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.


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 features are free for all users.
3. After 15 days you may see ads, you can pay to remove.
4. After 60 days you may subscribe to advanced features, or watch a video to get feature permission. 

Ratings and reviews

This is an excellent app. It doesn't do everything, but the developer has made sure that what it does do, it does very well. Kudos!! Reading the 1-star reviews of this app reminded me of why I don't pay much attention to the average ratings number. "The map didn't appear," "the app hijacked my phone," "my recorded route backtracked constantly." If you're complaining about something that no other reviewer has mentioned, the issue is most likely with you, your phone, or your settings, not the app.

I used this as a rural mail carrier and continue to recommend it to new carriers. It was super helpful when I was learning new routes. It's been a couple years since I had to use it, but one feature I loved was turn direction arrows that were later removed. If they haven't been re-added, I'd like to suggest bringing them back! Took the guesswork out of which road I was turning on.

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.

What's new

V6.3.2: add the setting about dashed line or solid line, remove the limit of followed routes, adjust the granting of notification permission, adjust the info bar’s layout on the map top, modify the Japanese translation.