John Bafford

Today, I released an update to GPSTrack, my privacy-focused GPS tracking app. It is available on the App Store.

• New Features
  • In Track Details, added chart grid lines for minimum/maximum elevation and speed.
  • Restore support for sharing tracks via email.
    • This feature is available with a GPSTrack Plus subscription, and for users who purchased the app before GPSTrack 3.0 was released.

• Improvements
  • Allow swipe to unarchive for archived tags
  • Performance improvements
  • Improvements and bug fixes for upcoming features

• Bug Fixes
  • When adding a track to the map, if the track was the most recently recorded track and still on the map (blue), its color wouldn’t be changed (to red).
  • Fixes the current track not drawing in some cases.
  • Improve handling of upgrading v2.x databases with no saved tracks.

• Other
  • This is the last version supporting iOS 17. Future versions will require iOS 18.

Today, I released GPSTrack 3.0, my privacy-focused GPS tracking app for iOS. It is available on the App Store. This is the first public release since 2014.

GPSTrack 3 is a complete rewrite from the last released version, now in Swift and (mostly) SwiftUI. The changelog is so long it’s almost better to think of this as a completely new app.

This version switches from being paid-up-front to a subscription model. While paid-up-front worked in the early era of the app store, it’s no longer a sustainable approach for most developers, and as much as I dislike subscriptions myself, switching to subscriptions is the only way I can justify further development.

Users who purchased GPSTrack while it was previously on sale have full access to all functionality that was available in the last public release (2.2.1). Some (but not all) new features require a subscription. If you previously purchased GPSTrack and are not sure if the app is recognizing your prior purchase, please feel free to reach out.