MileCatcher Mileage Tracker

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!

The reporting is awesome, although I think it could be a little improved by adding custom reporting to the report writer function. The owner and I exchanged an email thread and he was super professional, kind and genuine. I love that by using MileCatcher I get to support someone like that. He emails every new user of the app and I was amazed that when I responded, he replied quickly and with enthusiasm. I hope that this app will not be the last that he creates. My only complaint about the functionality is that sometimes when I let my trips pile up and I haven’t classified them in a few days, the app gets “stuck” on one particular trip as though the server doesn’t get the message that I’m sending (re: what kind of trip, personal or business). So that trip just keeps on coming up over and over and over, until I close the app, and restart it or sometimes I even have to restart my whole phone (the latter has only happened twice that I remember). All in all- a great app by a person that seems to be genuinely concerned about whether or not his creation is actually helping people. Keep it up! Always keep adapting to the market and you’ll thrive for years to come. Thank you for the good work! Best, James K Willis Paychex HR Services Division

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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.

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I’ve been using MileCatcher since about April. I love that it automatically logs my trips so I don’t have to remember to log mileage for my home health jobs. I also like the maps, and the ability to merge trips, However, I do in home and facility. 2 places I go that are a tenth of a mile away from each other are logged as the same location, so I wish it was a little more accurate. Since the most recent update, a blue banner at the top of my phone flashes “MileCatcher is Actively Using Your Location.” I’ve been at home for 13 hours and am currently laying in bed, so there’s no need for this. I tried to set work hours so that it would only use my location during hours I typically work, but checked it halfway through the first day and noticed it wasn’t logging my drives at all so work hours no longer work either. It’s using a ton of battery and data. I paid a lot of money for something that doesn’t really do what I want it to anymore, wish I knew how to fix it.

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I tried hard to use this app, and gave it a good go. In the first month of use, I noticed that it wasn't tracking my trips entirely - it often didn't start tracking until I was several miles into my trip. I complained, support sent me an email to contact them, I never did. I also noticed that I would have notifications to classify trips, but when I opened the app nothing would be there. I would open and completely close the app several times until my trips finally popped up. After a couple months of use I couldn't even get the app to open in my phone, and it stopped tracking. I gave it a week hoping it would fix itself, and finally googled the issue. Google told me to uninstall and reinstall the app, and that my previous trips would be restored. It worked, but I lost 3 months of trips. It worked for another 2 weeks, and has stopped working again. Fortunately I was using a back-up program while trying to decide which one I liked better. I am uninstalling this one for good.