Support
Email chief@hbadgerlabs.com and a human will get back to you, usually within one business day.
Reporting a tracking problem? Please include your phone model and OS version, the date and rough time of the drive, and what you expected versus what Kiro recorded. Since trip data stays on your device, we can't look it up — your description is what we work from.
Common questions
Drives aren't detected automatically
On iPhone: automatic detection needs Always location access. Open Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services → Kiro and choose Always, with Precise Location on. Also enable Motion & Fitness, which is how Kiro tells driving apart from walking.
On Android: three things have to be set, and the third is the one that catches people out. Location must be Allow all the time with precise location on; Physical activity must be allowed; and battery usage for Kiro must be set to Unrestricted. If battery optimisation is left on, Android will close Kiro mid-drive to save power and the rest of the trip is simply lost — with every permission still reading as granted. Kiro's Settings screen shows all three and links straight to whichever one is missing.
Then confirm "Automatic drive detection" is on in the app's Settings tab. Detection starts a few minutes into a drive by design — it waits until it is confident you are actually driving rather than walking, so short trips under about a quarter mile may not register.
Does it drain my battery?
GPS runs only during an actual drive. The rest of the time Kiro waits on low-power movement signals — significant location and visit monitoring on iPhone, activity-recognition transitions on Android — which cost very little. When you park, Kiro waits five minutes, finalizes the trip, and powers GPS back down.
A trip's distance looks wrong
Open the trip and edit the mileage. Edited trips are flagged with an asterisk on exports and hand-entered trips
with [M], so your log stays honest if it is ever examined. Tunnels, parking garages, and long stretches
without signal can shorten a recorded route; the edit exists for exactly that.
How do I get my data out?
Reports tab → choose a period → Export CSV or Export PDF. Both are free and unlimited. The PDF includes every IRS-required field, per-category totals, audit flags, and a SHA-256 integrity digest. You can share either one straight to your accountant.
What mileage rate does it use?
The 2026 IRS standard rates by default: 72.5¢ per business mile, 21¢ medical, 14¢ charity. You can change any of them in the Settings tab if you need different figures.
Can I use it with CarPlay?
On iPhone, yes. Plug in and Kiro appears on the car screen, where you can start and end drives, see the day's totals, and classify recent trips. Siri also works hands-free: "Start a drive in Kiro."
There is no Android Auto version, and there will not be one: Android Auto only admits navigation, parking, IoT and weather apps, and a mileage log is none of those. Nothing is lost — Android detects and records drives without the car screen, which is the part that matters.
Where is my data stored? Can I sync it?
Everything is stored only on your phone — there is no account and no cloud copy, which is why nobody but you can read it. That also means it does not sync between devices or between iPhone and Android today, and uninstalling the app deletes your trips. Export a CSV or PDF before deleting or switching phones if you want to keep your records.
Deleting your data
Swipe to delete individual trips in the Drives tab, or delete the app to remove everything at once. Nothing is retained anywhere else, so no further request is needed.
Contact
chief@hbadgerlabs.com
Honey Badger Labs LLC