Features
Everything below is in the app today. Where something has a limit, it says so.
Recording
Tracking profiles. A profile sets the GPS interval and the distance filter. Three presets ship with the app — Instant (every 5s), Balanced (every 30s, batched) and Power Saver (every 60s) — and you can add your own.
Automatic switching. Profiles can change on their own when the phone starts charging, connects to Android Auto, crosses a speed threshold, or stops moving. One profile for the commute, another for a walk, without touching anything.
Heading and speed. Course over ground is recorded where the fix carries it. Readings below walking pace are held rather than replaced, so a device sitting still keeps the direction it was last travelling instead of spinning through the compass.
Foreground service. Recording continues with the screen off and the app closed. Android requires a persistent notification for this, which is what keeps the system from killing the service.
History on the device
Trips. Points are segmented into trips automatically — no start/stop button to forget. Each trip carries distance, duration, average and maximum speed.
Naming. Trips and the tracked asset can both be named. A trip name is keyed to its start time, so it survives other trips being deleted around it.
Calendar. A month view with a dot on every day that has data, for finding the day you actually want.
Elevation. Per-trip elevation profiles where the fixes carry altitude.
Insights. Distance per day over the last 7 or 30 days, with totals, active days and the busiest day.
Zones
Draw a circle or a polygon on the map and give it a name. A zone can change what tracking does inside it — pause recording, resume it, or switch behaviour — and arrivals and departures are recorded as events you can review.
Zones are stored on the phone. With Cloud sync on they are mirrored to the web dashboard for display; the phone stays the source of truth.
Getting data in
Import from Google Maps Timeline, GPX, KML, GeoJSON and CSV. The importer previews what it found and how many rows are new before writing anything, and duplicates are detected rather than stacked.
Getting data out
Export as CSV, GeoJSON, GPX or KML, for a date range or the whole database.
Automatic export can run on a schedule and drop the file where you choose.
Encrypted backups produce a single file for moving to a new phone, including settings and profiles.
Offline
Locations queue locally when there is no connectivity and sync when it returns — nothing is lost in a tunnel or out of coverage.
Offline map areas can be downloaded ahead of a trip so the map still draws with no signal.
Sync and the web dashboard
Cloud sync is off until you turn it on. With it on, points go to REITrack Cloud over HTTPS and appear at takip.info/app, where you can see the track, the zones and how fresh the data is.
Sync can be set to instant, batched, or Wi-Fi only.
What it does not do
- No custom sync endpoint. Earlier versions could point at your own server; current versions cannot. Sync goes to REITrack Cloud or nowhere.
- The location database is not encrypted at rest. See Security for what this means and what is encrypted.
- Android only. There is no iOS build.