Automatic tracking
Arm it once. Trails stays in a low-power state and starts the moment you move, then relaxes when you stop.
Built for iOS 26 · Liquid Glass
Every walk, run, ride and drive, mapped automatically.
Trails quietly records the routes you take and draws each one on a beautiful A-to-B map, classified as a walk, run, ride or drive. No buttons, no fuss.
Automatic
Background recording
Private by design
9:41
REC
3.24 km
Walk
Auto-recorded
3.24
km
41:12
Time
12:43
Avg pace
+86 m
Elev
Features
Everything your trips need, nothing you have to tap.
From automatic detection to rich, replayable maps, Trails turns your everyday movement into a library you'll actually want to revisit.
Walk · Run · Ride · Drive
Core Motion classifies every trip and colour-codes it: green, orange, teal or blue.
A → B route maps
Each journey becomes a clean coloured polyline with start and finish flags.
Speed-coloured routes
See exactly where you sped up and slowed down, painted right onto the line.
Animated replay
Press play and watch any trip retrace itself from start to finish.
Elevation profile
Every climb and descent, with total elevation gain and loss per trip.
Stats dashboard
Lifetime totals, a 7-day distance chart and a per-activity breakdown.
Frequent places
Trails quietly learns the spots you start from and visit most.
Live Activity & Dynamic Island
Glance at live distance and pace while recording, no need to unlock.
Home Screen widget
Today's distance, right where you can see it on your Home Screen.
Apple Health
Optionally save walks, runs and rides as Health workouts.
Siri & Shortcuts
Start or stop tracking hands-free with your voice or an automation.
On-device storage
Configurable privacy zones
GPX & JSON export
GPX & JSON import
iCloud backup
Splits & pace
Liquid Glass design
How it works
Set it once. Then forget it.
Trails is designed to disappear. There's no trip to start and no timer to stop. You just live your day.
Turn it on once
Grant location and motion access, then flip automatic tracking on. That's the last setup you'll do.
Just move
Walk out the door, hop on the bike or start the car. Trails detects the motion and begins recording in the background.
Review your trips
Come back to a map of everywhere you went, each route classified, measured and ready to replay.
A closer look
Maps you’ll want to open again.
Every trip is more than a line. It's a replayable, measurable story of where you went.
Trip replay
Trails
0:00
41:12
Routes & replay
Speed-coloured routes, with animated replay
Each journey is drawn from A to B and painted by speed, so you can see where you flew and where you crawled. Hit play to watch the whole trip retrace itself.
Colour-graded by pace along the route
Animated replay from start to finish
Clear start and finish flags
This week
Trails
38.6 km
This week
24
Trips
7h 12m
Moving
Walk
46%
Drive
32%
Ride
14%
Run
8%
Stats dashboard
Your week, distilled to a glance
Lifetime totals, a rolling 7-day distance chart and a per-activity breakdown, plus the frequent places Trails learns over time.
7-day distance chart
Walk · run · ride · drive breakdown
Frequent places you visit most
Elevation profile
Trails
+312 m gain
−280 m loss
0 km
1.6
3.2
4.8
6.4 km
Elevation & splits
Feel every climb and descent
A clean elevation profile accompanies each trip, with total gain and loss, plus splits and pace so you can break the route down kilometre by kilometre.
Total elevation gain and loss
Per-kilometre splits and pace
Distance, duration and average speed
Privacy first
Your trips never leave your phone.
Trails is built around a simple promise: the map of your life is yours alone. No accounts, no servers, no tracking of the tracker.
Everything on-device
Your trips are stored locally. There's no account, and nothing is ever uploaded to us.
Configurable privacy zones
Mark areas, like home or work, where Trails simply never records.
You stay in control
Pause tracking whenever you like, and delete any trip with a single tap.
Optional iCloud backup
Choose to back up to your own iCloud so your library follows you across devices.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
The things people ask most before they let Trails ride along.
Yes. Once tracking is on, Trails records your routes in the background, even with the app closed. A Live Activity and Dynamic Island keep the current trip a glance away.
Completely. Trips live on your device. There's no account and nothing is uploaded to us. You can define privacy zones where Trails never records, and optionally back up to your own iCloud.
Walks, runs, rides (cycling) and drives. Core Motion classifies each trip automatically and colours it green, orange, teal or blue. No manual start or stop required.
Of course. Export any trip, or your whole library, as GPX or JSON, and import existing GPX tracks back in. Your routes are yours.
If you like. Trails can write walks, runs and rides to Apple Health as workouts, so your activity lives alongside the rest of your health data.
Start mapping your trails.
Turn it on once and let every walk, run, ride and drive draw itself. Private by design, and beautiful by default.
Download on the App Store
Loved by everyday explorers
iPhone · Requires iOS 26 or later