Stride is free — but free has a cost: manual start/stop means missed drives, and the app earns by referring you to insurance and financial products. Routio logs every drive automatically, never sells your data, and at 72.5¢ a mile it pays for itself in about a week of driving.
| Routio | Stride | |
|---|---|---|
| Fully automatic background tracking | ✓ | manual / basic |
| Smart auto-classify by route | ✓ | ✕ |
| IRS Schedule C tax package | ✓ | basic |
| No ads / no data monetization | ✓ | referral-funded |
| Private iCloud • data never sold | ✓ | — |
| Price | $59.99/yr | Free |
Stride features & business model per publicly available information, 2026. May change.
Routio detects every drive and logs it in the background — no opening the app, no tapping start. The miles Stride users forget to log are the miles Routio never misses.
One tap turns your year of drives into an IRS Schedule C summary with PDF & CSV exports — ready for you or your accountant.
Routio makes money one honest way: a fair subscription. No ads, no referral funnels, no selling your location. Your drives stay on your device and your private iCloud.
Because missed miles cost more than the subscription. At 72.5¢ a mile (2026 IRS rate), forgetting just ~83 business miles a year is already more than Routio's $59.99 — and manual logging guarantees you'll forget some. Routio captures them automatically, so it pays for itself.
Routio has no account and never sells data; it earns only from its subscription. Free apps that run on insurance and financial referrals have a different incentive around your information. With Routio, your drives stay on your device and your private iCloud.
Yes — automatic background detection plus smart auto-classification. Most drives sort themselves; you just glance and confirm.
Yes, a 7-day free trial on the annual plan. Cancel anytime in Settings — no account needed.
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