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EstablishedLoved by users- Rating on Google Play
- 4.61
- 2,938 ratings
- Installs
- 630 thousand
- Last updated
- May 4, 2026
- Ads
- No ads
- Size
- 5.20 MB
GPS Logger has 630 thousand installs. Users love it: 4.6 stars from 2,938 ratings.
User feedback
Ratings and reviews on Google PlayComments on GPS Logger for Android
★★★★★
ゲイル
· Mar 1, 2025
Very light on battery usage. Should the phone shut down for some reason during recording, the track is neither lost nor closed, and the recording of the track can be resumed.
★★★★★
J TN
· Jul 16, 2025
Very nice app for logging points and tracks without overcomplicating things. But it would be very useful if it would be possible to show and record coordinates as UTM.
★★★★★
Robert W. Reiter, Jr.
· Aug 15, 2024
I use this app on my Android smartphone to create GPS track data from which to Georgia photos taken on my non-GPS-enabled camera. Works great (as long as I remember to start recording before shooting pictures/videos!) Really wish the app had a selectable "automatic daily track recording" mode, in which it would automatically start a new track each day at midnight (and close the previous day's track), day after day, without having to manually close and start tracks each day.
★☆☆☆☆
The Silk Road
· May 23, 2026
It's a good GPS logger that just works and which takes very little battery. It has always worked well, but recently it stops recording unexpectedly. I've gone over all the settings and the recommendations, but it keeps stopping. It seems to be an issue with the app.
★★☆☆☆
Yu-Chiuan Bau
· Dec 19, 2025
The app will repeat searching instead of acquiring suboptimal data if the signal strength was marginal. This is a severe issue when fast moving, such as in a car. While google map or other map apps can give you a rough location estimation, you won't be able to get the signal back with GPS logger anymore.
Google Play Rating history and histogram
Store listing
By BasicAirData, from Google Play“A simple and lightweight app for recording your position and your path”
Screenshots by BasicAirData, from the Google Play listing
Description by BasicAirData Written by the developer, not by AppBrain. Click to read.
BasicAirData GPS Logger is a simple App for recording your position and your path.
It's a basic and lightweight GPS tracker focused on accuracy, with an eye to power saving.
It works offline (without internet connection), it has NO integrated maps.
This app is very accurate in determining the orthometric height (the altitude above sea level), if you enable the automatic altitude correction on settings.
You can record all your trips, view them with any installed external viewer, directly from the in-app tracklist, and share them in KML, GPX, and TXT format in many ways.
The app is 100% Free and Open Source.
GETTING STARTED GUIDE:
https://www.basicairdata.eu/projects/android/android-gps-logger/getting-started-guide-for-gps-logger/
IT FEATURES:
- A modern UI, with a low consumption dark theme and a tabbed interface
- Offline recording (the app has no integrated maps)
- Foreground & Background Recording (On Android 6+ please turn off all battery monitoring and optimizations for this app)
- Creation of annotations also meanwhile recording
- Visualization of GPS information
- Manual Altitude Correction (adding an overall offset)
- Automatic Altitude Correction (you can enable it on Settings). If your device doesn't have Internet access, you can enable this feature manually by following this simple tutorial: https://www.basicairdata.eu/projects/android/android-gps-logger/application-note-gpslogger/manual-setup-of-the-egm-altitude-correction-for-basic-air-data-gps-logger/
- Real time track statistics
- In-app tracklist showing the list of recorded tracks
- Visualization of your tracks using any installed KML/GPX viewer, directly from the Tracklist
- Track exportation in KML, GPX, and TXT
- Track sharing, in KML, GPX, and TXT format, via E-mail, Dropbox, Google Drive, FTP, ...
- Uses Metric, Imperial, or Nautical units
USE IT TO:
☆ Keep track of your trips
☆ Make accurate static and dynamic measurements
☆ Add your placemarks
☆ Remember the best places you've seen
☆ GeoTag your photos
☆ Share your tracks with your friends
☆ Collaborate to OpenStreetMap map editing
LANGUAGES:
The translation of this app is based on users contribution. Everyone can freely help in translations using Crowdin (https://crowdin.com/project/gpslogger).
F.A.Q:
In case of any issue, you may find it helpful to read the frequently asked questions (https://github.com/BasicAirData/GPSLogger/blob/master/readme.md#frequently-asked-questions).
IMPORTANT NOTES:
In GPS Logger the Location is always accessed (started) when the App is in Foreground, and then is kept active also in background. On Android 10+ the app needs the Location permission "only while using the app". It doesn't need the "all the time" permission.
Depending on your Android Version, if you want to run GPS Logger reliably in background, you have to disable ALL the battery optimisations. For example you could verify in Android Settings, Apps, GPS Logger, Battery that the Background Activity is allowed and the Battery Usage is Not Optimised.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
- Copyright © 2016-2022 BasicAirData - https://www.basicairdata.eu
- For additional information please see https://www.basicairdata.eu/projects/android/android-gps-logger/
- This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. See the GNU General Public License for more details: https://www.gnu.org/licenses.
- You can view and download the source code of this app on GitHub: https://github.com/BasicAirData/GPSLogger
- When The Automatic Correction is enabled for the first time into the Setting Screen, the file of the geoid heights is downloaded from the OSGeo.org website. (File size: 2 MB). Once downloaded, no further internet connection is required to use it.
Recent changes:
• Added the ability to backup/restore the tracklist as zip file. You can use a local folder or your cloud service
• You can pin some quick descriptions to the Annotate dialog. Click a pinned item to set it as description, long click to add it to the current text
• The tooltip of the export icon now shows which formats are exported/shared
• In TXT files the timestamps are now saved in fixed format, with milliseconds
• Added danish language
• Upgraded to API 35
• UI refinements and bugs fixed
It's a basic and lightweight GPS tracker focused on accuracy, with an eye to power saving.
It works offline (without internet connection), it has NO integrated maps.
This app is very accurate in determining the orthometric height (the altitude above sea level), if you enable the automatic altitude correction on settings.
You can record all your trips, view them with any installed external viewer, directly from the in-app tracklist, and share them in KML, GPX, and TXT format in many ways.
The app is 100% Free and Open Source.
GETTING STARTED GUIDE:
https://www.basicairdata.eu/projects/android/android-gps-logger/getting-started-guide-for-gps-logger/
IT FEATURES:
- A modern UI, with a low consumption dark theme and a tabbed interface
- Offline recording (the app has no integrated maps)
- Foreground & Background Recording (On Android 6+ please turn off all battery monitoring and optimizations for this app)
- Creation of annotations also meanwhile recording
- Visualization of GPS information
- Manual Altitude Correction (adding an overall offset)
- Automatic Altitude Correction (you can enable it on Settings). If your device doesn't have Internet access, you can enable this feature manually by following this simple tutorial: https://www.basicairdata.eu/projects/android/android-gps-logger/application-note-gpslogger/manual-setup-of-the-egm-altitude-correction-for-basic-air-data-gps-logger/
- Real time track statistics
- In-app tracklist showing the list of recorded tracks
- Visualization of your tracks using any installed KML/GPX viewer, directly from the Tracklist
- Track exportation in KML, GPX, and TXT
- Track sharing, in KML, GPX, and TXT format, via E-mail, Dropbox, Google Drive, FTP, ...
- Uses Metric, Imperial, or Nautical units
USE IT TO:
☆ Keep track of your trips
☆ Make accurate static and dynamic measurements
☆ Add your placemarks
☆ Remember the best places you've seen
☆ GeoTag your photos
☆ Share your tracks with your friends
☆ Collaborate to OpenStreetMap map editing
LANGUAGES:
The translation of this app is based on users contribution. Everyone can freely help in translations using Crowdin (https://crowdin.com/project/gpslogger).
F.A.Q:
In case of any issue, you may find it helpful to read the frequently asked questions (https://github.com/BasicAirData/GPSLogger/blob/master/readme.md#frequently-asked-questions).
IMPORTANT NOTES:
In GPS Logger the Location is always accessed (started) when the App is in Foreground, and then is kept active also in background. On Android 10+ the app needs the Location permission "only while using the app". It doesn't need the "all the time" permission.
Depending on your Android Version, if you want to run GPS Logger reliably in background, you have to disable ALL the battery optimisations. For example you could verify in Android Settings, Apps, GPS Logger, Battery that the Background Activity is allowed and the Battery Usage is Not Optimised.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
- Copyright © 2016-2022 BasicAirData - https://www.basicairdata.eu
- For additional information please see https://www.basicairdata.eu/projects/android/android-gps-logger/
- This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. See the GNU General Public License for more details: https://www.gnu.org/licenses.
- You can view and download the source code of this app on GitHub: https://github.com/BasicAirData/GPSLogger
- When The Automatic Correction is enabled for the first time into the Setting Screen, the file of the geoid heights is downloaded from the OSGeo.org website. (File size: 2 MB). Once downloaded, no further internet connection is required to use it.
Recent changes:
• Added the ability to backup/restore the tracklist as zip file. You can use a local folder or your cloud service
• You can pin some quick descriptions to the Annotate dialog. Click a pinned item to set it as description, long click to add it to the current text
• The tooltip of the export icon now shows which formats are exported/shared
• In TXT files the timestamps are now saved in fixed format, with milliseconds
• Added danish language
• Upgraded to API 35
• UI refinements and bugs fixed
Safety and technology
Found in the app by AppBrain- Ads
- No ads
- Price
- Free
- Libraries
- 31
- App size
- 5.20 MB
- Needs Android
- 4.0+
- Content rating
- Everyone
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Releases
Updates seen on Google Play- Version
- 3.3.0
- Launched
- October 2014
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Installs
Tracked by AppBrain- Last 30 days
- 8 thousand
- Per day
- 270
- 30-day average
- Play install range
- 500+ thousand
- Launched
- October 2014
Installs over time
GPS Logger has been installed 630 thousand times. Over the past 30 days, it averaged 270 installs per day.
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About the app and developer
About GPS Logger
GPS Logger is a travel & local app developed by BasicAirData.
Install Statistics
GPS Logger has been installed 630 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was installed 8 thousand times.
User Ratings
GPS Logger is rated 4.61 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 2.9 thousand ratings.
App Information
GPS Logger is freely available from Google Play. The app size is 5.20 MB. The latest version available is 3.3.0. The last update was on May 4, 2026.
Technical Requirements
GPS Logger requires Android 4.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play since October 2014.
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