The Long Way: Road Journal
Record trips, build routes.
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Record every trip and color the roads you've covered. Generate round trips, fully edit or create your own routes. No account, no cloud, no subscription.
The Long Way turns every walk, run, ride and drive into part of a map that grows with you — then helps you decide where to go next.
Generate a round route for the distance you want to travel, or build one yourself with a full route editor. Create, reshape, reverse, simplify and fine-tune routes until they go exactly where you want.
Recording can be started manually, or left in automatic mode so it begins when you start moving and continues in the background with your phone locked and in your pocket. Your history is not just a list of past trips. It becomes a map of everywhere you have been — and a starting point for where to go next.
WHAT IT DOES
• Colourised world map — each trip paints the roads you travelled, at world zoom or street level.
• Automatic recording — starts when you move, stops when you stop, runs in the background.
• Round routes in one click — pick a distance and get a loop that ends where it started, on foot, by bike, motorcycle or car. Ask again for a different loop the same length.
• Route creation and editing — draw point by point, or turn a recorded trip into a route and reshape it. Reverse it, cut a leg, pull a corner onto the road you would rather ride, or simplify thousands of points down to a few.
• Turn-by-turn navigation along any route you have planned or imported.
• Import and export — everything is plain GPX. Export one trip or your whole history in a single file; bring tracks in from a bike computer, another app, or a friend.
• Map customisation — restyle the basemap in the app, filter by activity, and read the stats for any trip.
PRIVACY
There is no account and no server behind the app. Your trips and routes are stored on the phone itself, and the only copies anywhere are the GPX files you choose to export. No analytics, no crash reporter, no advertising identifier, and nothing shared with anyone.
The app downloads map tiles as you pan, and sends the waypoints of a route you ask it to plan to a routing service. Tips are handled by the App Store. Nothing else leaves the device, and the privacy policy names every service by name.
FREE
Our goal is simple: the whole app, every feature, available to everyone. There is no subscription, no trial that expires, and nothing behind a paywall. If you feel it is worth supporting, you are welcome to leave a tip — it unlocks nothing, because there is nothing left to unlock.
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The developer, Andrey Biarnatski, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Andrey Biarnatski
- Size
- 14.6 MB
- Category
- Travel
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Huge Tip $20.00
- Generous Tip $10.00
- Large Tip $5.00
- Medium Tip $3.00
- Small Tip $1.00
- Copyright
- © 2026 Andrei Biarnatski