Drivey

I need to play nearly $100 a year to easily calculate my miles to save money that is immediately eaten up by the premium cost? That's a non starter right there

My wife is a self employed wedding and corporate event planner who drives a lot of miles for work every year. I tried out dozens of mileage / expense tracking apps and didn’t like any of them. The ones that were half way decent had either been abandoned by the developer or were too expensive (at least in my opinion). The ones that were decent, and not too expensive, offered tracking (automatic or manual start) but not the ability to manually add a trip that was not tracked. My wife is not tech savvy so I needed an app that was either simple to use or that I could make simple to use. She’s also got a bad case of ADD so I needed an app that either would automatically start tracking or that I could come up with a way to make it auto track on its own or a way to start it that my wife would easily remember. Enter Drivey. First I started by putting the Drivey widget on her Home Screen but she kept forgetting to tap start. Then I remembered that Shortcuts has the ability to automate running Shortcuts via NFC. So I ordered 10 NFC stickers off of Amazon ($6), created the automation for it to run the Trip Manager Shortcut Drivey provides, made a couple edits to auto tag as business and ask for notes about the trip, and then put the sticker in my wife’s car. Now when she is driving for work she taps her phone before starting to drive and taps it again when she arrives. If she has time she’ll add notes when the Shortcut prompts her. Otherwise I have it set up to create a reminder for that evening. Drivey is awesome and I can’t recommend it enough. Get it and whether or not you need the pro features go ahead and pay for them to help support the continued development of Drivey. I really want this app to stay around for a long time.

I needed an app that tracks my work mileage and found this in a forum post while looking for an app that can be automated with Shortcuts and Automation. There's no bloat or confusing options, it's very straightforward.