Trip Cubby Mileage Log

Trip Cubby • Mileage Log may not be the sexiest app in the App Store, but if you spend a lot of time driving billable miles for work or plan to deduct your travel expenses at tax time it’ll probably get you hot the first time you use it.

Trip Cubby’s purpose is to log your road trips and every related penny that you plan to put on your expense report. You can classify your trips as Business, Charity, Medical, or Other, specify how much you get reimbursed for each mile, and add in a total for additional expenses if needed.

The first time you use App Cubby’s brainchild you’ll need to put in your vehicle’s mileage and set your expense defaults, but after that it’s all pretty automatic. When you finish a trip and input your ending mileage, that number gets remembered the next time you start a new trip. Time and date are also entered for you automatically when you start the trip and finish it by putting in the end mileage.

This app will work for casual users, but it’s clearly designed for heavy-duty drivers who put a lot of wear & tear on their personal vehicles in service to The Man. How heavy-duty, you ask? It features basic and advanced search! And you can tag your trips with keywords. If you have enough trips logged that you need advanced search, you’re spending a pretty serious amount of time in your car.

What, that’s not heavy-duty enough? How about exporting your trips to an Excel file? Yeah it does that, too.

I can’t say that I personally would pay $9.99 for this app because I only put about 5,000 miles a year on my ride, but if I was driving regularly for work and wanted to make sure I get back every cent the company owes me, I’d get this app in a heartbeat. The price might seem steep compared to most apps, but if you drive enough that you need it chances are it’ll pay for itself in due time. Plus, if you kiss enough ass with the accounting department, you might even be able to expense Trip Cubby’s cost. Go on, stick it to The Man! He won’t miss 10 bucks.