# Dots of Life - Footprint Map — Trip tracker & Map visualizer

> GPS footprint tracker with elegant visualizations and smart travel features. (iPhone/iPad app by 殷其 蔡.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dots-of-life-footprint-map/id6757199948 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [殷其 蔡](https://appshunter.io/developer/1859484587)
- Category: Travel, Lifestyle
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.30/5 from 6 App Store ratings · 19 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.4 · 219 MB
- Languages: Chinese (Simplified, China), Chinese (Traditional, Hong Kong SAR China), American English
- Released: 2026-04-03
- Data updated: 2026-09-13
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dots-of-life-footprint-map/id6757199948/reviews.md

## What is Dots of Life?

Record your journey with elegant, fast, and intuitive visualizations.
This is a personal footprint tracker that seamlessly blends ultra-low power recording, fluid visual aesthetics, and multi-dimensional statistical reviews.

【Smart Recording】
· Ultra-low Power Optimization: Runs faithfully in the background with minimal battery impact. In Power Saving Mode, daily battery usage can be as low as 1%.
· Automatic Visit Recognition: Automatically analyzes countries and cities visited, displaying visit counts and duration to help you light up your world map.

【Visual Aesthetics】
· Diverse Rendering Modes: Switch between Dot, Heatmap, and Fog styles to turn every journey into a work of art.
· Multi-dimensional Visualization: Color-code your tracks by speed or altitude to instantly visualize your summit climbs or high-speed sprints.
· First-of-its-kind "Smooth Track": Say goodbye to rigid polylines; our algorithm restores the natural, fluid flow of your movement.
· Color-coded Activity Recognition: Automatically detects walking, cycling, and driving, displaying them in distinct colors to map the rhythm of your life.

【Innovative Interaction】
· Original "Clock-view" Charts: Condense a day's data into an intuitive clock interface, making active periods and activity types clear at a glance.
· Original Variable Font-weight Calendar: The more you travel, the bolder the date appears. Simply slide to preview daily tracks for highly efficient history browsing.

【The Ultimate Travel Partner】
· Smart Ticket Management: Manually add or auto-detect flight and train tickets to generate beautiful cards featuring flight numbers, aircraft types, cabin classes, and personalized notes.
· Interactive Airport Maps: Tap any airport on the map to view takeoff/landing frequency, flight history, and detailed statistics.
· Smart Flight Hiding: Designed for aviation enthusiasts. Use the "Auto Hide Flights" option to keep your ground footprints clean and clutter-free.

【Data Sovereignty】
· Advanced Data Control: Use "Doodle Select" to batch move or delete points, or manually add missing steps to ensure your tracks are pixel-perfect.
· Seamless Migration: Import your historical data from other apps via GPX, CSV, and other major formats.
· Privacy & Security: Your data stays under your control with flexible export and backup solutions.

We hope Dots of Life brings you a brand-new experience. Thank you for your support!

Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Key features

- Ultra-low power GPS recording
- Automatic visit recognition (countries/cities)
- Diverse rendering modes (Dot, Heatmap, Fog)
- Color-coded activity recognition (walk, cycle, drive)
- Smart ticket management
- Interactive airport maps
- GPX/CSV data import

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Monthly | $0.99 | per month |
| Yearly | $8.99 | per year |


## Recent user reviews (10 of 19)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dots-of-life-footprint-map/id6757199948/reviews.md

### 5/5 — 同类产品中的精品！

*2026-09-09*

流畅！强大！好玩儿！

### 2/5 — 火车轨迹补到底怎么用？

*2026-09-07*

我只想补信号不好的一小段，但是一选交通是火车就给我吧站间一大段全部给我补上了，重复了一大堆，半天都删不完

**Developer response:** 感谢反馈。一小段的火车补全是路线吸附的薄弱环节，你可以选择这一段，手动添加好途径点，在随后的阶段取消勾选“吸附”就可以补全啦。至于批量删除，在右侧省略号里有一个“涂鸦选点”的功能，选完就可以批量删除，非常方便。更多问题可以加qq群或者小红书私信我解决。

### 5/5 — 良心 app

*2026-08-25*

功能越来越完善了，解决了很多记录轨迹的痛点，好评。希望 app 越做越好

**Developer response:** 谢谢支持😼

### 5/5 — 最用心的一款APP

*2026-08-23*

看得出来，作者真心热爱这款APP，并在不断出新。

**Developer response:** 谢谢支持，开心🥳

### 5/5 — 希望增加跨设备同步功能！！！

*2026-07-26*

软件很不错，界面设计和交互逻辑优于同类型app，希望作者考虑加入跨设备同步功能，方便多设备党和在iPad上面查看轨迹。

**Developer response:** 感谢支持。在我想到更好的方法前，您可以从不同设备导入iCloud云盘/人生点点下的最新备份文件以达到多设备同步的效果。

### 5/5 — 相当不错

*2026-07-23*

吊打一众同类软件

**Developer response:** 感谢支持😎

### 5/5 — 唯一在用的记录足迹软件

*2026-07-22*

界面非常好看，各种交通工具都能记录在一个软件上，很棒

**Developer response:** 感谢支持😎

### 5/5 — Great

*2026-07-22*

Tracks well and gives plenty of entertainment functionalities.

**Developer response:** Thank you so much for the review. Happy tracking!

### 5/5 — 足迹顶流

*2026-07-11*

绝对的足迹顶流app，从各种小细节就可以看出开发者花的心思。现在每天都要打开玩好久，非常推荐

### 4/5 — 很不错

*2026-07-10*

功能很丰富，但是想请求加个根据已有数据将一个区间批量补点的功能，包括补完之后吸附到铁路之类。有时候轨迹断成好几百段，“手动补点”点不过来😂

**Developer response:** 你好，感谢反馈。如果是你的铁路零零碎碎记了几百个点，可以用铁路补全功能直接从头补到尾，此功能会自动覆盖现有的不精确的数据。至于你说的多选足迹点吸附到道路/铁路的功能，已经快完成了，将在下个或者下下个大版本更新推出，届时麻烦给个五星鼓励一下🫶

## Frequently asked questions about Dots of Life

### What is Dots of Life?

Dots of Life is a GPS footprint tracker that helps you visualize your journeys with elegant aesthetics and smart features. It offers ultra-low power recording, automatic visit recognition, and detailed activity tracking to map your travels.

### Does Dots of Life have ads?

No, Dots of Life does not contain advertisements. It is designed to provide an uninterrupted user experience for tracking your travels.

### What are the subscription options for Dots of Life?

Dots of Life offers a monthly subscription for $0.99 and a yearly subscription for $8.99. These plans likely unlock premium features or remove limitations.

### How does Dots of Life optimize battery usage?

Dots of Life features ultra-low power optimization, running in the background with minimal battery impact. In Power Saving Mode, daily battery usage can be as low as 1%.

### Can I import my past travel data into Dots of Life?

Yes, Dots of Life supports seamless migration of historical data from other apps via GPX, CSV, and other major formats, ensuring you can consolidate your travel logs.

### What age rating does Dots of Life have?

Dots of Life has an age rating of 4+, making it suitable for a wide range of users. It is available on iPhone and iPad.

### How often is Dots of Life updated?

The latest version of Dots of Life is 1.2.2, and it was last updated on June 12, 2026. This indicates a relatively active development cycle.

### What makes the visualizations in Dots of Life unique?

Dots of Life offers diverse rendering modes like Dot, Heatmap, and Fog, and a unique 'Smooth Track' algorithm that restores the natural flow of movement. It also allows color-coding by speed or altitude for multi-dimensional insights.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.1.2 — 2026-09-08

New
· 【Default Transport】Set your default transport to bus, motorcycle and more, so trips are no longer recorded only as “Car.” Slower stretches will be recorded as cycling.
Improved
· Grand Tour is refined: on the day you cross into another country, both countries or regions can now be shown.
Fixed
· Fixed various issues reported by users.

### 2.1.1 — 2026-09-05

New
· 【Smooth Lines in Lifetime】Lifetime's Lines and 3D Heatmap now use smooth lines by default. The lines you've traveled layer up, tracing footprints that feel more organic.
· 【Visits】You can now set the minimum visit duration and the default radius for new places in Settings > Recording & Detection.
Improved
· 【Heatmap】The heatmap has been refined, making the contrast between dense and sparse footprints more distinct.
Fixed
· Fixed various issues reported by users.

### 2.1.0 — 2026-09-02

New
· 【Create Palettes】Create and save your own palettes in the Styles panel, with gradient stops and brightness entirely up to you. Works with Solid Color, By Speed, By Altitude and Lifetime’s Heat mode.
· 【Share & Get Styles】Screenshots you upload to the gallery carry their style. While browsing, tap the info button or swipe up to see the style, then tap Get Style to apply a look you like.
· 【Grand Tour】If you travel across countries, you can choose to show the country or region you were in behind each date in Calendar, making days easier to find and recall.
· 【Show Today’s Track in Lifetime】Draw today’s track as an overlay in Lifetime, so you can see today’s exploring alongside all your footprints.
· 【Quick Gestures】Set a long press on the Lifetime button to Toggle Today’s Track or Toggle Time Machine.
Improved
· Turn on Data Expert in Experimental to get a separate Drift Expert switch, which controls whether drift dots show their red “x”.
· Improved place statistics (countries lit up, visit counts and more) — results are more accurate after reanalyzing.
· Fog of World now imports in the fwss format, making importing simpler.
· Added airports and airlines: Linfen Yaodu Airport, Air Guilin, Jiangxi Air and Tianjiao Airlines. Edit a flight ticket again to select them.
Fixed
· Fixed an issue where Smooth Line could stop working.
· Fixed an issue where flight routes and airport names could disappear when switching maps.
· Fixed various issues reported by users.

### 2.0.1 — 2026-08-26

A major update! Dots of Life steps into 2.0 with the 【High-Speed Rendering Engine】, and Lifetime has never rendered this smoothly.
New
· 【High-Speed Rendering Engine】Powered by advanced algorithms, the new engine delivers an incredibly fluid Lifetime view: zoom and pan the map without ever waiting for it to load.
· 【3D Heatmap】Tilt the map in Lifetime’s Heat style to see the 3D effect.
· 【Lines of Life】Lifetime can now use the Lines style in place of Dots. Zoom in to see your footprint dots joined into lines.
· 【Fog】The Fog style has been redesigned for a more lifelike fog effect. 【Please note!】If you imported Fog of World data before, Clear Fog Data first, then import the sync folder again.
Improved
· 【Style Panel】The Style panel has been redesigned, bringing color selection and adjustments together so switching and fine-tuning are easier than ever — and laying the groundwork for what’s next.
· Visited places can now show their arrival order as the icon in single-day views, and place names can be hidden.
· Improved the accuracy of Auto Tunnel Completion.
Fixed
· Fixed various issues reported by users.

### 2.0.0 — 2026-08-25

A major update! Dots of Life steps into 2.0 with the 【High-Speed Rendering Engine】, and Lifetime has never rendered this smoothly.
New
· 【High-Speed Rendering Engine】Powered by advanced algorithms, the new engine delivers an incredibly fluid Lifetime view: zoom and pan the map without ever waiting for it to load.
· 【3D Heatmap】Tilt the map in Lifetime’s Heat style to see the 3D effect.
· 【Lines of Life】Lifetime can now use the Lines style in place of Dots. Zoom in to see your footprint dots joined into lines.
· 【Fog】The Fog style has been redesigned for a more lifelike fog effect. 【Please note!】If you imported Fog of World data before, Clear Fog Data first, then import the sync folder again.
Improved
· 【Style Panel】The Style panel has been redesigned, bringing color selection and adjustments together so switching and fine-tuning are easier than ever — and laying the groundwork for what’s next.
· Visited places can now show their arrival order as the icon in single-day views, and place names can be hidden.
· Improved the accuracy of Auto Tunnel Completion.
Fixed
· Fixed various issues reported by users.

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