# GPS & Maps: Location Tracker

> Find Coordinates, Compass, POI

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id477998011](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id477998011)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id477998011`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Kraus und Karnath GbR 2Kit Consulting
- **Category:** Navigation
- **Rating:** 4.40 / 5 (2,258 ratings)
- **Version:** 4.3
- **Last updated:** 2025-08-07
- **First published:** 2011-11-23
- **Size:** 32 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-16
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gps-maps-location-tracker/id477998011)
- **Website:** [https://gpsmaps.app](https://gpsmaps.app/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://gpsmaps.app/privacy](https://gpsmaps.app/privacy)

## Description

**GPS & Maps: Location Tracker** is a simple yet powerful GPS app designed for navigation and outdoor activities such as geocaching, sailing, trekking, biking, and travel. It measures your position, altitude, and acceleration, provides accuracy data, and supports multiple units (feet, meters, miles, kilometers). You can view and save your current position or any waypoint on a map and switch between coordinate formats, including Lat/Long, Decimal Degrees, DMS, UTM, and MGRS.

The app offers a Premium Edition via in-app purchases that unlock Waypoints, Map Widgets, Compass, Open Street Map, Google Maps, and iCloud Backup & Restore. A flashlight helps in dark environments, and the compass can display heading and location details when the device has a magnetometer. Accuracy depends on GPS signal strength, but this extension is ideal for geocachers and outdoor explorers.

## Rankings

- #39,252 — Overall

## Review summary

Users consistently praise GPS & Maps for accurate, reliable location information, easy-to-use controls, and offline operation. The app supports practical features like waypoint creation and sharing, plus detailed location data. However, recurring concerns center on intrusive ads and paid upgrades, waypoint locking bugs, inability to input external coordinates, occasional distance accuracy drift, and some platform UI issues (e.g., iPad full-screen display and unit-switching quirks). Improvements in waypoint stability, coordinate input, and a balanced monetization model would address the main drawbacks while preserving the strengths.

### Pros

- Accurate and reliable location/navigation.
- Easy to use with a clear interface and minimal clutter.
- Offline functionality that works without internet.
- Waypoint creation, management, and sharing for fieldwork.
- Useful features like sharing your current location and detailed app information.

### Cons

- Intrusive ads and paid upgrades that lock features behind a paywall.
- Waypoints can fail to stay locked and may revert, making navigation unreliable.
- Inability to input external grid coordinates or navigate to coordinates provided by others.
- Reported distance/accuracy drift and occasional inconsistency in measurements.
- Issues with UI/display on iPad (not full screen) and unit-switching quirks.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id477998011)