Trips come straight from the vehicle's odometer and position reports. You tag them business or personal — usually with one tap — and tax time is a CSV. No phone tracking, no start/stop button, no drained battery, no missed trips.
Join the waitlist Rivian owners get the first beta in November.
Sign in to your manufacturer account through Smartcar. Wheelclerk reads the odometer and trip reports the car already sends. Nothing is installed in the car and nothing runs on your phone in the background.
Name the places you go — home, office, the supply yard, a client — and Wheelclerk proposes the tag for every trip between them. Approve the batch, or hand-tag the odd one. Business trips get a purpose, because that's what a log needs.
Business miles, personal miles, the deduction at the IRS standard rate, and the business-use percentage from your year-start and year-end odometer. Export the whole year as a CSV for your accountant.
Every mainstream mileage app guesses trips from your phone's GPS. That is why they ask for "always" location, why batteries drain, and why trips start late or never. Wheelclerk uses the same odometer that's on your dash.
| Phone-GPS apps | Wheelclerk | |
|---|---|---|
| Where the miles come from | Phone location, snapped to roads | The vehicle's odometer |
| Phone permissions | "Always allow" location, motion & fitness | None. The app never asks for your location |
| Missed trips | Phone left at home, low power mode, late start | Every trip the car took is in the log |
| Odometer reconciliation | Not possible — the app never sees the odometer | Trips sum to the odometer. Year-start and year-end marks give business-use % |
| Battery | Background location all day | Nothing runs on the phone until you open the app |
| Who drove | Whoever had the phone | The car — a cleaner story for a company vehicle |
Wheelclerk started as the founder's own Rivian mileage log. R1T and R1S owners get the first beta in November 2026 and the January launch.
Connections go through Smartcar, which supports Tesla, Ford, GM, Hyundai, Kia, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen and others. We turn each brand on after confirming its odometer reporting is good enough for a log. Tell us your car on the waitlist and we'll let you know when yours is ready.
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A business owner who drives 12,000 business miles a year deducts around $8,700 at the 2026 IRS rate of 72.5¢ a mile. The difference between a log that holds up and one that doesn't is the whole deduction. $80 a year is the cheapest insurance on it.
Wheelclerk is not tax advice. Your accountant decides what you deduct; we make sure the record is complete.
No. The app never asks for location permission. Every trip's start, end, and distance come from the vehicle through its manufacturer API.
The IRS asks for a contemporaneous record of each business trip's date, miles, destination and purpose, and for your total miles for the year. Wheelclerk records the first three from the car as each trip happens, you add the purpose, and the odometer marks give the total. We are not tax advisers — share the CSV with yours.
Rivian R1T and R1S today. Other brands connect through Smartcar and are turned on once we've verified the odometer data; tell us your car on the waitlist.
Odometer, position and charge reports from the car, your email, and the tags you make. We don't sell data, there are no ad trackers in the app, and you can delete your account and its data from inside the app at any time.
Not at launch. iPhone first; Android after the iOS app is solid.
Rivian beta in November 2026 through TestFlight, App Store launch in January 2027 — in time to start the tax year with a clean log.
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