Do You Still Need Gridwise If You Use SOLODRIVE.PRO?

Keep Gridwise if you drive app hours and want your miles recorded automatically, your gig earnings pulled in from the accounts themselves, and demand information about airports, events and busy hours.

Add SOLODRIVE.PRO if you have passengers who ask when they can ride with you again and there is currently nowhere to send them.

The only real overlap is earnings, and it is narrower than it looks. Almost everything else these two apps do lands in a different place entirely.

One feature, and it behaves differently in each.

Gridwise tracks earnings by connecting to your work accounts. You link Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart and the rest, and the earnings come in on their own. Automatic earnings syncing is on its paid plan; the free plan syncs once per service or takes manual entry.

SOLODRIVE.PRO also puts your gig income and your direct rides in one place, so you can track earnings and stay tax-ready across everything you drive. The difference matters: it does not connect to your Uber or Lyft account. You enter those other-platform figures yourself. Your direct rides are already counted, because those fares ran through SOLODRIVE.PRO.

So if the only thing you wanted from Gridwise was a number, and you do not mind typing your app earnings in yourself, that is one overlap you can collapse. If you want that pulled in automatically, Gridwise is doing something SOLODRIVE.PRO does not do, and that is a real reason to keep it.

The Schedule C tax-ready block on SOLODRIVE.PRO is on the Pro tier. Basic earnings and mileage render on every tier.

Three things, and none of them are small if you drive app hours.

• Automatic mileage recording. Gridwise records your miles in the background across your whole driving day, and produces tax-ready mileage reports out of it.
• Earnings syncing from linked accounts. Connect the platforms and the earnings arrive without you entering them.
• Demand intelligence. Airport activity, local events, busy hours, and benchmarks against other drivers in your city.

That third one is worth saying plainly, because it is the part people forget when they compare the two. Gridwise is trying to make your next app hour better. SOLODRIVE.PRO has no opinion about where you should sit at 4pm on a Friday. It is not that kind of tool.

You get a booking page at your own handle, at `app.solodrive.pro/t/{handle}`. You set your hours and your rate.

A passenger you already drove opens that page, picks the date, the time and the pickup, and sends the request. No app assigns it. No other driver is offered it. You send back your fare, the rider puts a card on it to confirm the ride, and the fare is captured through SOLODRIVE.PRO when the trip is done.

There are three ways to hand it over: say your handle, text your booking page to a rider you are already messaging, or let them scan your booking QR code from a headrest or a window.

Then the part that changes a week. When a rider takes the same trip on a repeating schedule, you mark them as a regular. The rider consents, their card is saved, and SOLODRIVE.PRO bills that ride automatically each week on a Stripe subscription. Ten regulars is ten rides you can count on before the week starts, at a fare you set, from riders who asked for you by name.

Everyone who books you lands on your customer list, a read-only list of your own riders. It does not send anything for you. It is a record of who they are, and it is yours rather than a platform's.

None of that exists in a tracking app, and it is not a gap in Gridwise. Gridwise never set out to get a rider to come back to you.

• Gridwise answers: what did the app work pay, and where should I drive next?
• SOLODRIVE.PRO answers: how does this passenger book me next time?

An analytics app can tell you airport runs paid best last month. It cannot turn that airport passenger into someone who books you for the same 5am flight in three weeks.

That is the whole split. Better information about rides the app owns, or a rider who is yours. They are not competing answers, because they are not answers to the same question.

There is an honest version of this and it is not "the day you sign up."

Gridwise reads platform work. The more of your week is direct bookings from your own regulars, the less there is for it to read, and the more of your mileage and income already lives in SOLODRIVE.PRO because those rides ran through it. A driver whose week is mostly standing weekly rides is getting less out of a demand map for a queue they are barely in.

Most drivers are nowhere near that yet, and building toward it takes months, not weeks. Until then you are driving app hours and those hours need tracking. Running both is the normal setup, not a transition state you should feel behind on.

SOLODRIVE.PRO works alongside Uber and Lyft, not in place of them.

You keep taking app-assigned rides exactly as you do now, and a ride the app sent you is completed on the app's terms. Your booking page is for the riders who choose to come back to you on their own, for trips the app was never going to send. Direct bookings fill the gaps around your app hours first, and grow from there.

Gridwise has a free plan and a paid plan called Plus. Gridwise lists Plus at $9 a month billed annually on its own site as of August 2026, after a free trial; month-to-month pricing has been commonly listed higher, around $14.99. Check the app for current pricing. The free plan covers manual entry, a start and stop mileage tracker, and limited scheduled information.

On SOLODRIVE.PRO, your booking page, your handle, direct bookings and your QR code start on Free at no monthly cost, so you can take a direct booking before you pay anything. Every plan takes a fee on your direct rides, and it is a fraction of what the apps take:

• Free: $0 a month, plus 12% per paid ride with a $2.00 per-ride minimum.
• Basic: $10 a month, plus 6.5% per paid ride with a $1.50 per-ride minimum.
• Pro: $45 a month, plus 4% per paid ride with a $1.00 per-ride minimum.
• Elite: $100 a month, with no SOLODRIVE.PRO per-ride fee.

One-off advance and scheduled bookings start at Basic. Recurring regulars run on Pro. The fee comes off a fare you set yourself, on a ride nobody dispatched to you. Full details are on the pricing page.

Running a free Gridwise plan next to a free SOLODRIVE.PRO booking page costs you nothing a month, which is where most drivers should start.

Do I still need Gridwise if I use SOLODRIVE.PRO?

If you still drive Uber, Lyft or delivery hours, yes. Gridwise records your miles automatically, syncs earnings from your linked work accounts, and shows demand by airport, event and hour. SOLODRIVE.PRO does none of those things. It gives you a booking page so passengers can book you directly and bills your weekly regulars automatically. Most drivers run both.

Is SOLODRIVE.PRO a replacement for Gridwise?

No. They do different jobs and do not conflict. Gridwise measures and optimizes the rides the apps assign you. SOLODRIVE.PRO creates rides the apps never assigned, from riders who ask for you by name.

Does SOLODRIVE.PRO track my earnings like Gridwise does?

It puts your gig income and your direct rides in one place so you can track earnings and stay tax-ready, but it works differently. Gridwise connects to your Uber, Lyft and delivery accounts and pulls the earnings in. SOLODRIVE.PRO does not connect to those accounts, so you enter those figures yourself. Your direct rides are counted already. The Schedule C tax-ready block is on the Pro tier, and basic earnings and mileage render on every tier.

Can I use Gridwise and SOLODRIVE.PRO at the same time?

Yes, and that is the common setup. They do not talk to each other and they do not need to. Track your app shift with one, hand your booking page to the passengers you want back with the other.

Which one should a driver start with?

Whichever problem you actually have. If you do not know what your app work really pays or your mileage is a mess at tax time, a tracker fixes that first and Gridwise has a free plan. If riders are already asking how to book you again and you have no answer, that is a different problem and no tracker solves it. SOLODRIVE.PRO is free to start too, so it is not really a ranked choice.

Will Gridwise track my SOLODRIVE.PRO direct rides?

Gridwise syncs from the gig platforms it connects to, and SOLODRIVE.PRO is not one of them. Your direct rides are already tracked inside SOLODRIVE.PRO, because those fares were captured there.

Do I have to stop driving Uber or Lyft to use SOLODRIVE.PRO?

No. SOLODRIVE.PRO works alongside the apps. You drive your normal app hours and your booking page handles the riders who come back to you directly. For the fuller answer, see Is It Legal to Take Riders Off Uber?.