There's a lot of iPhone applications for keeping track of fitness and for keeping track of where you go. Applications such as Runkeeper keep track of your activity on a map and will produce handy statistics about your run or bike ride. On the other side of the spectrum you can get hiking applications such as Trailguru which is orientated more towards people who are out and about and wanting to keep track of where they've been rather than how quick they've done it.
EveryTrail is another application in this vein and comes in both Free and Pro versions. The website for this app also lets you manage trips from there and there are versions available for other platforms: Android, Blackberry and Windows Mobile so no matter what smart phone you have you're bound to be accommodated.
When you open the iPhone application for the first time you will be asked to either register for a new account, log into an existing one, or to just try the application without storing the details online. With the free version, once you've done this you will see the "Home" view with options to track a trip, to upgrade to Pro (to remove ads) and a view of popular nearby trips. I think "near by" has to be a very relative term as it's second trip listed was one from London to Bath, but I live 100 miles from London. Using the search tab yields far better results for nearby trips and will allow you to order results by rating, journey length, and proximity after having the choice of searching what the proximity should be relative to (default is current location), the radius from that location, and the type of activity.
There is also a map view which is handy should you need to check your current location, and a saved tab for storing your trips in. The settings tab has various settings such as associating the application with your EveryTrail account, social media options for sharing on Twitter and Facebook, GPS configuration for distance threshold and accuracy threshold, the unit of measurement, and picture taking options.
When you start tracking a trip it does warn the user not to close the application down (since Apple doesn't support background tasks in their iPhone OS) and will then show updates on the map view as you move. If you tap on the details navigation button you can enter further details such as a story, any tips you may have for people using this trail, and the option to take pictures to associate with the trail.
It's one of the best applications in this style that I've used and has many nice touches which make it all the better for using and so far I've not been able to fault it as a lot of common faults with these applications have been thought through and dealt with. It even works with other trip applications such as Trails, Gaia GPS, TrailCompanion and EasyTrails GPS.
