Gas Mileage Tracker

Free iPhone app · no account

Gas Mileage Tracker: the MPG your car actually gets

Not the number on the window sticker. Your car gets whatever your commute, your right foot and your last set of tyres say it gets. Log a fill-up in ten seconds and the app works out the real figure, tank by tank, along with what fuel costs you per mile and per month.

Android version in the works. The calculators here work on anything with a browser.

2019 Honda Civic · last tank

31.2

miles per gallon

Average

29.4

Per mile

$0.11

This month

$142

Fill-ups

64

Example data. The app calculates all of this from the odometer and the gallons.

Free calculators

No sign-up, no ads in the way. They run in your browser and nothing you type leaves the page.

Three taps at the pump

The whole point is that it has to be faster than the receipt going in your pocket, or you stop doing it by week three.

  1. 01

    Type the odometer

    The app shows your last reading right under the field, so you can tell instantly if you fat-fingered a digit.

  2. 02

    Gallons and price

    Straight off the pump display. Total cost fills itself in. Station and notes are optional and most people skip them.

  3. 03

    That is it

    From the second fill-up on you get MPG for that tank, a running average, cost per mile and a monthly total you did not have to add up.

Why bother logging it

The dashboard readout lies, politely. Trip computers estimate fuel flow rather than measuring the tank, and they lean optimistic. Tank-to-tank arithmetic uses fuel you actually paid for.

A drop in MPG is a symptom. Under-inflated tyres, a dragging brake, a failing sensor and a clogged filter all show up as a few lost miles per gallon weeks before they show up as a warning light.

Fuel is the second biggest line in owning a car. Most people can name their insurance premium to the dollar and have no idea what they spend on petrol. One number per month fixes that.

Mileage claims need records, not memory. If you deduct vehicle costs or bill a client for travel, a dated log beats an estimate. Pro exports the lot to CSV.

What is in the app

  • MPG per tank and a running average, using the full-tank method
  • Cost per mile, total spent, and a this-month figure
  • Charts: MPG trend, monthly spending, price per gallon over time
  • Several vehicles, each with its own history
  • Partial fill-ups handled properly instead of silently wrecking the average
  • Full fill-up history you can edit when you mistype something
  • CSV export for taxes or a spreadsheet (Pro)
  • Dark mode, and no account anywhere
Get it on the App Store

Free. Pro is a one-time purchase, not a subscription.

What a gas mileage tracker does

A gas mileage tracker is a fuel log. You record the odometer and the fuel at every fill-up, and it does the tank-to-tank arithmetic that turns those entries into miles per gallon, cost per mile and a monthly fuel total.

People used to keep this in the glovebox on a folded receipt, then in a spreadsheet. The reason to use an app instead is not the maths, which is one division. It is that the log has to survive contact with a rainy forecourt. If entering a fill-up takes longer than putting the receipt in your pocket, you stop after three weeks, and an abandoned log is worth exactly nothing.

So the whole design of this one points at one number: seconds to log a fill-up. The last odometer reading sits under the field so a typo is obvious. Total cost fills itself in. Station and notes are there and you can ignore them forever.

Tracker, or just the calculator?

Both are on this site. They answer different questions.

One tank, once

Use the gas mileage calculator. Nothing to install, nothing to remember.

Every tank, from now on

Use the app. One tank tells you almost nothing, because weather, traffic and how you drove move it 10 percent on their own. A run of tanks is the only thing that shows a real change.

Questions people actually ask

Is the app free? +
Yes. Logging vehicles and fill-ups, MPG, spending and the charts are free. A one-time Pro purchase unlocks CSV export and the advanced stats. There is no subscription.
Does it need an account? +
No. Your fill-ups live on your phone. Nothing is uploaded, so there is no login and no password to lose.
Is there an Android version? +
Not yet. It is being built. In the meantime the calculators on this site work on any phone.
Why is the app's MPG different from the number on my dashboard? +
The car's trip computer estimates fuel flow from the injectors and is usually optimistic by 3 to 8 percent. Tank-to-tank arithmetic uses the fuel you actually paid for, which is why it is the number worth trusting.
What if I do not always fill the tank all the way? +
Mark the fill-up as partial. Partial fills still count towards spending, but they are left out of the MPG maths, because you cannot measure consumption between two tanks that were filled to different levels.