Mile Logger: Missing mileage write-offs due to app errors
The app is experiencing significant reliability issues, resulting in missing trips and lost data, which leads to uncertainty about accurate mileage tracking. Users are frustrated and concerned about potential financial losses due to these inaccuracies and the app's failure to function properly.
17 different people have complained about this since 01 Jul 2017, most recently on 15 Mar 2026.
No new posts for 242 days. This may have been fixed, or people stopped writing about it — the evidence below is from before 15 Mar 2026.
- “The app worked well at first but during the last few weeks I’ve noticed it’s missing trips and sometime losing whole days.”
- “It's annoying because I was driving for work a lot that time and hadn't checked in the app for a while.”
- “At this point I am wondering how many miles I am missing as write offs due to this inaccuracy and unreliability.”
17 people in 17 posts across 1 source · 0 in the last 30 days, 0 in the 30 before
The pain
shares of 17 peopleWhat goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 17 people using Mile Logger - Mileage tracker
- What goes wrong
- Fails to automatically log trips13 people · 76%
- Recorded mileage data disappears4 people · 24%
- Intrusive ads block app usage3 people · 18%
- UI elements are hidden or covered2 people · 12%
- Since
- 01 Jul 2017 → 15 Mar 2026
Is this a startup idea?
Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use — the fix belongs first to that provider.
- Complaints are about
- Mile Logger - Mileage tracker
- Looking for something else
- 0% want an alternative · 29% ask the provider for a feature
- What the numbers say
- Almost nobody is looking for a different product — people want this provider to fix it, not a new option.
The pain — what people say
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What people were doing
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- Complaint1271%
- Request529%
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17 signals · 1 sources
Evidence
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…s now I’ve been using the app since February 2018, it’s now mid May. The app worked well at first but during the last few weeks I’ve noticed it’s missing trips and sometime losing whole days. I’ll get the notification that I have new trips to log, example from yesterday was 7, I’ll click on the icon to open the app…
FrustratedMissing feature…h of drives never got logged and I don't have any idea what happened. It's annoying because I was driving for work a lot that time and hadn't checked in the app for a while. When I had an off day I checked in to log my drives and nothing was there. They still have never come up. New drives are being recorded now but I…
Frustrated…e app to not have to watch the ad, but that has never been an option. At this point I am wondering how many miles I am missing as write offs due to this inaccuracy and unreliability.
Missing featureMile Logger - Mileage tracker — This app seems broken After classifying my first trip as personal, it vanished. Totals at the top still show zero. On the reports page, personal and business are covered by the stat boxes (which don’t work either). It worked tracking my trip automatically but then fell completely flat.
Strong complaint…. I would choose that option IF the app actually gave me this option. So now this app doesn't work... hopefully there's an update to fix this.
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Score 26.8 → 27.0 · 09 Oct 2026, 01:00 → 02:15 UTC
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Questions about this idea
- Is Missing mileage write-offs due to app errors a startup idea?
- Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use, and the fix belongs first to that provider. The page shows what is frustrating users and how badly — not an open market to start a company in.
- How many people have this problem?
- 17 different people described it independently, in 17 mentions, the earliest from 01 Jul 2017 and the most recent from 15 Mar 2026. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
- Is this problem getting worse?
- Status: quiet — no new posts in the last 60 days. 0 people raised it in the last 30 days and 0 in the 30 days before; the status compares its share of everything collected from the same source, so collecting more or less cannot create a trend.
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Mile Logger's auto logging feature seems to be causing a lot of headaches, especially when it misses entire days or starts trips from incorrect locations. We've heard from 16 people who are experiencing these issues, and it's clear this is affecting their ability to track business mileage accurately. For those of you who've faced this, does the problem occur more often with a specific phone model or after a recent update?