One photo, one field note. Pins, memos & tracks to KML, GPX, CSV. No sign-up.
One photo, one tap, and your field note is done.
Each shot gets the location, time and a number and a pin on the map, and the path you walk becomes a line. Export it all for Google My Maps, spreadsheets, or any hiking or map app that accepts GPX.
WHO IT'S FOR
• On-site work: site visits, field surveys, facility inspections, property viewings
• Travel, hikes and city walks you want to keep on a map
• Anyone who sorts out later where, and in what order, their photos were taken
HOW IT WORKS
1. Tap the camera button and shoot. The location, time and a number are added automatically.
2. Add a title and memo in the box that pops up. Quick types like "Restroom", "Parking" or "Elevator" fill in the title with a number (or add your own). A memo template for a type (e.g., Parking → "Spaces: / Accessible spaces: ") pre-fills the memo, so you don't retype the same items.
3. Tap "Walk" and put your phone in your pocket. Even with the screen off, your path is drawn as a green line.
4. Export the trip as files, and send its original photos separately as a "photo bundle" ZIP.
KEY FEATURES
• Every shot is an entry: photo, coordinates, time, number, title and memo together
• Several photos per entry · add photos from your album
• One outing is one trip, with entries numbered in the order you shoot
• Export: KML (Google My Maps, Google Earth) · GPX (most hiking and GPS apps; format and pin-note support varies by app) · CSV (spreadsheets) · ZIP (all 3 in one file) · photo bundle (original photos)
• Import trips you receive: open ZIP, GPX, KML or CSV files a colleague exported from Pathpin to add them as a trip. GPX courses from other apps appear as a blue dashed line (planned route), apart from your walked track.
• Connect pins: no walk recorded? Link your pins with a line on the map and in files (on/off per trip)
• Photos go to the "Pathpin" album in your phone's Gallery and stay even if you delete the app.
• English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French and Korean · km or miles, following your phone's settings
• The map loads only for display. Nothing sends your coordinates anywhere.
WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT
Many apps record only a track, or only stamp coordinates on photos. Pathpin ties photos, coordinates, notes, numbers and your walked track together and exports them as files for other tools: shoot on site, sort it out at your desk. Built from more than two years of visiting tourist sites, city parks, walking paths and hiking trails in person, it has only the features those visits needed.
PRIVACY
• No server, no sign-up. Everything you record is stored only on this phone.
• Location is used only to show where you are and to record where you shoot and walk. We don't share it or use it for ads.
FREE TRIAL AND SUBSCRIPTION
• Free for 3 days from first launch, with no card required. Nothing is charged automatically afterward.
• After that, a subscription is needed to start a new trip, continue a finished trip, or add photos to existing entries.
• Viewing, editing, exporting and deleting what you've recorded is always free.
• Subscriptions: 1 month · 6 months · 1 year, auto-renewing (prices shown in your local currency; plans on sale may vary by country)
• Cancel anytime in your Google Play subscriptions.
PERMISSIONS
• Location: for pins and the path you walk
• Camera: to take entry photos
• Photos: to save to the "Pathpin" album and show them again
• Notifications (optional): to show that walk recording is on
GOOD TO KNOW
• Walk recording starts from the app screen. Set Pathpin's battery usage to "Unrestricted" (the name may differ by phone) so it doesn't stop.
• Google My Maps takes up to 2,000 rows per layer, so large trips are automatically split into several files.
What's new
Pathpin is now available in English, Japanese, Spanish, German and French.
• Take a photo: the location, time and a number are added, and a pin drops on the map
• Tap "Walk": your path is drawn, even with the screen off
• Export trips as KML, GPX or CSV, and send photos as a photo bundle
• Try everything free for 3 days