MileCatcher Mileage Tracker 4+

Marvelously automatic

I used to struggle to track my business miles, often forgetting or going back with Maps after the fact. But this makes it automatic; it's totally without friction. When there's a badge, I open it. It shows me the trip on the map and I swipe it right or left for Business or pleasure. Done.
Premium extras look really attractive. But the monthly cost of $5 for Premium is higher than I like and cost them a star. I'd like them to offer individual Premium features for $1/month.
Still, I'm delighted to trade this (true) review for 6 months of premium. I'll update after with whether I keep it or go back to free.
It's the only app I always have running and give Always for its location permission!

Superior mileage tracker. Very Reliable.

Certain apps makes your life so much easier. This is one of them. I am a nurse and need to track my mileage and I LOVE MileCatcher. I have in the past tried to guess my mileage and keep track by using a paper mileage log book but I would always forget and lose track. So many times I forgot to write down my odometer reading and then had to spend time end of week using Google maps looking up addresses and distance. This app makes it quick and efficient and super easy to use. This app logs all your trips automatically and stores it for free online so you don’t use much data storage on your phone. And it separates each of your drives automatically and you can quickly add notes and classify each of your drives as either personal or business.
The app does all the math for you and will give you a detailed pdf or Excel reports of all of your drives. This company is dedicated to mileage tracking and been around for more than four years. Since they have all your trip locations backed up, I do like they don’t share the trips data internally with search engine etc. and that they comply with EU GDPR privacy requirements. Highly recommended!

End Of An App

I’ve used this app for 2 years now. It was never perfect, but for the low price of Free it did the job well enough so that I get compensation for the hundreds of miles I drive for work each week. However, the app unfortunately does not perform well enough to justify locking the main function behind a subscription. Which is exactly what they have done. Addresses are inconsistent at best, the app eats data like nobody’s business, and the blue “location in use” banner that never goes away is obnoxious and sometimes wreaks havoc on other apps. Tracking frequently failed to catch trips (again please keep in mind that I make tons of trips that need to be logged each week), shorter trips are frequently ignored, and sometimes segments of your trips will be recorded as a straight line from one spot to the next (to be fair, that particular issue is much less common than it used to be but still does occasionally happen). All of this I was willing to put up with though, for a free way to get money back to pay for my car’s wear and tear.
TL;DR, it’s no longer free to log trips. Which means my standards for the app have gone up. And the app unfortunately fails to meet those new standards. Will be uninstalling shortly.

Developer Response ,

Our apologies for your experience using MileCather! In the last year we have made significant improvements with trip logging and route mapping! The blue banner issue has also been resolved. If you would like to give us a try again, please reach out to us at support@milecatcher.com and copy this review for reference. We would be happy to offer you another trial!