The mileage tracker built for Lyft drivers

Lyft hands you an Annual Summary with your online miles - and, in Lyft's own words, it "isn't an official tax document." It also can't see the miles you drive before going online, and if you multi-app, Lyft and Uber are each counting the same miles as theirs. The record that actually holds up is the one you keep yourself. GigOdo keeps it automatically, free - without ever touching your Lyft account.

Why the Annual Summary isn't enough

• It's not a tax document - Lyft says so itself. It's a reference, not the contemporaneous per-trip log IRS documentation rules favor.
• It starts when you go online. Miles positioning yourself before you flip the toggle, or after you log off mid-repositioning, aren't in it. (The final drive home is generally nondeductible commuting either way.)
• Multi-apping breaks it entirely. Online in Lyft and Uber at once? Both summaries claim the same miles. Add them and you've double-counted; pick one and you've undercounted the other's exclusive miles. One independent log from your own phone is the only clean answer - and it's the stronger record even if you never multi-app.

At the current IRS rate of 76 cents per mile (72.5 cents before July 2026), the stakes are real: in Gridwise's 2025 driver data (31,533 Lyft drivers, published April 2026), the median Lyft driver grossed $20.38/hr on $1.76 per mile - which means a full-time driver's annual deduction routinely runs five figures. Documentation quality is worth actual money.

How Lyft drivers use GigOdo

• Turn on Auto-Detect (Android) and drive. GigOdo notices when you start moving and tracks in the background while you run the Lyft driver app. The floating bubble shows live miles over any screen.
• Home Zone starts tracking when you leave home and files the trip when you return - then the tracker deep-sleeps, with measured battery use you can check in Settings.
• Log fares and tips separately. The IRS occupation list for the new qualified-tips deduction includes rideshare drivers - up to $25,000 of voluntary tips a year through 2028, if your records separate tips from fares. GigOdo's ledger has a tips column for exactly that.
• Know your real hourly. Lyft's pay structure changed again in May 2026 (a monthly fee cap replaced the weekly earnings commitment) - platform math keeps moving, but your net $/hour after gas, computed from your own trips, is the number that decides whether Lyft or Uber gets your Friday night.
• Tax time: deduction totals all year, CSV export free, CPA report pack with quarterly estimates in Pro.

No login, no link, nothing to flag

In 2025 Lyft warned drivers about third-party apps that link to driver accounts - its terms prohibit credential sharing and automated access, and the warnings reportedly pointed at unrecognized devices and connected apps. Whatever Lyft does with that policy next, it's simply not about GigOdo: there is no Lyft login to give, no account connection, no automation. GigOdo is an independent odometer and ledger on your own phone. Switching from a linked tracker? The import presets bring your history over in one tap.

Your 1099 might not even arrive

Rideshare fares flow through the 1099-K, and its federal threshold is back to $20,000 and 200 transactions (a handful of states set lower ones); bonuses and incentives ride the 1099-NEC, whose threshold rises to $2,000 for 2026 payments. Translation: plenty of part-time Lyft drivers will get no federal form at all - while owing tax on every dollar. When no form arrives, your own log is the only record of your income and miles. The tax guides take it from there (estimates, not tax advice).

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