TimeTrails vs AfterMap
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TimeTrails
This app automatically records your journeys, including walks, runs, and drives, and displays them on a map. It offers various tracking modes and provides daily summaries of your mileage and activity routes with minimal battery impact.
- Automatic trip recording
- Route visualization on map
- Multiple activity modes
- Daily mileage and duration summaries
- Low battery consumption
- Local data storage
- Apple Watch integration
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Footprints·TimeTrails — Daily tracks · A lifetime of journeys · GPS Route Tracker Footprints·TimeTrails is a privacy-first GPS tracker and route logger. It automatically records your trips, hikes, runs, walks, and drives, then draws every route and footprint on a beautiful map so you can relive the places you've explored. Whether commuting, working out, or traveling, it captures your journey accurately with low battery use — and tracks are stored locally on your device by default. Main Features - Smart Collection: Background and foreground positioning, automatically balances accuracy and energy consumption - Multiple Modes: Walking, running, cycling, driving, hiking, and flying are all covered - Daily Summary: Automatically generates mileage, duration, and activity routes - Dual Coordinate System: Supports WGS-84 and GCJ-02, accurately adapted for mainland China - Tracks are stored on your device by default, with optional backup to your personal iCloud account. - Visual Presentation: Points, trajectory lines, and aggregation modes, easily display massive amounts of data Kind Reminder - Prolonged background positioning may increase battery consumption - Please grant location permissions in system settings to ensure complete recording ◆ Apple Watch: start and stop recording right from your wrist; routes sync automatically to iPhone, and watch-recorded days are marked in History.
AfterMap
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AfterMap is your personal travel journal — a beautiful, private place to plan upcoming trips, capture memories as they happen, and look back on every journey you've ever taken. Whether you're dreaming about your next adventure, road-tripping through Europe, or remembering that hike from three summers ago, AfterMap brings it all together in one elegant home. PLAN YOUR NEXT TRIP • Add upcoming trips with destinations, dates, and stops • Build a bucket list of places, hikes, and experiences • Plan multi-day trips with multiple cities • Set budgets and track what you've booked CAPTURE ALONG THE WAY • Import photos from your library, sorted into the right trip automatically • Drop voice memos to remember a moment • Write quick notes and pin locations as you go • Quick Capture for when you're on the move RELIVE EVERY JOURNEY • Browse past trips with a beautiful timeline • See your activities — hikes, walks and workouts — pulled from Apple Health • View every country you've visited on a world map • Export any trip as a personalised memory book PDF YOUR TRAVELS, VISUALISED • A world map showing every country you've explored • See your "% of the world" travelled • Drill into countries to see cities and places visited • Manually mark countries you've visited that don't have a trip APPLE HEALTH INTEGRATION AfterMap can read your walking, hiking and workout data to automatically show your activities during a trip. Your health data stays on your device — it's never shared or uploaded. YEAR IN REVIEW Every December 31st, unlock your annual Year in Review — your trips, photos, distances, and most-visited places, beautifully summarised. PRIVACY FIRST AfterMap stores your trips on your device and syncs privately through your own iCloud account. Your memories belong to you, not us. No accounts, no tracking, no ads. Start mapping the trips that made you!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is chart position: TimeTrails at #104 against AfterMap's unranked. TimeTrails also leads on device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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
TimeTrails costs $0.99 and AfterMap $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | TimeTrails | AfterMap |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.4 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 84.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Best chart rank | #104 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shanghai Shuxia Xiaowu Network Technology Co., Ltd. | Oliver Jones |
In-app purchases
TimeTrails
No in-app purchases
AfterMap
No in-app purchases









