Last updated: September 26, 2026
No — you can open the app and browse the Home map and the Explore tab's public routes without signing in. To record tracks, manage your tracks, or use groups, create a free account or sign in. On iOS you can also use Sign in with Apple.
Go to the Record tab and tap Start. PingPath tracks your position in the background, draws your line on the map live, and shows your distance, speed, moving time, and estimated calories while you ride, hike, or paddle. You can pause and resume at any time — paused time doesn't count toward your moving time.
You'll be asked to name your track and can optionally turn on Publish to Public Feed (off by default). After saving, you can share a link, create a shareable image card of your route and stats, or just keep it private in your Tracks tab.
Yes. GPS recording works fully offline — your track is stored on the device and uploads automatically the next time you're online and signed in. You can see pending uploads under Settings → Offline Tracks and tap Sync Now to force it.
Your recording is saved continuously as you go. If the app is closed or restarted, PingPath detects the unfinished recording and resumes where it left off, so long rides aren't lost.
There are several ways to share — pick whichever fits the situation:
Turn on Publish to Public Feed when you finish a track. It appears on your public profile, which you can share with anyone as a link — no account needed to view it. You can find and copy your profile link from your profile page after publishing.
Open a track in your Tracks tab and choose Submit for Review. Once approved, it becomes a public route anyone can find in the app's Explore tab and open at pingpath.cloud/routes/<slug>. Shared route links open straight into the app for followers, or the route's web page for everyone else.
For a riding group or club, create a group and invite members by email. From any track's detail screen, assign it to a group — it then appears in the group's track list for all members. Groups also have a built-in discussion board for planning rides, with posts, replies, and pinned announcements.
From a track's detail screen, export it as a GPX file — the standard format that works with most GPS devices, bike computers, and apps like Strava, Komoot, or Gaia GPS.
While you're out recording, friends can watch your position update live at pingpath.cloud/view.php?device_id=<your device ID>. Your device ID is shown in the app's Settings screen — save the link once and reuse it, or share it before a ride. Only people with the link can see it.
Public routes, groups, and user profiles all have web links (/routes/…, group_view.php?slug=…, user_profile.php?id=…). When someone with the app taps one, it opens PingPath directly — routes jump straight to route-following on the map.
Open the Explore tab, pick a route, and it loads onto the Home map. You can also follow any of your own tracks from the Tracks tab — tap the follow button on the track row or inside its detail screen.
The part of the route ahead of you is drawn as a solid line; the section you've already covered turns grey. If you leave the route, an orange dotted line points from your position back to the nearest point on the route.
The status card on the map shows your progress and remaining distance. If you stray more than about 50 m from the route for a few seconds you're marked off-route and shown the direction back; rejoin and it returns to on-route. Progress handles out-and-back sections and loops correctly, and poor GPS readings are ignored.
In the Groups tab, send an invite by email — if you don't have a group yet, one is created automatically (you can rename it from the group screen). Existing PingPath users are added right away; everyone else gets an email invite. Requests to join your group can be approved or declined from the group's pending-requests list.
Admins and owners can rename the group, approve or decline join requests, invite new members, and pin or delete discussion posts.
Open a group to see its members, discussion, and the tracks shared to it. Any member can open a group track's map and stats or follow it on the Home map.
The Tracks tab lists everything you've recorded — uploaded tracks as well as ones still waiting to sync. Tap a track for its map, distance, duration, and elevation, plus actions to follow it, export GPX, assign it to a group, or submit it as a public route.
Calories are estimated from your activity and body weight. Set your weight under Settings → Body weight for accurate numbers.
On iPhone and Apple Watch you also get: start/stop recording from the Watch, a Live Activity with your stats on the lock screen, a choice of Apple Maps or OpenStreetMap, an optional Dexcom glucose readout on the record screen, and a photo-map view that overlays your snapshots on the route.
Tap Forgot Password? on the sign-in screen and we'll email you a reset link. Opening the link on your phone takes you straight into the app to set a new password; it also works in a normal browser.
In the app's Settings, choose Delete Account. We'll email you a secure confirmation link — your data is only deleted after you confirm from that email.
Settings → Log Out. Logging out returns you to guest browsing — your uploaded tracks stay on your account and pending tracks stay on the device.
Still stuck? Please contact us — include the Device ID from your Settings screen and roughly when the problem happened so we can look up diagnostics.