Free Mileage Tracker Apps in Canada
The free plans of Driversnote, MileIQ, TripLog, Everlance and Claimable Drive: their monthly caps, whether the log exports, and two free methods with no cap.
Every well-known mileage app has a free plan, and every free plan is limited somewhere. The question for a Canadian is not whether the app is free this month. It is whether the free plan leaves you, at the end of the year, with the log the CRA asks for: every business trip with its date, destination, purpose and kilometres, and the odometer readings that give your total kilometres for the year (what a CRA logbook has to contain).
A free plan can fall short in three different places, and they are not equally bad:
- It stops recording. The drives past the cap are never captured, and the gap is permanent.
- It records but hides. The drives are captured, and you pay to see or report them.
- It records but charges for the report. The log exists, and getting it out costs money.
The second and third cost you money at year end. The first costs you the record itself, and a year with missing trips is the usual reason a vehicle claim gets cut.
Every limit below was read from each company's own Canadian page or Canadian App Store listing in October 2026. Claimable Drive is our product. For the full comparison, paid plans included, see the best mileage tracker apps in Canada.
How many drives does a working year need?
A cap is counted in drives or trips, and a working day is more of them than it feels like. A client visit is two: there and back. A realtor showing three houses and going home makes four. Fifteen client visits a month is thirty drives.
So the useful arithmetic is your own: count a normal week's business stops, double it for the drives home, and multiply by four and a bit. If the answer is above the cap, the free plan covers part of your month, not all of it.
The free plans
TripLog: records everything, one free report a year
TripLog's Basic plan is "free forever" with unlimited automatic GPS tracking, and it sorts drives into business and personal. Recording never stops. Reports are where it charges: unlimited reporting is Premium, and a free user gets one free pass a calendar year, a seven-day Premium pass, which is enough to produce the year-end report. It runs on iPhone and Android.
This is the strongest free plan here for a complete record. What it does not give you is the business-use percentage or an odometer log, so you divide business kilometres by total kilometres yourself (how to calculate the business-use percentage).
MileIQ: 40 drives a month you can see
MileIQ's free plan is 40 drives a month, and it works in kilometres in Canada. Past 40, MileIQ keeps detecting drives, but a free user can only view the first 40 classified drives that month until they upgrade or the month resets. Its Canadian App Store listing describes the downloadable CRA log as a premium feature.
So nothing is lost past the cap, but the record is behind the paid plan, and the report probably is too.
Driversnote: 15 trips a month
Driversnote's free plan covers 15 trips a month for tracking and reporting, and its FAQ says free users can only create reports for up to 15 trips a month. It is the most CRA-specific of the established apps, with a Canadian report that can show the business and personal split and the percentage. Fifteen trips is about seven client visits, so the free plan fits an occasional driver.
Everlance: 30 automatic trips, unlimited manual
Everlance's free plan covers 30 automatically detected trips a month plus unlimited manual trips, and its Canadian listing includes reports in the free plan. Past 30, you can keep the log complete by entering trips by hand. Its Canadian help centre notes that the default settings are for the US, so switch it to kilometres and the CRA rate when you set it up.
Claimable Drive: 30 drives a month, the export always free
Our app, an iPhone app in beta on TestFlight. Free records thirty drives a month, counting every drive it records, business or personal, which is roughly fifteen round trips. Past thirty, recording pauses until the first of the next month: the drives you have stay yours in full, but the ones in between are not captured, so the cap is the first kind of limit above. A subscription keeps it recording.
What the free plan keeps that the others charge for: the business-use percentage for your car, the start and end odometer readings, a coverage number that warns you when the log has gaps, and the logbook export, any time.
The two free methods with no cap
Paper. A notebook in the glovebox with date, destination, purpose and the odometer at each end of each trip is a complete CRA log and costs nothing. Its failure is the habit: entries made at the end of the week from memory (app or paper: what the CRA accepts).
A spreadsheet. The same columns, kept as you go, with the sums done for you. Our mileage log template has the columns the CRA asks for.
Both are free without limit. Neither records anything on its own.
Comparison table
| Free cap | Past the cap | Report or export on free | Business-use % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TripLog | None | Not applicable | One free report pass a year | Not found |
| MileIQ | 40 drives a month | Still detected, only the first 40 visible | Described as premium | Not found |
| Driversnote | 15 trips a month | Reports cover 15 trips a month | Yes, up to 15 trips a month | Yes, in the Canadian report |
| Everlance | 30 automatic trips a month | Manual trips unlimited | Yes, per its Canadian listing | Yes, per its Canadian listing |
| Claimable Drive | 30 drives a month | Recording pauses until the 1st | Yes, any time | Yes |
| Paper or spreadsheet | None | Not applicable | It is the record | You calculate it |
"Not found" means we looked in the company's own Canadian pages and help centre and did not find the feature.
Which free option fits
- You drive for work every day: no capped free plan will hold your year. TripLog's free plan records all of it, or keep paper, or pay for the app you prefer.
- You drive for work a few times a week: Drive, Everlance or MileIQ's free plans can cover a full month, and Drive and Everlance give you the percentage too.
- You drive for work a few times a month: any of them, Driversnote's 15 trips included.
In a year where you use the CRA's simplified logbook, you need a complete log only for a three-month sample period, after a full base year, plus the year's odometer readings. That makes a free plan's monthly cap matter for three months rather than twelve, but only once the base year is behind you.
FAQ
Is there a completely free mileage tracker app in Canada? TripLog's Basic plan records without limit for free, and gives one free report pass a year. Every other established app caps its free plan, by the number of drives you can record, see or report.
Will the CRA accept a log from a free app? The CRA does not approve apps, paid or free. It accepts any record that holds the date, destination, purpose and kilometres of each business trip, and the odometer readings for the year. A free plan's log is as good as a paid one if it is complete.
What happens to my drives when I hit a free plan's cap? It depends on the app. MileIQ keeps detecting drives but hides those past 40 until you upgrade; Claimable Drive stops recording until the first of the next month; Everlance lets you keep adding trips by hand. Only a plan that keeps recording leaves your year complete without paying.
Sources
- CRA, Motor vehicle records: https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/businesses/topics/sole-proprietorships-partnerships/business-expenses/motor-vehicle-expenses/motor-vehicle-records.html
- TripLog, Pricing: https://www.triplog.net/pricing
- TripLog on the Canadian App Store: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/mileage-tracker-app-by-triplog/id585918522
- MileIQ Canada, Pricing: https://mileiq.com/en-ca/pricing
- MileIQ Support, free drive limit: https://support.mileiq.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004851126
- MileIQ on the Canadian App Store: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/mileage-tracker-by-mileiq/id578830929
- Driversnote Canada, Pricing: https://www.driversnote.ca/pricing
- Everlance on the Canadian App Store: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/mileage-tracker-by-everlance/id985378916
- Everlance, Everlance for Canadians: https://help.everlance.com/hc/en-us/articles/45326497256219-Everlance-for-Canadians
- Claimable Drive: https://tryclaimable.ca/drive
Claimable Drive keeps this logbook for you.
An iPhone logbook, free for thirty drives a month, that records without being opened, suggests which drives are business, and shows the percent a self-employed Canadian actually deducts.
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