Walk. The story writes itself.
Every hiking app records the walk and leaves you staring at a map, wondering what to post. TrailStory turns the hike into a finished content pack — card, collage, video and caption — in three taps, before you are back at the car.
Track your trail
GPS records every step. Works offline — no signal needed.
Hike becomes content
AI caption. Photo collage. Reels video. Trail card. All ready to post.
Hike with friends
See your crew live on the map. Share a link — they join in one tap.
Three taps
Four formats
Records offline
Three taps
Three taps from trail to timeline.
No editing app, no manual captioning, no hour at the kitchen table afterwards. You walk; the rest is handled.
Start and put the phone away
GPS records every step with no signal needed. Distance, elevation and pace come straight from the device, and steps and calories from Apple Health or Health Connect.
Your best frames, picked for you
When you finish, TrailStory scans the photos from the walk, drops the duplicates and the blurred ones, and keeps the sharpest. Swap any of them with a tap.
Four things, made at once
Trail Card, collage, video and AI Card are generated in parallel, in seconds. Share them all together or take only the one you wanted.
One hike. Four ways to share it.
Trail Card
Your route drawn over the numbers from the walk. Premium puts one of your own photos behind it, full bleed, with a filter and an editable caption.
Photo Collage
Square, portrait or story — all three formats on every plan. One layout free, five on Premium.
Reels
Thirty seconds, vertical, ready to post. Photos fall in the order the route took them, captioned by where each one was taken.
AI Card
A record broken, a streak continued, or the number this hike was. Free on every plan, and it never repeats what the Trail Card already shows.
Hike together, see everyone live.
Share a link and friends join in one tap. Positions update on the map every fifteen seconds, so you always know who is ahead and how far back the rest are.
Track for free. Upgrade for the full factory.
Recording a hike and getting something shareable out of it never costs anything. Premium raises the limits and opens the formats that take the most work to make.
Free
- GPS tracking — fully offline
- Apple Health and Health Connect
- Trail Card (route + stats)
- 5 photos per hike
- 1 collage layout per format
- AI Card (achievements & insights)
- Last 10 hikes in history
PremiumSave 42%
- Everything in Free
- Trail Card with your photo behind it
- Up to 20 photos per hike
- All 5 collage layouts × 3 formats
- Remove watermark
- Reels / TikTok 30 sec cinematic video
- AI Caption — 4 tone options
- Live friends tracking
- Offline maps
- Unlimited hike history
Asked at the trailhead.
Does it drain the battery?
Recording a track costs battery, there is no way around that. TrailStory keeps the screen off, holds everything on the device and does not talk to a server while you walk, which is where most of the drain in tracking apps actually comes from.
What happens if I lose signal mid-hike?
Recording never stops — the track, the elevation and the steps are all local to the phone. Live positions in a group hike need a connection, so everyone holds their last known spot with a "last seen" time until the signal returns. Download the map before you leave and it stays readable for the whole walk.
Do my friends need the app to join a hike?
Not to join. A shared link puts them on the map in one tap, with no account and nothing to install. Only the person starting the group hike needs Premium — everyone invited walks along for free, and the link works for that one hike only.
Where does my location data go?
Your tracks are stored so you can reopen your own hikes, and synced to your account. They are not sold, not shared with advertisers, and not used to build a profile of where you go. The privacy policy sets out exactly what is kept.
Is the free version actually usable?
The tracker is complete. Offline GPS, elevation, steps and health data, a Trail Card with your route and stats, a collage in whichever format you post to, and an AI Card on every hike. Free builds from five photos, gives you one collage layout, keeps your last ten hikes and leaves a small TrailStory mark on what you export. Premium is about the video, the photo count and everything around the walk.
Install it before the next walk.
Download the map for where you are going, put the phone away, and let it record. The rest happens when you stop.
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