Spurbuch records every trip in the background. Then you swipe it to business, private or commute, and at the end of the year you export your finished logbook as a PDF. Your trips stay on your iPhone, and you don't need an account.
For iPhone with iOS 17 or later. Try it free for 7 days.
A clean logbook pays off most in two cases. And in both, Spurbuch keeps the list for you.
Company car
Without a logbook, you pay tax every month on 1% of the car's list price, however little you drive privately. With a logbook (the Fahrtenbuch method), what counts is the share you drive privately. That's why Spurbuch shows you both ways side by side at the end, so you can see which one costs you less.
Private car
Then you can claim €0.30 for every business kilometre. To do that, you need to show when you drove where, and why. Spurbuch collects exactly this for every trip, so you don't have to piece it together at the end of the year.
To keep that list right, you only need three short steps in your day.
Spurbuch uses GPS and your iPhone's motion sensors to notice that you are driving. It saves the start and end time, both addresses, the route and the distance, without you opening the app.
Once you arrive, you swipe the trip to business, private or commute. For a business trip you then add the purpose and the business partner, and you have 7 days to do it.
At the end of the year, or for any other period, you create a PDF logbook and a CSV file. You hand both to your tax adviser or add them to your tax return.
And because each kind of trip needs different details, Spurbuch only asks for what that trip needs.
These are the details the German tax office (Finanzamt) expects:
For private trips only the kilometres count. So where you went privately is not in the logbook.
Spurbuch counts trips between home and work separately. They show up as their own total in your summary.
The tax office looks closely at these details, because an electronic logbook must not be changed later without a trace. That's why Spurbuch saves every change to a finished trip as a new version. It holds the old value, the new value, the time and your reason for the change.
All versions are linked by a SHA-256 checksum, like the links of a chain. This means that if someone secretly changed an old entry, the chain would no longer fit together.
Seven days after the trip, it is locked. This matches the German Finance Ministry letter of 3 March 2022 (BMF-Schreiben, margin number 29), which gives you 7 calendar days to add the purpose and business partner. And so nobody has to take this on trust, the change log is printed inside the PDF logbook itself.
Example data. Each line carries the checksum of the one before.
Good to know: the German tax office does not certify logbook software, so it has not certified Spurbuch either. Whether your logbook is accepted is decided by the tax office case by case.
Once your year is driven, you turn it into your logbook. The PDF lists every trip with its required details, plus the change log, for a full year or any period you choose. You also get a CSV file that you can open in Excel, for example.
And the summary shows you what the year added up to:
| Business | 8,420 km |
|---|---|
| Private | 3,115 km |
| Commute | 3,960 km |
| Mileage allowance (estimated) | €2,526.00 |
Example values. All amounts are estimates. This is not tax advice, please check with your tax adviser.
A logbook shows where you were every day. That's why Spurbuch stores your trips only on your iPhone. They are shared only when you export a PDF or CSV file yourself and send it on.
You install the app and drive. You don't sign up anywhere or give an email address.
There is no cloud that holds your routes. Even when you write to us through "Help & Feedback", only your message goes to our server, with no trip data.
The app only counts when you allow it: if you switch on anonymous usage stats, it reports the app version and subscription status once a day. This website sets no cookies, loads no third-party fonts and does not count visits.
So you can see in peace whether Spurbuch fits your day, you try it free for 7 days first. After that you pick one of two plans.
€4.99 per month
Good if you want to use Spurbuch for a while before you commit to a year.
€39.99 per year
A year of logbook for the price of about eight months. You save €19.89 compared with the monthly plan.
Both plans include every feature. Payment runs through the App Store.
The tax office does not certify logbook software, not Spurbuch and not any other app. Spurbuch follows the requirements in the Finance Ministry letter of 3 March 2022: it records the required details, locks trips after 7 days and makes every later change visible. Whether your logbook is accepted is decided by the tax office in the end. So please talk to your tax adviser first.
No. Spurbuch records in the background as soon as you drive. You only open the app when you want to sort the trip.
Then the trip is locked. Until then, you add the purpose and business partner. Spurbuch saves every change to a finished trip as a new version with a reason, and these versions appear in the PDF later.
Yes. You add each vehicle with its number plate, and each one has its own running odometer.
No. Spurbuch works without signing up, and your trips stay on your iPhone.
Spurbuch is an iPhone app and runs on iOS 17 or later. The app is available in German and English.
Spurbuch is coming to the App Store soon. Write to info@spurbuch.com and we'll let you know when it launches.
As soon as Spurbuch is in the App Store, we'll let you know. Then you install the app, try it free for 7 days, and your next trip is already in your logbook.
You send us a short email, and we write back as soon as the app is out.