Comparison

Trace World vs My Footsteps

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

Head to head
About

Trace World

This app creates a personal exploration map that reveals areas as you travel through the real world. Your visited locations are saved locally, and you can customize your recent path. It offers different map styles and prioritizes user privacy with no account or data uploads.

Highlights
  • Exploration map reveals visited areas
  • Recent track customization
  • Auto-recording for travel
  • Exploration level progression
  • Multiple map styles
  • Privacy-first design, no account needed
Features
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TraceWorld turns every walk, ride, and trip into a personal map of where you have really been. Reveal the world as fog lifts, see density as a heatmap or dots, place your photos on the map, and look back through travel stories — privately, on your iPhone. ONE MAP, THREE VIEWS • All — your full journey at a glance: Fog, Heatmap, or Dots • 7 Days — a closer look at the past week • Today — focus on what you are doing right now RECORD AS YOU GO • Start recording when you head out; keep going in the background when you allow Always location • Choose how hard GPS works: Standard, Power Saver, or Ultra Saver (premium options for longer battery life) PHOTOS ON THE MAP • Show geotagged photos where you took them • Browse an aggregated all-photos view when you want the big picture • Photos stay on your device; TraceWorld does not upload your library FOOTPRINT MAP • See countries, regions, and cities you have lit up • Spot airports and other explored places • Open the real map and list for details, visit dates, and a clearer browse TRAVEL STORIES & IDENTITIES • Travel Stories — a timeline of trips and moves (premium) • Identities — keep commute, travel, and other lives on separate maps (extra identities are premium; your main identity stays free) BACKUP & PRIVACY • Optional iCloud backup of your exploration data to your own Apple ID • No TraceWorld account, no ads, no analytics SDK, no upload to our servers LANGUAGES Follow the system, or pick English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese (Brazil), or Italian. TraceWorld Pro is an optional one-time unlock for premium features such as Travel Stories, extra identities, and Footprint Map details. Mapping overview, recording, and the main identity stay free.

About

My Footsteps

Features
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The whole map starts hidden under a fog. As you move, the fog is cleared in a circle around you, leaving a growing web of trails that shows exactly where you have been. Your own world emerges, step by step. My Footsteps turns everyday walks into exploration. Take a new way home, turn down the street you have never walked, or cycle a detour through the park – everything leaves a trail. Over time you see the pattern: the blocks you know by heart, and the blank spots waiting for you. EXPLORE • The fog is a map layer of its own and follows the map exactly as you zoom and pan • Clearing continues while the app is in the background, so your whole walk is captured • Choose between standard, satellite, hybrid and black & white maps • Adjust the clearing radius and the density of the fog TODAY'S HARVEST • Pick a day or a date range and see exactly what you cleared then • Perfect after a long walk: "Today" shows today's harvest while the rest rests under the fog HEATMAP • One tap swaps the fog for colored trails showing where you go most often • Twelve color steps from pale yellow to deep red – everyday routes glow, one-off adventures shimmer • Combine with the date selection: where did you roam last summer? STATISTICS • See how much of every country you have explored – in percent or per mille and km² • In Sweden, also by municipality and county • Sortable columns, with a badge on the map showing the area you are in right now YOUR MAP, YOUR EXPLORATION • Your map is stored in your own iCloud and follows you between devices • Save multiple named maps and load them back whenever you like • Erase everything and start over whenever you feel like it BUILT TO BE KIND TO YOUR BATTERY The app adapts how often your position is read to how fast you move, and rests when you stand still. Move again and it wakes instantly. PRIVACY Your locations never leave your device and your own iCloud. No analytics, no ads, no third parties. The developer cannot see where you have been. PRICE Try everything free for seven days. Then 12 months for a yearly subscription, or a single one-time purchase for lifetime access. Both options support Family Sharing: one purchase covers the whole family, and every family member gets their own map in their own iCloud. Terms of Use (Apple's standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://ldldata.se/apps/minafotspar/en/privacy.html

Screenshots

Trace World4 screens
My Footsteps4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Trace World at 16.0 against My Footsteps's 18.0. 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. Trace World sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and My Footsteps sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Trace World ships an update weekly, My Footsteps every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Trace World versus My Footsteps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrace WorldMy Footsteps
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews87.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer高锋 李LDL Data AB

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Trace World

One-time1
  • TraceWorld Pro$3.99
2 purchases

My Footsteps

Subscriptions1
  • Mina fotspår - 1 år$3.991 Year
One-time1
  • Mina fotspår$7.99

Questions

Is Trace World free?
Trace World is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is My Footsteps free?
My Footsteps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Trace World or My Footsteps have ads?
Neither Trace World nor My Footsteps shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Trace World or My Footsteps?
Trace World ships an update weekly, and My Footsteps every 4 days. Most recently, Trace World was updated on November 7, 2026 and My Footsteps on October 31, 2026.

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