GPS Essentials is a travel & local app developed by Lemachi.
Download Statistics
GPS Essentials has been downloaded 8.1 million times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 260 times. It is ranked in the top 100 travel & local apps.
User Ratings
GPS Essentials is rated 3.57 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 43 thousand ratings.
App Information
GPS Essentials is FREE to download. The APK download size is 21.03 MB. The latest version available is 4.5.30. The last update was on February 23, 2025.
Technical Requirements
GPS Essentials requires Android 5.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play before 2010.
Description
The most complete GPS tool available: Navigate, manage waypoints, tracks, routes, build your own dashboard from 45 widgets.
❧❧❧❧❧ 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
Recent changes: Fixes crash when rotating satellite view
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Oldest and best for tracking multi day hikes, uses the least power, great map options and rendering
★★★★★Khalid Geology· Feb 12, 2024
Please how to recovery data, from the waypoint?
★★★★☆Jan Egil Kristiansen· Oct 31, 2023
When I share a point (e.g. geo:62,-7) with GPS essentials, that point is displayed on a map. But below that map, I still see my own position, my own sunrise time etc. I suppose it would be more interesting to see data for the shared point.
★★★★☆Kris Buelens· May 5, 2024
The exported GPX tracks are not OK any more (V4.5.20). But the fix is easy Simply change <rte pt into <trkpt and change </rte pt into </trkpt After that, all is well again. (as an old IBM mainframe specialist, I created a REX 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*)
★★☆☆☆John Bernal· Mar 24, 2024
Something broke in the last update, GPX exported files can no longer be readable on external GPX tools, seems to be related to XLM formatting. The exported track points (trkpt) are exported as route points (rte pt) breaking compatibility
★☆☆☆☆Patrick Kozlowski· May 7, 2025
Doesn't seem to work on s24. Tracks won't track, satellites won't track unless on the satellite screen. Used it for years but new phone and latest updates make it worthless.
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