Track vs Aimless Drives

Track-O-Tron is a GPS track recorder that remembers exactly where you went. Tap Start, lock the screen, pocket the phone, and hike, drive, bike, ride, sky, fly. When you stop, you get the whole shape of the day: your route on a map, an altitude profile, a speed graph, and statistics that don't exaggerate. RECORDS LIKE IT MEANS IT • Keeps recording with the screen off, through every switchback • Pause for lunch, resume after — the gap isn't bridged and doesn't count as distance • If the app is quit mid-recording, your track survives and picks up where it left off • GPS noise is filtered before it becomes phantom mileage or imaginary climbing FOUR ACTIVITIES, HONESTLY LABELED Walk, run, bike, or drive — each with its own GPS tuning. Switch activities mid-track and the recording is truthfully labeled "Multi." Your drive icon can be a car. It can also be a galloping horse, a paper plane, or a tortoise. We don't judge. THE FULL REPORT Every saved track gets distance, moving time, average and max speed, pace, altitude profile, speed graph, and total ascent and descent. As the miles add up mid-trip, Track-O-Tron celebrates milestones worth bragging about: the length of the Golden Gate Bridge, the height of Everest, a full marathon, the edge of space. TAKE YOUR TRACKS ANYWHERE Export any track as a standard GPX file for Gaia, CalTopo, Strava, Garmin, or photo-geotagging tools. Your data is yours, in a format everything reads. MEASURE THINGS YOUR WAY Metric and Imperial, obviously. Also fathoms, furlongs, smoots, and giraffes. Choose wisely. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION Your tracks are stored on your iPhone and nowhere else. No accounts, no ads, no analytics, no cloud, no third-party code. The only thing Track-O-Tron tracks is the trail. FREE. ALL OF IT. Every feature, unlimited tracks, no subscription, no purchases. The catch is that there is no catch. For iPhone running iOS 17 or later.

Aimless makes driving loops that start and end exactly where you are. Pick how long you want to be out — 30, 60, 90, or 120 minutes — and Aimless hands you three routes that wander out and come back without retracing themselves. Tap one and it opens in Google Maps, ready to drive. It exists because aimless drives have a flaw. You head out with no destination, you get too far from home, and the drive back becomes dead time retracing roads you just covered. A loop fixes that. The whole drive is the good part. WHAT IT DOES • Generates three loops starting from your current location • Shows each on a map with real distance, drive time, and highway percentage • Hands off to Google Maps for turn-by-turn navigation • Favors back roads — loops with significant highway are filtered out BUILT FOR BACK ROADS Aimless deliberately avoids highways. Every candidate route is checked for motorway content and anything with a meaningful share is discarded, because a highway loop is not a drive worth taking. The times are honest, too. Aimless routes each loop through the exact waypoints it hands to Google, so the duration you see is the duration you drive — not an optimistic estimate of a route you were never going to take. WHAT IT DOESN'T DO No account. No sign-up. No history, no sync, no ads, no tracking. It doesn't store anything, including where you have been. Open it, tap once, drive. Aimless needs a location fix to know where your loop should start, and it needs Google Maps for navigation. That's the whole dependency list. Good for a Sunday morning, a passenger worth talking to, and no particular place to be.