The mileage tracker built for Grubhub drivers

Ask Grubhub for last year's mileage and its own support center gives you the honest answer: tracking miles is your responsibility. There's no IRS-compliant mileage log in the driver app - and the miles Grubhub could even estimate stop at engaged offers, missing the driving that fills the rest of your shift. GigOdo logs every working mile automatically and shows what Grubhub really pays you after gas. Free.

The miles Grubhub can't give you

Whatever mileage figure exists on Grubhub's side covers offers - restaurant to customer while engaged. When you're working, the IRS standard mileage deduction also covers:

• Between-offer miles - circling near restaurant rows waiting for the next ping
• Repositioning - driving toward the busy zone before your block, or after a far-out dropoff
• Multi-app gaps - miles with Grubhub, DoorDash, and Uber Eats all toggled on, waiting for whichever pays first; no single platform's number covers those, and adding their estimates double-counts

(The final drive home is generally nondeductible commuting.) At the current IRS rate of 76 cents per mile (72.5 cents before July 2026), a driver missing 250 working miles a month leaves about $2,280 a year of deduction unclaimed - and Grubhub's own pay page reminds you that gas, maintenance, and insurance are entirely your costs. The deduction is how you get some of that back; your own contemporaneous log is what makes it stick.

"Base pay accounts for mileage" is pay - not a mileage log

Grubhub's pay model folds mileage into base pay as one factor among several (delivery type, time, market). Two things follow. First, that's compensation, not a reimbursement - it doesn't reduce the miles you can deduct. Second, it's not a record: no per-day, per-trip log comes out of it. Keep your own and both problems disappear.

How Grubhub drivers use GigOdo

• Turn on Auto-Detect (Android) and work your block. GigOdo notices when you start driving and tracks in the background; swipe right to keep work drives, left to discard the personal ones.
• Home Zone makes it hands-free - leave home, tracking starts; return, the trip files itself and the tracker deep-sleeps on your battery.
• Log pay with tips separate. In Gridwise's 2025 data (7,371 Grubhub drivers, published April 2026), tips were about 52% of what Grubhub drivers grossed - and through 2028 the qualified-tips deduction can shelter up to $25,000 of voluntary tips, if your records separate tips from base pay. GigOdo's ledger has a tips column for exactly that.
• See your real ranking. Grubhub's median gross was $16.17/hr in that same data - but your market is not the median. GigOdo computes net $/hour after gas per platform from your own trips, so you know whether your Grubhub blocks beat your DoorDash hours or just feel like they do.
• Tax time: deduction totals all year, CSV export free, CPA report pack with quarterly estimates in Pro.

Nothing linked, nothing to flag

Grubhub's violations policy targets falsifying your location or delivery progress - platform manipulation, not passive tools. GigOdo doesn't go near that line: it never asks for your Grubhub login, never touches the Grubhub app, and never automates anything. It's a standalone odometer with a ledger. (Grubhub's ownership changed in January 2025 - it's now part of Wonder - but nothing about how drivers are paid or taxed changed with it.)

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