Comparison

Location Tracker vs Always On Location

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

Head to head
About

Location Tracker

Record your travels and activities with unlimited GPX traces. View your route on a map, pause or resume tracking, and export your data in various formats including PNG, GPX, CSV, JSON, and GeoJSON. Supports dark mode.

Highlights
  • Unlimited GPX trace creation
  • Map view of tracking routes
  • Pause/resume tracking functionality
  • Export tracks as PNG, GPX, CSV, JSON, GeoJSON
  • Dark mode support
Features
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This app has no ads and no in-app-purchases. Create unlimited GPX traces. Requires iOS 14.5 or above. Main Features * Track your location of your activity. * Displays tracking rout in a map. * Pause / resume tracking. * Displays current location. * Export track as PNG image. * Export track as GPX file. * Export track as CSV file. * Export track as JSON file. * Export track as GeoJSON file. * Dark mode support.

About

Always On Location

Features
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Always On Location records this phone's position all day, including while the app is closed, and writes one plain CSV and one GPX file for each day. Point any geotagger at the GPX and photographs from a camera with no GPS of its own land on the map. WHAT IT WRITES β€’ One CSV per day: time in UTC and local, latitude, longitude, altitude, the accuracy of each, speed, course, time zone, and which iOS mechanism produced the fix. β€’ One GPX per day, split into segments at gaps, so a geotagger never interpolates a photograph across a hole in the record. β€’ Both appear in Files β–Έ On My iPhone β–Έ Always On Location, and in Finder over USB. WHERE THE FILES GO Nowhere, unless you move them. There is no server, no account, no analytics and no third-party SDK. The app contains no networking code for your data. Files leave this phone only when you export them, or through an iCloud backup you control. HOW IT KEEPS RECORDING β€’ Recording starts by itself at launch. A logger you have to remember to start is a logger you forgot to start. β€’ If iOS ends the app, it is relaunched in the background and picks the day back up. β€’ A missed midnight is repaired at the next launch, so a day is never left half-written. β€’ Three fidelity profiles trade battery against detail, and GPS parks itself when the phone stops moving. WHAT THE MAPS SHOW An accuracy limit, an optional speed limit, and the reach of the year map's shading are all yours to set. None of it edits the log: every fix stays in the CSV, and raising a limit brings it straight back. HOW TO STOP IT Pause recording whenever you like, delete any single day, or erase the whole archive. An afternoon somewhere is yours not to record. Open source under Apache-2.0. The code and the privacy policy live in a public repository.

Screenshots

Location Tracker4 screens
Always On Location4 screens

Verdict

The call

Location Tracker and Always On Location are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters β€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them β€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Location Tracker versus Always On Location: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLocation TrackerAlways On Location
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews0.0% of reviewsβ€”
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysβ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeβ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad β€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 β€” better17.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size1 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKasika, Inc.Boteanu Consulting

In-app purchases

None

Location Tracker

No in-app purchases

None

Always On Location

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Location Tracker free?
Location Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Always On Location free?
Always On Location is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Location Tracker or Always On Location have ads?
Neither Location Tracker nor Always On Location shows ads.

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