Location Log

Personal Location Tracker

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December 22, 2020
December 12, 2024
14.1+
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1.09MB
iPhone, iPod
English

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A Quinn

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Location Log is made for people that like to know exactly where they were at any point in time, but who also value their privacy and want to be able to achieve this without having to share their data with anyone (not even the app developer). Once installed, Location Log continuously and accurately tracks your location in the background throughout each day, ensuring that your location data is held *locally* on your device, and available only to you - not shared with anyone. You can browse your past locations either by date or by area search. In a world where data tends to be the new currency, Location Log stands against this trend by trying to keep as much of your data as private as possible, so that you do not have to share it with anyone. This is why no sign-up or login is required, and of course no centralised server is used to store any location history: because the location data is held privately and locally on your device. The app has been specifically designed in a unique way to optimise battery usage, despite continuously and accurately tracking your location throughout each day in the background. • History function: to view your movements on any date (also useful to help determine the time you arrived and left any specific location, say, to calculate how long a visit to a business client lasted for). • Distance calculator: to calculate approximate distance travelled between selected times of a day, useful for mileage claim calculations. • Search function allows you to search any region to reveal all historic dates that you visited that area. • Delete, import, and export functions are available, so you have complete control of your data. • ON/OFF toggle allows you to start/stop logging your location. • Logging Frequency: Provides options for the frequency of logging. • Backing up your device (via iCloud, or through you Mac/PC) is advised to keep a backup of your Location History data (for example when when replacing your handset). You can also manually export your location history using the 'export' function, and use the 'import' feature to import it back in as well. • Offers Export to GPX format

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What's New in Location Log

2.7

August 23, 2024

iOS 18 bug fix (prevents crash when 'Search' button triggered)

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Excellent App

Just an excellent app for travel that does not share your location outside of your device, except stored as part of your iCloud backup. Battery use is minimal on my iPhone 14 Pro Max so I just turn it on when leaving for a trip and turn it off when returning home. Turning it on is on travel checklist along with putting thermostats in away mode so I don’t forget.

I have used this logger for several trips now, recently including Copenhagen, Bergen, and then a cruise stopping in Greenland and Iceland and it’s great to be able to retrace my streps after getting home. I am able to overlay the GPX track log over the GPS photo info recorded by my camera in Lightroom and fill the location gaps between the photos.

I do have trouble getting the time stamps on the waypoints to match up to the local timestamps in the photos without editing the GPX files to fix up the times. Still trying to figure out the best way to do this as Lightroom does have a track offset function but it doesn’t remember it between sessions and it’s not very useful for trips across multiple time zones with just a single GPX file.

I believe that this is really a Lightroom problem, of course, and not a fault of this app. The Lightroom map module has other bugs I’ve reported to no avail so work-arounds are needed.

So this is a wonderful app—indispensable for world travelers. Don’t hesitate to get it.

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ZimFromIRK

14 days ago

Response from developer

Wow 😮! Firstly, thank you so so very much for taking the time to write such a long and flattering review. I made the app for myself initially, but eventually decided to polish it up and bit and make it available on the App Store in case it was helpful to anyone else too. Funnily enough, I myself also travelled to Copenhagen with it once (lovely city!) Hmm, I wonder if there’s something I can tweak in the GPX export format that could help you with the time offsets. I know GPX timestamps have to be UTC format (ISO 8601) but if you think there’s something I can tweak in the gpx format that would help (without breaking it for other users) then let me know - my email is in the feedback and thanks section of the app. (I am crazy-busy at the moment though, so might take a few weeks, but happy to try something out if it’s a case of a simple amendment to the GPX format that doesn’t negatively affect other users)

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