Comparison

Path vs Loci

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

Head to head
About

Path

This app automatically creates a private timeline of your movements, places visited, and photos taken. It focuses on remembering your personal days without live tracking or sharing your location. A free version offers recent history, while Pro unlocks complete data and advanced insights.

Highlights
  • Automatic journey and stay detection
  • Movement mode recognition (walk, bike, drive)
  • Photo integration into timeline
  • Step, distance, and calorie tracking
  • Apple Health integration
  • Detailed activity insights and trends
  • Privacy-focused local data storage
Features
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Turn every day into a clear map of your life. Path is a privacy-first, all-day personal timeline. It records every trip out and every stay in the background, with nothing to start or stop. Sensor fusion filters out GPS drift and noise, so your routes match the way you went. Automatic Recording, Always On • Smart segmentation: Each day splits into stays, moves, and gaps on its own. No more manual check-ins. • Transport mode detection: Path recognizes walking, running, cycling, driving, and many kinds of public transport, and learns your habits from your corrections. • Battery-conscious design: Sensor use adapts to how you move, balancing recording accuracy and battery life. A Clear Timeline and Map • Card timeline: See your moves, the places you visited, and how long you stayed at a glance. • Map styles: Routes take the color of their transport mode, and stay markers show place category icons. • Frequent places: Edit names and boundaries, and turn a string of coordinates into "Home" or "Office". Trips and Footprints • Trips: Path detects trips away from home, lets you relive each one on a 3D globe, and creates a boarding-pass trip card. • Footprints: Light up the continents, countries and regions, and cities you have visited. Each country and region gets its own passport page and entry stamp. • Life Chapters: Divide your life into chapters by the cities you lived in, with a city timeline, key statistics, and frequent routes for each chapter. Milestones and Share Cards • Milestones: Earn medals for new places, walking and running distance, and recording streaks. • Share Cards: Turn a day, a trip, a milestone, or the globe view into a card to share with friends. Photos on the Map • Photos and videos: See the photos and videos you allow on your map and timeline, so every trip has pictures. • Smart grouping: Nearby photos group together to keep the map clean. Historical Weather • Historical weather: Relive the weather along your journeys, from clear skies and rain to snow and thunderstorms. • Map effects: As you browse your timeline, the map shows the weather of that moment. Health Trends and Insights • Statistics: Track steps, distance, and calories, and set a daily goal. • Apple Health: Connect Apple Health to see resting heart rate and sleep next to your day. • Insights: Weekly, monthly, and yearly views reveal changes in your activity radius, your most visited places, and your farthest journeys. Privacy First, Your Data in Your Hands • Local storage: Location data stays on this iPhone, encrypted by iOS Data Protection. No account to create, no cloud sync. • Data control: Export to SQLite, import a backup, or delete your data at any time. —— Path Pro — Unlock the Full Experience The free plan records every day and lets you view the last 7 days of your timeline, Trips, Footprints, Milestones, and Life Chapters. Upgrade to Path Pro to unlock: • Full history: Revisit any day in your timeline, Trips, Footprints, Milestones, and Life Chapters. • All long-term statistics and insights. • Complete data export and archiving. • Historical weather and map effects. • Import Apple Watch workout routes. From your first step out the door to the last mile home, Path is the recorder you can rely on. Website: https://path.autheai.com Terms of Use: https://path.autheai.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://path.autheai.com/privacy

About

Loci

Automatically records your routes and visualizes your travel history on a map. It tracks various modes of transport, speed, and offers detailed trip summaries. The app aims to help you rediscover and remember the places you've been.

Highlights
  • Automatic route recording
  • Color-coded transport trails
  • Detailed trip summaries
  • Low-power battery usage
  • Life recaps and search
  • Heatmap visualization
  • iCloud and WebDAV sync
Features
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Automatically record your routes and light up the places you've been on the map. Walking, running, cycling, and driving become color-coded trails that show transport mode and speed. No check-ins, no timers. Not a workout app or a travel checklist — more like a map that grows with your everyday life, turning commutes, weekend walks, and the occasional trip away into routes and memories you can come back to later. You probably don't realize how much ground you cover in a day. The alley you cut through this morning. The riverside ride last weekend. That spontaneous trip last summer — they slip away. A few months later you can barely place where you went, or when. ● FOOTPRINT MAP Open Loci and your map starts to take shape: the streets you've walked, the neighborhoods you know, and the corners still waiting. ● AUTO TRIPS & LIVE TRAIL Each time you head out, walking, cycling, and driving are organized into trips automatically — distance, speed, pace, elevation, weather, heart rate, cadence, stride, and active calories are all kept. As you move, the map draws your trail in real time, color-coded by speed or transport so pace and pauses show at a glance. The trail keeps recording even with the phone locked in your pocket. ● LOW-POWER Using iPhone's motion sensing, Loci does not need to run high-frequency location updates all the time. When you stop, it lowers the recording frequency to save battery; when you move again, it captures your trail more often. In everyday use, a full day usually costs only a few percent of battery. ● TRIP DETAILS When a trip ends, you get a detailed trip card with the full route replay, elevation and heart-rate curves, and selected photos from that day, chosen from your library for clearer, more memorable moments. After every drive, Loci saves your parked location so you do not have to circle the lot looking for your car. ● LIFE RECAPS At the end of a month or a year, Loci turns that period into a short story: where you went, which new places you lit up, and what kind of weather followed your days. You can also search your records in plain English, such as "places I went from home last week" or "my longest drive this year." Loci finds the answer from your trail history. ● HEATMAP Switch on the heatmap and the places you walk most often glow the brightest — your commute, your daily radius, the regulars, all at a glance. ● PRIVACY & SYNC Your footprint stays on this device by default. If you want a backup, a new phone, or the same history on iPhone and iPad, you can sync with iCloud or WebDAV; data is encrypted on-device before syncing. Start today. It may not feel like much at first, but when you open it again later, you may realize just how much ground your life has covered. --- PREMIUM — AUTO-RENEWABLE SUBSCRIPTION Premium is an optional annual subscription that unlocks full trip replay, unlimited natural-language history search, and more premium features. A one-time lifetime purchase option is also available. Before subscribing, please note: • The price of Premium may vary by country or region; • Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase; • The subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; • Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period; • You can manage or cancel your subscription in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions after purchase. Terms of Use: https://loci-footprint.web.app/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://loci-footprint.web.app/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Path4 screens
Loci4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Loci at 100% against Path's 60%. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Path sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Loci sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Path ships an update every 9 days, Loci every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Path versus Loci: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPathLoci
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.417.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYanbing Zhang帅 刘

Customer experience

Path

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral40.0%
Negative0.0%

Loci

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Path

Subscriptions2
  • Premium (Monthly)$4.991 Month
  • Premium (Annual)$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium (Lifetime)$149.99
2 purchases

Loci

Subscriptions1
  • Premium (Annual)$0.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium (Lifetime)$2.99

Questions

Is Path free?
Path is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Loci free?
Loci is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Path or Loci have ads?
Neither Path nor Loci shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Path or Loci?
Path ships an update every 9 days, and Loci every 2 weeks. Most recently, Path was updated on October 21, 2026 and Loci on October 12, 2026.

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