Follow Me background tracking
Continuous route logging on iOS and Android that survives the app being backgrounded or killed, with a persistent notification on Android so it is never running invisibly.
Pinnyway
pinnyway.com ↗
Pin the world. Pin your way.
A travel platform where the route logs itself. The app records your track quietly in the background; the website turns those real coordinates into a timeline of places, photos and notes — and a map of everywhere you have been.
- iOS & Android
- Offline-first tracking
- Global country coverage
- Free to use
Follow Me
Logging active
Queued points
14 · syncing
Map pin — coastal road
Today
Photo pin — harbour
Yesterday
Text pin — border crossing
3 days ago
Countries pinned
17
The problem
The trip happens. The record of it does not.
Travel journalling asks you to do the work twice: first go somewhere, then remember to write down where you were, find the place on a map, and reconstruct the order of things from your camera roll. Most people give up somewhere around day four.
Pinnyway inverts it. The route is captured automatically while you get on with the trip, so composing a post later means picking a point you actually stood on rather than searching for a place name you half remember.
How it works
The app tracks. The website tells the story.
Two halves of one product, deliberately split. The phone does the one thing phones are good at, and everything that benefits from a big screen happens in the browser.
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Turn on Follow Me
One switch in the mobile app starts background location logging. It keeps running when the app is closed, and the app tells you plainly if a permission is missing rather than failing silently.
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Your track syncs itself
Points are written to a local database on the device first, then uploaded in batches when there is a usable connection. Lose signal for a day and nothing is lost.
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Pin a place that matters
On the website, pick a coordinate from your own recorded track, attach a photo, write something. Drafts are held locally so a half-finished post survives a closed tab.
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Share the journey
Your pins become a public timeline at your own
@handle, and the countries you have pinned become a branded map image you can export and post anywhere.
Features
What Pinnyway does
Built to spare your battery
Points are filtered before they are ever stored — a minimum distance, a minimum interval, and a movement threshold — so a day of tracking costs far less than a naive GPS logger.
Three kinds of pin
A map pin that draws the leg from your previous point, a media pin built around a photo, and a plain text pin for the moments that need words instead of a picture.
Your own timeline
A chronological journey feed at a public handle, with layout that varies by pin so a long trip does not read as an identical stack of cards.
An exportable world map
Every country you have pinned, rendered as a shareable branded image ready for Instagram, Facebook or LinkedIn — generated in the browser, no screenshotting required.
Discover other travellers
Browse other pinners' timelines and maps, step between profiles with the arrow keys, and follow the journeys you want to keep up with.
Credentials kept properly
Sign-in credentials are held in the secure storage each platform provides, not in ordinary app storage, and expire on a rolling basis.
Verified sign-up
Email and password registration with a one-time code sent to your inbox, password reset, live username availability checking, and an avatar you can crop in place.
Global from day one
A full ISO country set with flags and name lookup, so the map works the same whether you are pinning Andorra or Vanuatu.
Privacy
Continuous location data deserves a straight answer.
Pinnyway asks for one of the most sensitive permissions a phone can grant. We treat that as a design constraint rather than a checkbox.
Tracking is opt-in and visible
Nothing is recorded until you turn Follow Me on. While it is running, Android shows a permanent notification, and the app surfaces exactly what is queued and when it last synced.
Your raw track is not your public profile
Recorded coordinates are the private raw material for composing posts. What becomes public is only what you deliberately pin.
Your device, your data
You can clear the stored GPS points on your device at any time, and logging stops the moment you log out — queued points simply stay put until you sign back in.
Join us, pin the world
Create a handle, turn on Follow Me, and let your next trip write itself down while you are busy having it.