Android: If the GPS mapping and performance analysis of apps like RunKeeper give your Android phone iPhone envy, Google's got a geeky alternative. My Tracks plots runs, cycles, and other fitness forays to custom Google Maps or a Google spreadsheet.


You get far more than just a line showing where you went on your last trip with My Tracks. While running or in front of your My Maps account, can see your elevation profile over time or distance, check your speeds, set up waypoints for longer sojourns, and share your GPX or KML output over email, Twitter via Twidroid, or export the data to your SD card.


Google recommends Android users download a few "sister applications" to make My Tracks more useful, including the aforementioned Twidroid, the Power Manager app to keep My Tracks from completely dousing your (admittedly spare) battery reserves, and the My Maps Editor to view and share your exercise maps. My Tracks still lacks the slick looks of RunKeeper or Nike+, but if you're really impressed by raw data and beautiful statistics, you can get a whole lot of them, as evidenced in the example here (not mine, believe me).

My Tracks is a free download for Android-based phones.

My Tracks for Android