Comparison

GPS vs TargetNavigator

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

GPS

This app provides detailed location data including speed, altitude, and coordinates. It offers various map views and tracks your journey statistics. Customize settings for units, display, and background operation.

Highlights
  • Current heading, course, speed, coordinates, altitude
  • Street, topographic, and satellite maps
  • Cached maps for offline viewing
  • Trace statistics (time, distance, altitude, speed)
  • Customizable coordinate and unit formats
  • Background tracing and automatic pausing
Features
Currently charting
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"GPS" gives you access to your iPhone's GPS functionality and more. The simple display shows your current: - Heading (where a compass is available). - Course - Speed or Speed Average - Coordinates - Altitude Street and Topographic maps are available along with aerial or satellite photos. Once viewed maps will also be held cached for a day. And trace statistics including: - Time and Distance - Minimum and Maximum Altitude - Average and Maximum speed. Via the settings you can: - Choose between Latitude & Longitude formats and UTM coordinates. - Choose between meters or feet and formats. - Choosing Speed or Average Speed. - Keep your iPhone awake. - Trace while GPS is in the background. - Automatically pause when you stop. - Shutdown when the battery started getting low. more features are on the way... www.onwhat.net/gps

About

TargetNavigator

Navigate to your chosen destination using a simple compass and bearing. This app provides real-time location data, weather, and celestial information. It also allows for saving custom locations, recording tracks, and exporting them as GPX files.

Highlights
  • Simple compass with bearing navigation
  • Real-time location, altitude, and speed
  • Target location weather and celestial data
  • Save and restore custom locations
  • Record and export tracks as GPX
  • Night mode and customizable display
  • Open Apple Maps for directions
Features
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TargetNavigator - Simple Compass - Use bearing to find your way to selected target location - Comes with night mode - Shows the current location, altitude, speed and slope angle indicator - Shows the target location, weather, temperature, air pressure, sunrise and sunset - Shows either metric or imperial units - Will store last target location and reload after new start, so you don't need to let it run but could also stop and re-run later - Tap on target location will center map on target location - Double tap on target location to enter target location coordinates manually - Tap on current location will center map on current location - Store custom locations on iCloud - Restore target locations from saved locations - Long press button to save current location as target location - Long press button to reverse geocode the current location (street address, zip, city, country, iso code, timezone, daylight saving and latitude, longitude) - Reverse geocoded address will be copied to clipboard so that one can paste it in another document, mail, message, etc. - Open Apple Maps to get directions to target location - Search for locations and move map to selected location - Show estimated time to target location when walking or taking the car - Show the the current position of the sun - Show sunrise and sunset time for current location or overlay the hours of the day (0-23) with their current locations - Visualize angle range of daylight, show blue and golden hours - Show current moon location - Save photos that contain the coordinates, date, time and direction of view - Record a track - Export a recorded track as GPX file - Import a formerly recorded track from the GPX file - Show track on map - Show information like distance, top speed and elevation for track - Show speed/distance diagram of track - Get information about sunrise/sunset, blue hours, golden hours and moon rise/set for the current location - Has live activity that shows current distance of recorded track and time, during recording - Indicate gps signal strength - Dim night mode to your needs - Choose a simple indicator if needed

Screenshots

GPS2 screens
TargetNavigator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: TargetNavigator at Free against GPS's $0.99. TargetNavigator also leads on rating (4.0 vs 2.4) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 11 months). GPS's advantage is chart position (#197 vs unranked) and ratings volume (7 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

TargetNavigator is free to download; GPS costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

TargetNavigator holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GPS has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GPS ships an update every 11 months, TargetNavigator fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
GPS versus TargetNavigator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGPSTargetNavigator
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating2.4 (7 ratings)4.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews25.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 11 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#197 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVoid Stop Pty LtdGerrit Grunwald

Customer experience

GPS

All ratings7 ratings
Positive28.6%
Neutral14.3%
Negative57.1%
Written reviews78 reviews
Positive25.6%
Neutral9.0%
Negative65.4%

TargetNavigator

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

GPS

No in-app purchases

None

TargetNavigator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GPS free?
GPS costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is TargetNavigator free?
TargetNavigator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, GPS or TargetNavigator?
TargetNavigator is rated higher. GPS averages 2.4 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while TargetNavigator averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do GPS or TargetNavigator have ads?
Neither GPS nor TargetNavigator shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GPS or TargetNavigator?
GPS ships an update every 11 months, and TargetNavigator fortnightly. Most recently, GPS was updated on September 26, 2026 and TargetNavigator on September 10, 2026.

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