Auto-track every walk, run & drive in the background — see your routes on a map, relive your day, and now record from Apple Watch. Private, offline, effortless.
Footprints·TimeTrails — Daily tracks · A lifetime of journeys · GPS Route Tracker
Footprints·TimeTrails is a privacy-first GPS tracker and route logger. It automatically records your trips, hikes, runs, walks, and drives, then draws every route and footprint on a beautiful map so you can relive the places you've explored.
Whether commuting, working out, or traveling, it captures your journey accurately with low battery use — and every track stays stored locally on your device.
Main Features
- Smart Collection: Background and foreground positioning, automatically balances accuracy and energy consumption
- Multiple Modes: Walking, running, cycling, driving, hiking, and flying are all covered
- Daily Summary: Automatically generates mileage, duration, and activity routes
- Dual Coordinate System: Supports WGS-84 and GCJ-02, accurately adapted for mainland China
- Local Storage: Data is only saved on the device, protecting user privacy
- Visual Presentation: Points, trajectory lines, and aggregation modes, easily display massive amounts of data
Kind Reminder
- Prolonged background positioning may increase battery consumption
- Please grant location permissions in system settings to ensure complete recording
◆ Apple Watch: start and stop recording right from your wrist; routes sync automatically to iPhone, and watch-recorded days are marked in History.
The experience is outstanding and remarkably power-efficient. I find it perfect for documenting daily life, especially given its high level of precision.
Developer Response
Thank you for your support and kind feedback! 😊I'm really glad to hear you're enjoying the app and that the experience feels both powerful and energy-efficient.Your feedback truly means a lot and motivates me to keep improving the app. I hope it continues to help you capture your daily moments, and I'll keep working on making it even better in future updates!
Simple and beautiful!
imagesoft2000
Perfectly designed and super easy to use. Great way to track daily life!
Improved: Better handling of batched and delayed location data to reduce gaps in recorded tracks.
Improved: Better preservation of tracks through some hairpin turns.
New: When sharing GPX/KML, choose all recorded points or the filtered points shown on screen.
New: A location permission reminder on the home screen lets you open system settings to enable “Always” access.
Note: After updating, historical distances and some exploration data will be recalculated, so results may change.
Version 1.9.7
The developer, Shanghai Shuxia Xiaowu Network Technology Co., Ltd., 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:
Health & Fitness
Location
User Content
Identifiers
Usage Data
Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More