Kilevo vs MileIQ

MileIQ runs on your phone and records drives in the background. At the end of each one, you swipe to classify it as business or personal. Kilevo has no phone app: it reads the appointments in your calendar and turns the ones with a location into trips.

This page is written by Kilevo. MileIQ's figures come from their public pricing page, checked in July 2026. Verify them before deciding.

Price

	Kilevo	MileIQ
Free	5 trips per month	40 drives per month
Paid	$69 per year	$11.66 per month, billed annually

That is $69 a year against roughly $140. But read the free row again: MileIQ's free tier is eight times larger than ours. Forty drives a month covers a lot of people entirely. If you drive occasionally, MileIQ costs you nothing and Kilevo will not. We would rather you know that now than discover it in week three.

With Kilevo, trips beyond the free limit are not deleted. They are flagged, and they come back if you subscribe later. That is a consolation, not an answer.

The real difference: swiping

MileIQ captures the drive but cannot know why you took it. Every drive arrives unlabeled, and you classify it — business or personal — one swipe at a time. Miss a week and you are reconstructing your movements from memory, which is exactly what a contemporaneous log is supposed to prevent.

Kilevo starts one step earlier. The appointment already says where you went and why. The title becomes the business purpose, the location becomes the destination, and the trip is created as a round trip from your default address. There is nothing to classify, because nothing was ever ambiguous.

The flip side is blunt: a drive that is not in your calendar does not exist for us.

Where MileIQ wins

• It catches everything. The unplanned stop, the supply run, the second client you squeezed in. None of that is in a calendar.
• Mobile app. Kilevo runs in a browser. There is no app.
• Real distance. MileIQ measures the road you actually drove. We estimate the route between two addresses, so a detour is invisible to us.
• A far more generous free tier.

Where Kilevo wins

• The purpose is already written. No swiping, no backlog, no reconstructing a month of unlabeled drives.
• Retroactive. Sign up in June, and Kilevo reads your calendar back to January 1. An app that was not installed recorded nothing.
• Receipts merged into the PDF at the end of the report — the mileage log and its supporting documents in one file.
• No phone, no battery, no permissions. Nothing runs in the background, because nothing needs to. Your location is never tracked.
• Half the price, and it also computes French and Dutch allowances if you file in more than one country.

Addresses without a city

Reading a calendar has one structural weakness. People type “120 Main Street” and leave out the city. Kilevo looks for the match closest to your home address, not the most popular one, and when it is not certain it says so: the trip carries a guessed address flag showing what was chosen. One click confirms it for every appointment sharing that title. A Teams or Zoom link produces zero miles, never an invented distance. The calendar sync page explains it.

We do not claim our distances are exact. We claim we tell you which ones we were unsure about. A tracker never has to.

Before you choose

If you are a W-2 employee, unreimbursed business mileage is not deductible on your federal return; your log serves an employer reimbursement. Self-employed readers deduct on Schedule C at $0.725 per mile for 2026. Check anything tax-related with the IRS or a professional.

Then open last week's calendar. If your drives are in there with an address, Kilevo will produce your log without you touching anything — try it free, no credit card. If they are not, take MileIQ. Our pricing is public.