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title: "OpenPaths - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store"
description: "OpenPaths (https://openpaths.cc) is a secure data locker for personal location information.   Using our iPhone app you can track your location, visualize where you've been, and upload your data to the"
---

# OpenPaths — United States

![OpenPaths App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple118/v4/37/a8/f8/37a8f814-57b7-ade5-7279-673e79f44d19/pr_source.png/400x400bb.png)

**Developer:** [University of California, San Diego (Business Affairs)](https://apptail.io/developer/university-of-california-san-diego-business-affairs-kitb)
**Category:** Utilities
**Rating:** 2.3/5 (3 ratings)
**Price:** Free
**Bundle ID:** nyt.org.openpathscc.OpenPathsCC
**Store:** Apple App Store
**Country:** United States
**Version:** 2.0 (released 2017-11-03)
**Original Release:** 2012-01-13

**App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id493605283)
**AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/united-states)

## OpenPaths Description
OpenPaths ( is a secure data locker for personal location information. 

Using our iPhone app you can track your location, visualize where you've been, and upload your data to the OpenPaths website. You can then download your data from the website in a variety of friendly formats, including KML, JSON, and CSV. The OpenPaths API enables you to integrate your own software with the platform.

You can keep your location history to yourself, or you can share it with specific research initiatives, art projects, or educational programs as you so choose. The OpenPaths online interface allows you to manage who has access to your data. Your data is secure on the encrypted OpenPaths servers and cannot be accessed by anyone without your express consent.

OpenPaths is a new way for individuals to take ownership of, to work with, and to share the data that they generate in their daily lives. OpenPaths is a community project initiated by the Research and Development Lab at the New York Times Company.

- Runs in the background
- Minimal battery drain

For more information, please visit 

## OpenPaths Screenshots
- [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple118/v4/87/ee/20/87ee2019-ae20-f419-abd7-d73b4a5be6da/pr_source.png/1242x2208.png)
- [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple118/v4/90/d4/8f/90d48f92-a3b4-6d5d-29e6-3a88c2108181/pr_source.png/1242x2208.png)
- [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple128/v4/bc/0c/89/bc0c89be-48a7-56f9-c938-2401a213c45d/pr_source.png/1242x2208.png)
- [Screenshot 4](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple118/v4/c4/28/e2/c428e273-148f-2c6c-2299-38a0a4ed0657/pr_source.png/1242x2208.png)
- [Screenshot 5](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple118/v4/31/52/8f/31528fec-a939-35d7-6c69-92ba2bc8efbb/pr_source.png/1242x2208.png)

## OpenPaths Rating Breakdown in United States
- 5 stars: 1 (33%)
- 4 stars: 0 (0%)
- 3 stars: 0 (0%)
- 2 stars: 0 (0%)
- 1 stars: 2 (67%)

## OpenPaths Reviews in United States

### *---- "Not working :("
This app doesn’t work, and hasn’t since I last tried for iOS11. It fails to sync my data and it’s display hasn’t been updated for larger phone screens.  

I miss the app, when it worked. I used this app for years because it did such a good job of unobtrusively giving me a way of seeing where I’d been, but unfortunately it seems the app just doesn’t work any more. ☹️
-- ScaffoldingUK, 2020-09-30

### ****- "So what will happen to my years of movements ?..."
I kinda want this to still exist
-- petergreeen, 2017-09-30

### ***-- "Own your data"
Sync failures had me lose a month of data and recently seems a little bit abandoned. 

Got the app after a Jerr Thorpe talk over a year ago and loved playing with my own data in R and Python but lately the app feels pretty abandoned. Maybe time to delete sadly.
-- McQueenClanGR, 2016-03-08

### **--- "Not enough points"
I might be more interested with at least ten times more data.

And too many sync failures.

Battery usage was not noticeably affected.

Bye
-- iTunes Player, 2015-08-01

### *---- "Unable to use"
I actually can't tell you anything about the app since it would not let me sign-up or sign-in. I decided since that little thing would not work then the app as a whole would probably not be worth the effort and so I deleted it
-- kaitlindb, 2015-05-27

### *---- "Inaccurate tracking app, defeats the whole point."
So inaccurate it's absolutely useless. Never left my property today, but in the last 18 hours shows points as far as 4 miles away.
-- Bob T Schneagle, 2013-11-29

### **--- "Great concept, annoying and puzzling results"
I live the idea, but the resulting data is of such poor quality that it's useless. The app places me 1 - 3 miles from my true location in ~80% of points logged. Also, interval between data capture is variable and appears arbitrary. Cool idea but to crude to be of much use.
-- Columbia prof, 2012-12-19

### ***-- "Crowd mapping, if that's what you're into."
If you want to track a specific path, you and I will need to look elsewhere.  The screen hides typical iPhone info bar at the top (see screenshots). Power consumption when I engaged the app was noticeably faster, to the point that my charger was ineffective: in twenty minutes it had only increased two percent.  Accuracy aside (they do not promise it) it seems inconsistent in the way it records: starts off leaving markers in regular intervals, then randomly stops leaving gaps which is why it's not good for paths.
-- MacGaynor, 2012-08-02

### ***** "YAY"
Glad its on my phone now where it seems to make better sense. 

Thank you =)
-- cherrybombc2, 2012-07-27

### **--- "Inaccurate to the point of worthlessness"
Although the creator's TED talk is certainly inspiring and this application's UI is well-composed, the utilization of iOS's location APIs is poor at best. Overnight, with four bars and a view of the southern sky, the app will place me anywhere in a three-four mile radius—meaning that since work is three miles away, I have absolutely no valid data. Over 24 hours, I'm placed in 30 locations despite never leaving my apartment. 

I honestly wanted to use this app, and while it has so much going for it: decent UI, good service integration, amazingly interesting concept— the core function of logging my location simply DOES NOT produce reliable data. 

I refer you to xkcd's "tornadoguard" comic.
-- NWS.py, 2012-07-17

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- [United States](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/united-states)
- [United Kingdom](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/united-kingdom)
- [Mexico](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/mexico)
- [Thailand](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/thailand)
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- [Brazil](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/brazil)
- [Belarus](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/belarus)
- [Switzerland](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/switzerland)
- [Chile](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/chile)
- [China](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/china)
- [Colombia](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/colombia)
- [Czechia](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/czechia)
- [Germany](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/germany)
- [Denmark](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/denmark)
- [Dominican Republic](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/dominican-republic)
- [Algeria](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/algeria)
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- [Finland](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/finland)
- [France](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/france)
- [Greece](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/greece)
- [Hong Kong SAR China](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/hong-kong)
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- [Indonesia](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/indonesia)
- [Ireland](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/ireland)
- [Israel](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/israel)
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- [Italy](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/italy)
- [Japan](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/japan)
- [South Korea](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/south-korea)
- [Kuwait](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/kuwait)
- [Kazakhstan](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/kazakhstan)
- [Lebanon](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/lebanon)
- [Latvia](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/latvia)
- [Malaysia](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/malaysia)
- [Nigeria](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/nigeria)
- [Netherlands](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/netherlands)
- [Norway](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/norway)
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- [Saudi Arabia](https://apptail.io/app/openpaths-XVb/saudi-arabia)
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