Who we are
About Waypath
Waypath is an independent endurance sport app, built in Europe by one developer, for the way sport is organised here: clubs, a standing weekly session, and races that go up.
Mission
What we are trying to build
Watching a field move across a course has always been a hardware problem: a transponder on every athlete, readers planted every kilometre or two, cable, crew, and a bill that grows with the length of the route. That is why following a whole field has mostly belonged to the biggest races. Waypath moves that job onto the phone the runner is already carrying, and hands the spectator a link instead.
Around that sits the rest of an endurance app: recording, a catalogue of 426,029 waymarked trails, clubs and events, and analysis that explains what the hills cost you. The ambition is to be the app European athletes and clubs reach for first.
The constraint we set ourselves is that the app should never claim more than it can support. Modelled numbers are labelled as modelled. Heart-rate zones need a real sensor rather than an inference from pace. Where no honest model exists for a sport, Waypath prints nothing. It is a slower way to build a feature list, and it is the only version of this that is worth using.
Who builds it
One developer, in Europe
Waypath is built and maintained by Hugo Moriceau, an independent developer. There is no venture funding behind it, no growth team and no advertising business, which is why the app is a free tier with a subscription on top rather than an audience being sold to somebody.
The app ships with no third-party SDKs: no advertising, no analytics, no tracking. This website matches it, loading no third-party scripts, no external fonts and no analytics of any kind.
It is a small operation, and the honest consequence is that Waypath is younger and thinner than the apps it is compared with on this site. The comparison pages say so.
Standards
How this site handles a claim
Numbers come from the app
The trail count, the country count and the language count are the ones the app actually ships. When they change, these pages change.
No invented reviews or ratings
There is no star rating, no testimonial and no aggregate score anywhere on this site, because there is no verified one to cite.
Comparisons are dated
Every comparison page carries the date it was written and a note that competitor apps change. No page claims a rival lacks a feature it has.
Places are real
City pages name parks, paths and hills that exist. Where a distance was not certain, it is described in words rather than invented as a number.
Limits are published
The app's own limits have their own section on the home page, and every feature page carries one.
Corrections are welcome
If something here is wrong, email it in and it will be fixed.
Privacy
The position in one paragraph
Activities stay on your phone until you publish one, and you choose the audience per activity. A published route has any declared privacy zone removed and a random 200 to 600 metres trimmed from each end, so it never starts at your door. A live position is held back until you are 250 metres past it, and the held tail is discarded at the finish rather than released. Direct and group messages are end-to-end encrypted and the server stores ciphertext only. What is not covered is stated plainly: message metadata, and a club's or event's own name, place and date. The server is in Lauterbourg, France, inside the EEA, and the whole arrangement is set out on the European data protection page.
Contact
How to reach a human
Email hugo@oshi-messenger.com, or use the contact page. Bug reports, factual corrections to this site, press enquiries and club questions all arrive in the same inbox, and the person who reads it is the person who writes the app.
Waypath is available on the App Store for iPhone and Apple Watch. There is no Android app and no web app.
Built small, on purpose.
Free unlimited recording, a live link anyone can open, and an app that tells you what it does not know.
Requires iPhone. Premium adds the analysis on top.