1. Add places and calculate distance
Enter the “Places” page, click “Add Place” below, and the location search UI will be displayed. Enter the place name in the search box, and the corresponding location name and distance will be displayed below. Click the location name to add this location as a place.
Click “Update Location” below (if a location permission prompt appears, please select Allow), the name of the current location will be displayed above. The distance between the current location and the added places will be shown at the right of the place name.
Long press the place name or current location, menu with following options will be shown:
- Edit: Edit its name or add detail info to the place. You can also set a group name to the place. Places with same group name will be displaced together in place list. Drag the place to other place in the place list will also group two places together.
- Set as origin: change the origin of the distance calculation
- Add as Place: add current location as a place.
Click added place name to show place’s weather and street view(Only support limited region).
Click distance number beside added place to show route from selected origin to the place.
Youtube Demo
2 Add trace
Enter the “Current Track” page, click “Start Tracing” below (if a location permission prompt appears, please select Allow).
The track is displayed in a gradient of red, yellow, and green depending on the speed. The speed displayed in yellow is about 18 km/h. The speed less than 18 km/h is displayed in green. The speed greater than 18 km/h is displayed in red. Usually, green can be used as a walking track, yellow as a riding track, and red as a transportation track.
You can select step length (10 – 200 meters) on the settings page, and this app will add a recording point per you selected length (the change will take effect in new trace). If the current GPS accuracy(the radius of location circle) is greater than the step size, “Weak GPS Signal” will be displayed on the map. The step length can be adjusted to increase the accuracy tolerance range (it will not affect the current trace’s step length). If there is no GPS signal, “No GPS Signal” will be displayed on the map.
Click bottom right corner 
Options, following options will show:
| End | End tracing. If you want to continue tracing, you can enter “History” page, click on the track name, click upper right corner  , and select “Continue Tracing” in the menu. |
| Auto Focus on Current Location | Every time a new trace point is added, the map will automatically focus on this point. If you want to browse other part of the track, you can cancel this option so that browsing will not be interrupted. |
| Route | Search and select a destination to show route from current location to the destination on the map. You can change route type in destination selection UI’s upper right corner. |
| Reference | Select an old track and show it on the map as reference, You can switch to different year’s track list in track selection UI’s upper right corner. |
| Marker | Add marker to current location, see section 4. |
Information related to the current track will be displayed on the top of the map, including:
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Travel distance |
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The number of steps taken in the track |
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Distance of elevation gain in the track |
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Last track update time If you find the update time is stopped, please enter the settings page, click “Location Permission Settings“, select the location, and select “Always”. |
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Travel duration |
For iPhone devices with iOS 16.1 installed, the above information and current speed
will also be displayed on the lock screen.
Youtube Demo
3. Use Apple Watch to record tracks
Open “Journey Tracker” app on Apple Watch, if there is health information read and write permission prompt, please choose to allow all. Then click “Cycling”, “Climbing”, “Running” or “Hiking” according to the situation. Open the “Journey Tracker” app on your mobile phone, and confirm that the current track page displays “Track traced by Apple Watch”. If there is a location permission prompt, please select “when in use”. Then you can view the track traced by Apple Watch on your mobile phone. During this period, Apple Watch can continue to record data after the mobile application exits, and it will automatically synchronize with mobile app when it is opened again.
The information displayed on the watch app is:
| 🔥 | Calories burned on journey |
| 📏 | Distance traced in the track |
| ♥️ | Current heart rate (beats per minute) |
| 👟 | The number of steps taken in the track |
| 🔄 | The time lapse between the latest GPS coordinates sent to the phone and the current time (show “Just” if less than 60 seconds). |
| 🔋 | Battery power, displayed🪫if less than 20%. |
Swipe left on the Apple Watch to display the control UI which allows you to pause/continue, end the track. After ending the tracing, you can view the fitness records in the the built-in “Fitness” APP on your phone.
4. Add Marker
After tracing starts, you can click Options, and select “Marker” to add a marker at the current location. When adding a marker, you can enter the Image page and add the image corresponding to the mark. You can select an image from the photos album or take a picture using the camera. If “Automatically Save Captured Images to Photos” is selected in the settings page, the captured photos will be saved to build-in Photos app. You can also click “Save” directly below to save the current image to Photos. This app only saves and displays a thumbnail of image in marker.
Slide your finger over the image to display a square with a green border. Click the “Cut” button below to cut and enlarge the image within the square.
After entering the marker name, click “Add” above.
Click on a marker added on the map to display marker information and thumbnails.
On the history page, click on the track, select Marker page above, you can browse the marker list of the current trace, swipe left on the marker name, you can edit or delete the marker.
5. Browse tracks
Enter the “History” page, you can view all tracks, including the track name and start tracing time.
Swipe left on the track name and select “Delete” to delete the track or select ‘Edit’ to change track name.
Click the corresponding track name to view the track detail.
Click upper right corner , following options will show:
| Export to GPX | export the track as a GPX file. On other devices, enter “History” page of 《Journey GPS Tracker》 app , tap upper right corner and select “Import GPX Track” to import it. Note the exported track does not contain the step information and image of marker. |
| Continue Tracing | Continue tracing and add tracked location points to this track. |
| Edit Track Range | Select the range of displayed track points, and click “Cut” to delete undisplayed track points. |
6. Settings
Click “Settings” below the app to see the following settings:
| Upgrade app(unrestricted usage) | Click“Upgrade App at price XXX” to pay and upgrade the app. After upgrade, text “Purchased” will replace the upgrade button. Notice: If you reinstalled the app, or installed the app on another device after upgrading, you can click “Restore Purchase” to restore purchase state. |
| Sync iCloud | To avoid data lost, click this button to sync tracks records to iCloud, or synchronize data between different devices(each device must login to same iCloud account). The local updates will be uploaded to iCloud, and the remote changes will be downloaded to local device. Note that if you have updates on same field of the same trace from both local and iCloud, the local update will overwrite iCloud update. |
| Auto-Sync | Automatically synchronize iCloud every 2 minutes. |
| Step Length | See section 1. |
| Automatically Save Captured Images to Photos | See section2. |
| Show Markers on Reference Tracks | When showing reference track on the map, also show track’s markers. |
| GPS Location fix | Fix GPS Location shift problem in China mainland. If you notice a GPS track deviation in other region, you can try to cancel this option. |
| Location Permission Settings | Set location permission. In order to use this application normally, please set location permission to “Always”. |
