Switching From MileIQ, Stride, or Everlance Without Losing a Mile

Here is the quiet problem with changing mileage apps in the middle of a tax year: the new app has no history. Every deductible mile you logged since January lives in the old app, and unless it comes with you, you are either keeping two logs or rebuilding one from memory — which the IRS does not accept. So most drivers don't switch. They stay with whatever they started the year on, even when it stopped working for them months ago.

GigLedger can now import your existing log. Export from your current app, pick the file, and every trip shows up in a preview before anything is saved. The whole thing takes about a minute. This guide covers how to get the export out of each app, what to check before you tap import, and what happens to your miles once they land.

What the import does with your trips

A mileage log is only worth anything if it is right, so the importer is deliberately careful:

• You see every trip first. Date, miles, where it went, which platform, and what it's worth. Nothing is written until you tap Add.
• Each trip is valued at the IRS rate for its own date. 2026 has two rates — 72.5¢ through June 30 and 76¢ from July 1 — and a surprising number of apps apply one flat rate to the whole year. GigLedger doesn't.
• Personal trips stay out of your deduction. Anything your old app marked Personal, Commute, Medical, or Charity is kept for a complete log but never deducted. They're deselected by default; you can include them if you want the full history.
• Nothing counts twice. Any trip that's already in GigLedger — same day, same miles — is flagged Already imported and skipped. Import the same file twice and the second time adds nothing.
• Undo is one tap. Wrong file, wrong year? Undo this import removes exactly the trips that import added and nothing else.

Exporting from MileIQ

MileIQ's reports come out as a CSV with columns like START_DATE, END_DATE, CATEGORY, START, STOP, and MILES — some of them with a literal asterisk in the header. That's fine; GigLedger reads it as-is.

1. Sign in at the MileIQ web dashboard (it's easier than the phone for this).
2. Open Reports and pick the date range — January 1 to today for a full-year move.
3. Choose CSV as the format and export. Save the file somewhere your phone can reach it: iCloud Drive, or email it to yourself.

MileIQ's CATEGORY column (Business / Personal) is honored, and if you used the PURPOSE field to note which platform a trip was for — “DoorDash”, “Uber” — GigLedger picks that up as the platform tag.

Exporting from Everlance

Everlance's trip export is a CSV whose header starts Deduction, Miles, From, To, Date, Purpose, Income Source… Business trips are marked Work, and there's an Income Source column for the platform.

1. Sign in on the Everlance web dashboard.
2. Go to Trips and use Export (on some plans it's under Reports → Data Export). Choose a date range and CSV.
3. Everlance emails the file or downloads it directly. Get it onto your phone the same way — iCloud Drive or email.

GigLedger prefers Everlance's full address columns over the short place names when both are present, maps Uber Eats, DoorDash, Instacart and the rest onto its own platform list, and treats Work as business.

Exporting from Stride

Stride doesn't publish a column spec, and its exports are known to contain values like 12.3 mi and $9.35 with the unit and dollar sign baked in. GigLedger strips those automatically.

1. In the Stride app, open the Taxes tab.
2. Tap your tax report for the year. Stride emails you separate CSVs for mileage, expenses, and income.
3. Use the mileage CSV. Its job category (“Delivery”, “Rideshare”) is read as a business trip.

Coming from a spreadsheet or Solo?

Any spreadsheet works if it has a date column and a miles column. Start- and end-odometer columns work too — GigLedger subtracts them. A Purpose or Category column is used if it's there, and a totals row at the bottom is ignored. Save it as CSV from Excel, Numbers, or Google Sheets.

Solo users: GigLedger has a separate Solo trips PDF import that brings earnings and miles over together. It's in the same Import menu.

Three things to check before you tap Add

What if the file is rejected?

The importer tells you exactly what's missing. No date column found means the file has no per-trip dates — a summary export rather than a trip log; go back and export the detailed version. No miles column found usually means you picked an earnings export by mistake; those go in through Import Earnings instead. If a few rows are skipped, the preview says how many and why.

Why this matters more than it sounds

At 2026 rates, every 1,000 business miles is roughly $725–$760 off your taxable profit. A driver who switches apps in August and leaves seven months of miles behind doesn't lose a feature — they lose real money, or they spend a weekend in a spreadsheet rebuilding a log the IRS may not accept anyway. Bringing the log with you is the difference between switching and starting over.