Trip Sheet Central vs 5thWheel Trips
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Trip Sheet Central
This business tool simplifies managing trucking operations, including trip reports, income, expenses, and compliance with FMCSA standards. It helps with fuel tax filing and cash-flow management, offering secure access via the app or web browser.
- Manage trip reports
- Track income and expenses
- Handle shippers, receivers, and brokers
- Generate accounting statements
- File IFTA fuel tax
- Ensure FMCSA compliance
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Trip Sheet Central is a business tool for managing trip reports, income, expenses, shippers, receivers, brokers, accounting statements and IFTA (fuel) Tax. Trip Sheet Central makes it easy to file Fuel Tax, manage cash-flow, meet FMCSA (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration) compliance standards, and many more business reports. Trip Sheet Central takes your trucking office to the next level Access and manage trucking business information securely in an easy to use format from the app, or any internet browser. In the app: - Trips, trip expenses, maintenance and office expenses - even with no signal - GPS miles by state and quarterly IFTA reports - Receipt scanning, documents and PDFs - Dashboard with revenue and profit per mile - Home-screen widget, Siri and quick actions - Built-in User Manual and email support Requires a Trip Sheet Central account.
5thWheel Trips
This app helps owner-operator and company truck drivers meticulously track income, mileage, and fuel expenses. It simplifies financial analysis by calculating key metrics like dollar per mile and miles per gallon, while also organizing important documents like rate confirmations and bills of lading.
- Track gross income, mileage, and fuel spending
- Analyze dollar per mile ratio
- Calculate miles per gallon usage
- Organize receipts and trip documents
- Generate annual reports
- Create weekly driver reports for carriers
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This App is great for owner operator truck drivers to track their gross income, total mileage and fuel spendings. It helps to analyze dollar per mile ratio and miles per gallon usage. The App collects all the receipts and trips with rate confirmations and bill of ladings. Keeping your trucking data in one place will help you to create an annual report for your office needs. It is also convenient tool for company truck drivers for sending driver's weekly report with all the mileage and fuel expenses to a carrier company.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: 5thWheel Trips at 100% against Trip Sheet Central's 53%. 5thWheel Trips also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and monetization model (free vs paid). Trip Sheet Central's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (166 vs 6). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
5thWheel Trips holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Trip Sheet Central has 166 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of Trip Sheet Central's written reviews are positive against 100% of 5thWheel Trips's.
Trip Sheet Central ships an update every 2 months, 5thWheel Trips every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Trip Sheet Central | 5thWheel Trips |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (166 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 166 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Trip Sheet Central LLC | 5TH WHEEL LABS LLC |
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In-app purchases
Trip Sheet Central
No in-app purchases
5thWheel Trips
No in-app purchases
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