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Activity Tracker

Activity Tracker

by Daniel Frost

App

Track your activities and watch the map at home

Install

About Activity Tracker

This app lets you to track your activities into handy gpx files and to watch on a map your paths whenever you want
Files are saved under ~/.local/share/activitytracker.cwayne18/

Important!
The app needs to be in foreground and the screen must be kept unlocked. Otherwise recording will stop.

Known issues:
- map shows "api key required"
- track length in list does not match recorded 2D or 3D length

Recent Changes

v1.1.4
- updated: translations, many thanks to all translators!

v1.1.3
- updated: translations, many thanks to all translators!

v1.1.1
- updated: translations, many thanks to all translators!

v1.1.0
- fixed: #1 map shows message "API key required" by using Thunderforest free map as default (thanks a lot guys for providing that!)
- added: more Thunderforest map types (personal API key needed)
- added: "waiting for position" info bubble
- added: option to have position fixed to map center or move freely around
- added: note in settings which mile is used (British imperial and US customary unit)
- improved: only enable "start" button if there is a position available
- improved: copyright notice overlay with clickable links added (same content)
- updated: translations, many thanks to all translators!

v1.0.1
- fixed: map marker now keeps fixed size regardless of map zoom
- improved: editing a track name when saving, now uses the placeholder text as given input
- improved: add word wrap to button text to allow longer translations
- improved: reduced logging in several places
- updated: translations, many thanks to all translators!

v1.0.0
- new maintainer @danfro
- improved: updated app for focal/20.04
- improved: move translations to ubports hosted weblate (Thanks to Weblate for sponsoring this service!)
- added: sport type SUP and nordic walking
- added: pause option
- fixed: app icon not showing (thanks @ivoxavier)
- improved: cancel recording dialog handling
- improved: now distances in main screen use locale separator
- improved: changelog and readme have been split into two separate files for easier reading
- updated: translations, many thanks to all translators!

v 0.15:
- Update the web library use to Morph.Web
- Update translation

v 0.14:
- Add the possibility to calibrate the altitude
- Remove JavaScript lib
- Thanks to the contributors to update translation
- remove .gpx file when trip is deleted
- Add Unicycle sport
- Filter activities by type

v 0.13:
- weblate integration and lots of new languages

v 0.12.1:
- spanish translation

v 0.12:
- Import new activities from gpx files
- Edit activity name and sport
- Show activity track info
- Choose every how many time save a point in the track
- Bug fixing and general UX enhancement

Permissions

  • Networking
  • Webview
  • Location
  • Keep Display On
  • Content Exchange

Community Built

This app has been released under the GNU GPL v3 license. It is developed in the open and you can review the source code.

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Info

  • Published Date

    Nov 12, 2018

  • Updated Date

    Sep 2, 2025

  • Current Version

    1.1.4

  • Total Downloads

    7,220

  • Latest Version Downloads

    529

  • Supported Architectures

    all

  • Translation Languages

    ab, af, ar, be, ca, ca@valencia, cs, de, el, en_GB, es, es_BO, et, eu, fa, fi, fr, fr_AG, hi, hr, id, it, ka, kn, mn, nb_NO, nl, or, pl, pt, pt_BR, pt_PT, ru, sr, sv, ta, tr, uk, vi, zh_HANS-CN, zh_Hant

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Reviews

Linuxlite76

Reviewed Mar 15, 2026 for version 1.1.4

Only works with the screen on. Drains my battery really fast. Great app apart from this issue

majorquibble

Reviewed Jan 4, 2026 for version 1.1.4

cool app but wish it worked with the screen off!

Diederick

Reviewed Dec 22, 2025 for version 1.1.4

Doesn't reliably track runs

ChromiumOS-Guy

Reviewed Nov 2, 2025 for version 1.1.4

works, awesome app.

Guillem Bagaria Morató

Reviewed Oct 26, 2025 for version 1.1.4

Really nice app!, so I decided to translate it into Catalan. The only thing I miss is the possibility to show current position when showing a previously recorded (or loaded) track. It would help a lot when following a downloaded (or previously recorded) track. Thanks!

Mathias

Reviewed Apr 28, 2025 for version 1.1.3 (older version)

Must have

Muming Lu

Reviewed Apr 28, 2025 for version 0.15 (older version)

Simple but useful.

mathiasbret

Reviewed Apr 12, 2025 for version 1.1.3 (older version)

superbe. usage quotidien great work well (used on a month trekking ) perhaps if you could add distance indication on map would be really great (not trek distance) sometimes one a day application freeze,must reboot

saveurlinux@gmail.com

Reviewed Feb 22, 2024 for version 1.0.0 (older version)

Very good app ti track your sport activity. Thank you!

MV

Reviewed Oct 26, 2022 for version 0.15 (older version)

20220418 Vollaphone - Great app. It works fine with display 'on'. How to contact the developer?