Frequently asked questions

From your phone's camera, which OutPath opens. The app has no gallery picker: you take the photo there and then, it is pinned at the phone's position when it is taken, and before it is published the app checks that the spot is outdoors, away from built-up areas.

No. They come from Wikimedia Commons, and the photo credits name the author and licence of each one. Photos from the OutPath map will appear here only with their authors' consent.

Yes. The account costs nothing and needs no card. It puts 5 photos a week on the map, records your activities, plans routes and keeps one offline region. Premium is an optional extra.

Yes, right here. Then sign in to the app with the same email address and password.

Android 9 and newer. There is no iPhone version yet.

In Poland and Switzerland, for now. Google Play offers the app only in these two countries, and photos can only be added to the map there. Place search and online route planning cover them too. Recording and the offline regions you download also work further afield.

No. You can record hiking, running, cycling, road cycling, mountain biking, skiing, ski touring, snowshoeing, rock climbing and other sports, and the route planner has four profiles: On foot, Bike, Road bike and Mountain bike.

Recording and photographing always work: a photo waits in a queue and sends itself once you are back in range. Download a region, and the map and route planning work offline too. One region is free, and Premium keeps up to 10.

By default, everyone who uses OutPath, even without an account. In Settings (Profile visibility) you can show your photos to your followers only or to yourself only, and make a single photo private. If you say you are under 18 when you create your account, at most your followers see them to begin with. The places you have visited are yours alone, and others see a saved activity only if you show it on your profile, without the start and end of the route.

No. It reads your location while you use the map or add a photo, and while you record an activity you started yourself. Recording keeps going with the screen off, and, if you allow notifications, one shows for as long as it runs. The app never asks for Android's background location permission, so it reads nothing when you are neither using it nor recording.

19 zł a month or 159 zł a year in Poland, and CHF 6.90 a month or CHF 59 a year in Switzerland, including VAT. Google Play sells the subscription, charges exactly these prices and shows them again before you pay.

Cancel the subscription in Google Play, step by step. Delete the account at the bottom of Settings in the app or in your browser.