The app's interface is simple and extremely informative. It's like a virtual stop watch with the built-in camera of course. Once you click the start button to begin your trip, several points of data start getting captured such as the distanced traveled, the elapsed time, and your speed.
The Photo button takes snapshots and transmits them automatically to your slideshow on the site. The images are geotagged via GPS and the location coordinates are relayed to the site along with the images. You can also add detailed notes all throughout your travels, which is a nice touch. Sometimes pictures don't always tell the whole story so it's useful to be able to record your thoughts during your trip as well as the visuals.
Two important tips:
1. Select "Never Turn Off" under General Settings on your iPhone so that it never goes to sleep, which will stop recording your journey.
2. The other thing to do is lock your iPhone via the EveryTrail app's recording view option instead of the regular iPhone method, which disables location updating.
On The Website End of Things
The slideshows on the website reveals more than just photos, which is what makes this app different than others that just share your photos online. EveryTrail slideshows geotag your photos on a map and show all of the information that app records such as how fast you are moving, how long you've been traveling, and how many miles you've gone.
All of the images taken during the trip are displayed in a slick timeline beneath the map that shows the route taken. Each photo is displayed like a slideshow, but anyone can click on any picture to display it in the viewer.
Your slideshows can be shared via a widget on your blog or other social network profile page. Note that it also includes an RSS feed that anyone can subscribe to with Google Reader or other reader of choice.
Users can rate any trip thus giving a good overall view of what other members of the community think of any particular journey. If you find someone's trip is interesting enough to emulate yourself then you can actually download the data (KML or GPX files) to your iPhone or to another service such as Google Maps for directions or to view in 3D on Google Earth.
There's a cool WorldMap feature that allows you to see all of the trips captured in a specific part of the globe. Click on any marker and you'll see all of the details and photos from that journey.
