Everlance vs Wave Comparison 2026
Everlance logs mileage automatically for a deduction, free for 30 trips a month and $10.99 a month on Starter for unlimited tracking. Wave does invoices, receipts and double-entry bookkeeping for free, earning instead from card payments and a $19 a month Pro plan that automates receipt scanning. Neither one replaces the other: Everlance tracks driving, and Wave keeps the books a mileage log eventually feeds into.
Mileage and expenses tracked for freelancers
Invoicing and bookkeeping that costs nothing
At a glance
- Everlance starts cheaper, at $10.99.
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
Everlance | Wave | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $10.99 | From $19 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial (they differ) | 7 days | None |
| API |
Everlance
Mileage and expenses tracked for freelancers
Everlance runs in the background on a phone and logs drives automatically, which is the part of a mileage deduction nobody does by hand for long. Swiping classifies a trip as work or personal, and the year's log exports in the shape a tax return wants. The free plan caps automatic detection at 30 trips a month, and a working week eats that.
Our note
The free tier's 30 trips is the number to check yourself against. Two client visits a week uses it up, and a partially tracked year is worth less at tax time than a fully tracked one.
Wave
Invoicing and bookkeeping that costs nothing
Wave does invoices, receipts and double-entry bookkeeping for free, and earns on card payments and on a paid tier that automates the parts you would otherwise do by hand. For a sole trader sending a dozen invoices a year it is the cheapest honest answer. Payroll and the advisor service exist in some countries only, which is worth checking before a whole tax year lives in it.
Our note
Why people weigh these two
- Wave instead of Everlance
- Wave does invoicing and bookkeeping at no cost, so expenses sit in the books rather than in a tracker of their own.
- Everlance instead of Wave
- Everlance tracks mileage and expenses specifically for freelancers, with a free tier and plans from $10.99, the piece Wave's invoicing and bookkeeping do not cover.
Which one should you pick
Pick Everlance if your work involves driving and you want it detected automatically rather than reconstructed from memory each April. Starter is $10.99 a month after a free tier of 30 trips.
Pick Wave if you are a sole trader or one-person company invoicing a handful of clients and want the books tidy without a monthly bill. Starter is genuinely free for invoicing and bookkeeping; Pro at $19 a month adds automation and receipt scanning once that is worth paying for. Confirm payments and payroll are supported where you live before a whole tax year is built on it.
Common questions
- Do I need both, or does one replace the other?
- Most likely both, since they do different jobs. Everlance tracks mileage automatically for a deduction; Wave handles invoicing and double-entry bookkeeping. Neither one logs the other's data.
- Which one is free?
- Both have a genuine free tier. Wave's Starter plan covers invoicing and bookkeeping for nothing. Everlance's free plan detects 30 automatic trips a month with unlimited manual entries.
- Which one sends invoices to clients?
- Wave. Its free Starter plan covers unlimited invoicing alongside bookkeeping. Everlance has no invoicing feature; its entire job is mileage and expense tracking.
- When does it make sense to pay for either?
- For Everlance, once 30 automatic trips a month stops being enough, since Starter is then $10.99 a month. For Wave, once the receipt scanning and automation that Pro adds at $19 a month is worth paying for, since the core bookkeeping stays free either way.
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