Mileage Tracker & Vehicle Log

Better than MileIQ. That being said, this app has a lot of bugs and disappointments which create seemingly endless frustration. I have to use this app to record my mileage to keep the IRS happy, but I'm constantly having to deal with problems, and it's very annoying. If I'm not getting shorted on mileage, it will say something like "address look up scheduled" and never enter the address, and I'll have to do it manually. It's a necessary app, but too many bugs.

Pretty good app. It is detailed than most. Update: it has better usage of battery. And now there is a way to edit odometer. still small issues with the movement option. It doesn't always detect movement. if it does, it starts the trip late. Or in some cases, it will detect an entire trip, but won't actually show the tracking until you start a new trip. Also, it could be me but the weekly schedule doesn't seem to work well. EDIT: app seems to be slowing down, and there is no way to organize trips

TLDR: It is a good app when it works, but it is not great. This is better than most mileage apps. Unfortunately, they all suck, but this one at least works. A lot of them don't, or they have such severe bugs that it doesn't matter. I resisted actually using this one for a long time, though, because the interface is anything but intuitive. The interface of Motolog is not as good as some others. For example, you want to finish a trip manually, even if you have autostart (read further). It took me a long time to figure out how to do this. If you go into the trip and click on finish, it takes you back out, and you have to bring up the menu, select trips, select the trip, edit, and so on. Too many steps! Fortunately, you can pull down the window shade and see Finish there (most of the time). You still have to go into it and edit it because it is not any more accurate than any other mileage app when it auto records mileage. The funny part is that it gives you the opportunity to track up to hundredths of a mile. I don't know anyone who does that, but it is always wrong anyhow. I don't know why it bothers. However, by far the most annoying thing is that autostart doesn't always work, often autostarts for no reason, and too often does not work well. I have literally driven 2 miles and have to manually put in the mileage. Worse, if it starts recording 1.75 miles into a 2 mile trip, you might as well just delete it and enter it manually because it will not allow you to have different start and stop locations. It will keep resetting the other when you change one. I have not been able to figure out a way to reset times, either, unless I manually put the entry in. On the other extreme, I can sit here in my chair and rock, and it will start recording a trip. I've not had any other app do that. In fact, I was reminded to write this review because I set my phone on my desk, and 30 seconds later it decides I am traveling. There have been times when I literally walked across the street to another building, and it wants to record my travel the whole time. I don't understand why it does this when a real trip sometimes won't start recording for literally miles. The irony is that it is more likely to autostart when you click on Pause! Pause it, get into someone else's car, and sure enough, ding! It starts anyhow. BTW, just when you thought you got past the clunkiness, when (if you use autostart, when not if), you can long press on a trip and choose delete. The delete *icon* is on the top, but the confirmation *text* is on the bottom. Oh, and chances are your hand holding the phone is blocking the unexpected text in the unexpected location. It took me forever to figure out why I could not delete trips. Exporting data is about as clunky as the rest of the interface, but the export works well. I need to export by month, and it is pretty easy to do so once I figured out how. I should mention as well that the categories are easy to set up and get going, and you can select times for them to take effect. However, you cannot choose "workdays" to set up a schedule. I had to set up one for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday each. Fortunately, you only have to do this once! So, yeah, it works most of the time, but there could be some improvements.