Location Log 4+

Name: Location Log
Rating: 4.2 (9 reviews)
Author: Edward Quinn

Edward Quinn

- 4,2 • 9 Bewertungen

- Gratis

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Beschreibung

Location Log is made for people that like to know exactly where they were at any point in time, but who also value their privacy and want to be able to achieve this without having to share their data with anyone (not even the app developer).

Once installed, Location Log continuously and accurately tracks your location in the background throughout each day, ensuring that your location data is held *locally* on your device, and available only to you - not shared with anyone. You can browse your past locations either by date or by area search.

In a world where data tends to be the new currency, Location Log stands against this trend by trying to keep as much of your data as private as possible, so that you do not have to share it with anyone. This is why no sign-up or login is required, and of course no centralised server is used to store any location history: because the location data is held privately and locally on your device.

The app has been specifically designed in a unique way to optimise battery usage, despite continuously and accurately tracking your location throughout each day in the background.

• History function: to view your movements on any date (also useful to help determine the time you arrived and left any specific location, say, to calculate how long a visit to a business client lasted for).

• Distance calculator: to calculate approximate distance travelled between selected times of a day, useful for mileage claim calculations.

• Search function allows you to search any region to reveal all historic dates that you visited that area.

• Delete, import, and export functions are available, so you have complete control of your data.

• ON/OFF toggle allows you to start/stop logging your location.

• Logging Frequency: Provides options for the frequency of logging.

• Backing up your device (via iCloud, or through you Mac/PC) is advised to keep a backup of your Location History data (for example when when replacing your handset). You can also manually export your location history using the 'export' function, and use the 'import' feature to import it back in as well.

• Offers Export to GPX format

23. Aug. 2024

Version 2.7

iOS 18 bug fix (prevents crash when 'Search' button triggered)

4,2 von 5

9 Bewertungen

Works well when GPS is accurate

I use this app to track which railway/tram tracks I’ve been on. I appreciate the “stored locally” approach very much.

It works well with trams and regional trains but on fast trains the signal isn’t good so no positions get logged for hours despite low logging interval and app restarts. When I manually check, my position is shown as a larger circle instead of a dot and just doesn’t get accurate enough to turn into the dot. I think that’s the reason why it doesn’t log sometimes? Maybe a slider to set minimum accuracy for logging (like the logging interval slider) could help?

Another feature idea: Additional setting for a temporary logging interval, so you can set the interval temporarily to 30 s for 2 hours for example: A dropdown or smth to set the time frame, plus a slider for the temporary interval time that can even go below 1 min (like 10 seconds?)

Exactly what I needed

This app is excellent for everyone who liked google maps timeline feature bot does not want google to track them all the time.

I also greatly appreciate that I can export the data. This way I can run a quick script to automatically geotag photos I have take with my DSLR, so that my photos app can bunch up images by location.

My only complaint with this app is the UI. I find all the shading and red borders look somewhat outdated and not matching to the native IOS UI elements. Also I wish I could change the pins to dots or just view the path. With a lot of pins on the map it can get somewhat distracting because the pinhead is offset from the actual location.

Nonetheless I have no reason go rate this anything but 5 stars. It is a great, FREE app. Big thanks to the developer!

"Danke schön" for your kind review. Sorry the UI isn't 100% yet, I am still learning, and trying to broaden my skills. Very glad you find it useful - I made it because *I myself* wanted an app like this, so I'm glad that others seem to find it useful too 🙂

Great App

Does exactly what it says, works perfectly in the background and doesn’t use any noticeable battery.

I appreciate the fact that it stores all the data locally so it’s more secure compared to other Apps that offer similar functionality.

Thank you kindly for that - it means a lot! I’ve tried hard to minimise effect on battery life, so I’m really glad it seems to do the job 👍
Glad you find the app useful

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