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DoorDashLink your Dasher account once and Solo logs your business miles by GPS, tracks your payouts next to every other app you drive for, and projects and files your federal and state taxes.
Solo is the mileage, earnings and tax app for DoorDash drivers. Link your Dasher account once and Solo logs your business miles by GPS, including the unassigned miles DoorDash never reports, tracks your payouts next to every other app you drive for, and projects and files your federal and state taxes.
Solo matches each completed DoorDash job to the drive it already logged and files those miles as business. No start button.
More on mileageDoorDash next to Uber Eats next to Instacart, so one screen shows what your week actually paid and what gets deducted.
More on earningsYou see what you owe in July, and Annual Pro and Pro Plus members file federal and state from inside the app.
More on taxesAsk whether tonight is worth dashing and get an answer built on your history, not a generic tip.
More on SherpaPay Guarantee fixes an hourly floor before a scheduled shift and pays the gap if you fall short (eligible cities only).
Coverage mapAverage DoorDash hourly across every major metro in the US, from tracked earnings rather than surveys.
Find your cityAutomatic mileage tracking and classification starts on the Basic plan, $96 a year. For manual mileage tracking, no subscription plan is required. It’s also worth mentioning that the cost of Solo is 100% tax-deductible as a work expense — be sure to classify it as such.
Partly, and the part it misses is usually the bigger one.
DoorDash logs your active delivery miles: the distance from accepting an order to completing the drop-off. That figure lands in your weekly summary and it's useful. But it stops at the drop-off. The drive to your starting zone doesn't count. Neither does repositioning between hotspots, waiting out a slow hour across town, or the drive home at the end of the night.
DoorDash presents its mileage as an estimate. The IRS expects a contemporaneous log: dates, distances, destinations and business purpose, recorded as you drive rather than reconstructed in April. A weekly summary generated by a platform isn't built to satisfy that standard.
These scenarios are generally rare and most Dashers will not get audited for mileage alone. The ones who do, and who can't produce a proper log, could lose their deductions.
Solo logs your drives in the background and matches them to your DoorDash jobs.
You link your DoorDash account once. Solo's GPS logs your trips as you drive, all of them, including the ones between deliveries. When you complete a job on DoorDash, Solo matches that job against the drive it already recorded and files those miles as business.
No start button to remember. No swipe-left-for-personal queue waiting for you on Sunday night. No weekly review to catch the trips you forgot to classify.
That last part is where most mileage apps lose drivers. An app that needs you to tap start before every shift will eventually miss a shift, which means more missed deductions and less money in your pocket.
Download Solo and link your DoorDash account.
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Turn on mileage tracking and grant location access. Keep the app open in the background.
Drive. Solo logs your trips, then files the miles around each completed job as business.
Two minutes, and you don't touch it again.
Solo classifies the miles around your DoorDash jobs as business and leaves the rest alone. The school run and the grocery trip stay out of your deduction.
If you'd rather control it yourself, Solo has a manual mode you can switch on any time. Most drivers prefer to have their miles automatically tracked and categorized, but if you want to use manual tracking at any point, it’s only a quick toggle flip away.
You run DoorDash through the dinner rush, pick up Uber Eats during the lunch lull, and take an Instacart batch when the restaurants are dead. Three apps, three payout screens, three sets of numbers that never add up to one answer about your week.
Solo links them all: DoorDash, Uber, Uber Eats, Lyft, Instacart, Amazon Flex, Spark, and more. Link your accounts and see your earnings, miles and expenses tracked in one place. Solo works as a DoorDash expense tracker too, so tolls, parking and equipment sit next to the mileage they belong to as part of your tracked expenses.
DoorDash$612.00
Uber Eats$418.40
Instacart$253.60Smart Schedule predicts what an hour will earn before you decide to work it. Drivers using it can earn up to 40% more per year on average.
In most major metros, you can also lock the rate in from your Smart Schedule. Pay Guarantee fixes an hourly floor for a scheduled shift: work the hour, and if you earn less than Solo predicted, Solo pays the difference.
Note that the Smart Schedule and Pay Guarantee run in specific metros. You can see if it’s available in your city here: coverage map ↗
Sherpa is Solo's AI assistant, and it answers from your earnings history rather than from the internet.
It runs on Claude and on more than $7.5 billion of real gig earnings across 100+ metro areas in the US, layered against your own numbers. When Sherpa tells you Thursday evening beats Sunday in your zone, it's reading your history and your market and uses that to give you data-driven recommendations you can count on.
Solo projects your DoorDash taxes year-round and files them.
Every classified mile and tracked expense feeds a running estimate: what you owe, what you've set aside, what's left before the next quarterly deadline. You see it in July, not for the first time in April.
Then Solo files. Annual Pro and Pro Plus members file federal and state returns from inside the app or on the web, with income and expenses already filled in from a year of tracking.
Mileage is usually the biggest one. After that:
Solo tracks these automatically as you go, and Sherpa flags what you're missing. Just link your bank account to Solo using Plaid and all of your work expenses will be tracked automatically.
Most Dashers end up choosing between four or five apps, and they solve genuinely different problems.
Solo's key difference is scope. It's the only one here that tracks earnings across every platform you drive for, classifies your miles by matching them to completed jobs, projects your taxes year-round, and files your federal and state return in the app. The others hand you a report to take somewhere else.
| Feature | Solo | Gridwise | Everlance | Stride | MileIQ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Automatic mileage | Auto-classified | Manual start/stop, manual classify | Auto-detect, swipe to classify | Manual start/stop | Auto-detect, swipe to classify |
| Multi-app earnings | 11 platforms | ||||
| Tax projection | Year-round | ||||
| Tax filing | |||||
| Pay Guarantee | Covered metros | ||||
| AI assistant | Sherpa | ||||
| Free tier | Manual tracking only; auto-classification on all plans. All uncapped tracking. | Yes, uncapped tracking | 30 auto trips/mo | Yes, uncapped | 40 drives/mo |
Competitor details verified September 2026.
DoorDash pay isn't one number. It moves by market, by day and by hour.
Solo publishes average hourly pay for DoorDash drivers in 100+ cities, built from real tracked earnings including base, tips, bonus, the high and low range, and which days actually pay best in that market.
See all DoorDash citiesDoorDash tracks your active delivery miles, from accepting an order to completing the drop-off, and shows them in your weekly summary. It doesn't track the drive to your starting zone, repositioning between hotspots, or the drive home. Those are deductible, and claiming them means more money in your pocket come tax time.
Solo's free tier tracks miles automatically but automatic classification starts on the Basic plan at $96 a year, and reaching the free tier means starting a trial first (you can cancel before getting charged and still access manual mileage tracking in Solo).
Link your DoorDash account to Solo and turn on mileage tracking. Solo logs your drives by GPS in the background, then matches each completed job to the drive it recorded and classifies those miles as business.
It can. The IRS expects a contemporaneous log with dates, distances, destinations and business purpose, recorded as you drive. DoorDash's weekly summary is an estimate rather than a log. Solo keeps an IRS-compliant record and exports it as CSV or PDF.
One that reads every major platform. Solo links DoorDash, Uber, Uber Eats, Lyft, Instacart, Grubhub, Amazon Flex, Spark Driver, and more. This allows you to track every payout and every mile on one screen.
Solo's Smart Schedule predicts what an hour will pay before you work it. In covered metros, Pay Guarantee lets you lock that rate in, and Solo pays the gap if you earn less than predicted. Sherpa answers shift questions from your own earnings history.
Every business mile, not only the ones DoorDash reports. That covers driving to your starting zone, repositioning between hotspots and returning from your last delivery. At 76¢ per mile from July 2026, the miles DoorDash leaves out can add up to hundreds or even thousands of dollars in missed deductions.
For the full deduction, yes. DoorDash's figure covers accept-to-dropoff only, so it understates what you drove, and it's an estimate rather than an IRS-compliant log. A tracker captures the rest and keeps a record that holds up.
Solo tracks both in one place. It matches completed jobs on either platform to your logged drives and classifies the miles automatically, so switching apps mid-shift doesn't split your records. Trackers built around a single platform miss the other one's trips.
Both. Solo projects what you owe year-round, then Annual Pro and Pro Plus members file federal and state returns from the app or the web with income and expenses pre-filled. Most tracking apps stop at a report you take to a preparer.
Download Solo and start your 7-day trial. Link your DoorDash account, turn on mileage tracking, and your next shift logs itself.
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