The mileage tracker built for Dashers

DoorDash's year-end mileage estimate only covers active deliveries. The miles between offers and the repositioning to your next hotspot are deductible too - and none of them are in DoorDash's number. (The final drive home is generally nondeductible commuting.) GigOdo logs every working mile automatically and shows what dashing really pays after gas.

The miles DoorDash doesn't count

DoorDash's estimate runs roughly from accepting an order to completing the dropoff. But when you're dashing, the IRS standard mileage deduction also covers:

• Between-offer miles - circling, waiting, drifting back toward the zone
• Repositioning - driving to a hotspot or a better zone before you get an offer
• Multi-app gaps - miles while you have Dasher and Uber Eats both open, waiting for whichever pings first
• Long return legs back toward your zone after a far-out dropoff (the final drive home is generally nondeductible commuting)

For most Dashers those add up to a third or more of the shift's real mileage. At the current IRS rate of 76 cents per mile (72.5 cents before July 2026), a Dasher who actually drives 800 miles a month but only claims DoorDash's ~550-mile estimate is leaving about $180 a month - $2,175 a year - of tax deduction on the table. A contemporaneous log of your own is also simply stronger documentation than a platform's estimate if the IRS ever asks.

How Dashers use GigOdo

• Turn on Auto-Detect (Android) and just dash. GigOdo notices when you start driving and tracks in the background while you work the Dasher app. Swipe right to keep a work drive, left to discard the grocery run.
• Home Zone makes it fully hands-free: leave home, tracking starts; pull back in, it stops and files the trip.
• Log the payout, not just the miles. Enter what each dash paid (or type your day in plain words - "4 dd runs $52 with tip, about 30 miles" - and the AI logs it). GigOdo shows your real dollars per mile for DoorDash specifically, next to any other platform you run.
• Fuel log turns your fill-ups into your true cost per mile, so "Net after fuel" is your number, not a national average.
• Tax time: deduction totals at the IRS rate all year, CSV export free, and a CPA-ready report pack with quarterly estimates in Pro.

Is DoorDash your best-paying app? Now you'll know.

Because GigOdo tracks pay and miles per platform, it answers the question every multi-apper argues about: DoorDash's $/mile vs Uber Eats' vs Instacart's, from your own trips in your own market. The weekly AI review reads your numbers and tells you things like "DoorDash paid $1.56/mi this week while Uber Eats paid $1.16 - prioritize DoorDash offers." That's the kind of adjustment that moves your effective hourly more than any promo.

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