Handy GPS14.7 - App Store

The perfect companion for your next outdoor adventure. Seek, find, record and return home with Handy GPS.

This app is a real navigation tool designed for outdoors sports like hiking, bushwalking, mountain biking, kayaking and trail riding. It allows you to work in UTM or lat/lon coordinates.

Features:

* View your current location in UTM or Lat/Lon formats.
* Record and/or manually enter waypoints in UTM, Lat/Lon, or MGRS.
* Goto a waypoint, with optional audio proximity alarm and spoken directions.
* Record a track log.
* Show your current location, waypoints and tracklogs on a map.
* Export waypoints and tracklogs to a KML file for viewing in Google Earth, or to a GPX file.
* Export waypoints to a comma delimited (CSV) text file.
* Import KML or GPX files and view in the app.
* Email your current location to a friend.
* Odometer to keep track of how far you've gone.
* Magnetic compass.
* Elevation profile.
* Compute sun and moon rise and set times.
* Supports both metric and US/imperial units.
* Supports datums WGS84, GDA94, AGD66 and AGD84. (Use WGS84 for NAD83)
* Allows entry of parameters for a custom datum (e.g. ED50, SAD69, OSGB36, GDA2020 etc), as well as supporting affine parameters for local grid systems.
* Can display your location a normal grid ref, an MGRS grid ref (WGS84 datum only), or as a UK Ordinance Survey (OS) grid ref.
* Can download offline map tiles for use where there is no cellular coverage.
* Can import pre-prepared state or country-level base maps from a zip file.
* Optional walk timer.
* Email your current waypoints and tracklogs as a KML file.
* Take photos from within the app to be stored with the current session.

Disclaimer: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. To save battery power you can close the app from the task manager. The developer accepts no responsibility for you getting lost while using this app.

Version History Updated for iOS 27 14.7 Aug 26 Show a warning when opening the map page if more than 5000 track log points loaded. 14.6 Jul 11 Start spoken distances 5 km (3 miles) from goto target. 14.5 Apr 24 When the "Show extra decimal places" option is selected, show Easting, Northing, and Altitude with 2 decimal places, and further increase the decimal precision of the lat/lon formats. 14.4 Feb 15 Added a new "Email selected file" option to the main menu. 14.3 Feb 14 Fixed an issue with the track log not being reliably recorded when the screen is off. Cache offline maps tile list to make opening map page faster. 14.2 12/20/2025 Allow zooming in past maximum zoom level of offline maps. Changed default map zoom level. Changed default map tile server. 14.1 12/10/2025 Added an "Import map from zip" button on the Manage Offline Maps page. 14.0 12/08/2025 Updated to support iOS 26 12.8 09/20/2025 Show coordinate system in waypoint properties. 12.7 08/25/2025 Added new reference set options on map preferences page to: (1) Choose colour of reference set tracklogs; and (2) Show reference set tracklogs as polygons. 12.6 08/08/2025 Open map at last known location if no gps fix. Show current waypoint at top of waypoint list. 12.5 08/04/2025 Added an option to email the current data as a GeoJSON file. 12.4 05/19/2025 Bug fixes to sun and moon rise and set times feature. 12.3 04/08/2025 Fixed a bug with importing tracklogs from KML and GPX files from emails via the "Share" option. 12.2 02/23/2025 Added first light, last light, moon rise/set, and moon illumination to the sun rise/set info that is displayed. 12.1 02/09/2025 Added a stats button to the Elevation Profile page to show the minimum, maximum, and average slope. Improved page layouts on larger phone screens. 12.0 01/19/2025 Updated for iOS 18 11.5 12/15/2024 Fixed GDA2020 bugs. 11.4 06/18/2024 Fixed KML import issue 11.3 05/11/2024 When saving waypoints to a CSV file, include the description field. 11.2 05/08/2024 Vers 11.1: Added camera and flashlight buttons to main page. Re-organised main page menu. Show timer line by default. 11.1 01/17/2024 In order to clean up better, re-create the database when the "New session" button is pressed instead of just deleting the waypoints and tracklogs. 11.0 02/12/2023 Fixed bug with entering MGRS coordinates. 10.9 11/27/2022 Fixed bug with Goto page. 10.8 11/13/2022