Automatic detection
OdoTax notices the car moving and records the trip from the first mile — no start button anywhere.
- Start, route, distance and time
- Works with the phone in your pocket
- A percent or two of battery a day
Automatic Mileage Tracker
for the Self-Employed
OdoTax logs every business drive on its own and turns the year into an IRS-ready mileage log.
Free for 35 drives a month · No card required
Drive logged automaticallyHome → 350 5th Ave · 7.0 mi
2026 mileage logIRS-ready PDF and CSV
Mileage tracking that works while you drive
OdoTax runs in the background all year. You touch it when it suits you, and again when it is time to file.
The IRS lets you deduct 76¢ for every business mile you drive since July 1, and 72.5¢ for the ones before it. Hand-kept logs miss most of them — OdoTax keeps the record that turns those miles into an actual deduction.
Start free76¢Per business mile since July 1, 2026
0 tapsTo start or finish a drive
35 freeDrives a month, no card required
PDF · CSVReports your accountant can file
What OdoTax does for a self-employed driver
Five jobs, all of them the ones people give up on when they try to track mileage by hand.
One-tap sorting
Drives wait until you have a free minute, then come up one at a time: tap Business or Personal.
- Learns your regular routes
- Bulk-sort a whole week
- Purpose saved with every trip
IRS-format reports
The year is already totaled at the current standard rate and formatted the way the IRS asks.
- Date, route, distance, purpose
- PDF for filing, CSV for software
- Split by vehicle or by period
Every vehicle you drive
Run a separate log for the van, the second car or the one you share, without mixing their miles.
- Unlimited vehicles
- Per-vehicle totals and exports
- Switch cars without setup
Location data you control
Trips are stored in your account and used to build your log.
- Encrypted in transit and at rest
- Download your history as PDF or CSV
- Delete your account and its trips
Your own miles, at this year's rate
Move the slider to the week you actually drive. The arithmetic is the same one the IRS uses. For a whole year, another year or medical and charity miles, use the mileage calculator.
Deduction for a year of these weeks
240 miles a week × 26 weeks at 72.5¢ + 26 at 76¢
That is what comes off your taxable income, not a check — what you keep depends on your own rate. And it assumes every week looks like this one.
The IRS raised the business rate on July 1, so a 2026 year is half at 72.5¢ and half at 76¢. OdoTax prices every drive by its own date — a spreadsheet with one rate in it does not.
Start logging these milesThe report behind every deduction
This is what leaves OdoTax at tax time: a plain log of what you drove, already priced at the standard rate.
Page 1 of 4 · Deduction by form
Built for every driver whose car is part of the job
Any 1099 income plus a vehicle means deductible miles. These are the people who rack them up fastest.
Rideshare & delivery
Dozens of short trips a day across two or three apps, plus the miles between orders nobody pays for.
Real estate & sales
Showings, listings and client visits — the driving between them is the deductible part.
Trades & mobile services
Job sites, supply runs and callbacks add up faster than any other line on the return.
Freelancers & consultants
Irregular client drives are the easiest to forget, and the easiest to automate.
Simple pricing for a simple job
Start free and stay free for 35 drives a month. Go unlimited when the miles add up.
Free
$0
Enough to watch a full month of your own miles add up before deciding anything.
Start free- Automatic drive detection
- Business / personal sorting
- Live deduction total
- IRS-format mileage report
- PDF and CSV export
- Any number of vehicles
- Unlimited drives
ProRecommended
$6.25/mo
A year costs less than 100 business miles are worth as a deduction at the current IRS rate.
Start free, upgrade later- Automatic drive detection
- Business / personal sorting
- Live deduction total
- IRS-format mileage report
- PDF and CSV export
- Any number of vehicles
- Unlimited drives
No card to start · Cancel any time · Export or delete your trips whenever you like
FAQ
What people ask before they install a mileage tracker.
There is no cap on the miles or on the dollars — the deduction is your business miles times the rate. What limits it is what counts as business, and a log you cannot produce can be disallowed in full, not trimmed.
No. Home to a regular place of work is personal in both directions, however far it is. Driving between two work locations does count — the supplier, the second site, the client and back.
The one in force on the day of the drive: 72.5¢ before July 1, 2026, and 76¢ after it. OdoTax prices every drive by its own date, so a year that spans the change adds up on its own.
Not on a federal return: unreimbursed employee mileage went with the other miscellaneous itemized deductions and has not come back. The log is still worth keeping — it is what an employer reimburses against, and a reimbursement at the IRS rate is tax-free to you. A few states still allow the deduction on the state return.
Not the standard rate: five or more vehicles in use at the same time have to be claimed on actual expenses instead. OdoTax still logs every mile and every vehicle, but the totals it shows are worked at the standard rate, so they would not be the figure you file.
No. OdoTax detects motion on its own and logs the trip from the moment the car moves. There is no start button — you drive the way you always have.
It records every trip and you sort each one with a single tap. OdoTax learns the routes you take often, so a week of driving usually takes about a minute to clear.
Every trip carries the date, start and end points, distance and purpose, captured as it happened: a record made at or near the time of each drive, what people mean by a contemporaneous mileage log and the kind of record the rules call for. Export the year as a PDF and hand it over as is.
OdoTax leans on the low-power motion sensors your phone already runs and only reaches for GPS once you are moving. Expect a percent or two a day, about what a weather app costs.
Only you. Trips are stored in your account to build your log, and you can export or delete everything at any time.
Yes. OdoTax logs automatically from the day you install it, and earlier months can be entered by hand if you kept records. Half a year of accurate miles still beats a shoebox of receipts.
Worth reading before the next tax season
What we have written for the people who drive for a living.
Contractor mileage deduction: job sites, supply runs and the van
Drives from the shop to a job site, from site to site and out to a supplier are deductible. The drive from home depends on whether you work from a shop, a home office that qualifies, or neither. The rules, the van, the 2026 rates and a year worked through.
Read more
DoorDash mileage deduction: which miles count
The miles from a pickup to the customer and on to the next order count. The drives to your first pickup and home from your last drop-off are a question Publication 463 does not answer for delivery apps. The rules, the 2026 rates, the log to keep and a year worked through.
Read more
Home office and mileage: when the first drive of the day counts
If your home office is your principal place of business, the drive from home to your first client and back from the last one is business mileage. Without one, those two drives are usually commuting. The rule, the test the office has to pass, and a 2026 year worked both ways.
Read moreReady to stop losing miles?
Turn OdoTax on once, drive exactly as you do now, and let the report write itself.
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