Walk in without fear.
Walk out without a map.

Press Start at the trailhead and put the phone in your pocket. Breadcrumb drops a GPS crumb roughly every ten metres as you go. When you want to head back, pick the trail and follow one big arrow from crumb to crumb, all the way out — no signal, no data, no map required.

iOS 26+ Works with no signal Records with the screen off No account No data collected

The story behind Breadcrumb

Breadcrumb exists because a forest has no street names, and the moment you need help is the moment you have no bars.

Parks and woodland are full of unmarked paths that all look the same on the way back. You turn off the main track to look at something, then turn again, and twenty minutes later every direction looks equally plausible. The usual answer — open a maps app — fails exactly there: no cell coverage, no downloaded tiles, and a blue dot floating on a blank grey rectangle that tells you where you are but not how you got there.

So I built the opposite of a map. Breadcrumb does not need to know the terrain; it only needs to remember your path. It records where you actually walked and then replays it backwards, one arrow at a time. GPS works without internet — the satellites broadcast and your phone just listens — so the whole thing keeps running in airplane mode, deep in a valley, with no signal at all.

What it does

Drops crumbs as you walk One GPS crumb roughly every ten metres, recorded automatically from the moment you press Start. Nothing to tap along the way.
One big arrow home Choose a trail and the arrow points to the next crumb back, with the distance to it. Follow it crumb by crumb and it walks you out the way you came in.
Keeps going under the trees When the canopy blocks the sky, Breadcrumb estimates your position from your step count and the compass until the signal returns, and marks those stretches as estimated rather than pretending they are certain.
Records in your pocket Recording continues with the screen locked and the phone away, so the trail does not quietly end the moment you stop looking at it.
Mark forks and landmarks Tap once to pin a fork, a landmark, a hazard, or water onto the trail — chosen so you can do it with gloves on and no typing.
Nothing leaves your phone No servers, no cloud, no account, no analytics, no ads. Your trails are saved only on your iPhone, and the app makes no network requests at all.
100% free. Forever.

Breadcrumb has no subscription, no In-App Purchases, no ads, no paywall. You download it, you use it, you keep it. If you ever want to support the work, email me — that's enough.

An aid to getting back, not a substitute for preparation Breadcrumb depends on your iPhone's battery, its GPS reception, and the trail having been recorded in the first place. It is not a survival device, not a rescue beacon, and not a navigation instrument. Never rely on it as your only way out of unfamiliar terrain: tell someone where you are going, carry a map and compass, and keep your phone charged.

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Ingeniería.dev — Chris Flores
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