MileageMate: Trip Tracker

MILEAGEMATE: TRIP TRACKER - SMART MILEAGE TRACKING MileageMate: Trip Tracker is a streamlined mileage tracker designed for drivers, professionals, contractors, and employees who need clean, tax-ready records without a complicated setup. Track journeys your way: ▪ Dual App Modes: Choose "Mileage Expenses" for straightforward distance logging to submit to your employer, or "Tax Purposes" for complete rate, allowance, and tax calculation support. ▪ Manual journey logging with instant route previews. ▪ One-Tap Track for quick, seamless start/stop journey capture. ▪ Shift Tracking mode for continuous multi-stop and delivery shifts with automatic stop detection. ▪ Multi-stop journey support featuring easy continuation segments. ▪ Vehicle-aware tax calculations tailored for Car/Van, Motorcycle, and Bicycle profiles. IDEAL FOR: ▪ Freelancers, sole traders, and self-employed professionals. ▪ Employees and contractors claiming business mileage allowances. ▪ Anyone tracking travel distances for expense reimbursement or tax purposes. ▪ Anyone demanding fast, accurate mileage records with ironclad privacy. TAX-COMPLIANT CALCULATIONS (FULLY CONFIGURABLE) ▪ Automatically applies official tiered mileage allowances based on vehicle type. ▪ Tracks cumulative annual distance to accurately swap between initial and reduced mileage rates. ▪ Supports fully custom rates and custom tax-year thresholds to match your specific business requirements. ▪ Triggers automatic, retroactive recalculations across your entire history whenever your settings change. LOW-BATTERY TRACKING DESIGN MileageMate: Trip Tracker is engineered to be highly efficient with battery usage during your journeys: ▪ No 24/7 background tracking: Location services are only active when you explicitly start a tracking session. ▪ Optimised GPS settings: Uses balanced accuracy and distance-based filtering to reduce continuous power drain while driving. ▪ Local-first processing: Avoids constant network usage by calculating routes locally, saving battery and data. ▪ Segment-based tracking: Easily captures your start, stops, and final destination to build precise multi-leg journey records. PRIVACY-FIRST BY DEFAULT ▪ Local-First Persistence: Your trip history and personal logs are stored locally on your device in a secure SQLite database. ▪ No Central Tracking Backends: We do not host your location history or journey data on external developer servers. ▪ You Control Your Backups: Back up automatically and restore strictly using your own private Google Drive app folder or local file exports.