Pathkeep vs WhereIWas

Pathkeep records your routes - no ads, no analytics, no account. RECORD ROUTES One tap to start, pause whenever you need to, hold to stop. Every GPS point is saved instantly to your device while recording - your track is safe even if the app is closed during a session. An undo option gives you time to reconsider, or tap Continue to keep recording right away. FIVE TRACKING MODES - Accuracy: point every ~5 m - ideal for running and hiking - Balanced: point every ~20 m - great for cycling and tours - Battery Saver: point every ~100 m - saves battery on long trips - Vacation: uses iOS location changes - records for days with minimal battery drain; iOS automatically restarts Pathkeep after a reboot - Custom: set your own distance filter and time interval - full control over accuracy and battery life TRACK DETAILS & SELECTION Open any saved track to see the full route on the map. Use the range slider to select any segment - statistics, elevation and speed charts, and the map all update instantly. Export or trim to the selected portion. PHOTO GEOTAGGING (Pro) Automatically add GPS coordinates to your photos - based on the EXIF timestamp and your recorded route. Coordinates are written directly into each photo's metadata, compatible with Lightroom, Apple Photos, and any EXIF-aware app. Includes automatic timezone detection and manual offset adjustment for cameras without GPS. MEMOIR (Pro) Turn your journey into a visual story. Place photos along your recorded route on the map - move them individually or import them directly from a Geotagging session. Pathkeep saves your arrangement and reopens it any time. ELEVATION & SPEED CHARTS Interactive charts in every track detail view. Drag to read elevation or speed at any point. Total ascent, descent, min/max elevation, and average and top speed at a glance. Switch the x-axis between distance and time, choose between metric and imperial units. NOTES Add free-text notes to any saved track. Notes are synced alongside your data via iCloud. LIVE STATS & LIVE ACTIVITY A floating panel shows elapsed time, distance, and point count on the map while recording. The Live Activity shows the same stats on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. HOME SCREEN WIDGET A small or medium widget shows your most recent track - name, distance, duration, and a map preview. EXPORT FORMATS Share as GPX or KML - compatible with Google Maps, Komoot, Garmin, and most navigation apps. Share a map image of your recorded route directly. ICLOUD SYNC Tracks are automatically synced via iCloud Drive across all your Apple devices. DATA SAFETY Every GPS point is saved to your device in real time - recordings are automatically restored on next launch. With Always location permission, Restart Protection can be enabled: Pathkeep automatically resumes recording even after an iPhone restart. RECENTLY DELETED Deleted tracks are moved to the Recently Deleted folder and can be restored within 30 days. Pathkeep PRO Unlimited saved tracks, Photo Geotagging, Memoir and more - as an annual subscription or one-time lifetime purchase. The free version allows 5 saved tracks. NO ADS, NO TRACKING Pathkeep contains no ads and does not track you. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

WhereIWas is your location timeline and travel log: day after day, it quietly records where you have been and shows it on a map — a road trip, a holiday, a hike, a day's work — without flattening your battery. WHY IT IS DIFFERENT Most trackers either drain the battery by keeping GPS on permanently, or quietly lose hours of your day when iOS suspends them. WhereIWas does neither. It listens to the motion coprocessor, which costs almost no power, and switches GPS on only once you are actually moving — then scales accuracy to your speed: a 10 m filter on foot, 50 m in a car. It waits two minutes of stillness before switching GPS back off, so a red light never ends your track. BUILT TO SURVIVE • Keeps recording with the screen off and the app in the background • Relaunches itself and resumes after iOS terminates it under memory pressure • Survives a reboot, once you have unlocked the device • Works entirely offline — no signal, no server, no account needed EVERY FIX, FULLY DOCUMENTED Each stored point keeps its coordinates, altitude, horizontal and vertical accuracy, speed, course, timestamp, detected activity (walking, running, cycling, driving, still), battery level and the GPS profile in force. Inaccurate, stale, duplicate and out-of-order fixes are filtered out before they are written. AUDIT TRAIL Turn on the optional audit trail and the app records why it did what it did: every fix it received, every validation test it ran with the measured value and the threshold that applied, every state change and every time it stopped GPS. When you wonder why there is a gap between 14:02 and 14:20, the answer is in there. Export it as JSON or plain text. EXPORT WHAT YOU RECORDED GPX 1.1 for any mapping tool, or JSON with the full metadata. Send it anywhere through the standard share sheet. Export today, the last seven days, a date range you pick, a single recorded session, or everything. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Everything is stored on device, in a local database. No account, no server, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking. Nothing is uploaded anywhere. You decide what leaves the phone, and when, by exporting it yourself. IN YOUR LANGUAGE, IN YOUR UNITS Translated into English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish and Czech. Distances, speeds and altitudes follow a metric or imperial setting of their own, so you never have to change your phone's language to read miles. BACKGROUND LOCATION Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. WhereIWas is built to keep that cost down — GPS runs only while you move — and the status screen always shows what is running and which GPS profile is in force. Requires iOS 17 or later. Always location permission is required for background recording. Motion permission is strongly recommended: it is what lets the app save your battery.