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The Holy Grail for anyone interested in the miles and points game, or even those who want just to earn some points, is finding a method to collect the maximum amount of rewards with the least amount of effort. Regardless of where the points/miles come from it is all about maximize earning. How about a way to collect points while you do nothing more than just go about your daily business in your car; it is called MileUp.
What is MileUp?
MileUp is a simple application that tracks your driving; for every mile you drive you earn points, and the points can be converted into gift cards at popular retailers like iTunes, Walmart, and Amazon.
How Does It Work?
When you signup for the app, you earn 25 bonus points. After that, as your drive around the app tracks your driving, and for every mile driven you earn points which are added to your MileUp account. You can then exchange every 1,000 points for retail gift cards worth $5.
There are also several bonuses that you can pick up, like the fact that if your drive more than 400 miles per week you are eligible for a bonus. If you are unfortunate enough to be involved in a crash, you can submit an accident report through the application, and you will pick up 50,000 points bonus worth up to $250. Another possible bonus is a 100 points bonus for referring friends to the app. Finally, during your daily use of the app, you will find challenges and other Easter eggs in which you can participate to pick up even more points.
Why Oh Why?
By now you are probably wondering what is the catch, and what does the app do with all the data it collects, and more importantly why it is doing it? MileUp is owned by Agero, a company that hopes to be able to make our roads safer and reduce road traffic deaths. Each year they gather and analyze data on 10 million+ car accidents and roadside assistance incidents.
The company aims to improve crash detection technology to enable faster response times to accidents, as well as making driving safer by analyzing driving patterns and habits.
Overall
If you do any amount of driving, why not give this a shot? Even for those of us who only drive a few thousand miles per year, it is an excellent opportunity to pick up some free points and rewards. If on the other hand, you are a heavy driver who covers tens of thousands of miles every year, you should pretty much sign up right now; no questions asked.
Source: Maximizing Money/Max Messner
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Literally points for doing nothing!
This app used to be great before they devalued the points.
Yeah, I see in the reviews that it’s now 4000 miles to get a $5 gift card.
Looks like a half cent for gift cards and cash bonus, is it higher if you use the points for travel or is it always that low?
what an easy way to get some gift cards
I love the idea of collecting miles on things you go about doing anyway and the data collected contributes to good causes, that’s double win!
This app makes me want to be a long haul truck driver.
Sounds interesting; thanks very much for pointing this opportunity out!
This sounds like free points and appears to be legit.
Nice use of technology. Wonder if the data collected is stored by driver. There could be some privacy concerns if so.
Especially if detailed data, like speed of travel, is shared with our insurance agencies. Anyone know if this is done or not?
I guess I will give this a shot. Don’t drive much, but might as well
being Big Brother finally pays off!
Downloading now. I hope this is as good as it sounds.
Definitely eye-catching but be vary of all the data you share.
Tempting. yet another way to reward giving up some more privacy.
Do they share driving information with third parties?
this is actually very nice. but you’re probably going to be tracked – driving patterns, where you go, etc.
Hmm their intention sounds good, but I’m not quite sure if I want to allow others to know where I am every second.
Nevertheless, thanks for the post, this is definitely one of the more interesting apps out there.
Sounds too good to be true!
This looks interesting. Has anyone else done this that can give me more information?
Sounds like a simple easy way to collect some rewards, I’m in. I’d rather give this info to Agero than have 1 of those OBDII plugs hooked into my car from Geico or Progressive because I guarantee they won’t like my driving style, but with Agero collecting the data there’s no reason to not show them my speeding habits, and maybe they’ll lobby for more good public transportation to give people an option to get off the road.
Hahaha pretty much sums up my thoughts after reading the post too.
Sweet just downloaded it
Wow, an app that gives you points or miles for just driving. Will be downloading this now to give it a go.
Very interesting application. It’s nice to get paid for doing nothing, but I’m still a little skeptical about them earning money off using my location data.
Sounds intriguing. I might do some checking into this. Any idea on how data intensive the app is?
You need to add more sharing options on this blog. I wanted to share this by text or email but there is no way. Add a copy link and a linked in share too.
Has anyone tried this?
I love the concept . Going to go download it now.
Does this also work in Europe?
Doesn’t seem like the GC values are very high for the miles driven.
That would use up a ridiculous amount of data I assume?
That’s a good point.
I’m all for getting things for some info. I already do something like this with PanalApp, why not when I just drive around too? But, ugh, something else to download on to my cell. Does anyone else have issues with too little room left on the Samsung 5? Even though I don’t have lots of apps I’m always running out of room. Little photos and videos too. It’d be sweet to get more Amazon money!
Very interesting app. Downloading now.
Thanks for the heads-up!
can’t beat free. going to download now too.
Interesting idea. I wonder how it is with data usage and battery life?
is that doable in Europe?
Does anyone know if this is 1 mile per 1 mile driven? I saw somewhere that you earn miles per mile driven, but I do not see that quantified anywhere.
I think I will try it since I have nothing to hide in my daily driving around my town. But I checked their privacy policy and it does say “we collect informationn to design and offer products and services that will be of benefit to you and our other mobile programs” and advise they may share your personal information with a long list of 3rd parties, including affiliates, contractors, service providers, Merchants, and other non-affiliated third parties
Looking forward to checking this app out.
Thanks for the heads-up!
will miles outside US count as well?
This looks to be targeted at the US only.
Oh this is cool!