# Prospector Mate — Bush Tracker & Old Diggings > Bush Tracker & Old Diggings (iPhone/iPad app by Goanna AI.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/prospector-mate/id6793482717 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Goanna AI](https://appshunter.io/developer/1896289115) - Category: Navigation, Travel - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 16.4 · 38 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-10-22 - Data updated: 2026-11-01 ## What is Prospector Mate? Prospector Mate is an offline map for gold prospectors. Track where you walk, mark every find with a photo, read the ground with historical gold records, geology, land access and 1-metre Bare Ground LiDAR, and at the end of the day let the arrow point you straight back to where you parked. It all works with no mobile reception, and your data stays on your phone. KNOW EXACTLY WHERE YOU HAVE BEEN • Record an outing: your route, distance and time, with the screen off and the phone in your pocket. • Mark finds with a photo, weight, depth and the detector and coil you used. • Mark waypoints and navigate to them. Return to start points you back to your vehicle or camp with an arrow and a distance. • Load earlier outings onto the map, several at once, and replay a day. READ THE GROUND • Historical Gold: recorded gold workings and what they produced. • Former Mining Features: shafts, adits, mullock heaps and alluvial workings. • Geology, Gold Hosting Ground and Gold Geochemistry. • Land Use & Access: public land coloured by whether you can prospect it. • Mining Tenements, refreshed daily, with search by number or holder. • Rivers & Creeks, Live Fires and Burnt Ground, Magnetics and Radiometrics. • Historical Sites: heritage places on the goldfields, with their stories. BARE GROUND LIDAR A 1-metre laser survey with the vegetation stripped out. Under tree cover that hides everything from the air, a costean looks like a costean and a line of shafts looks like a line of shafts. Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT and Tasmania are included with the Prospector Subscription and download for offline use like any other layer. The free LiDAR Coverage layer shows exactly where 1-metre coverage exists. WORKS WITHOUT RECEPTION Download any area, with every layer you choose, while you have signal. Once it is on the phone the app asks for nothing. Position comes from the phone's own GPS, so tracking never needed a connection in the first place. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS There is no sign-up. Outings, tracks, finds, photos and waypoints are stored on your phone and, if you switch on Backup, in your own iCloud Drive. They are never uploaded to us. No analytics, no ads, no trackers. Export a day as a .pmate file, PDF, CSV, GPX or KML, or share it with a mate. Lock an export with a code and nobody can open it without the code, including us. ON YOUR WRIST Wear an Apple Watch and the way back to your start shows on the watch, with your distance and time, then a summary when you stop. The phone can stay in your pocket. THE WEB MAP VIEWER Open a .pmate on a big screen at prospectormate.com. The file is read in your browser and never uploaded. The Web Map Viewer is included with the Prospector Subscription. FREE, OR SUBSCRIBE The free version has the topographic, street and satellite maps in 3D, search, the return-to-start arrow, LiDAR Coverage and everything you have recorded. The Prospector Subscription unlocks recording, finds, waypoints, every map layer, LiDAR relief, offline downloads, weather and the gold price. Cancel or lapse and every outing, photo and waypoint stays readable on your phone. Australian data from state and federal open-data programs, credited in the app. Built for the bush by prospectors. Terms of Use: https://prospectormate.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://prospectormate.com/privacy ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Prospector Subscription - Monthly | $5.99 | per month | | Prospector Subscription - Yearly | $44.99 | per year | ## Is Prospector Mate safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Prospector Mate. ## Is Prospector Mate legit? Prospector Mate appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Prospector Mate is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 2.0.8 (36) — 2026-10-31 Scan a point from the Map Viewer or Desktop app, with the mobile app, and the map flies there and pins it, with an offer to switch state if the point is in another one. ### 2.0.7 (35) — 2026-10-29 Place search: find gullies, creeks, hills, national and state parks, state forests, landmarks and goldfields, as well as towns. Prospector Subscribers can also search recorded gold sites. Switch state?: when the map is over a different state from the one you picked, a card offers to switch, so that state's layers appear. WA Tenement Alerts is now at the top of Tools, and Show on map takes you to the tenement from any state. New icons in Map layers for Mining Tenements, Old Tenements, Pastoral Stations, Drill Holes, Gold Hosting Ground and Rock Types. Every icon is the same size, and a layer's icon stays gold while it is on. Cards now have a gold outline, so they stand out from the dark background. Every layer in the How-to and FAQ now shows its icon. ### 2.0.6 (34) — 2026-10-29 • New in Menu › Tools: WA Tenement Alerts. Watch a tenement by its number, a holder by name, or an area you draw, and get an alert for a new application, a grant, a change of holder, or a tenement that is surrendered, forfeited or expires. Part of the Prospector Subscription. • An alert 30, 7 and 1 day before a watched tenement's term ends. • Same-day alerts from the department's Mining Notices, as well as the overnight register. • Alerts arrive as a notification even when the app is closed, and every alert has Show on map. • Watch for alerts from any tenement's info card on the map. • Hide coordinates is remembered: once hidden, they stay hidden until you pick Show coordinates. • Apple Watch: while waiting for an outing the watch shows a simple waiting screen, and Done closes the app to the watch face. • Rock Types names are pale yellow, so they no longer clash with town names. ### 2.0.5 (33) — 2026-10-26 What's New 2.0.4: - WA Geology by rock type, with rock names from zoom 11 and the tap card. - The 1:100k and 1:500k bedrock maps. - Old Tenements (422,608). - Drill Holes (2,530,594). ### 2.0.3 (30) — 2026-10-25 Gold Geochemistry arrives in Queensland and Western Australia, and Victoria's grows from 25,547 to 112,413 samples: • Queensland - 908,746 soil, stream sediment and rock chip samples, each with its gold result. • Western Australia - 5,313,996 soil, rock chip and stream sediment samples, each with its gold result. • Zoomed in, samples over 100 ppb show their gold figure beside the dot, the highest result draws on top, and dots are easier to tap. Also in this version: • The map tour and How-to now cover Routes, Areas and Measure. • The Waypoint sheet says how far the spot under the crosshair is from your current position. • Fixed: the Routes and Areas tabs each show their own list again. • Garmin watches: Settings › Garmin watch links to the Prospector Mate app on the Connect IQ Store. • iPad: the map tour points at the tabs at the top of the screen. • What's New now arrives as soon as there is something to tell you, without waiting for an app update. ## More apps by Goanna AI - [ExpoLinkUp](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/expolinkup/id6766436005) - [Safe to Operate](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/safe-to-operate/id6775098850) All apps by Goanna AI: https://appshunter.io/developer/1896289115 ## Related topics [australian geology travel maps](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/australian-geology-travel-maps) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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