PathReel · iOS

Turn Photos and Workouts Into a Living Map of Your Life.

Import years of photos, Apple Watch workouts, and Strava routes. PathReel transforms them into cinematic journeys on a beautiful 3D Earth.

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How it works

Three simple steps.

No manual entry. No tedious tagging. PathReel does the work — you watch the story unfold.

STEP 01

Import

Bring in your photos, Apple Watch workouts, Strava routes — or simply press Record.

STEP 02

Build

PathReel auto-clusters your data into trips and lays every step onto a real 3D globe.

STEP 03

Replay & Share

Watch your route as a cinematic flyover. Export the film. Tell the story.

Import sources

Use the data you already have.

Your memories are already on your phone and watch. PathReel turns them into journeys.

📷

Photos

Geo-tagged photos automatically pin onto the routes you walked.

iOS · iCloud
❤️

Apple Health

Years of workouts, instantly. Distance, pace, elevation — all imported.

HealthKit
⌚️

Apple Watch

Every run, hike, ride from your wrist. Auto-classified by activity type.

watchOS
🏃

Strava

Drop in your GPX export. PathReel handles the rest.

GPX
🚴

Garmin

FIT files imported with full metadata. Power, cadence, HR — all preserved.

FIT

Manual Recording

Press Record. Lock the phone. PathReel runs quietly in the background.

GPS · 3m precision
Your Footprints on Earth

Every step you've ever taken.

See every country visited, every city explored, and every mile you've run, walked, biked, or driven — laid onto a beautiful living globe.

Every
Country
Every
City
Every
Mile
Every
Day
PathReel app showing footprints on Earth
DAY 01NYC
Brooklyn Bridge
5.2 km · 47 photos
DAY 02NYC
Central Park Loop
9.8 km · 64 photos
DAY 03NYC
Williamsburg Walk
6.4 km · 38 photos
↓ ONE EPIC JOURNEY
NYC WEEKEND3 DAYS
A Weekend in New York
21.4 km · 149 photos · 1 film
Trip Groups

Combine trips into one epic journey.

Group daily walks into a weekend. Group weekends into a road trip. Group years into a life — and replay the whole thing as one cinematic story.

  • Merge unlimited trips
  • Replay the entire route as one fly-through
  • Export one cinematic video
  • KML / GPX export to Google Earth
NEW IN 2.5 · UFO ROUTE RECAP

A UFO retraces every trip you've taken — from space.

Two cinematic replay modes, one tap away. Watch your memories unfold as photos at the right moments — or send a UFO across the globe to illuminate every route.

  • Light beam reveal — a beam descends from the UFO and "lights up" each trip's path on the satellite map.
  • Smart transitions — short hops stay close to the ground, mid-range moves sweep across a region, long journeys lift you all the way to space.
  • Record & share — capture the whole flyover as a video and post it straight to TikTok, Reels, Shorts, WeChat.
  • Media mode too — the classic photo-driven replay is still there, now with smarter library sync.
PathReel UFO Route Recap — light beam illuminating a walking trip in Dollard-Des-Ormeaux, Canada
GAME CENTER

See how you stack up — 15 leaderboards on Game Center.

Compete on lifetime and weekly distance for driving, walking, running, cycling, and flying. Plus countries visited, cities explored, recording streaks, and photos taken. No accounts, no friend lists — your Game Center handle is all you need.

Lifetime · 9 Boards

🚗
Driving
Total km
🚶
Walking
Total km
🏃
Running
Total km
🚴
Cycling
Total km
✈️
Flight
Total km
🌍
Countries
Visited
🏙️
Cities
Explored
🔥
Streak
Current days
📷
Photos
Lifetime

Weekly Recurring · 6 Boards

🚗
Driving
This week
🚶
Walking
This week
🏃
Running
This week
🚴
Cycling
This week
✈️
Flight
This week
📸
Photos
This week
DISCOVER & COLLECT

Every place you've been — recognized.

PathReel cross-references your trips with UNESCO World Heritage Sites, US National Parks, Wikivoyage entries, and Geoapify's points-of-interest database. When you're near an attraction, it lights up. Tap to read about it, or check in to collect a verified stamp.

  • Auto check-in within 200 m — PathReel notices you visited.
  • Manual check-in within 500 m — for places that need a deliberate visit.
  • Stamp collection — every check-in earns a passport-style stamp tied to the exact GPS coordinate and date.
  • Wikipedia / UNESCO context — tap any attraction marker for an offline-cached info card.
Statue of Liberty
Statue of Liberty
NYC · UNESCO
Yosemite Valley
Yosemite Valley
California · UNESCO
Eiffel Tower
Eiffel Tower
Paris · UNESCO
Fushimi Inari Shrine
Fushimi Inari
Kyoto · Japan
SET IT & FORGET IT

Auto-record. No buttons.

Mark your home (or any anchor) as a geofence. PathReel uses iOS-native region monitoring to start recording the moment you step out and stop the moment you return — even with the screen locked, even after a reboot. Battery-conscious, restart-resilient.

Hybrid activity detection means walking, running, cycling, and driving are auto-classified within the same trip — switch from car to foot mid-journey and PathReel notices.

INSIGHTS

Your travel year, in numbers.

A built-in dashboard turns your raw trips into the kind of stats you actually care about — at a glance or in a deep-dive.

  • Activity heatmap — every day you recorded, colored by intensity.
  • Monthly breakdown — distance, photos, trips per month.
  • Most-visited cities — ranked by trip count and total time.
  • Per-mode totals — lifetime km for walking, running, cycling, driving, flight.
Share

Turn your route into a movie.

A cinematic 3D flyover. Your photos at the right moments. Auto-scored. Auto-cropped for any platform. One tap to share.

Instagram Reels TikTok YouTube Shorts 小红书 微信
Mountain Drive · 47 km · 30 s reel
Your data. Your rules.

Your data stays yours.

Your trips, photos, and workouts never leave your device. Ads (Google AdMob) respect your iOS tracking choice. iCloud sync is end-to-end encrypted — only you hold the key.

✓ Local-first ✓ End-to-end encrypted ✓ Privacy-respecting ads ✓ No data sold
Read the full Privacy Policy →
PathReel app showing a mountain bike route with photo card

See how far life has taken you.

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