Keepwright
Mileage Tracker · the pay-once Driversnote alternative
Pay once. No subscription. No dongle.
Driversnote is a good app — but it’s a subscription, it wants an account, and reliable auto-tracking leans on a physical beacon you buy and keep in the car. Mileage Tracker by Keepwright is a single purchase, works offline with no account, and needs no device to pair — with the right HMRC rate, kept current.
- £0Subscription.
Forever. - 0Dongles
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No signup. - ∞How long you keep
what you bought.
Mileage Tracker vs Driversnote
The honest, structural differences — the kind that don’t change from one release to the next:
- Pay once vs subscribe
Driversnote is billed monthly or yearly. Mileage Tracker is a single purchase, yours to keep. Over three years a subscription mileage tracker can run to £280 or more; we’re one price. - No dongle vs the iBeacon
Driversnote’s most reliable auto-tracking uses a physical beacon you buy (around £30) and keep in the car. We’re building auto-detection in software — nothing extra to buy, pair, or lose. - No account vs sign-in
Driversnote is account-based. Mileage Tracker works on your device with no account and no sign-up — and we never sell your data. - You own your records
Export everything to PDF or CSV any time, no lock-in. MTD-ready export for the self-employed. (CSV export is on our roadmap.)
Driversnote’s public pricing as of June 2026; Mileage Tracker is in development, so its column shows what the app is built to do — anything not yet shipped is marked planned. Where Driversnote genuinely leads today, we say so.
| Mileage Tracker | Driversnote | |
|---|---|---|
| Price model | One‑time | Subscription |
| Typical price | £14.99 once planned | ~£8–10/mo |
| Free tier | Free to try, then unlock planned | Limited (a few trips/mo) |
| No account needed | Yes | No |
| No device/beacon to buy | Yes | Beacon for best auto‑track |
| Works offline | Yes | Yes |
| UK HMRC rate & report | Yes | Yes |
| Multiple countries | Yes 10, planned | Yes |
| Receipts & expenses | planned | Mileage‑focused |
Yes = available · planned = on our roadmap, not yet shipped. Driversnote details from its public pricing and feature pages (June 2026), approximate and subject to change. We’re not affiliated with Driversnote; Driversnote is a trademark of its owner. Mileage Tracker helps you keep an accurate record — it isn’t tax advice; check current rates and rules with HMRC or your accountant.
What we’ll never ask you for
Here’s what Mileage Tracker will never ask you for — by design, not as a paid upgrade:
- No subscription
One payment, then it’s yours. You’ll never pay again to keep your own mileage history. - No beacon or gadget
No in-car device to buy, pair, or lose — and nothing to forget when you change cars. Just open the app and drive. - No account or password
No sign-up, no email, no login to forget. It works the moment you open it. - No bank or card linking
We never ask to sync your cards — your finances are none of our business. - Nothing to “not sell”
Your trips are yours: no account, never sold. (To draw a route on the map, its coordinates go to an open maps service; you can turn that off.) - No ad-tracking
No ads, no trackers, no “allow us to track you across other apps” prompt.
Auto-tracking without a dongle — our honest position
The reason Driversnote sells a beacon is a real one: knowing you’re in your car, reliably, is hard to do well in software alone. We’ve made that our engineering job, not your shopping list — an engine built to detect a drive and keep going even when the app is closed, capturing offline, with no device to pair.
We’ll only claim reliability once we’ve measured it.
So here’s where we are. Across our first real-world test drives the app has tracked within roughly 1–2% of the car’s odometer, captured in the background with the phone in a pocket — no beacon involved. These are early drives and odometers read to the nearest mile, so we’re not dressing it up as a precise headline number; we’ll publish a fuller accuracy picture as we gather more. Mileage Tracker goes through a strict capture-acceptance test before launch — we’d rather under-promise and prove it.
Switching from Driversnote?
You won’t have to relearn anything. Mileage Tracker works the way you already know — tap a drive business or personal, automatic drive detection, a map of each trip, and a clean monthly summary and HMRC-ready export for your accountant.
- Familiar where it counts
Tap to classify · auto-detected drives · a map of each trip · a clean monthly report. The muscle memory carries straight over. - Better where it matters
One payment instead of a subscription · no beacon to buy · your data’s yours — no account, never sold · the right HMRC rate, kept current. - Fair about Driversnote
Driversnote is a mature, shipping app with a loyal following, and its beacon gives dependable per-vehicle tracking today. We’re in development — so we’ll prove our reliability before we claim it, and we’ll win on price, privacy and no hardware.
See it for yourself
Your data is yours. When we launch you’ll be able to bring your records in and export them out, with no lock-in either way. Start with the free calculator today — if it does what you want, the full app is the next step.