Google shutting down My Tracks on April 30

Google My Tracks

Google will be shutting down its 7-year-old activity tracking app My Tracks on April 30, the company has announced. The search giant says it decided to invest its resources into other “more wide-reaching, mapping projects,” and is providing resources to help users export their data. My Tracks supports a number of different data/file formats, allowing folks to keep using the information gathered with some other service.

Depending on what features you used most in MyTracks, Google suggests other apps like Google Fit, Strava, Endomondo, Map My Run, Map My Hike, GPS Logger for Android, and GPX Viewer.

My Tracks uses an Android smartphone’s built-in GPS to collect data, allowing real-time review of path, speed, distance, and elevation. Later on, this data can be saved to Google Maps, and shared on social networks. The application also allows a user to record annotations along the path, hear periodic voice announcements of progress, and sync with select third-party bio-metric sensors.