What a Stack of Driver Apps Actually Costs You in a Year

These are the individual driver plans, taken from each company's own pricing page or app store listing.

• Gridwise Plus. $14.99 a month, or $107.99 a year. Paying annually works out to about $9 a month.
• Solo. Basic $15 a month, Pro $20 a month. On the annual plan, Pro is $120 a year, about $10 a month.
• Everlance. Starter $8.99 a month, or $69.99 a year. Professional is $99.99 a year.
• Hurdlr. Premium $9.99 a month, or $100 a year. Pro is $200 a year, annual only.
• MileIQ. Unlimited $13.99 a month, or $11.66 a month billed annually, which is $139.92 a year. The free tier stops at 40 drives a month.
• Stride. Free. No paid tier.
• QuickBooks Solopreneur. Listed at about $20 a month. Intuit's own pricing page did not load when we checked in August 2026, so treat that one as approximate and confirm it before you sign up.

Every one of these has a free tier or a free version except QuickBooks Solopreneur. The free tiers are where most drivers start and where most of them stay until a tax deadline pushes them to upgrade.

The lean stack: about $70 a year. Everlance Starter on the annual plan at $69.99, plus Stride for free alongside it. You get automatic mileage and a tax summary and you spend under six dollars a month.

The common stack: about $208 a year. Gridwise Plus at $107.99 a year for earnings and heat maps, plus Hurdlr Premium at $100 a year for expenses and mileage. This is the pairing a lot of full-time drivers land on.

The heavy stack: about $588 a year. Gridwise Plus, Solo Pro and MileIQ Unlimited, all billed month to month. That is $179.88 plus $240 plus $167.88. Nearly six hundred dollars a year, which is roughly a full Saturday of driving every month just to cover the apps.

The single fastest way to cut this bill is to stop paying by the month on an app you already know you are keeping.

Gridwise Plus is $179.88 a year at the monthly rate and $107.99 on the annual plan. Same app, same features, $71.89 difference. Hurdlr Premium is $119.88 monthly against $100 annual. MileIQ is $167.88 monthly against $139.92 annual.

If you have been on the same tracker for six months, you are paying a convenience fee for a decision you already made.

Look at what these tools actually overlap on. Gridwise tracks mileage. Solo tracks mileage. Everlance tracks mileage. Hurdlr tracks mileage. MileIQ tracks mileage. Stride tracks mileage, for free.

A driver running Gridwise for earnings and MileIQ for miles is buying the same GPS log twice. That is the most common $140 a year a driver can delete without losing a single feature they use.

Before you renew anything, open each app and ask which one you actually opened last week. Cancel the one you did not.

Here is the part nobody puts in the comparison charts. Every app on that list is a reporting tool. It counts miles you already drove, adds up pay you already earned, and files it into a summary at tax time. That is genuinely useful work and it is worth paying for.

But none of it brings you a rider. The report tells you your Tuesday was slow. It does not fill next Tuesday.

That is a different job, and it is the one SOLODRIVE.PRO does. You get a booking page at your own handle. Riders book you directly instead of getting matched to whoever is closest. You can share your link after a good ride or let a rider scan your booking QR code. You take advance reservations, including standing weekly bookings for a regular. Payment is captured on the platform for your direct rides. When you mark a rider as a regular and they consent, their card is saved and the ride bills weekly on its own.

You can still log your Uber, Lyft and DoorDash earnings in one place, track your vehicle maintenance costs, and stay tax-ready. And you keep a customer list of the riders who have booked you, which is the one thing no earnings tracker can hand you, because it never had your riders in the first place.

Not "is this app worth ten dollars a month." A better question: of everything I pay for, what actually puts a rider in my back seat next week?

Keep the tracker that earns its keep. Cancel the duplicate. Move the annual plan off monthly billing. Then spend the attention you just freed up on the riders who already like driving with you.

How much do Uber and Lyft drivers spend on apps in a year?

It depends entirely on the stack. A driver on Stride alone spends nothing. A driver on Everlance Starter annual spends $69.99. A driver running Gridwise Plus and Hurdlr Premium on annual plans spends about $208. A driver running three paid apps month to month can clear $588 a year. Prices checked August 2026.

Is Gridwise worth $107.99 a year?

Gridwise Plus shows you earnings across platforms and where demand is heavier. If you actively change where you drive based on what it shows you, it earns the money back quickly. If you subscribed six months ago and have not opened it since, it is the first line to cut. Check the current price on Gridwise's own page before you renew, since it has changed.

What is the cheapest way to track mileage as a rideshare driver?

Stride is free, with no paid tier and no trip cap. Everlance Starter at $69.99 a year and Hurdlr Premium at $100 a year both add expense tracking and a cleaner tax summary. MileIQ's free tier stops at 40 drives a month, which most full-time drivers pass in the first week.

Do I need one of these apps if I use SOLODRIVE.PRO?

They do different jobs, so plenty of drivers run both. The trackers report on the driving you already did. SOLODRIVE.PRO gives you a booking page riders can use to book you directly, and it keeps your regulars on a recurring booking that bills on its own. SOLODRIVE.PRO also lets you log earnings from Uber, Lyft and other platforms and stay tax-ready, so some drivers find the overlap makes one of their subscriptions redundant.

Where did these prices come from?

Each figure was taken in August 2026 from the company's own pricing page or its app store listing. Gridwise from its App Store listing, Solo from worksolo.com, Everlance from everlance.com, Hurdlr from Hurdlr's own help documentation, MileIQ from mileiq.com. The QuickBooks Solopreneur figure came from third-party listings because Intuit's page would not load, so confirm that one yourself. Subscription prices move. Check before you sign up.