing should be read as current guidance. The listing itself was last updated 14 January 2026, so the app is maintained even where its description is not.

The split is in the Play listing description itself: Hurdlr’s free version offers more than mileage-only alternative apps by including expense, income tax, and semi-automatic mileage tracking, while the same description files Auto-Mileage Tracking under Hurdlr Premium at $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year.

• Good: Expenses, income and tax estimates live in the same app as the mileage log
• Good: Its Data Safety section declares no data shared with third parties
• Good: In-app purchases stop at $99.99 per item, the lowest ceiling of the paid apps here
• Con: Automatic mileage tracking is a Premium feature, so the free plan is what its own listing calls semi-automatic
• Con: Rated 4.2 from 9,038 reviews, the smallest review base on this page
• Con: Installs 100,000+, an order of magnitude below the other trackers here

Skip this if. Skip it if automatic drive detection is the reason you want a mileage app at all.

Choosing between them. Choose Hurdlr over Stride when income and expense tracking matter more than free automatic detection, and Stride over Hurdlr when they do not.

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Best if you install nothing new

Rating 3.2 from 19,528,097 reviews · Installs 10,000,000,000+ · Free · No in-app purchases listed · Developer Google LLC · Listing updated 19 August 2026 · Contains ads: Yes · checked 20 August 2026

Google Play listing · 3.2 (19,528,097) · read 20 August 2026

Timeline is a feature of Google Maps rather than a mileage tracker, and every figure in this section belongs to the Maps listing. It costs nothing, it is already on most Android phones, and it lists no in-app purchases. Two things count against it. Its listing is the only one on this page carrying the advertising label, and Google’s own Timeline help pages, read 20 August 2026, describe no mileage report and no business classification, so all of that work stays with you.

Google’s own Timeline help page sets the terms: Timeline is off by default for your Google Account and can only be turned on if you opt in, and Since the data shown on your Google Maps Timeline comes directly from your device, Timeline is not available for Maps on your computer. The Android page of that same help article adds one more limit: Timeline isn't available on Android Go devices.

A correction to this page rather than to Google, and a correction to the previous correction. An earlier pass here withdrew a claim about getting Timeline data off the phone, on the reasoning that the help page described no way to do it. Read again today on its Android page, that reasoning fails twice. The page describes an encrypted backup and says As long as you’ve turned on backup, you can import your data onto a different device, even if you lose or damage your device, and it also sets out a step in Android settings, tap Export Timeline data, that saves the data to a storage location you choose. Timeline data can leave the phone. What those pages still describe nowhere is a mileage report or a business classification, so what leaves the phone is routes rather than a figure for a tax return.

• Good: Nothing new to install, and no account beyond the Google account already on the phone
• Good: Free, with no in-app purchases listed
• Good: Its Data Safety section declares no data shared with third parties and lists an independent security review, the only listing here that does
• Con: Its listing carries the advertising label, which none of the four dedicated trackers here do
• Con: Rated 3.2 from 19,528,097 reviews, by far the largest sample on this page and the second lowest score
• Con: Google’s Timeline help pages, read 20 August 2026, describe no business classification and no mileage report, so nothing here is ready to hand to an accountant

Skip this if. Skip it if you need a log you can hand to an accountant.

Choosing between them. Choose Google Maps Timeline over Stride only when you want nothing new installed and are willing to do the mileage arithmetic yourself.

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How to choose between them

The free tier is where these five separate, and each developer publishes its own answer in its own words. Everlance detects a set number of trips each month and then stops, leaving manual entry open. MileIQ works the same way with a larger monthly allowance and prints the price of removing it in the same table. Hurdlr is the odd one out: its own listing puts automatic mileage tracking inside the paid plan, so on the free plan the automatic part is the part you do not get. Stride publishes no monthly figure at all and says the app is free to use, which is a strength and a blind spot at once.

Then there are two lines a listing settles in seconds. Only Google Maps carries the advertising label; the four dedicated trackers do not. And on data, read both halves rather than one: all five listings declare that the app may collect data, and only MileIQ declares that it may share data with third parties. A mileage log is a record of where you were and when, so that second line deserves reading before any feature list.

Automatic detection is background work by the developers’ own description. MileIQ’s listing describes a tracker that logs every drive in the background with no manual input, and Hurdlr’s listing says it was designed to work without draining your battery. Neither publishes a figure for what that costs on your phone, and nor does any other listing here, so battery cost is one thing this page cannot settle for you. If you would rather start each trip yourself, Everlance publishes unlimited manual start and stop trip tracking on the free Basic plan, and those trips are not the ones the monthly allowance counts.

If you want a live speed readout on the same drives, a free speedometer app for Android covers that, and the finance apps hub collects the budgeting and expense tools that sit alongside a mileage log.

Which free tier fits your driving

• You want automatic tracking with no published monthly limit: Stride, whose developer says the app is free to use and whose listing prices nothing separately, as long as you accept that no allowance is published to hold anyone to.
• You drive a handful of work trips a week: Everlance covers 30 automatically detected trips a month, MileIQ 40 drives.
• You want expenses and income in the same app: Hurdlr, as long as you accept that automatic detection belongs to the paid plan.
• You want to install nothing new: Google Maps Timeline records the routes, and everything after that is yours to work out.

Receipts that are not mileage need somewhere to live as well: a simple Android list app covers the ones you cannot photograph on the spot.

Checked 20 August 2026: this page was rebuilt around the column readers actually arrive for. The old Price column read Free or Free to install in five rows out of five and decided nothing, so it has been replaced by what each free tier allows and by what each listing prices, both read at the source today. The purchase range is headed as what it is, every in-app purchase on the listing, because it is not the price of the upgrade: MileIQ publishes that separately and its section states it. Everlance’s allowance was re derived rather than carried over: its pricing page still puts 30 automatically detected trips a month on the free Basic plan, and that page’s own plan grid confirms unlimited detection only on the two paid tiers. MileIQ’s 40 free drives were confirmed on its pricing page and again in its listing description, and that pricing page now carries the copyright line of Bending Spoons US Inc. while the listing still names MileIQ as the developer. Hurdlr’s free version is still described on its own listing as semi automatic, with Auto-Mileage Tracking priced inside Premium. Stride’s entry no longer rests on an absence: Stride Health’s own site says the app is free to use, and the section now states that the missing monthly allowance is a fact about what Stride Health publishes and not a promise about the app. A Data Safety column was added, where the old table had none at all, and the new cell prints both halves of each declaration, what the listing says the app may collect and what it says the app may share, because all five declare collection and exactly one declares sharing and one half alone would invert the picture. An earlier pass withdrew the Timeline data claim on the grounds that Google’s help page describes no export; re read today on its Android page that was simply wrong, and the correction is now on the page, because that page sets out an encrypted backup with an import onto another device and also a step that exports Timeline data to a storage location of your choosing, while still describing no mileage report. A claim that this page made about no distance total has gone with it, because nothing the page could link ever supported it. The FAQ sentence asserting what claiming the standard mileage rate needs has been removed and nothing replaces it, because a tax rule is not a store fact and not this page’s to assert. Every rating, review count, install band, price, purchase range, advertising label and Data Safety line was re read today: Everlance moved from 35,454 to 35,497 reviews and Google Maps from 19,517,716 to 19,528,097, and the Everlance and Google Maps listing dates both moved to 19 August 2026.