Ubi Fui
Ubi Fui app icon

Where you’ve been, kept on your iPhone.

Ubi Fui (Latin for “where I was”) quietly notices the places you stop, how long you stay and how you got there. Look back on any day, week or year without ever checking in, and without your location leaving your phone.

Coming soon to the App Store

For iPhone, with a companion app for Apple Watch.

Ubi Fui's Timeline: a working day in Edinburgh, from home to the café, work, lunch in the park and the gym, with the routes on a map

How it works

Set it up once, then forget about it.

Allow location access and get on with your day. Ubi Fui runs in the background and fills in your history as you go.

The Timeline for one day

It notices your stops

Stay somewhere for five minutes and it becomes a stop on your Timeline, with when you arrived and how long you stayed.

A heat map of a month around Edinburgh, with named places pinned

Your time, mapped

The heat map shows where you really spend your time. Tap a hotspot to turn it into a place.

A place called Work, with its visits, total time and history

Name what matters

Home, work, the gym, a favourite café. Every past and future visit is tagged, so you can see how often you go and how long you stay.

Features

A diary that writes itself.

Everything you need to answer “where was I?”, and nothing that sends your movements to anyone else.

Timeline

Every stop of your day in order, with the route between them on a map. Swipe between days and add notes to remember what a stop was.

Where was I?

Pick any date and time and Ubi Fui tells you where you were, or that you were on the move nearby.

Heat map

See where you spend your time over a week, a month, a year or all time, and rank your hotspots.

Places

Give places a name, an icon and a colour, and adjust their size on a map. Visits are tagged automatically.

Apple Watch

See where you are and today’s stops on your wrist, tag the spot you’re standing in, or say which place a stop was.

Easy on your battery

GPS switches off while you’re stopped and iOS wakes it when you move, so Ubi Fui can run all day. Settings shows exactly when GPS was on.

A walk from home to the café, with its route on a map

Trips

Know how you got there.

Between your stops, Ubi Fui records the trip: its route, how far and how long.

  • With motion data, it tells walking, running, cycling and vehicle legs apart, and where you switched: walk, then train, then walk.
  • Pick the mode yourself: car, bus, train, tram, plane, boat and more. Split a leg or merge two.
  • What you choose is remembered, so the same journey next time is filled in for you.

Privacy

Your history is yours.

There are no accounts and no servers of ours. Your stops, trips and places stay on your iPhone, and if you turn on iCloud Backup, in your own iCloud. You can export everything or delete it all at any time. Read the privacy policy.

Coming soon to the App Store.

Ubi Fui is nearly ready. Questions or ideas? Get in touch.