If you drive rideshare and you've gone looking for a third-party app to help, you've probably run into the same four names: DriveLens, GigU, Mystro, and Maxymo. They get lumped together as "driver apps," but they don't do the same job. Two of them exist to decide for you. Two of them exist to inform you. Picking the wrong category for how you drive is the most common mistake, and picking the wrong app within a category is the second most common.
Disclosure: we build DriveLens. We've verified the other three against their own public materials, and we link every source below so you can check it yourself. Pricing and features are current as of September 2026 and change often, so check each app's own site before you buy.
The honest one-line version
- Mystro and Maxymo are automation tools. They run several gig apps at once and accept or decline offers for you based on rules you set.
- GigU and DriveLens are screening tools. They grade the offer on your screen and leave the tap to you.
- Of the two screening tools, DriveLens is the one built around a hard payout floor, real net-profit math, a personal heatmap, dropoff zone intelligence, and a free tier that never expires. GigU is the one with an Android app live today.
If what you actually want is a robot tapping accept while you drive, DriveLens isn't the app for that job, Mystro or Maxymo are. Read on for where each one actually fits.
Where DriveLens leads this comparison
DriveLens enforces a hard payout floor in dollars underneath the rate check, not just a rule you configure, so a three-dollar ride with a flattering per-mile number still doesn't grade green on rate alone. It also models net profit after real vehicle costs (fuel, wear, depreciation), something GigU also does but Mystro and Maxymo don't.
None of the other three offer a personal pickup heatmap or dropoff zone intelligence. DriveLens builds both from your own ride history: where your good rides actually start, and which drop-offs leave you stranded with dead time before the next one. Understanding your DriveLens heatmap explains reading it.
GigU, Mystro, and Maxymo are all subscription-only after a trial. DriveLens has a $0 tier that doesn't expire, and it's the only one of the four with mileage tracking and IRS CSV export at no cost (Maxymo has both, but not for free). Live on-screen grading, a custom payout floor, rule presets, four overlay display modes, and zone analytics are the Pro features, at $7.99/month or $59.99/year.
And your driving data stays on your device by default, a deliberate architectural choice covered in why DriveLens stores your data locally. GigU, Mystro, and Maxymo do not store data locally by default.
Feature comparison
| DriveLens | GigU | Mystro | Maxymo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hard minimum-payout floor | Yes | No | PartiallyVia rules | PartiallyVia filters |
| Net profit after vehicle costs | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Personal heatmap / zone analytics | YesPro | No | No | No |
| Live earnings pace vs. your past shifts | YesPro | No | No | No |
| Mileage tracking + IRS CSV export | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Overlay display modes | Yes4 modes | PartiallyNot specified | PartiallyNot specified | PartiallyNot specified |
| Grades offers before you accept | Yes | Yes | NoShows $/hr, $/mi only | PartiallyVia filters |
| Counts drive-to-pickup in the rate | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Saves Offer History | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Data stored locally by default | Yes | No | No | No |
| Auto-accept / auto-decline | NoBy design | No | Yes | YesAndroid |
| Works across gig platforms | NoRideshare only | Yes8 apps | Yes8 apps | Partially3 full support, more with limited tools |
| Runs them simultaneously with auto-switching | No | No | Yes | YesAndroid |
| Android | Yes | Yes | Yes | YesFull automation |
| iOS | Not yetComing soon | Not yetComing soon | No | YesAnalysis and tracking |
| Free tier (not a trial) | Yes$0 forever | No | No | No |
| Paid price | $7.99/mo, $59.99/yr | $6.96/mo | $4.99/mo | $7.99/mo |
| Free trial | 14 days | 15 days | Yes | Yes |
| Generally available today | NoOnboarding testers | Yes | Yes | Yes |
"⚠️" marks a feature that exists in a partial or indirect form, not a plain yes or no.
The platform limitation, plainly
DriveLens is Android-only and not in Play Store search yet; it's currently onboarding testers rather than open to the general public. GigU is also not on iOS yet, listing it as coming soon, but its Android app is live for anyone today. Maxymo and DriveLens are the only two with iOS in any form: Maxymo ships an analysis-and-tracking iOS app, DriveLens's iOS app is still in development.
DriveLens also doesn't automate anything: it won't accept a ride, decline a ride, or flip you between Uber and Lyft. If your main pain is juggling several apps, Mystro and Maxymo are built for that problem specifically.
GigU: the closest comparison
GigU is the app most like DriveLens, and its Cherry Picker overlay is a solid piece of software: green, yellow, red, with earnings per mile, per hour, and per minute, live on screen. Its Net Profit Calculator estimates real profit after fuel, maintenance, insurance, and platform fees, and it skips the Uber/Lyft login requirement, adding voice notifications and automatic passenger messaging on top.
Platform coverage is wide: Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Uber Eats, Instacart, Spark, Grubhub, and Empower, matching Mystro's breadth. What it doesn't have is a built-in payout floor, mileage or tax tracking, or a personal heatmap; at $6.96/month with a 15-day trial it's the cheapest paid screening tool here, and its Android app is available today while its iOS build is listed as coming soon, same as DriveLens. DriveLens vs. GigU goes deeper on the gap.
Mystro: the automation standard
Mystro has the largest user base of the four, more than 100,000 drivers by its own count, and keeps eight platforms (Uber, Lyft, Uber Eats, DoorDash, GrubHub, Amazon Flex, Walmart Spark, SkipTheDishes) running at once, auto-accepting or auto-declining on your rules and switching the others offline when you accept. It shows $/hr and $/mi on incoming offers but doesn't grade them the way DriveLens or GigU do. Mystro states drivers report earning up to 30% more after switching, its own figure rather than an independent result.
At $4.99/month it's the cheapest paid app of the four, but it doesn't model net profit, track mileage, or offer heatmap intelligence at any price, and its own materials don't list iOS support. See DriveLens vs. Mystro.
Maxymo: full support for three, lighter tools beyond that
Maxymo's own materials describe full support for three platforms: Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash, with lighter, helper-level tools for other gig apps rather than full feature parity. On Android it does app switching, custom auto-accept and auto-decline filters, and cross-platform earnings and mileage tracking with IRS CSV export; on iPhone it's analysis and tracking only, an Apple platform restriction rather than a Maxymo shortcoming. At $7.99/month it matches DriveLens Pro's price but has no payout floor, net-profit modeling, or heatmap. More in DriveLens vs. Maxymo.
One thing worth checking yourself
Auto-accept tools sit in an area the platforms' own terms of service have opinions about, and those terms change. We won't tell you any specific app will get you deactivated; we don't know that, and it would be irresponsible to claim it. If you're considering an automation tool, read Uber's and Lyft's current driver terms yourself rather than taking any third party's word for it, ours included. Avoiding rideshare account deactivation covers the triggers drivers tend not to see coming.
How to pick
Choose DriveLens if you want a built-in payout floor, real net-profit math, a personal heatmap and dropoff zone intelligence, a free tier for mileage and tax tracking that never expires, and your data kept on your device, and you drive on Android and can join testing now.
Choose GigU if you want a screening tool with an Android app live today, or coverage across a wide range of gig apps beyond rideshare.
Choose Mystro if you run several gig platforms at once and want acceptance automated by the most mature tool for that job, at the lowest price of the four.
Choose Maxymo if you run Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash together and want automation on Android, or you're on iPhone and need something available today.
For everything DriveLens does that none of the other three do, see what DriveLens does differently. If you want the reasoning behind how we built it, why I built DriveLens is the honest version. We'll update this comparison as these apps ship changes.