PathPal - Auto Track Activity

I’d consider myself a connoisseur of these tracking apps and this one is doing a pretty good job. I’m not saying there isn’t a lot of room for improvement but the actual tracking is working really well. To be fair, I don’t do a lot of different type of movement but it’s 100% on car and walking. My biggest requests would be to add some sort of integration to detect business at stop locations. Also, would love to see photos in the timeline. I’m going to go ahead and pay for a year to see how they develop. Hoping to see some good work.

I was also a long-time Moves user, and I’ve been looking for something similar since. Although it may eventually get there, PathPal, in its current iteration, is just a barebones imitation. Yes, Moves seemed simple in its appearance, but it provided robust insights into your day. To start with, it allowed the user to correct a place when mislabeled by the app. PathPal offers me a list of about five choices, never the one I am looking for. For my home address, it keeps guessing different venues that are usually far away. There is no way to label it “home.” I live in a dense city center, so why not allow me to custom-label my favorite places or pick the place I am actually at from the map? Also, a more detailed map with the type of activities color-coded instead of this lime green? Perhaps a weekly and a monthly view of where I’ve been, like a heat map? The list could go on… Anyway, two months is a generous trial, but I must see how it evolves. I wouldn’t pay for it in its current iteration. Especially not the amount the developers are asking for. Still, the best of luck with the development!

I just started using PathPal and have found some features it lacks when comparing it the original Moves app. It does not offer any settings or customization. No option to view distances in miles only km. No option to change the 24 time into 12 hours (am/pm). The path displayed on the map is solid green regardless of the activity. Moves had colored lines corresponding lines to each individual activity so you could make sense of your activities during the day and made it easier to edit activities (like when it says you were cycling but were simply walking etc). When you clicked on an activity in moves, the map would move to show you the corresponding path. I used Moves for years, this app is close, but not close enough to be useful to me or really warrant any type of subscription fee in my opinion.