Lightning GPS vs Amcrest GPS Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lightning GPS
Monitor the real-time location and status of your tracking units from anywhere. View vehicle states, track movement, and access historical event data. Receive and manage notifications, share locations, and send commands through a user-friendly interface.
- Real-time unit location tracking
- Vehicle state monitoring
- Event timeline viewing
- Notification management
- Location sharing via links
- Command sending
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Track your Lightning GPS units from virtually anywhere in the world. The application from Lightning developers offers basic functionality in a user-friendly mobile interface. - Unit list management. Get all the necessary information on Vehicle state(Moving,idle Ignition), data actuality and unit location in real time. - Tracking will allow you to monitor location for your tracking units. - View the "Timeline” of events to see data from the tracker's available sensor data. - Receive and view notifications and manage notifications in the app. - Create links and share unit locations using the Locator function. - Send Commands. . - Suitability for smartphones and tablets.
Amcrest GPS Pro
Monitor and manage GPS trackers from your mobile device. Get real-time location updates, receive custom alerts for events like geofence breaches or low battery, and review historical tracking data. This platform offers comprehensive control over your tracking devices.
- Manage GPS trackers
- Real-time tracking
- Push, email, and text notifications
- Detailed history and reports
- Geofencing and no-go zones
- Low battery, SOS, and speed alerts
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Amcrest GPS is the mobile version of the Amcrest GPS Tracking platform. - Manage all of your trackers using the mobile app. - Track in real-time. - Receive notifications via push notification, email, and text message. - View detailed history, reports, and device information. - Set geofenced areas, as well as no-go zones. - Receive alerts on low battery, SOS, Speed limit exceed.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Amcrest GPS Pro at 4.6 against Lightning GPS's 3.3. Amcrest GPS Pro also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (158 vs 21). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Amcrest GPS Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Amcrest GPS Pro has 158 ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 38% of Lightning GPS's written reviews are positive against 36% of Amcrest GPS Pro's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Lightning GPS ships an update every 7 months, Amcrest GPS Pro fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lightning GPS | Amcrest GPS Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (21 ratings) | 4.6 (158 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.5% of reviews — better | 36.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 21 | 158 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 115 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BrickHouse Electronics LLC | Amcrest |
Customer experience
Lightning GPS
Amcrest GPS Pro
In-app purchases
Lightning GPS
No in-app purchases
Amcrest GPS Pro
No in-app purchases
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