Your work logbook keeps itself
Tax Captain records your work trips while you drive, reads your receipts, and turns the year into something your accountant can file. No account. No server. It all stays on your phone.
Three things it does properly
Notices the drive
Switch on Watch for drives and the phone works out when you have set off, measures the trip, and puts it in front of you to confirm. Nothing is ever recorded as finished without you saying so.
Reads the docket
Photograph a receipt and it fills in the merchant, the date, the total and the GST. It cross-checks the figure against the receipt's own arithmetic and tells you which ones it could confirm and which ones it had to guess at.
Adds up at the end
One tap produces the year as a PDF, an HTML page or a CSV, with the receipt photos attached and the odometer accounted for. Email it straight to your accountant.
It stays on your phone
There is no sign-up, because there is nothing to sign up to. Tax Captain has no server and keeps no copy of your records — your trips, receipts and photographs live on your device and go nowhere unless you send them yourself.
That is not a privacy promise built on a policy. It is how the app is built: there is no account to breach and no database to leak. The privacy policy spells out the few occasions the app does reach the internet, and what it sends.
See everything it doesAn honest record, not a tax opinion
Tax Captain suggests whether a trip looks like work and explains why, and it will tell you when it is not sure. What it will never do is tell you what you can claim. That is a question for you and a registered tax agent, and an app that pretends otherwise is doing you no favours.
Every figure it produces shows its working, including the ones that do not add up. If the odometer says you drove further than the app recorded, the report says so rather than quietly absorbing the difference.