SmartMiles vs FlatMile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SmartMiles
This app automatically tracks your driving for work, classifying trips as business or personal without manual input. It helps self-employed professionals and contractors log mileage for tax deductions, offering detailed reports and export options.
- Automatic trip detection
- Business vs. personal classification
- Customizable trip purposes
- Frequent route and work hour recognition
- Multi-vehicle support
- Exportable CSV reports
- Offline trip capture
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SmartMiles is the automatic mileage tracker for people who drive for work — self-employed professionals, 1099 contractors, realtors, sales reps, and small business owners. It runs in the background and detects every trip. There's no start or stop button. When you finish a drive, the trip is already in your inbox with the route, distance, time, and dollar value at the current IRS rate. CLASSIFICATION Swipe right for Business or left for Personal. Assign custom purposes like Medical, Charity, or Moving. Set it up once and SmartMiles classifies on its own: • Frequent routes — classify the same trip a few times and SmartMiles applies it to future trips on that route. • Work hours — set your schedule and trips during those hours are marked Business automatically. • Named locations — save home, the office, or client addresses and trips to them are recognized on sight. VEHICLES Add as many vehicles as you drive. Set a default, or change vehicles per trip. Pair your phone to your car's Bluetooth and SmartMiles assigns each trip to the right vehicle automatically. REPORTS Monthly and annual summaries show business miles, personal miles, and total deduction value by purpose. Export the full log as CSV — date, route, distance, vehicle, purpose, notes, and deduction value — the fields the IRS requires and the format most accountants ask for. OFFLINE AND BACKGROUND Trips are captured even when the app is closed and even without a signal. Anything captured offline syncs the next time you're connected. NOTES Add free-text notes to any trip — client names, project codes, or anything else you need at tax time. Start free. SmartMiles Pro unlocks unlimited trips. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
FlatMile
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Turn your work drives into organized mileage records. FlatMile logs drives automatically and free, lets you sort business from personal, and helps you prepare a report to share. No FlatMile account required. AUTOMATIC LOGGING, FREE FlatMile notices when you start driving and records the trip in the background, so there is no button to remember. Logging is free and has no trip limit. Tell it which car is yours and drives are attributed to that vehicle. BUSINESS OR PERSONAL, IN ONE SWIPE Review each drive and swipe: right for business, left for personal. Undo is always there. Add a purpose note, and correct a distance or an endpoint when you need to. REPORTS YOU CAN HAND OVER With a subscription, generate a PDF or CSV for any tax year in your log. Every report states its basis: the distances, the rate that applied to each period, and where that rate came from. It is a plain mileage record. Nothing in it is addressed to a revenue service. THE RATE IS YOURS TO CHOOSE - Standard: the published rate for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada or the Netherlands, shown with its source and the date that source was verified. - Custom: your own rate, or the one your employer pays, labeled as yours. - Mileage only: distances and the business/personal split, with no monetary section at all. Rates apply by the date of the trip, so changing a rate never rewrites last year's numbers. NO ACCOUNT There is no FlatMile sign-up. Your drives are kept on your iPhone rather than on our servers, which also means they are not synced between devices and cannot be restored by us if you lose the phone. With a subscription you can export every drive as CSV or PDF at any time. Turn on iCloud Drive backup to keep your own copy of the log. WHAT THE SUBSCRIPTION COVERS Automatic logging and adding drives by hand are free. Without a subscription, each logged drive shows its day, time, destination and duration, and its distance, route, value and business or personal answer stay locked. An annual subscription unlocks every logged drive at once and adds one-swipe classification, PDF reports and CSV export. Drives you could see while subscribed, including during the free trial, stay open if the subscription ends. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of that period. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Privacy policy: https://flatmile.com/privacy Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: FlatMile at 5.0 against SmartMiles's 4.7. SmartMiles's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 1) and chart position (#187 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, 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. SmartMiles sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and FlatMile sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
FlatMile holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SmartMiles has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
SmartMiles ships an update every 4 days, FlatMile every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SmartMiles | FlatMile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Best chart rank | #187 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 47 Signals LLC | Reklit BV |
In-app purchases
SmartMiles
- Smart Miles Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
- Smart Miles Pro Annual$59.991 Year
FlatMile
- Monthly$9.991 Month
- Yearly1 Year trial$69.991 Year
- Yearly14 Days trial$69.991 Year
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