Comparison

Arc Timeline vs Quantified Map

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Arc Timeline

This app automatically tracks your movements, including places visited, travel methods, and activities. It features advanced cycling detection and a learning engine to improve accuracy over time. Export your travel data in various formats.

Highlights
  • Automatic cycling detection
  • Automatic recording of places visited
  • Automatic detection of various transport modes
  • Searchable travel memory
  • GPX export for trips and data
  • Activity summaries and statistics
Features
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Automatically keep track of the places you visit, how you got there, and what you did while you were there. With a learning engine that gets smarter and more accurate the more you use it. FEATURES - The highest accuracy cycling detection available! - Automatic running and cycling recording - no start button required! - Automatic recording of places you visit, with analytics and statistics that evolve over time - Automatic detection and recording of walking, running, cycling, driving, train, tram, bus, airplane, motorcycle, boat, skiing, snowboarding, wheelchair, and many more - A learning engine that makes it possible to achieve increasingly accurate and detailed recordings of visits and trips, personalised specifically for you - A searchable memory of your life's travels, searchable by places names, locations, activities, and more - Export individual trips, or entire days, weeks, months, or years to standard GPX format files, for analysis and visualisation in hundreds of third party services and apps AND MORE - Collates place statistics, average visit durations, average calories burned, heart rate, and more - Compare individual visit statistics to your averages - Collates workout sessions, sleep times, and weather reports for each timeline item - Altitude graphs for visualising mountain hikes, airplane flights, etc - Daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly activity summaries, showing duration, distance, calories burned, and much more, for every activity type - Automated daily and monthly exports in GPX format or full detail JSON files - Save walking, running, and cycling workouts to Apple Health - Moves app data importer HEALTH DATA Collection of Health data such as calories burned and heart rate requires an Apple Watch or other Apple Health connected device. BATTERY USE Arc is only awake and using GPS when you are active and moving. For the rest of the day Arc stays in a low power sleep mode, with GPS turned off, to conserve battery. On a typical day of two to three hours of travel a single full battery charge should last from morning to evening without requiring extra recharging during the day. However longer trips (for example a long hike or cross country drive) may consume more than expected battery, due to Arc needing to be awake and recording, with GPS activated, for the duration of the trip. For longer trips, I recommend plugging your phone into a car charger or battery pack, to avoid unpleasant battery surprises. SUBSCRIPTIONS AND PURCHASES A free trial, active subscription, or Lifetime purchase is required to use the app. ## Subscription Details Your subscription will be charged to your iTunes account. At the end of the term your subscription will automatically renew in your iTunes account. You can turn off automatic renewal in your iTunes account settings at any time, but you must do so at least 24 hours before the end of the current term. ## Legal https://www.bigpaua.com/arcapp/terms https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms https://policies.google.com/privacy

About

Quantified Map

This app helps you track your activities and travels over time, creating personalized maps from your data. Visualize your daily timeline, compare workouts, and annotate photos for easy retrieval. It automatically recognizes places and activities, allowing you to create detailed records of your life's journey.

Highlights
  • Automatic activity tracking
  • Personalized travel maps
  • Daily timeline visualization
  • Workout comparison
  • Photo annotation with geolocation
  • Daily note-taking
Features
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Keep track of your activity and travel through the years. Create high quality personalized maps using your data, visualize your day to day timeline, take notes, compare your workouts, and annotate your photos to find them easily. ACTIVITY TRACKER Track your activity automatically in the background with only your phone (Enable or disable in the Settings). It will automatically recognize the places you go to and your walks, runs, etc. TRAVEL MAPS Generate a map of your day, week, month or your last vacation using HealthKit or Strava workouts, Moves App or Quantified activity, Swarm/Foursquare checkins, and/or Photos
 geolocations.
 Then export it as an image that you can share on social media. TIMELINE View all your activities, places and photos aggregated on a timeline presented day by day. You can edit your activity to set custom activity type like yoga and tag places. NOTES Take daily notes to summarize your days or add notes to your activity or places individualy. A note have a short title that will be displayed on your timeline and a longer description to detail everithing. WORKOUTS Keep your workout going by comparing your activity between weeks and months. Make sure you stay on top of your best weeks/months. PHOTOS Save your geolocation metadata to your photos (From the available location data you imported from other services, or by selecting it on the map). To use this App, you can enable or disable the tracking when needed, import your GPX or Moves App data, or connect with at least one of the available services (If you do not have Swarm or Strava, you can download them on the AppStore for free). Moves is now discontinued, but if you have a backup of your data, you can import it in Quantified Map. Do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions, issues or feature requests. I plan to add more features soon. Your privacy matters, my goal with Quantified Map is to allow you to track and visualize all your data in one place. I do not collect personal info, every map is generated on your device. The data you load or import from different services (like HealthKit, Moves app, Photos, Strava, Swarm, etc.) is yours and stays secure on your device at all times. At any moment you can delete all the data loaded by QuantifiedMap on your device. With Quantified Tracking, your activity and places you visit will automatically be recorded locally on your device. Foursquare is used to name places on your timeline, some coordinates of visited places can be sent to Foursquare to name those places initially.

Screenshots

Arc Timeline4 screens
Quantified Map4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Quantified Map at none against Arc Timeline's 4. Quantified Map also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks) and review sentiment (60% vs 48%). Arc Timeline's advantage is ratings volume (425 vs 66). On price, rating and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Arc Timeline sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Quantified Map asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Arc Timeline against 4.2 for Quantified Map. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Arc Timeline has 425 ratings behind it against 66, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 48% of Arc Timeline's written reviews are positive against 60% of Quantified Map's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Arc Timeline ships an update every 3 weeks, Quantified Map every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Arc Timeline versus Quantified Map: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterArc TimelineQuantified Map
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (425 ratings) — better4.2 (66 ratings)
Positive reviews47.8% of reviews59.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings425 — better66
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB54 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperMatthew Bruce GreenfieldLudovic Landry

Customer experience

Arc Timeline

All ratings425 ratings
Positive79.5%
Neutral4.5%
Negative16.0%
Written reviews337 reviews
Positive47.8%
Neutral13.6%
Negative38.6%

Quantified Map

All ratings66 ratings
Positive77.3%
Neutral7.6%
Negative15.2%
Written reviews42 reviews
Positive59.5%
Neutral2.4%
Negative38.1%

Bugs and requests

Arc Timeline

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Inaccurate activity detection
  • Unexplained data gaps
  • Syncing issues with iCloud
  • Slow performance on older devices

Requested features

6 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Weekly/monthly activity summaries
  • Improved location accuracy
  • Better background tracking
  • Easier data editing tools
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  • Customizable units of measurement

Quantified Map

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Arc Timeline

Subscriptions3
  • Arc Subscription · Monthly14 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Arc Subscription · 6 Monthly14 Days trial$24.996 Months
  • Arc App Backer · Yearly14 Days trial$44.991 Year
One-time1
  • Arc App Backer · Lifetime$219.99
None

Quantified Map

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Arc Timeline free?
Arc Timeline is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Quantified Map free?
Quantified Map is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Arc Timeline or Quantified Map?
Arc Timeline is rated higher. Arc Timeline averages 4.2 out of 5 from 425 ratings, while Quantified Map averages 4.2 from 66 ratings.
Do Arc Timeline or Quantified Map have ads?
Neither Arc Timeline nor Quantified Map shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Arc Timeline or Quantified Map?
Arc Timeline ships an update every 3 weeks, and Quantified Map every 5 days. Most recently, Arc Timeline was updated on October 29, 2026 and Quantified Map on October 24, 2026.

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