Map My Tracks Walking iPhone App Review
Map My Tracks Walking for iPhone virtually turns your iPhone into a high performance GPS device. It is simple enough, and fun to use in your outdoor pursuits like cycling, running, sailing, skiing, and orienteering. Map My Tracks Walking app may be downloaded free of cost from iTunes App Store.
GPS Walking and Hiking App
Map My Tracks Walking app for iPhone provides great GPS experience. It analyses your performance, keeps track of important info, and provides a terrific activity map for checking where you’d travelled after your hike or other activity. It tracks your distance, speed, pace, heart rate, calories burned, duration, and elevation gain/loss. You can even get a breakdown of your activities by sport for each day, week, month or year. For details analysis of your performance, sync your activities to MapMyTracks.com. It is even possible to stream your cycle rides, runs, or hikes live for friends and family to follow online. A little bit of encouragement from your dear ones certainly helps.
Map My Tracks Walking for iPhone is also a great tool to discover people nearby along your trails. You can also follow them live. The app also has a social element to it. You can follow friends, comment on their performance and help keep them motivated. It is also possible to share your activities on Facebook and Twitter including auto tweets when starting and stopping activities. Some of its features can only be unlocked through in-app purchase. For example, to connect to Bluetooth & ANT+ sensors from Wahoo Fitness, you got to shell out some money. Subscriptions for Map My Tracks PLUS are $2.99 per month or $28.99 for a full year. The app is ad-supported. If you find them too annoying, you can get rid of them by paying $0.99 one time. The UI of Map My Tracks Walking is well designed and easy to navigate. Map views showing the tracks are clear and legible. We found the app to be stable as well.
Conclusion
Map My Tracks Walking app for iPhone is great for people who love outdoors. It provides all the relevant features of a stand-alone GPS device, plus others such as means for performance analysis, live streaming, and social networking. iOS 8 Health integration comes handy. Unfortunately, some of the best features are only available through IAP. The app UI is easy to use. It is also slick and responsive. Overall, a well-made GPS mapping app that would come handy in your hiking or cycling expeditions.
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