One journal for road, MTB, gravel, hiking and e-bike - instead of three different apps

The problem: three sports, three apps

Most apps are tailored to a single discipline. One is optimised for road cycling and performance, the next for hiking routes and navigation, a third comes with the e-bike from the manufacturer. The result: your tours lie scattered, every app wants its own account, and none shows you what you moved overall across the year.

The yearly total is where this really grates. How many kilometres did they add up to - across bike, MTB and hiking? How many metres of climbing? The answer isn't in any single app, because none knows the whole athlete, only ever a slice.

Why a shared journal makes more sense

A tour journal turns this around: the app doesn't decide what you do, you log what happened - whatever the sport. Each tour gets a sport as a label, the rest works the same for all: date, distance, duration, elevation gain, weather, rating, photos. Over the season that builds one complete picture instead of four half ones.

• One overall total - all kilometres and elevation across every sport in a single breakdown.
• Analysable per sport - want only the cycling kilometres? One filter is enough.
• One account, one login - instead of four apps with four passwords.
• Comparable data - the same fields for every activity, so they line up cleanly.

What to look out for when choosing

Not every app that allows several sports is also suited as a journal for all of them. Three things decide it:

• Free choice of sport - not just a fixed list of three cycling variants, but also hiking, running, motorbike, canoe, cross-country skiing.
• The same fields for all - otherwise a breakdown across sports becomes impossible.
• The data is yours - export anytime, no forced public feed, no ads.

One journal for everything - how Tourtagebuch does it

That's exactly what Tourtagebuch is built for: a tour journal in which road bike, MTB, gravel, hiking, e-bike, running, motorbike, canoe and cross-country skiing all stand side by side as equals. Every tour gets its sport, all share the same fields - and at year's end you have an honest overall total instead of four app fragments. At your desk in the browser, on the go as an app on your smartphone, automatically in sync and even offline in a dead spot.

• Log tours of every sport with date, distance, duration, elevation gain, weather, company and rating.
• Yearly and seasonal breakdowns - as a total or filtered by a single sport.
• Photos, voice notes and GPS markers right with the tour - even offline.
• Bring in existing routes via GPX import, no matter which app they come from.
• Data on a German server, exportable anytime, no public feed.

For more on why pure tracking apps hit their limits as a journal, see the article What Strava can't do. And if you specifically want to record your rides or hikes, Documenting cycling tours and Keeping a hiking journal will help you further.

In short

Anyone who does several sports doesn't need several apps - just a journal that takes them all in. The payoff: an overall total across every activity, comparable data, a single account. Look for free choice of sport, uniform fields and real data ownership. Then road, MTB, gravel, hiking and e-bike finally land in one place - instead of scattered across three apps.