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Announcementby Gair

What's New in Version 1.1.0

Version 1.1.0 is a step change. Thirteen new features, two new database tables, six new API endpoints, and a fundamental shift in what the dashboard does. We are moving from 1.0.x to 1.1.0 because the tools added here change MileClear from a mileage tracker into something that actively helps drivers run a self-employed business.

The Tax Readiness card

This is the card I am most excited about, and it is the headline of 1.1.0. On the Work mode dashboard, you now see, live, every time you open the app:

  • Your estimated tax + NI for the current tax year, calculated from your real earnings minus your real mileage deduction
  • How much to set aside this week for HMRC, calculated from your last 7 days of earnings at your effective rate
  • A countdown to the 31 January filing deadline, which turns amber at 90 days and red at 30
  • A 3-item readiness check (full name set, primary vehicle with MPG, all trips classified) showing where you stand
  • A higher-rate-threshold warning if your projected profit is approaching £50,270 - drivers who cross this line lose 20p in the pound to additional tax, and tracking every business mile keeps them below it for longer

This is the kind of feature drivers have been telling me they wanted: not "what is my mileage" but "am I going to be OK in January". The card answers that, in real numbers, every time you open the app.

Activity Heatmap and Anonymous Benchmarking

Two new dashboard cards built on the data MileClear already collects:

Activity Heatmap shows when you actually drive and earn most. Seven days × twenty-four hours, intensity-coloured. Filter by platform - Uber, Deliveroo, Just Eat, Amazon Flex, DPD, Evri, Stuart - and toggle between trips and earnings. Tap any cell for the breakdown. Built on the last 12 weeks of your own data, so it adapts to how your week actually looks.

Anonymous Benchmarking compares your weekly miles and trips to all UK MileClear drivers. Median, p25, p75, your position on the distribution, "top X%" framing. Per-platform breakdowns appear when each platform has 5+ active contributors. There is a hard privacy floor of 5 contributors per cell - we never show buckets thinner than that, and we never expose individual data. As more drivers join, more buckets light up automatically.

Anonymous Benchmarking is, I think, the feature most likely to change how drivers think about MileClear. It turns "your data" into "your data plus industry context". Knowing whether you're earning the same as everyone else in your area is genuinely powerful information that gig drivers have basically never had.

HMRC Reconciliation

Since 1 January 2024, every UK gig platform has been reporting your earnings directly to HMRC under the OECD Digital Platform Reporting rules. The first batch of reports landed at HMRC by 31 January 2026. That means HMRC now has a per-platform record of what each driver earned, and they can compare it against what was declared on Self Assessment.

The new HMRC Reconciliation screen lets you enter the figures HMRC has reported for each platform (from the notice in your Personal Tax Account) and see the gap against MileClear's tracked earnings. Within £20 either way is fine. A bigger gap is something to investigate before HMRC does.

This is "fighting your corner" software in the most literal sense.

MOT History and vehicle reminders

Two pieces of vehicle compliance work, powered by direct integrations with DVLA and DVSA:

Vehicle MOT and tax expiry reminders. MileClear now refreshes your primary vehicle's DVLA data weekly and pushes a notification when MOT or tax expires within 14 days. Tap the notification to jump straight to the vehicle. A self-employed driver losing income to a missed MOT is a real, expensive problem - this stops it.

MOT History. Tap "View MOT History" on any vehicle with a registration plate to see the full DVSA record. Test results, expiry dates, advisories, defects with severity tags ("dangerous", "major", "advisory"), and odometer growth between tests. Direct from the DVSA MOT History API. Useful for spotting things flagged at the last test that might fail next time.

Pickup wait timer

On the Active Recording screen there is a new "Wait at pickup" tappable card. Tap it when you arrive at a restaurant or depot, and a stopwatch runs. Tap "Picked up" when the order is ready, and the wait is saved with location and platform.

For now, this is just personal data collection - your own waits. The next version will use the aggregated data to surface community insights: "this McDonald's averages 12-minute waits", "Uber pickups in this zone average 4 minutes". You will be able to avoid the slow ones. The infrastructure is in 1.1.0; the community surface comes in 1.2.

First-time Self Assessment guide

Plain-English walkthrough for drivers filing Self Assessment for the first time. Covers UTR registration, the UK tax year (6 April to 5 April), what you actually pay (income tax + Class 4 NI + Class 2 NI), the AMAP mileage deduction at 45p/25p (or 24p flat for mopeds), and the 31 January deadline.

It is reachable from the Tax Readiness card, and exists to make sure new self-employed drivers do not miss the basics in their first year. UTR registration alone takes 10 working days - drivers who leave it until October regret it.

Plus

  • HMRC attestation cover sheet on the Self Assessment PDF - one-page signed declaration page with your name, UTR, tax year period, and the contemporaneous-record attestation language HMRC inspectors recognise. Pro feature. Accountants will share it.
  • Earnings adoption nudge - if you are tracking trips but have not logged earnings recently, the Tax Readiness card shows a one-tap shortcut to the earnings form. Without earnings, the tax estimate cannot work.
  • Sparse-GPS-trace reliability fix - solved the bug where iOS could suspend the JS runtime mid-trip and leave recording stuck in low-power detection mode. The recording-mode upgrade now verifies it took effect and retries automatically.

Why 1.1.0 and not 1.0.11

Version numbers are arbitrary, but they signal something. 1.0.x said "we are still figuring out what this app is". 1.1.0 says "we know what this app is now: it is the tool that helps UK gig drivers stay in control of their tax, their vehicle, and their pricing".

The features in 1.1.0 are not just refinements. The Tax Readiness card is a genuinely new pillar of the product. Anonymous Benchmarking is a new pillar. HMRC Reconciliation is a new pillar. Vehicle compliance is a new pillar. That is four new pillars in one release, on top of the existing tracking and exports. It is the right time for the version line to move.

Get it

Version 1.1.0 (build 52) goes to TestFlight as soon as the EAS build finishes. Public App Store launch follows once we have a week of TestFlight data confirming nothing rough crept in.

If you have been following along through the 1.0.x cycle, thank you for sticking with it. The diagnostic dumps, the bug reports, the "this would be useful" notes - they all shaped this release.

- Gair