LocHook vs Azimuth

LocHook is a background location utility that automatically sends your device's location to a REST endpoint of your choice whenever a significant location change is detected. Configure your endpoint URL, enable tracking, and LocHook handles the rest — capturing coordinates, altitude, speed, accuracy, and reverse-geocoded city, region, and country data, then POSTing it all as a structured JSON payload. Key features: - Background location tracking triggered by significant location changes - Sends location to any HTTP or HTTPS endpoint you configure - Payload includes timestamp, latitude, longitude, altitude, speed, accuracy, city, state/province, and country - Add unlimited custom static key/value fields to every payload - Automatic retry queue — failed transmissions are stored and retried until successful - Manual "Send Now" button to force an immediate location capture and transmission - Survives device reboots — tracking resumes automatically if it was enabled Built for developers, home automation enthusiasts, and anyone who needs reliable location webhooks without a proprietary platform. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/"

Azimuth sends your iPhone's location to your own HTTPS endpoint, on a schedule you control. If you've ever wanted your phone to quietly report where it is to a server you run — for a self-hosted dashboard, a home automation trigger, a custom logbook, or anything else — this is a small utility for that, and nothing else. No third-party servers, no analytics, no accounts. Your data goes from your phone straight to the URL you set. WHAT IT DOES • Posts your current location to your endpoint as a GeoJSON Feature • Runs on a schedule: every hour, every 6 hours, every 12 hours, daily at a chosen time, or weekly on a chosen day and time • Keeps working when your phone is locked or the app is in the background • Optionally includes battery level/state and current speed • Adds a stable per-install device ID so your server can tell devices apart • Supports Bearer token authentication (token stored in the iOS Keychain) • Recent tab shows the last 50 sends with HTTP status and any error message • Notifies you if a send fails, so you can fix your endpoint WHAT IT DOESN'T DO • No tracking, no advertising, no telemetry. The app talks to one host: yours. • No cloud account, nothing to sign up for. • No data leaves your phone except the request to your URL. PAYLOAD Each send is a single HTTPS POST with a JSON body containing a GeoJSON Feature. Properties include timestamp (ISO 8601), horizontal_accuracy, vertical_accuracy, altitude, device_id, and optionally speed, battery_level, and battery_state. WHY "ALWAYS" LOCATION? Azimuth needs the "Always" location permission so it can fire on schedule even with your phone locked — that's the whole point of the app. iOS uses Significant Location Changes to wake Azimuth for delivery. The app never streams continuous location and only reads your position at the moments it sends. GOOD FITS • Self-hosted location dashboards • Home automation users (Home Assistant, n8n, Node-RED, and similar) who want a periodic geo-ping • Developers prototyping location-aware services without paying for a tracking SaaS • Anyone who wants a simple, predictable device-to-server location pipe PRIVACY Your endpoint URL, schedule, and bearer token are stored locally on your device. Locations are not stored on Apple servers, our servers, or anywhere except your endpoint. We don't have servers. Setup: paste your URL in Settings, pick a schedule, tap Start.