The mileage tracker built for Uber Eats couriers

Uber's annual tax summary reports your online miles - waiting for an order, driving to the pickup, and on-trip. That's better than it used to be, but it still isn't your tax log: it can't see the miles you drive while offline or working another app, and it's a year-end estimate, not the per-trip record the IRS actually wants. GigOdo is the log.

What Uber's number still misses

Three gaps stand between Uber's summary and your full deduction. Offline miles: repositioning toward the restaurant district before you tap online, or circling after going offline between waves, never make Uber's count. Multi-app shifts: run Uber Eats alongside DoorDash and each app only sees itself - one continuous log across platforms is the only clean record (you can't claim the same mile twice, and your own log is what sorts the attribution out). Documentation strength: IRS Publication 463 expects a contemporaneous per-trip log; a platform's annual total is a weaker backstop if you're ever asked. At the current 76-cent rate (72.5 cents before July 2026), even a 100-mile monthly gap is about $76 a month - $912 a year - of deduction that only exists if you logged it yourself.

How couriers use GigOdo

• Turn on Auto-Detect (Android) and just go online. GigOdo notices driving and tracks in the background while you work the Uber Driver app. Swipe right to keep work drives, left to discard personal ones.
• Home Zone makes it hands-free: leave home, tracking starts; pull back in after your last delivery, it stops and files the trip.
• Log the payout with each trip - or type your night in plain words ("6 uber eats runs $63 with tips, maybe 40 miles") and the AI turns it into trips you approve.
• Know your real rate. Uber Eats pay per mile varies wildly by market and hour. GigOdo shows your actual $/mile for Uber Eats next to any other app you run, computed from your own trips.

Multi-apping? This is where it pays off.

Most Uber Eats couriers also run DoorDash or Grubhub. GigOdo tracks earnings per platform, so after a couple of weeks you know - with your own data, in your own market - which app deserves priority at dinner rush. The weekly AI review calls it out plainly: if Uber Eats paid $1.16 a mile while DoorDash paid $1.56, you'll know Monday morning.

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