WhereIWas: Location Timeline

WhereIWas is your location timeline and travel log: day after day, it quietly records where you have been and shows it on a map — a road trip, a holiday, a hike, a day's work — without flattening your battery. WHY IT IS DIFFERENT Most trackers either drain the battery by keeping GPS on permanently, or quietly lose hours of your day when iOS suspends them. WhereIWas does neither. It listens to the motion coprocessor, which costs almost no power, and switches GPS on only once you are actually moving — then scales accuracy to your speed: a 10 m filter on foot, 50 m in a car. It waits two minutes of stillness before switching GPS back off, so a red light never ends your track. BUILT TO SURVIVE • Keeps recording with the screen off and the app in the background • Relaunches itself and resumes after iOS terminates it under memory pressure • Survives a reboot, once you have unlocked the device • Works entirely offline — no signal, no server, no account needed EVERY FIX, FULLY DOCUMENTED Each stored point keeps its coordinates, altitude, horizontal and vertical accuracy, speed, course, timestamp, detected activity (walking, running, cycling, driving, still), battery level and the GPS profile in force. Inaccurate, stale, duplicate and out-of-order fixes are filtered out before they are written. AUDIT TRAIL Turn on the optional audit trail and the app records why it did what it did: every fix it received, every validation test it ran with the measured value and the threshold that applied, every state change and every time it stopped GPS. When you wonder why there is a gap between 14:02 and 14:20, the answer is in there. Export it as JSON or plain text. EXPORT WHAT YOU RECORDED GPX 1.1 for any mapping tool, or JSON with the full metadata. Send it anywhere through the standard share sheet. Export today, the last seven days, a date range you pick, a single recorded session, or everything. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Everything is stored on device, in a local database. No account, no server, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking. Nothing is uploaded anywhere. You decide what leaves the phone, and when, by exporting it yourself. IN YOUR LANGUAGE, IN YOUR UNITS Translated into English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish and Czech. Distances, speeds and altitudes follow a metric or imperial setting of their own, so you never have to change your phone's language to read miles. BACKGROUND LOCATION Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. WhereIWas is built to keep that cost down — GPS runs only while you move — and the status screen always shows what is running and which GPS profile is in force. Requires iOS 17 or later. Always location permission is required for background recording. Motion permission is strongly recommended: it is what lets the app save your battery.