Alternatives
MileIQ alternatives
MileIQ is a mileage tracker owned by Bending Spoons. It records drives in the background with your phone's GPS, lets you classify each one as business or personal with a swipe, and produces IRS-compliant mileage reports. The free plan covers 40 drives a month. It doesn't capture receipts or other expenses.
Why people look
Why teams look for a MileIQ alternative
The reasons that come up in evaluations. Whether they apply to you depends mostly on where your receipts come from.
Mileage is in one app and receipts are in another, and I merge them by hand every month.
Trips and receipts sit on the same expense report, approved together.
Parking and tolls from the same drive end up nowhere.
Photograph the receipt or let Smartbills find it in your email, and add it to the trip's report.
Our company reimburses mileage at the CRA's tiered rate.
Smartbills calculates each trip from the route at your per-kilometre rate, the CRA's tiered rate included.
The shortlist
6 alternatives to MileIQ
The products teams shortlist against MileIQ, each with what it's for. The order isn't a ranking, and the criteria are explained below.
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Everlance
Everlance logs drives automatically and finds deductions in your bank feed. Smartbills starts from the receipt, reads every item and tax, and syncs to your books.
Best forDrivers, gig workers and field teams whose biggest deduction or reimbursement is mileage.
Compare it with Smartbills - 02
Hurdlr
Hurdlr tracks a freelancer's mileage, income and tax estimates. Smartbills reads every receipt line by line and syncs expenses to the books your accountant uses.
Best forUS freelancers who want mileage, income and a running tax estimate in one app.
Compare it with Smartbills - 03
Expensify
The expense report app most finance teams already know, set against Smartbills on where each receipt comes from before anyone files it.
Best forChoose Expensify if your team already runs on its expense reports and wants a familiar, well-supported report-and-approve workflow it won't have to relearn.
Compare it with Smartbills - 04
Smart Receipts
Smart Receipts turns photographed receipts into PDF and CSV expense reports. Smartbills reads them too, finds the ones in your email and syncs everything to your books.
Best forIndividuals, field crews and small teams who mostly need receipts turned into a PDF or CSV expense report.
Compare it with Smartbills - 05
Dext
Dext collects the receipts and invoices your accounting practice is sent. Smartbills gets the receipt from the merchant at the moment you pay.
Best forAccounting practices collecting documents from many clients at once, who need client reminders and publishing built in.
Compare it with Smartbills - 06
Hubdoc
Hubdoc moves documents into Xero and stops there. Smartbills adds digital receipts, expense policy, cards and payables around those documents.
Best forXero users whose only need is getting bills and receipts into Xero at no extra cost.
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Disclosure
And Smartbills, which is ours
Slipping our own product into a roundup without saying so is exactly what makes these pages worthless, so to be clear, this one is ours.
Smartbills
Best for: People and teams who claim receipts and mileage together and want one place for both.
Smartbills vs MileIQHow this list was put together
These are the products that come up in the same evaluations as MileIQ, drawn from what prospects actually shortlist against it and from the rest of its category. The order is editorial rather than a ranking, because we don't run benchmarks on products we don't operate, and a scored table written by a vendor about its competitors isn't evidence. Each entry links to a full comparison with claims specific enough to check.
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Comparing MileIQ with something else?
Bring one month of your own receipts and card transactions. The number that settles it is the share of transactions that ended up with an itemized document attached, and you can measure that in one cycle.