The mileage tracker built for Uber drivers

Uber's Tax Summary reports your online miles - and, in Uber's own words, it "is not an official tax document." Online miles start when you log in, so the positioning drive before you go online, logged-out miles between sessions, and everything you drive for other apps never make the number. The record that actually holds up is the one you keep yourself. GigOdo keeps it automatically, free - without ever touching your Uber account.

What Uber's online miles miss

• It's not a tax document - Uber says so itself. The summary is a reference, not the contemporaneous per-trip log IRS documentation rules favor.
• Two mileage lines, one correct reading. Online miles (waiting, en route, on-trip while logged in) are the superset; on-trip miles are the smaller subset already inside them. Start from online miles - and never add the two lines together.
• The clock starts at login. Driving toward a busy area before you flip online, or repositioning after you log off, isn't counted. (The final drive home is generally nondeductible commuting either way.)
• Multi-apping breaks it entirely. Online in Uber and another app at once? Each platform counts the same miles as its own. Add the summaries and you've double-counted; pick one and you've undercounted. One independent log from your own phone covers every app with no gaps and no overlap.

At the current IRS rate of 76 cents per mile (72.5 cents before July 2026), the stakes are real: in Gridwise driver data published April 2026, the median Uber driver earned $21.18/hr - and a full-time driver's annual mileage deduction routinely runs five figures. Documentation quality is worth actual money. Our Tax Summary decoder walks through every line of the document itself.

How Uber 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 Uber 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. Surge, quests, and fees make Uber's math hard to pin down, but your net $/hour after gas, computed from your own trips, is the number that decides whether Uber or another app 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

Since mid-2025, Lyft has sent drivers formal warnings about third-party apps that link to driver accounts, and Uber has told reporters the same tools violate its terms - the coverage named earnings trackers that work by signing into your platform accounts. Whatever the platforms do with that policy next, it's simply not about GigOdo: there is no Uber login to give, no account connection, no automation. GigOdo is an independent odometer and ledger on your own phone. We covered the crackdown and what it means for trackers in detail. Switching from a linked tracker? The import presets bring your history over in one tap.

Your 1099 might not tell the whole story

Rideshare fares flow through the 1099-K, whose federal threshold is back to $20,000 and 200 transactions - and it reports gross customer payments including Uber's fees, which you deduct using the Tax Summary's expense lines so you don't pay tax on Uber's cut. Promotions and quests ride the 1099-NEC, whose threshold rises to $2,000 for 2026 payments. Plenty of part-time drivers will get no federal form at all while owing tax on every dollar - and 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).

Uber driver questions

More for Uber drivers

• Uber's Tax Summary, decoded - every line of the document: online miles, fees, tips, and the 1099s.
• The Uber/Lyft third-party app crackdown - what's actually being flagged, and what isn't.
• Delivering on Uber Eats too? The courier version of this page - same account, different miles.
• Also driving Lyft? One independent log solves the multi-app double-count.