GPS Essentials vVARY
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Developer Description
The Swiss army knife of GPS navigation!
❧❧❧❧❧ Dashboard ❧❧❧❧❧
Shows navigation values such as: Accuracy, Altitude, Speed, Battery, Bearing, Climb, Course, Date, Declination, Distance, ETA, Latitude, Longitude, Max Speed, Min Speed, Actual Speed, True Speed, Sunrise, Sunset, Moonset, Moonrise, Moon Phase, Target, Time, TTG, Turn.
❧❧❧❧❧ Compass ❧❧❧❧❧
Show the orientation of the earth's magnetic field, shows an arbitrary tracking angle and the current target. Also a marine orienteering compass.
❧❧❧❧❧ Tracks ❧❧❧❧❧
Record tracks and view them on map. Export KML files and import into Google Maps, Google Earth and others.
❧❧❧❧❧ Routes ❧❧❧❧❧
Manage routes and view them on map. Import KML files from Google Maps, Google Earth and others. Create turn-by-turn instructions between waypoints.
❧❧❧❧❧ Camera ❧❧❧❧❧
A camera HUD (heads-up display) view to show your waypoints, take pictures and share them.
❧❧❧❧❧ Map ❧❧❧❧❧
A map to show your waypoints. Convert mail addresses of your contacts to waypoint so that they can be used within the app.
Supports Google Maps, MapQuest, OpenStreetMap and others.
Supports Google Maps v2: Indoor Maps, Traffic, Buildings, Satellite and Terrain layers and map rotation.
❧❧❧❧❧ Waypoints ❧❧❧❧❧
A list of all your waypoints with export and import (KML, KMZ, GPX and LOC format).
❧❧❧❧❧ Satellites ❧❧❧❧❧
A sky view of the current positions that shows satellites in view.
❧❧❧❧❧ Features ❧❧❧❧❧
Supported position formats: UTM, MGRS, OSGB, Degree-Minute-Second, Degree-Minute-Fractions, Decimal, Mils. Supports over 230 datums.
Waypoints, routes and tracks can be exported as KML or GPX files and sent by email or uploaded to Google Docs or DropBox.
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Purchase the "GPS Essentials Donation Plugin" on Android Market if you want to support development.
The latest beta release is available on the Google Play Beta channel. Try out the latest features and help us improve GPS Essentials!
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WHAT ARE THE PERMISSIONS GOOD FOR?
✓ Coarse/Fine/Background location: To access network locations and GPS
✓ Full internet access: To read map tiles, send bug reports
✓ Modify/delete USB storage contents: To write waypoints, tracks and images onto the SD card
✓ Read phone state and identity: To tag pictures with the device ID (can be switched off in settings)
✓ Take pictures and videos: Camera HUD, take pictures
✓ Your accounts: Required to run Google Maps v2
What's New
In-app purchases
$5.49 - $10.99 per item
Version Information
- Version
- -
- Downloads
- 5M+
- Updated on
- Feb 24, 2025
- Released
- Jan 14, 2026
- Requires
- Android Varies with device
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#40 in Top Grossing Travel And Local in Philippines
#41 in Top Grossing Travel And Local in Indonesia
#58 in Top Grossing Travel And Local in Spain
GPS Essentials users say on Google Play
App is easy to configure. Lots of options. Highly recommend to anyone who walks, hikes, bikes, goes offroad, etc. Have happily used it for several years. Give it a try.
The exported GPX tracks are not OK anymore (V4.5.20). But the fix is easy Simply change <rtept into <trkpt and change </rtept into </trkpt After that, all is well again. (as an old IBM mainframe specialist, I created a REXX script to do these changes for me. If the script were in a more common language, I'd include it here) (without this bug, I'd give it 5*)
This has been such a good tool for recording where I've been. Seriously though to the developers.... What is required so can export a WHOLE ROUTE to a .gpx or .kml or anything!? It used to work. I miss it a lot! Otherwise would be 5 star
I just tried the "tracks" function for the first time in a couple years, but I see they never got around to fixing it. It just draws a single straight line between two points but doesn't actually record anything in between while you've got the screen of your phone turned off and your phone in your pocket. lol thanks
Disappointed. 90% of the time, it cannot locate satellites (even with location service permissions enabled). Other GPS tracker apps on my pho6have no problems finding satellites. A real shame, this was previously an amazing app, but is now unreliable