RoadKept vs MileIQ

MileIQ is built to answer "How many miles did I drive?" RoadKept is built to answer "How much do I owe, how much should I set aside, and how much did I save?" That is the whole comparison, and the rest of this page is the evidence for it: every MileIQ figure below is from MileIQ's own pages, with the day we read them, and every RoadKept figure is the one the product itself shows.

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What each one costs

Product No-cost plan Paid Trial
RoadKept Free plan: the set-aside calculator, 10 Tax Copilot questions and 5 receipt scans a month, no card, your full history Pro: $7 a month, or $69 a year 14 days, card up front
MileIQ 40 drives a month (MileIQ's pricing page, checked 21 August 2026) Unlimited: $13.99 a month, or $11.66 a month billed annually, or $139.92 a year (MileIQ's pricing page, checked 21 August 2026) 30 days, on the Teams plan

A price here is the vendor's list price for a new subscriber on the day it was read. It says nothing about what an existing subscriber pays, and vendors change list prices without notice — check the page before you decide.

What each one claims to do

Yes, Partly and No are what MileIQ's own pages claim, read on 21 August 2026. "Not stated" means the page we read did not say. RoadKept's column is what the product does today.

What each one claims RoadKept MileIQ
Mileage capture
Automatic trip detection (background GPS) No Yes
Manual entry by day, week or month Yes Yes
Odometer start and end per trip Yes Partly
Bulk paste of past shifts Yes No
Named locations and frequent routes No Yes
Trip replay on a map No Yes
Multiple vehicles Yes Partly
Tax
A set-aside figure from your own numbers Yes No
Progressive federal brackets, not a flat rate Yes No
All four filing statuses Yes No
State income tax Partly No
Self-employment tax and QBI Yes No
Quarterly deadlines with the amount due Yes No
Safe-harbor underpayment tracking Yes No
Standard mileage vs actual expenses, per vehicle Yes No
1099 reconciliation against your own records Yes No
W-2 plus gig withholding optimizer Yes No
More than one business on one return Yes No
1099 e-filing No No
Deductions and expenses
Receipt scanning Yes No
Receipt storage Yes No
Bank and card import No No
Earnings import from platform CSV Yes No
Fuel and maintenance logs Yes No
Reports
CSV export Yes Yes
PDF report Yes Yes
Excel export with numeric cells Yes No
Year-end package for a preparer Yes No
QuickBooks or Concur integration No Yes
Platform
Native iOS and Android app No Yes
Full web app Yes Partly
AI tax assistant Yes No
Paid audit defense No No

Where MileIQ is ahead

Where RoadKept is ahead

Who should pick which

Pick MileIQ if what you want is automatic trip detection (background GPS), named locations and frequent routes and trip replay on a map and the rest of its capture features. It has those today and RoadKept does not.

Pick RoadKept if you want to know what to hold back from every payout, what each quarterly payment is, and what your year-end Schedule C looks like, computed from your own records. MileIQ's pages do not claim odometer start and end per trip, bulk paste of past shifts and multiple vehicles.

Many drivers run both: a capture app for the miles, RoadKept for the tax side. Paste the month's miles in and RoadKept does the arithmetic.

Worth knowing about MileIQ

Questions drivers ask

How do RoadKept and MileIQ prices compare?

RoadKept Pro is $7 a month or $69 a year, and the Free plan is $0 with no card. Unlimited: $13.99 a month, or $11.66 a month billed annually, or $139.92 a year (MileIQ's pricing page, checked 21 August 2026). Each figure is that vendor's list price for a new subscriber on the day shown, and any of them can change, so read the pricing page before you decide. RoadKept's price is the one you join at for as long as your subscription stays active without a lapse.

Does RoadKept detect trips automatically like MileIQ?

Not today. MileIQ's page says it detects trips automatically in the background. RoadKept logs miles by manual entry, odometer readings, bulk paste of past shifts, or a foreground GPS tracker that pauses if your screen locks or you switch apps. If automatic trip detection is the one thing you need, MileIQ has it and RoadKept does not.

What does RoadKept do that MileIQ does not?

Going by MileIQ's own pages, it does not offer, or only partly offers: odometer start and end per trip, bulk paste of past shifts, multiple vehicles, a set-aside figure from your own numbers, progressive federal brackets, not a flat rate, all four filing statuses, self-employment tax and QBI, quarterly deadlines with the amount due, safe-harbor underpayment tracking, standard mileage vs actual expenses, per vehicle, 1099 reconciliation against your own records, w-2 plus gig withholding optimizer, more than one business on one return, receipt scanning, receipt storage, earnings import from platform CSV, fuel and maintenance logs, excel export with numeric cells, year-end package for a preparer, full web app and aI tax assistant. RoadKept does each of these, and the set-aside figure, the quarterly amounts and the year-end report are computed by code from your own records rather than estimated.

Can I use MileIQ and RoadKept together?

Yes. Some drivers keep a mileage app for automatic trip detection and use RoadKept for the tax side: paste the month's miles in, and RoadKept computes the set-aside figure, the quarterly amounts and the year-end Schedule C report from them. Your records stay yours and export any time.

Start free — no card

The Free plan needs no card. Pro is $7 a month or $69 a year, with a 14-day trial.

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