My Track

Daniel Qin

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

My Track is a small and powerful application to keep track of your route while you go around. The quite complex functionality hides behind a very clear user interface which is easy to understand.

My Track can be very useful for all of your outdoor activities like hiking, bicycle and motorcycle touring, boating, skiing, climbing or sheer driving fun, it can also be used for business.

Have a look at all of these fancy features:

1. Record a route
1.1 show current location on Google Map, along with time, duration and distance. even with latitude and longitude.
1.2 dynamic chart about speed and altitude.
1.3 route recording, pausing, resuming, saving and listing.
1.4 photos joining with a route automatically, whatever app you use to take photos.
1.5 voice report at predefined frequency of time or distance when recording
1.6 export routes to GPX/KML/KMZ files, or import from your phone or Google Drive.
1.7 sync and restore from Google Drive.
1.8 do stats.
1.9 show multi routes on the map.
1.10 print a route with the map.

2. Share a route
2.1 create a group and invite friends to join this group, you and your friends can share routes in this group.
2.2 share a route globally in this app.
2.3 share a route via web url to social medias, like WhatsApp, FaceBook, Gmail, etc.
2.4 select photos to share with a route.

3. Follow a route
3.1 follow your own route.
3.2 follow others’ shared route.
3.3 follow planned route.
3.4 fly your imagination: share a route in a group, friends in this group can follow this route.

4. Plan a route
4.1 plan a route(driving, bicycling and walking) among multi markers, the planed route can be followed on the map.

5. Markers
5.1 tap on the map to insert a marker, move the map to put the marker on proper position.
5.2 select markers to show on the map.
5.3 markers can be remembered to show next time when you open the app.
5.4 markers can be shared or exported within a route.
5.5 export markers to a KML file.

6. More
6.1 Live broadcast your locations to friends.
6.2 download offline map.
6.3 add map layer, and auto load this layer when the app starts.
6.4 click the map to measure distance, measure area, or to connect points to design a route line.

The app needs such permissions:
1. Storage permission for route saving.
2. Photo permission for joining photos with a route.
3. Location permission for route recording.
4. Internet permission for route sharing.

Attention:
1. Google Play and Google Maps should be installed first.
2. All basic features are free forever.
3. After 15 days you may see ads, you can pay to remove ads forever.
4. After 60 days you may subscribe to advanced features, or watch a video to get one time's feature permission. 

Ratings and reviews

I loved every aspect of this app. Right until i tried to export my tracks that I've been recording for more than a year. Now, all i get is a paywall, and a screen telling me i have to pay a yearly subscription to save my own tracks. I would have rated 4 or 5. Now I'm reluctant to even give a 2. It feels completely wrong to hold my track data hostage. Highly disappointed and I'll not be using the app ever again.

First impressions: seems very similar to Google's former My Tracks. Solid interface, simple to use. One feature I'd like is something that could be used on very long hikes. I tend to go backpacking for a week at a time. I would like, for instance, to set a sampling interval on GPS for every 5 minutes, letting GPS be off between samples to save battery.

Like many, I thought this was the old Google app, not realizing it's long gone. But I like this one a lot and I appreciate that the developer seems to be actively engaged. It feels familiar and easy to just click and go or preplan a route and follow it. I didn't mind the small ad banners but occasionally a blasting video would pop up without my knowingly have touched the play video button, so I removed ads and all is good. I will probably subscribe, too, to try the additional features.

What's new

V6.6:
1. Greatly reduce both the subscription price of advanced features and the price of ad-free service.
2. Sort the markers by color.
3. Click on the map to measure distance and measure area.
4. Click on the map to connect dots, so users can design a route or an area to save.
5. Fix the bugs.