Everlance vs TaxMiles for Gig Drivers (2026)

If you drive for Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, or another 1099 platform, the mileage-app decision is not a brand contest. It is whether you still have a dated log in March — five IRS fields, classified the same day, with 2026’s two rates stamped on the right half of the year. Everlance is a long-running mileage-plus-expense app on iPhone and Android. TaxMiles is an iPhone tracker built around that log, plus Watch / CarPlay / widgets if you already live in Apple’s car.

This is not a teardown of Everlance’s full feature set. It is a criteria sheet for a solo gig driver who will take the standard mileage rate on Schedule C. A separate live page already compares MileIQ vs. a free iPhone tracker. Different competitor, same job: keep the deduction you actually drove.

The criteria (not a feature dump)

1. What unlimited tracking costs after you blow past the free-trip cap. A full-time gig week does.
2. Auto-detect you will actually classify. Manual start/stop dies in a week. Same-day swipe is the habit that satisfies contemporaneous records. See IRS mileage log requirements.
3. The export looks like a log, not a dollar total: date, destination, purpose, miles, total miles on the car.
4. 2026’s two rates applied by trip date, not one blended annual rate.
5. Fit. Phone OS, whether you want expenses and tax filing in the same app, and whether you need Watch or CarPlay.

Price: what you pay after the free cap

Figures below are list prices from Everlance’s public pricing page and in-app purchase list, and from TaxMiles’ current App Store / site plans, checked September 8, 2026. They can change. Re-open the source before you buy.

	Everlance	TaxMiles (iPhone)
Free plan	30 automatic trips / month; unlimited manual trips; no card required	40 automatic trips / month; no card required
Paid monthly	Starter $10.99; Professional $19.99	Pro $5.99
Paid annually	Starter $89.99; Professional $119.99	Pro $39.99
Lifetime	Not offered on the public pricing page	$79.99 once
Trial	7-day trial of paid plans (card required to start the trial)	7-day Pro trial
Platforms	iPhone and Android (Google Play listing exists)	iPhone / iPad, iOS 17+
Publisher / listing	Everlance Inc. — App Store id 985378916	TaxMiles: Mileage Tracker — App Store id 6758579463

Everlance Starter is the unlimited-mileage tier. Professional is the mileage-plus-expenses-plus-filing tier. TaxMiles has one paid feature set (Pro) and a lifetime buyout of that set. On a two-year horizon, Everlance Starter annual is $179.98; Professional annual is $239.98. TaxMiles Pro annual is $79.98, or $79.99 once if you buy Lifetime. That gap does not make Everlance a bad app. It does mean price is not a reason to pick Starter if you only need an iPhone log.

Auto-detect and the free-trip cap

Both products auto-detect drives and let you classify afterward. That swipe is the deduction. Leave a stack of unclassified trips until December and you will either miss miles or guess purpose. Both fail an audit the same way.

The free caps differ: Everlance Basic is 30 automatic trips a month (manual trips stay unlimited). TaxMiles Free is 40 automatic trips. A multi-app Saturday can burn either cap. Everlance’s own App Store notes that Basic users who hit 30 can keep logging extra trips as unlockable rather than going dark mid-drive — useful, and still a paywall on those extras. Do not plan a full-time month on either free tier.

Auto-detect does not decide commuting vs. business. Home to a regular hotspot is usually personal. The first paid pickup and unpaid stretches while you are available for work usually count. Read what counts as a business mile before you swipe everything right.

The IRS log vs. a tax-filing suite

Publication 463 still wants the same five fields. Everlance advertises IRS-compliant reports, CSV/PDF export, and a web dashboard. TaxMiles Pro exports IRS-ready PDF and CSV with the same job. On TaxMiles Free you still get auto-detect and swipe classification; PDF/CSV export is Pro.

Where the products diverge is everything around the log:

• Everlance Professional (public pricing page): automatic expense tracking via card or bank, AI Deduction Finder, in-app 1099 / self-employed tax filing, and a $1 million audit-defense product. The same pricing page also lists “expense tracking + receipt uploads” under Starter; the App Store plan blurb puts expense tracking on Professional. Treat expense sync as a Professional selling point and confirm in-app before you pay.
• TaxMiles (site / FAQ): Deduction Finder for non-vehicle Schedule C categories is listed on the Free plan; receipt OCR, CPA export, and QuickBooks sit on Pro. There is no in-app federal return filing and no audit-insurance product. True Hourly Wage shows earnings after vehicle cost by platform. The 2026 rate is applied by trip date.

If your actual need is “mileage + bank feed + file in the same app,” Everlance Professional is built for that sentence. If your actual need is “dated miles I can hand a CPA,” you are comparing Starter-priced mileage to TaxMiles Pro or Lifetime.

2026’s two rates

Business miles January 1 – June 30, 2026: 72.5¢. July 1 – December 31: 76¢. A single year-end total × one rate is the wrong deduction. TaxMiles documents this split in Help and on the site: the rate in effect on the day of the trip, never today’s rate on older miles.

Everlance’s public App Store description, as retrieved September 8, 2026, still illustrates 2026 with 72.5¢ only (“$725 for every 1,000 miles”). That may be stale marketing copy, not a product defect. Before you stay on any tracker for the rest of 2026, export a June trip and a July trip and confirm they are not blended. How to split the year by hand: apply the 2026 IRS mileage rate change.

Watch, CarPlay, widgets

Verified TaxMiles capabilities only (Help Center, homepage FAQ, pricing):

• Apple Watch (Pro): start / stop from the wrist, live distance, complications on the watch face.
• CarPlay (Pro): start / stop on the car screen; live miles and deduction. Free users see an unlock notice on the car screen.
• Home and Lock Screen widgets; Live Activity / Dynamic Island for the current trip. A quarterly-deadline Live Activity in the last two weeks before an estimated-tax payment.
• Control Center / Siri (iOS 18): Start Trip control; “Start a trip in TaxMiles.”

Everlance’s public App Store listing for id 985378916 lists iPhone and iPad (iOS 15+). It does not advertise an Apple Watch app or CarPlay. This page does not claim Everlance lacks those surfaces in a future build — only that they were not listed on the public listing on the check date. If Watch or CarPlay is why you are shopping, confirm Everlance’s current listing yourself, or use the TaxMiles surfaces above.

Where Everlance still wins

• Android. TaxMiles will not run there. This comparison is over if your daily phone is Android.
• Mileage + expenses + filing in one subscription. Professional is priced for that bundle. TaxMiles is a mileage log with optional receipt / deduction tools, not a tax-prep app.
• Bank / card sync. Automatic expense import is an Everlance Professional feature. TaxMiles receipt OCR is not the same product.
• Teams / employer reimbursement. Everlance sells a company product. TaxMiles does not.
• Name recognition. Accountants have seen Everlance exports for years. A TaxMiles CSV is the same kind of file; you may need to say so once.

Who TaxMiles is not for

Say this out loud before you download:

• You are on Android, or you split tracking with a partner who is.
• You want to file the 1099 return inside the mileage app, or you want a packaged audit-defense policy.
• You want automatic bank feeds as the main reason you pay.
• You need a team admin / reimbursement dashboard.
• Your iPhone is below iOS 17.
• You will not classify trips the same week. No app fixes that, including this one.

Where an iPhone tracker is enough

• You already drive with an iPhone and do not need Android sync.
• You will exceed 30–40 auto trips and do not want an $90–$120/year subscription for the log itself.
• You want a lifetime purchase so the tracker is not another renewing bill next to Uber Pro.
• You want Watch, CarPlay, widgets, or Live Activity while you drive.
• You care that 2026 first-half and second-half miles are not blended on Schedule C.

TaxMiles Free: 40 auto-detected trips a month, swipe classification, tax estimate, Deduction Finder, odometer log, no credit card. Pro: $5.99/month or $39.99/year — unlimited trips, IRS-ready PDF/CSV, Apple Watch, CarPlay, widgets, Live Activity, receipt OCR, CPA export. Lifetime: $79.99 once. Current plans: taxmilesapp.com/#pricing.

How to decide in fifteen minutes

1. Count last month’s drives. Under 30? Either free tier may hold. Under 40? TaxMiles Free still might. Full-time? Price the paid tier you will actually use.
2. Android? Everlance (or another Android tracker). Stop here.
3. Want bank sync or in-app filing? Everlance Professional is the product that claims that job. TaxMiles is not.
4. iPhone only, log plus export? Compare Everlance Starter ($89.99/year) to TaxMiles Pro ($39.99/year) or Lifetime ($79.99 once).
5. Export a sample. Confirm date, destination, purpose, miles, and a year-to-date total. For 2026, confirm June at 72.5¢ and July at 76¢.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this an independent review?

No. This is a TaxMiles comparison on the TaxMiles site. Everlance facts are taken from Everlance’s public pricing page and App Store listing. That is disclosed on purpose.

Is TaxMiles the same app as Everlance or MileIQ?

No. TaxMiles: Mileage Tracker is App Store id 6758579463. Everlance is id 985378916. MileIQ is a Microsoft product. Mileage Tracker for Taxes is a different listing (id 6758426140).

Does a free mileage tracker produce an IRS-ready log?

Yes, if the records are contemporaneous and include the five fields. Paying does not make a sloppy log compliant. The usual paid upgrade is unlimited automatic trips plus a file you can email to a tax pro.

How should either app handle the 2026 mid-year rate change?

Apply 72.5¢ through June 30 and 76¢ from July 1, trip by trip. Do not multiply one yearly total by either rate.

Related reading: MileIQ vs. a free iPhone tracker, how to track mileage for taxes, IRS mileage log requirements, the mid-year 76¢ rate change, standard mileage vs. actual expenses.

This article is general tax education, not tax advice, and not an audit of Everlance’s full feature set or of any audit-defense policy. Everlance prices and plan names are taken from everlance.com/pricing and the U.S. App Store listing (id 985378916) as retrieved September 8, 2026, and can change. TaxMiles prices are the current Free / Pro / Lifetime plans on taxmilesapp.com (App Store id 6758579463). Consult a tax professional about your specific situation. Not affiliated with Everlance Inc. or the IRS. Not MileIQ. Not Mileage Tracker for Taxes (id 6758426140).