Location Log

This app is clearly a labor of love for the developer. The developer has been amazingly generous in making the app available gratis to anybody who wants or has a need to privately track their adventures in life. The app itself is high quality - it just works, it is simple, it’s intuitive, the developer did a nice job in all respects in terms of programming and ux. I’ve been using it for about two years now and this morning as I went to refresh myself on where I went on a given day last week it struck me that - this is awesome - reminds me of the early days of the App Store, and even early computing. So so rare these days, and I though you know what I need to share this via a review, and in the hopes the dev sees it - in which case I just want to say: Thank You, you are the best of us.

It’s so nice that the developer offers this app for free, making it simple and straightforward, yet leaving in everything useful. I use the app to create GPX logging files when I’m out with my Nikon cameras. One (a Z9) has a built in and pretty dependable GPS, but the other (a Nikon Z50 II) requires a Bluetooth link to Nikon’s SnapBridge program on a smartphone which is unreliable and drains both the camera and smartphone battery quickly. With this app, I can just synchronize phone and camera times once before shooting for the day, and then use the free EXIFTOOL program on my Mac (downloaded through homebrew) to add location tags to all my photos at the end of the day. It’s 100% reliable, doesn’t impact the camera battery at all, and doesn’t cause any significant drain on my phone battery. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Just an excellent app for travel that does not share your location outside of your device, except stored as part of your iCloud backup. Battery use is minimal on my iPhone 14 Pro Max so I just turn it on when leaving for a trip and turn it off when returning home. Turning it on is on travel checklist along with putting thermostats in away mode so I don’t forget. I have used this logger for several trips now, recently including Copenhagen, Bergen, and then a cruise stopping in Greenland and Iceland and it’s great to be able to retrace my streps after getting home. I am able to overlay the GPX track log over the GPS photo info recorded by my camera in Lightroom and fill the location gaps between the photos. I do have trouble getting the time stamps on the waypoints to match up to the local timestamps in the photos without editing the GPX files to fix up the times. Still trying to figure out the best way to do this as Lightroom does have a track offset function but it doesn’t remember it between sessions and it’s not very useful for trips across multiple time zones with just a single GPX file. I believe that this is really a Lightroom problem, of course, and not a fault of this app. The Lightroom map module has other bugs I’ve reported to no avail so work-arounds are needed. So this is a wonderful app—indispensable for world travelers. Don’t hesitate to get it.