.jpeg)
Running more than one gig app at once — rideshare in the morning, delivery at lunch, grocery in the afternoon — can smooth out slow periods and raise your overall pay. The catch: your income, mileage, and expenses scatter across every app you use, and none of them show you the whole picture.
Solo pulls all of it into one place — earnings, automatic mileage, and expense tracking across every platform — and Sherpa, Solo's AI assistant, lets you just ask instead of digging through five separate app dashboards. All of it works nationwide, on any major gig platform, no matter where you drive.
Track every app in one place. Solo connects to every platform you drive for and tracks earnings, mileage, and expenses automatically.
See how Sherpa works at worksolo.com/sherpa-ai.
What multi-app gig driving actually means
Solo, the first AI assistant for gig drivers, defines multi-apping simply: running two or more gig platforms instead of relying on just one — rideshare and delivery together, or grocery shopping and food delivery back to back, switching based on whichever app is paying best at that moment.
It's a real, common pattern, not a niche one — an average of 2.3 platforms among Solo users who run more than one app at all, and that's before counting the roughly 87% who stick to a single platform by choice. Multi-apping isn't required to make gig work pay off, but for a meaningful share of drivers, it's the difference between one app's slow Tuesday afternoon and still having something to do.
Why drivers multi-app
- No single point of failure. If one app goes quiet — surge pricing dries up, a market gets oversaturated with drivers, an account gets a temporary hold — you're not sitting with zero income while you wait it out.
- Matching apps to the time of day. Rideshare tends to peak during commute hours and nights out; food delivery peaks around lunch and dinner; grocery delivery runs on its own rhythm entirely, often stronger on weekend mornings. Running the right app at the right hour beats running one app all day.
- More control, not less. Being free to work for more than one company at the same time is also one of the things regulators and courts look at when deciding how gig work gets classified — flexibility isn't just a lifestyle choice, it's part of what makes the arrangement work the way it does.
The platforms people commonly combine
There's no single "correct" combination — it depends on your market and your schedule — but common pairings include rideshare (Uber, Lyft) with food delivery (DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub), or food delivery with grocery and retail delivery (Instacart, Walmart Spark, Shipt), sometimes alongside logistics apps (Amazon Flex, Roadie, Gopuff) for drivers covering a wider range of hours.
How platforms actually compare
| Platform | Average $/hr gross |
|---|---|
| Walmart Spark | $21.04 |
| Instacart | $16.03 |
| DoorDash | $15.22 |
| Uber Eats | $14.32 |
Solo internal platform data, January–June 2026. Gross figures only — vehicle-cost data isn't consistently comparable across all platforms, so treat this as a starting point, not the full picture of what you'd actually keep.
This is exactly the kind of comparison that's easy to eyeball for one platform and nearly impossible to track by hand across four — which is the real problem multi-apping creates.
The real challenge: everything is scattered
Running one app means one income stream, one mileage picture, one set of expenses. Running three or four means:
- Fragmented income. Four separate weekly payout summaries, four separate year-end tax forms, and no single number that tells you what you actually made.
- Fragmented mileage. Each app only sees the miles you drove while its own trip was active — not the drive between dropping off a DoorDash order and picking up your next Uber ride. Those in-between miles are real, deductible business miles, and no single app's tracker ever sees them.
- Fragmented expenses. Gas, car washes, tolls, parking, a portion of your phone bill — all of it is a legitimate business expense split across every app you drove for that day, and none of it comes pre-sorted.
- No unified view. Without pulling everything into one place, there's no easy way to answer "which app is actually paying me best right now" — you're comparing gut feelings, not numbers.
How Solo brings it all together
This is exactly the gap Solo is built to close — and every feature below works the same way no matter which app or apps you drive for, nationwide, with no state or platform restrictions.
- Sherpa, Solo's AI assistant. Instead of digging through multiple app dashboards, just ask — "how much did I make this week across all my apps?" or "which app paid me best today?" Sherpa already has your earnings, mileage, and expenses in one place.
- Earnings tracking. Solo connects to every major platform and shows your income side by side — by app, by hour, by day — so you can see which one is actually worth your time right now instead of guessing from memory.
- Mileage Tracker. Runs automatically in the background the whole time you're working, regardless of which app is open — including the miles between gigs that no single platform ever tracks on its own. Every mile logged is a mile you can deduct.
- Expense tracking, powered by Plaid. Solo securely connects to your bank or card and automatically pulls and sorts your gig-related spending — gas, parking, tolls, car washes — so you're not saving paper receipts or reconstructing a year of expenses from memory every April.
- Tax Hub. Rolls your earnings, mileage, and expenses from every platform into one clean, ready-to-file picture, instead of four separate 1099s and a shoebox of receipts.
- Smart Schedule. Uses your own earnings history across every app you run to help you figure out which platform to prioritize and when — based on what's actually paid off for you, not a generic citywide average.
- Pay Guarantee. Multi-apping smooths out risk, but it doesn't guarantee steady pay by itself — Pay Guarantee is built to soften the rough patches on qualifying blocks, so one bad hour on one app doesn't wreck your whole day.
Every one of these works the same way whether you're driving in a small town or a major metro, and whether you run one platform or five — there's no waitlist, no market restriction, and no extra app to babysit for each platform you drive for.
Sherpa: the one place all of it comes together
All of the tracking above only matters if you can actually use it — and that's what Sherpa is for. Instead of opening five different app dashboards and doing the math yourself, Sherpa (Solo's AI assistant) already has your earnings, your mileage, and your Plaid-tracked expenses in one place, and you can just ask it things like:
- "How much did I make this week across all my apps?"
- "What's my real profit after mileage and expenses this month?"
- "Which app paid me best today?"
- "How many miles have I logged so far this year?"
Sherpa is the difference between owning a pile of data about your gig work and actually understanding it. It's available nationwide to every Solo user, on every platform Solo supports — it's not a regional pilot or a feature locked to specific apps or cities.
Try Solo Free for 7 Days and ask Sherpa your first question today.
Getting started
Whether you're running one app or juggling five, the tracking problem is the same, and so is the fix: connect your platforms to Solo once, and earnings, mileage, and expenses stay organized automatically from then on — nationwide, on every major platform, free to start with a 7-day trial.
