Comparison

Trace vs HUGO Tracker and Navigation

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

Head to head
About

Trace

This app provides a large, clear GPS speedometer and automatically records your trips. It keeps your location data private on your device, with optional iCloud syncing. Enhance your experience with Pro features like personal heatmaps and GPX export.

Highlights
  • Large, clear GPS speedometer
  • Automatic trip recording
  • Live Activity on Lock Screen
  • Speed limit warnings
  • Personal heatmap (Pro)
  • GPX/CSV export (Pro)
  • iCloud sync (Pro)
Features
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Trace is a big, clear GPS speedometer for iPhone that can also record your trips by itself. Turn on Auto-Record and Trace saves your drives and rides in the background with no tap — any trip faster than 9 mph (15 km/h). There is no monthly limit on Auto-Record trips. No account needed — your speed, routes, and history stay on your device, syncing only to your own iCloud if you turn it on. It's your private location timeline: a map of everywhere you've been that lives on your phone, never on anyone's server. SPEEDOMETER • Big, easy-to-read speed in mph, km/h or knots • Classic Gauge and Big Digital layouts • Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island: see your speed without unlocking, and pick the stats it shows • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, including your latest trip on a map • Stat tiles for top speed, average speed, distance and trip odometer • Set your own speed limit and get a warning when you go over it • Four themes, light and dark TRIPS • Auto-Record for drives and rides, or tap Record for any walk, run, bike ride, drive, motorcycle ride, hike, train or boat trip • Keeps recording with the screen off • Trips are saved with their route on a map • Full trip detail for the first 24 hours: speed chart, splits, speed zones and an interactive map. The stats stay for 30 days; the route, distance and total time stay for good. • Share any trip as a picture, with your route on the real map: choose from five cards, then share it, copy it or save it to Photos. • Import your workouts from Apple Health: runs, walks, hikes and rides, routes included. Connect once and the last 30 days import and stay in sync. COMES WITH TRACE PRO Trace Pro is an optional subscription. It comes with: • A personal heatmap of every road, trail and place you've moved through • GPX and CSV export • iCloud sync of your trips and settings across your devices • Full detail on all your trips, however old • Trip lines colored by speed • Six more speedometer layouts: HUD Mirror, Hybrid Pro, Analog Dial, Track Day, Pace and Navigator • Focus Mode: a clean, full-screen view of your speed, distance and time • More stat tiles, including pace, slope, altitude, heading, total ascent and moving average • More Live Activity styles, themes, speed fonts, trip line colors and app icons • Resume a trip that was interrupted • Up to five years of workout history YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS • All trip data stays on your device (or your own iCloud) • Settings sync via iCloud across your devices • We never collect or sell your data — your trips stay on your device • Your trips are always yours, exportable anytime as GPX or CSV Whether you're commuting, training for a marathon, road-tripping, riding the train, or just curious how far you walked this week — Trace is the speedometer, trip log, and memory map that comes with you everywhere. Free to start. No account needed. Your trips are always yours. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.dukefu.com/privacy-policy

About

HUGO Tracker and Navigation

Features
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HUGO Tracker is for anyone who likes to move — on an electric scooter, on a bike, on a motorcycle or on foot. It is not just about counting kilometres: it is a place where riders get to see each other. Plan a route, let the app navigate you along it and save the ride when you are done. Eleven ways to move Scooter, bike, e-bike, motorcycle, enduro, car, running, walking, unicycle, e-skateboard and Onewheel®. On first launch you pick what you ride and the app narrows everything down to yours. Ride more than one thing? Switch with a single tap. Record your ride Switch on the tracker and the app keeps your route, speed, elevation and energy use. Before you set off you choose what you are on; running and walking need no machine at all. If the measured speed does not match your choice, the app asks when you save — it never changes it for you. Navigate along a route Plan a route by tapping the map, pull one in from Mapy.com or from a GPX file — then ride it. Navigation speaks out loud, calls turns ahead of time and tells you when you have left the route. The planner has profiles for road, gravel and mountain bike, can avoid a stretch you would rather skip, and says up front how much of the route runs on roads and how much on cycle paths or dirt tracks. Save your home address once and you are one tap from riding home. Not sure where to go? Loop around here offers three loops that bring you back to where you started. A map that works without a signal The map covers Europe from Iceland to the Canary Islands, the USA, Canada and Mexico, as well as the Dominican Republic and Haiti. You can plan a route across several countries. Frame the area you are heading to on the map and download it to your phone, so navigation keeps working where there is no network. In Czechia and Poland it shows chargers, workshops, viewpoints and other places worth a stop. The routing profile follows whatever you are riding. Show where you have been Share routes, photos and videos on the wall. Others comment, like and add their own. Turn a good ride into a video. The wall filters by category, so you see what you actually care about. Put your ride share card on your own photo, with the route coloured by speed. Post a machine, a meetup or a challenge to the wall too, always with your own text. Keep your machine in shape The garage holds your machines, their mileage and their service history. When something needs doing, you arrange it with a workshop right in the app. Pair a smart battery (JK, Daly, JBD or ANT BMS) and see its power and the voltage of every cell. Do not ride alone Meetups, group rides and challenges. All of it carries a category, and in Community you will find "who rode the most" leaderboards for each category separately. And when it is time for a break There is an arcade with dozens of games for while you charge. HUGO Tracker is free to download and use — ride recording, the map with its route planner and navigation, the community, meetups, challenges and games are open to everyone. Want more? A HUGO PRO or HUGO ULTRA subscription adds voice navigation, offline maps, GPX route import and export, battery range estimates, smart battery connection, an unlimited garage and ride videos of up to two minutes in Full HD. HUGO ULTRA also gives you videos without a watermark and Fleet for rental shops. The subscription renews automatically and you can cancel it any time in your App Store account settings. Onewheel® is a trademark of Future Motion, Inc. Terms of Use: https://hugobike.app/vop.html

Screenshots

Trace4 screens
HUGO Tracker and Navigation4 screens

Verdict

The call

Trace and HUGO Tracker and Navigation are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Trace sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and HUGO Tracker and Navigation sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Trace ships an update every 5 days, HUGO Tracker and Navigation weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Trace versus HUGO Tracker and Navigation: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTraceHUGO Tracker and Navigation
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB60 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMinghao FuHUGO Bike s.r.o.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Trace

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Pro Annual7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$49.99
7 purchases

HUGO Tracker and Navigation

Subscriptions2
  • HUGO PRO Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • HUGO ULTRA Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
One-time5
  • 2 900 Hugáče$0.99
  • 8 690 Hugáče$2.99
  • 17 880 Hugáče$5.99
Show 2 more
  • 38 870 Hugáče$9.99
  • 83 860 Hugáče$22.99

Questions

Is Trace free?
Trace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HUGO Tracker and Navigation free?
HUGO Tracker and Navigation is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Trace or HUGO Tracker and Navigation have ads?
Neither Trace nor HUGO Tracker and Navigation shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Trace or HUGO Tracker and Navigation?
Trace ships an update every 5 days, and HUGO Tracker and Navigation weekly. Most recently, Trace was updated on November 13, 2026 and HUGO Tracker and Navigation on November 10, 2026.

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