Miles press kit

What Miles is

An automatic travel log for iPhone and iPad. Miles records every journey you make in the background across eleven transport modes: walking, running, cycling, e-scooter, car, motorbike, bus, train, metro, ferry and plane. There is no start button and no account. You open the app at the end of the day and the journeys are already there.

What makes it technically interesting: flights. Miles is deliberately a low power background tracker, which is how it survives a day in a pocket, and it is also why it is not present for a flight: at cruise there is nothing for it to react to, no network and nothing on screen, so iOS suspends it and eventually terminates it. The flight apps people already use start from a booking, an email or a boarding pass. Miles asks for none of those. It notices the airport, expects the silence, and reconstructs the flight after landing from a built-in database of 4,045 airports plus the climb its pressure sensor recorded. The demonstrable moment is a flight appearing in the log that the phone slept through.

The rest of the app. A map of everywhere you have been, coloured by how you got there. Insights: trends, streaks, hotspots, elevation, a transport calendar, and CO2 estimates built on the UK Government GHG Conversion Factors 2024. A Live Activity on the Lock Screen while a trip is recorded. Widgets, Siri shortcuts and Spotlight search. Wrap-up share cards sized for social. Free CSV export, and Back Up Everything: one portable file of the complete history, free on every tier, with a restore that merges safely onto a new phone.

Privacy, stated with its caveats

No account, no login, no Miles server: the trip history exists in one place, the user's device. Private Areas let a user draw a circle around home, and everything inside it is left out of exports, shared images and the device search index. Omitted, not blurred. Delete everything in two taps.

The caveats, given up front rather than waiting to be found: Firebase Analytics and Crashlytics are on by default, anonymous, with an off switch in the app's settings; Firebase Performance ships with its collection switched off. Nothing they receive carries coordinates, place names or anything from Apple Health. Coordinate lookups go to Apple geocoding and to open services (OpenStreetMap Overpass, Open-Meteo, Open-Elevation, Transitland, OpenSky) to name places, check weather, read elevation and match transit; the elevation lookup sends a small sample of route points in one request. All of it is listed in the privacy policy.

Fact sheet

• Name: Miles — Travel Tracker
• Platform: iPhone and iPad, iOS 17 or later
• Languages: English, French, German, Spanish
• Price: free; optional Voyager subscription at €2.99 a month or €24.99 a year (1 month free trial on both), local pricing per storefront
• Free tier: automatic tracking, corrections, manual trips, saved locations, core insight cards, the last 120 days on the map, free CSV export and free backup
• Availability: worldwide except the EU-27 at launch, while Digital Services Act trader verification completes; the EU switches on the moment it clears
• App Store: apps.apple.com/app/id6761484294 (live on release day)
• Developer: Thomas Gray, independent, based in France
• Proof line: more than 140 internal builds and more than 500 automated tests before anyone could buy it, one developer

Screenshots and icon

Full resolution App Store screenshots (1320×2868), free to use. Right-click or long-press to save. French, German and Spanish sets are available on request.

App icon, 1024×1024

Story angles that are actually true

• The flight your phone slept through: how a deliberately low power tracker reconstructs a flight it was suspended for.
• The anti-subscription subscription: recording, corrections, export and backup are free forever; the paid tier is only the long view.
• Privacy with receipts: the app volunteers its own Firebase caveats and ships an analytics off switch, on a page most apps would never publish.
• One developer, more than 140 builds, real flights as the test rig.