Your trips, kept privately on your phone.

Traceata is pronounced TRAY-suh-tah.

An iOS GPS logger for personal trip memories.

Not a social fitness app. No account, no cloud, no feed. Traceata records where you went and turns it into a trip page you keep: the route, the stats, and your photos and notes pinned along the way.

Free to try: 14 days or 5 trips
$7.99 one-time unlock
100% on-device
Zero data collected
No account, ever

What it does

Record anything

Motorcycle rides, SUP mornings, canoe days, hikes, walks, sailing, balloon flights, road trips — and every journey where you're the passenger: car, train, boat, or plane. If it moves, Traceata logs it, in the background, while your navigation app stays in front.

Don't see your thing? Create your own activity — as many as you want.

Trip pages, not feeds

Every trip becomes a private journal page: speed-coloured route on the map, distance, time, elevation, and your photos and notes pinned where they happened.

Relive it as video

Trips render into shareable videos right on your iPhone. No upload, no server, no waiting.

Speaks the standard formats

Import and export GPX and KML, so tracks from other apps and devices come with you, and yours can always leave.

Live while you move

Swipe between speed, time, route, compass and trail widgets while recording. Splits are spoken aloud, and the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island keep your trip in view.

Look closer

Touch the elevation and speed charts to read the exact value and time at that point. Open any trip photo full screen and zoom in.

Your places

Save the places that matter. Trips get named after them, and Stats shows where you go most.

Backups you control

Back up and restore all your trips as a file, manually or automatically. Share a single trip as a Traceata file, a PDF report, or an image.

Languages

Traceata is being translated for launch into English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese, with a Spanish edition for both Spain and Latin America. It follows your iPhone's language, so there's nothing to set up.

The privacy promise

Traceata has no servers.

Your tracks, photos, and notes live only on your iPhone, in the app's private storage. There is no account to create and nothing to sign in to.

We cannot see your trips, sell them, or lose them. We never have them. Read the full privacy policy.

What a trip looks like

Recording a hike on the live map: the route so far, nearby places, and pause, discard and finish controls

Recording with the analogue speedometer widget, showing live speed and distance so far

Trips list filtered to starred trips, each with a route thumbnail, distance and time

Trip page for the Toronto Loop hike: the route on the map with start and finish, and the trip's info panel

A trip's photos pinned where they were taken on the map, with a sheet of 12 photos and videos

Setting up a trip video: format, length, quality, route marker and which notes appear along the route

Lifetime stats: total distance, trips, time out there and elevation gain, plus the northernmost and southernmost points reached

Status

Coming soon to the App Store. Traceata is in final testing. It will be a free download with a free trial of 14 days or 5 trips, whichever comes first, and no payment details needed. After that, one payment of $7.99 (US price) unlocks everything, with no subscription, and you can share it with your family. Until you unlock, older trips stay locked, and once the trial ends no new trips can be added. Nothing is ever deleted, and you can always back up your trips.

Support

Questions, bug reports, or feature requests.

support@traceata.com

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