No closed database
The folder can live on your iPhone, iCloud Drive, or a compatible provider. Changing apps or devices never separates tracks from your files.
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GPXplorer
Trekking · Hiking · Cycling · Motorcycling · Every other GPS-recorded activity
When the journey ends, GPXplorer Pro begins.
Your Files folder becomes a library with maps and diagnostics while documents stay where they are. With Pro, rediscover photos taken along the route, even years earlier, and explore automatic and cartographic markers. Waypoints let you keep the route’s important places in your GPX; the Edit section lets you split, extract, merge, and correct tracks.
Library in FilesAdvanced diagnosticsPhotos through time · ProAutomatic markers · ProGPX waypoints · ProGPX editing · Pro
Born from a real need
Your folder is already your library.
I built GPXplorer after years on the trail and on a motorcycle, with a growing track collection and dozens of apps tried. I wanted to understand and manage that collection without moving it into a closed system.
Connect a folder available in Files and see it inside the app with thumbnails, analysis, and dedicated tools. Documents stay where you put them, ready for other apps or devices too.
Diagnostics that explain
GPXplorer distinguishes recorded and planned tracks, detects position and time anomalies, and shows problematic sections on the map.
Faithful export
Every result is compared with the original to preserve details, metadata, and extensions—even data the app does not display.
Photos through time
Find photos tied to the track and others taken in the same places months or years earlier, revealing the route across different moments.
Waypoints and markers
Keep the route’s important places as waypoints: add them from the map or create them from automatic and cartographic markers, then export them in your GPX.
Complete editing
Split, extract, or merge tracks, edit metadata, correct the timeline, and geolocate photos. Choose how to save the result after export verification.
Photos and mapping
Rediscover what happened along that route.
GPXplorer connects the track, your photos, and the landscape. It shows not only where you went, but helps reconstruct when, under which conditions, and with which memories.
Photos, even years later
Search combines date, time, and position to find both photos from the outing and images taken along the same route at other times.
- View photos on the route with 2D or 3D terrain.
- Detect mismatches between track and photo time or location.
- Correct photo GPS or date and geolocate images with no coordinates.
- Use a trusted anchor photo to realign the entire track timeline.
A map that interprets
Automatic markers describe the route; cartographic markers add OpenStreetMap context.
- Stops, elevation and gradient extremes, speed, distance, time, and progress.
- Parks, peaks, passes, huts, crossings, and surface type, with the track colored by terrain.
- Turn any marker into a waypoint preserved in the GPX.
- Inspect any point with the crosshair and share its geographic data with an Apple Maps link.
Automatic markers · Pro
See where the route deserves a closer look.
GPXplorer finds reference points in the track: start, finish, stops, elevations, distances, and times. With Pro, choose which markers to show, explore their details, and turn the ones you want to keep into waypoints.
Start, finish, and progress
Locate the first and last valid points, 25%, 50%, and 75% of the route, and the point furthest from the start and finish. The halfway marker stays more prominent than the other quarter points.
Distance and time on the map
Enable distance references, which become less frequent as you zoom out, and time references, whose intervals adapt to the activity and zoom level. Times appear only when reliable; you can also show them beside other markers.
Stops and route extremes
Find stops, the highest and lowest points, and gradient and speed references. Markers connect the track’s data to specific places along the route.
Choose what to see and keep
Enable the categories you need and zoom in to see the markers. Settings immediately change the map view; to keep markers in your GPX, turn active markers into waypoints and export the result.
Waypoints · Pro
Places to remember, saved with your track.
A stop, a summit, or a viewpoint: waypoints are reference points you can keep with your route. GPXplorer Pro shows them on the map and organizes them by category, so you can find them again and take them with you in the exported GPX.
Find points by category
Browse track waypoints grouped by elevation, start, finish, route, and stops. Expand a category to see individual points and their coordinates, and choose whether to show them on the map.
Add a point from the map
Use the crosshair to frame a place and add a waypoint, or start from a cartographic marker’s details. Coordinates, elevation, and distances along the track help you understand where it is.
From markers to your GPX
Turn active markers into waypoints: start and finish, distance references, stops, and other significant points can become references saved in the file when you export.
GPX editing · Pro
Shape your GPX into the route you need.
A track that is too long, several stages to combine, or a recording whose times need correction: GPXplorer Pro’s Edit section gives you tools to work on the GPX and prepare a result for export.
GPX metadata
View and edit the title, description, author, links, and rights: give the file a useful name and context for finding and sharing it.
Split into multiple tracks
Add one or more cuts and create independent GPX files. Separate the stages of a trip or different parts of an outing.
Extract an A–B section
Choose two points and keep only the route between them, to isolate a walk, a climb, or a section to share.
Correct date and time
Find a photo using GPS and use it as a reference to realign the track’s times when the recording’s timeline needs correction.
Geolocate photographs
Add a location to photos without GPS using the track’s times, so you can find the images where they were taken.
Merge multiple tracks
Combine open tracks in the order you choose, to reconstruct a route split across recordings or bring several stages into a single file.
Export with verification
Editing prepares the result before saving. Export is checked against the original to preserve compatible details, metadata, and extensions. Save a copy, or choose to replace the original file after the protected verification.
Inside the app
See every track for what it really contains.
The folder becomes a visual library; each track opens into maps, analysis, photos, markers, waypoints, and editing tools.
Advanced diagnostics
It goes beyond totals to find where a track stops being reliable.
Every problem is flagged and explained. When it can be located, GPXplorer highlights the affected section on the map and adapts statistics to the actual quality of the data.
GPS continuityPosition jumps, unrecorded gaps, points that are too far apart, and invalid coordinates.
TimelineMissing, reversed, or implausible timestamps, unusual intervals, and probably incorrect dates.
Reliable resultsGeometry, elevation, speed, and time are evaluated separately rather than presenting suspicious data as certain.
Two editions
Your files in both. The deepest tools in Pro.
GPXplorer and GPXplorer Pro are separate apps. There are no subscriptions or in-app purchases.
GPXplorer
For managing files and folders, comparing tracks, and understanding how reliable they are.
- GPX, KML, and connected folders with no import
- Visual library with automatic classification
- Apple Maps, satellite imagery, and OpenStreetMap
- Essential analysis and complete diagnostics
- Essential markers and point inspection
- Verified GPX export and PNG maps
GPXplorer Pro
For working deeply with tracks through photographic memory, terrain, and advanced editing.
- Detailed analysis and combined totals for multiple tracks
- Photos along the route, including across the years
- Photo GPS and date correction and anchor-photo realignment
- Automatic and cartographic markers, surfaces, and road types
- Waypoints, crosshair inspection, and complete geographic details
- Split, extract, merge, and timeline correction
Current availability and pricing for GPXplorer Pro are shown on its App Store page.
Your routes stay under your control.
GPXplorer requires no account, includes no advertising, and uses no tracking systems.
On-device processing
Parsing, statistics, quality checks, markers, transformations, and export verification all happen in the app.
- Files are read only from the documents or folders you choose.
- Your current location is used to center the map, not to record a route.
- Pro features access photos only after you grant permission.
Mapping services
Maps and some features depend on the services selected by the user.
- Apple Maps and OpenStreetMap provide maps and geographic information.
- Pro map analysis uses Overpass only after explicit consent.
- Only simplified coordinates are sent—not the complete GPX file, photos, timestamps, or elevations.
Useful information.
Where are my tracks stored?
In the folder you choose in Files, on your device, in iCloud Drive, or with a compatible provider. GPXplorer presents it as a library without importing documents into an internal database.
How are edits saved?
Transformations prepare a separate version. When you export, the result is verified: save a copy, or choose to replace the original file after the protected verification.
What does data-preserving export mean?
The result is compared point by point with the original file to retain compatible metadata, details, and extensions, including data the app does not directly manage or display.
Why are some statistics missing?
The app omits metrics that cannot be calculated reliably, such as when usable timestamps or elevation data are missing.
Are Free and Pro the same app?
No. GPXplorer and GPXplorer Pro are separate apps, with no subscriptions or in-app purchases.
What happens if I delete the app?
GPXplorer’s local data is removed. Files stored in external folders and photos in your library remain in place.