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First Look: Trip Cubby for iPhone

by Steven Sande Aug 16th 2008 at 9:00AM

Do you spend more time in your car than you spend at home? If so, you're probably a road warrior driving around for your business. If that's the case, a good mileage log is exactly what you need. With gas prices still in the $4/gallon range, making sure you track your work or charitable miles accurately is very important.

Trip Cubby (App Store link) is a mileage log on steroids. It has a well thought out interface giving you the flexibility to put in as much detail as you need about trips. When you launch the $9.99 app, you're greeted with a simple list of trips and the option to add a new trip. It's then that the power of this app shows up, since the amount of information you can capture about a trip is very complete and customizable.

If you need to supply a trip log to your accountant, Trip Cubby not only creates a comma-delimited (CSV) file, but opens an email view so you can send it to someone. Developer David Barnard notes that they're working on an online backup system for Trip Cubby and other apps by App Cubby so your iTunes backup doesn't "lose" your info. Check out the gallery for more screenshots of Trip Cubby.



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Francesco Caporusso

This looks like a good app.

August 18 2008 at 9:10 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Paul

You think you guys have it bad in America - at current rates here in the UK we are paying the equivalent of USD$11.52 a Gallon !!!!!!

August 18 2008 at 5:45 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Brian Peat

I bought this app today JUST because of this review. I then went to their forums and started posting ideas. I'm totally loving this app. It has a few things I'd like to see changed (like a preference to change the time stamp minute increments to 15 or 30 as I don't want to flick through all those minutes just to use larger increments).

I waited and and didn't buy the two other big mileage apps hoping someone would nail it, and this one did.

August 16 2008 at 11:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Luigi193

We are at $3.79 a gallon in VT

August 16 2008 at 10:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
JRBTempe

Damn you, TUAW! You guys keep alerting me to great software that I somehow missed, which keeps draining my bank account. LOL

Anyway, thanks... this is exactly what I've been looking for and somehow I missed it on the App Store. Keep the great discoveries coming!

August 16 2008 at 1:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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App Cubby Team

@JRBTempe You didn't miss Trip Cubby, it just launched. Even though the publish date says August 2nd, it was actually released on the 14th. Apple said they would correct this, but it may take some time since they are still completely overwhelmed.

August 16 2008 at 6:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jeff

I'm still waiting for a somewhat automated way to track mileage for business travel (wanting such a solution before the iPhone / for years)...

..I'm kind of amazed there hasn't been some sort of after market product built for the car yet. And now that the 3G has GPS it seems within reach but still no one has created or discussed such a solution that I'm aware of.

I picture launching said app, initiating "new trip" button, GPS auto-magically starts tracking your distance, every stop indexed with a press of a button for later processing. At the end of the day, or when you find some free time, you can review and fill in more detailed info regarding your starts and stops, add notes and/or tag and file appropriately. Perhaps after connecting to your computer, having a desktop client kicking out a travel log for your taxes.

Does this seem appealing to anyone other than me? Tracking mileage is mundane and tedious and seems to be the perfect candidate out of our various daily tasks for automation, now more than ever with the 3G's GPS capabilities.

Perhaps I'm missing something within the SDK that would limit such functionality but in the meantime, I will continue to wish for what I see as a great use of the iPhone.

August 16 2008 at 10:19 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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