# GPX Vault > GPX Vault (iPhone/iPad app by Richard Soukeroff.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gpx-vault/id6792143232 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Richard Soukeroff](https://appshunter.io/developer/6792142488) - Category: Navigation - Price: Free - Age rating: 12+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 17 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-07-30 - Data updated: 2026-10-31 ## What is GPX Vault? GPX Vault is a GPS track recorder and waypoint manager for hiking, biking, and any trip where you want a record of your route. Recording works fully offline, with no account required. Download map areas in advance to browse them offline too. RECORDING • Live stats banner shows distance, elevation, and speed while you record • Save recordings as local GPX files with configurable auto naming, including date pattern formats and UTC or locale options • Continue a saved track later, right where you left off • Tap a track on the map for an instant summary: distance, duration, elevation gain • Live Activity and Dynamic Island show recording status on the Lock Screen CREW TRACKING • Ride with your crew: every rider's live position and name on your map, with no cell service needed • Works over a small Meshtastic LoRa radio paired to your phone (radio sold separately) • Send short messages and shared waypoints to the whole crew straight from the map • Emergency beacon alerts the whole crew when a rider needs help • Fit Crew mode keeps the whole crew on screen while you ride WAYPOINTS • Drop waypoints with a button, a long press, or automatic drops as you move • Name, edit, delete, or drag any waypoint to move it • Tap a waypoint for a live distance readout from your current position MAPS • Choose OpenStreetMap, OpenTopoMap, OpenSeaMap, or Esri World Imagery, with OpenTopoMap as the default • Download offline map areas (OpenStreetMap, OpenTopoMap, OpenSeaMap) for use without a connection, with background downloads and retry for failed tiles • Check tile cache size and clear it any time • Locate button cycles Follow Me, Off, and Fit Crew; Follow Me auto resumes after a pause • Landscape layout with your stats down the sides, plus a Lock Landscape setting for bar-mounted phones • Direction of travel arrows, scale bar toggle, keep screen on toggle, imperial and metric units • Activity type picker (Automatic, Automotive navigation, Fitness, Other navigation, Flight) tunes GPS accuracy • Pick a custom folder for your GPX files VAULT (OPTIONAL, SIGN IN REQUIRED) • Cloud folders and nested subfolders for tracks and waypoints, plus a Trash you can restore from • Upload local GPX files to Vault, download Vault items back to your device • Rename, move between folders, edit description, or move items to Trash • Show on map toggle for tracks, waypoints, and folders, synced with the GPX Vault web app • Publish a track or waypoint to Open Tracks to share it site wide, or browse and copy what others have published • Open Tracks overlay shows published tracks and waypoints on your map • Delete your account any time from settings ## Is GPX Vault safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess GPX Vault. ## Is GPX Vault legit? GPX Vault has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for GPX Vault is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.3.0 — 2026-10-15 A new map. GPX Vault draws its own map now: sharper at every zoom, smoother when you pan, turn and follow, and it works sideways on the bars. Blank squares fill in by themselves when your signal comes back. Land access for BC. Turn on parks and protected areas, Crown land, tenures, reserves, property parcels, rec sites and trails over any base map, and tap open ground to see what it is. Saved offline areas now carry every zoom level and your land-access layers, so they work with no signal. Crews. The emergency alert stays on your crew's screens until the sender clears it. Crew screens say exactly what is being sent and to whom, and a position older than 30 seconds is never shown as current. A radio rider your phone hears but who is not sharing a position now shows as "Heard · not sharing position". The Lock Screen card goes away when you leave a crew, and says "Not running · open GPX Vault" when the app is not. Radio and temperatures. Engine and ambient temperatures from your radio work with no crew at all: pair the radio under Preferences › Radio and switch the readings on. Power Off and Forget are on the Radio screen. Recording and recovery. A ride interrupted by a crash or a swipe-away comes back in order, with no false line across it. Continue Track reopens your last track, and Continue Track followed by Finish uploads one ride, not two. Drop Waypoint works from the Lock Screen even when the app is closed. Navigating to a saved waypoint carries on after you finish a ride. Uploads. The Library tells you when a file is already in GPX Vault and says "Preparing…" while a big file is read. A track too large for the server (over 20 MB) or a full vault is told plainly instead of retried forever; if the folder you chose was deleted meanwhile, the items go to Unfiled and the app says so. Diagnostics. Preferences › Diagnostics › Share Diagnostics gives you a file to send us when something goes wrong: a week of app states, no locations and no names. Also: one direction arrow every 300 m along tracks; a credits page behind the (i) button; tiles that failed once load again by themselves; the app tells you when an update is required. ### 1.2.4 — 2026-10-05 UI enhancements and stability fixes. ### 1.2.3 — 2026-10-01 Bug fixes. ### 1.2.2 — 2026-09-28 Fixes a crash that could occur when the app was relaunched in the background after a device restart, which could interrupt an in-progress recording. Also includes reliability improvements for offline use. ### 1.2.1 — 2026-09-23 New: set a default activity type in Preferences so Save As starts pre-selected on it every time. Save As also now works the very first time you use it, even offline. Plus reliability fixes and small bug fixes. ## Apps similar to GPX Vault | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Dirtmo: Dirt Bike Trail Maps](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dirtmo-dirt-bike-trail-maps/id6816814906) | — | Free | Navigation | | [TMA Mobile](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tma-mobile/id6499103910) | — | Free | Navigation | | [Route Recorder GPS Tracker](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/route-recorder-gps-tracker/id1563676652) | 4.7 (43) | Free | Navigation | | [BRMB Maps by Backroad Maps](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/brmb-maps-by-backroad-maps/id1528015531) | 4.2 (27) | Free | Navigation | --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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