Batphone vs IndoorAtlas Positioning
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Batphone
This app uses your device's microphone to identify your location indoors by analyzing ambient room sounds. It offers an alternative to GPS and iBeacon, aiming for greater accuracy in indoor positioning.
- Acoustic indoor localization
- Room ambience analysis
- Alternative to GPS/iBeacon
- Compares with Location Services
- Research tool
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Batphone is a research tool which demonstrates a method determining your location within a building. It's meant to be an alternative to GPS or iBeacon, and it works by using the microphone to record room ambience. These acoustic room fingerprints are used to recognize previously-tagged rooms when they are revisited. For comparison, it also shows the position retrieved from Location Services, which determines your coordinates using radio signals from GPS satellites, wifi and cellular base stations. Our experiments have shown that Batphone's acoustic method is more accurate than the radio method. Try it for yourself and let us know what you think! Fore more details, please see the report titled "Indoor Localization without Infrastructure using the Acoustic Background Spectrum" which was presented at the 2011 MobiSys conference.
IndoorAtlas Positioning
This app allows for precise indoor location tracking using geomagnetic positioning technology. It supports seamless indoor-outdoor transitions and offers AR and 2D wayfinding. Ideal for testing venues mapped with the companion fingerprinting app.
- Geomagnetic indoor positioning
- Indoor-outdoor transitions
- AR and 2D wayfinding
- Geofence event detection
- API key credential entry
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INDOORATLAS - Positioning App IndoorAtlas provides a unique Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution that runs a disruptive geomagnetic positioning in its full-stack hybrid technology for accurately pinpointing a location inside a building. The IndoorAtlas SDK enables app developers to use high-accuracy indoor positioning in venues that have been fingerprinted. This IndoorAtlas Positioning App is for testing indoor positioning in venues that have been mapped with the IndoorAtlas MapCreator fingerprinting app. Features: • Positioning in world map mode (supporting indoor-outdoor transitions) • Positioning in indoor-only mode (for retail use cases) • AR wayfinding and 2D wayfinding • Shows Geofence enter and exit events • Possibility to enter credentials (API key & secret) manually or via a link Instructions: • Enter your positioning credentials either manually or by using a link • By default positioning will start in world map mode and floor plans will be shown once you enter their mapped regions • If you have specified a floorplan id, the positioning will start in indoor-only mode • TraceID is now available by clicking IndoorAtlas logo in the lower right corner. This will reveal the current context and copy the session traceID to the pasteboard
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Batphone at 67% against IndoorAtlas Positioning's 0%. Batphone also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.6). IndoorAtlas Positioning's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 19 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Batphone ships an update every 19 months, IndoorAtlas Positioning every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Batphone | IndoorAtlas Positioning |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 19 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stephen Tarzia | IndoorAtlas |
Customer experience
Batphone
IndoorAtlas Positioning
In-app purchases
Batphone
No in-app purchases
IndoorAtlas Positioning
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Batphone free?
Is IndoorAtlas Positioning free?
Do Batphone or IndoorAtlas Positioning have ads?
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