My GPS Coordinates vs SW Maps
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My GPS Coordinates
Share your precise GPS location with others through various messaging and social media platforms. Recipients get a link to a map displaying your position. Supports multiple coordinate formats and map providers.
- Share location via email, text, social media
- Multiple coordinate formats (Degrees, UTM, MGRS)
- Supports various map providers (Apple, Google, Bing)
- Copy coordinates and map URLs to clipboard
- Light/dark theme options
- Autofill for email and text messages
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Easily share your GPS location via email, text messaging, Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, etc. The recipient receives a link to an online map with your position on it. Please note that GPS does not work well under a roof. For best results, use outdoors. Coordinate formats include: - Degrees - Degrees, Minutes - Degrees, Minutes, Seconds - UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) - MGRS (Military Grid Reference System) Share with any of the following map providers: - Apple Maps - Google Maps™ - Bing Maps™ - OpenStreetMap® - Yandex.Maps - HERE.com - Custom URL Other features: - Copy coordinates to clipboard. (To paste elsewhere) - Copy map URL to clipboard. - Choose between light or dark theme. - Set email or emails to autofill when composing mail. - Set phone number to autofill when composing text message. - Create custom map URLs. Please refer to the help webpage for more information and examples. Note that it usually takes several seconds for the satellite GPS receiver to warm up and provide accurate position data. During this time, it's possible to share an old location or an inaccurate location reported by cellular tower triangulation. This is why the 'last location age' and 'accuracy' readouts exist. Red means bad. Please also note that choosing the correct coordinate format is very important. Minutes and seconds are base 60, not base 100. For example, 2.50 degrees is 2 degrees and 30 minutes. The datum used is WGS-84. Please visit the web page for more details.
SW Maps
This app allows users to collect, present, and share geographic information. It supports recording points, lines, polygons, and associated data like photos and audio. High-accuracy GPS surveys are possible with external receivers, and data can be shared in various standard formats.
- Collect points, lines, and polygons
- Attach custom attributes (text, photo, audio, video)
- High-accuracy GPS surveys with external receivers
- Offline map support
- Export data in multiple formats (Shapefile, GeoPackage, CSV)
- Create and share project templates
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SW Maps is a free GIS and mobile mapping app for collecting, presenting and sharing geographic information. Whether you are conducting a full scale GNSS survey with high precision instruments, need to collect large amount of location based data using nothing but your phone, or just need to view a few shapefiles with labels over a background map on the go, SW Maps has it all covered. Record points, lines, polygons and even photos and have them displayed over your choice of background map, and attach custom attribute data to any feature. Attribute types include text, numbers, an option from a predefined set of choices, photos, audio clips and videos. Conduct high accuracy GPS surveys using external RTK capable receivers over Bluetooth LE. Draw features on the map by adding markers, and measure distance and area. Reuse the layers and attributes of a previous project for another survey, or create templates and share them with other users. Share the collected data with other users as Geopackages, KMZ or shapefiles, or export them to your device storage. Also share and export recorded data as Spreadsheets or CSV files. All data is recorded and exported in the standard WGS84 Geographic coordinate system (EPSG:4326). Features -Online Base maps: Apple Maps or Open Street Map -Support for multiple mbtiles and KML overlays -Shapefile and Geopackage layers, with attribute categorized styling. View shapefiles in any coordinate system supported by the PROJ.4 library. -Add multiple online WMTS, TMS, XYZ or WMS layers and cache tiles for offline use. -Connect to external GPS receivers using Bluetooth for high accuracy surveying using RTK with built-in NTRIP client. Also record data from external receiver for post processing. -Define multiple number of feature layers, each with a set of custom attributes Feature Types: Point, Line, Polygon Attribute Types:Text, Numeric, Drop down Options, Photos, Audio, Video Save as Template for re-use or sharing -Record GPS tracks, with distance measurement -Label features based on attribute values. -Import feature layers from templates or existing projects. -Share or export collected data as KMZ (with embedded photographs) , shapefiles, GeoJSON, Geopackage (GPKG), XLS/ODS spreadsheets or csv files. -Share templates or projects with other users -Supports use of GTX geoid files. To use custom geoids, prepare a GTX file with offsets in meters from WGS84. This product is made in Nepal and is FREE (no Ads). If you find this useful, please let your friends know that you have used a product from Nepal. Spare sometime to visit this wonderful country and know the Nepali people.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SW Maps at 3.8 against My GPS Coordinates's 3.3. My GPS Coordinates's advantage is review sentiment (58% vs 30%) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
SW Maps holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 63 and 25 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 58% of My GPS Coordinates's written reviews are positive against 30% of SW Maps's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
My GPS Coordinates ships an update every 3 months, SW Maps every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and August 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | My GPS Coordinates | SW Maps |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (63 ratings) | 3.8 (25 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.8% of reviews — better | 30.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 63 — better | 25 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TappiApps | Aviyaan Tech |
Customer experience
My GPS Coordinates
SW Maps
Bugs and requests
My GPS Coordinates
Reported bugs
20 issues- Does not work half the time
- Fails to do anything most of the time
- Inaccuracy
- Showing UTM S instead of N
- iPad Pro unsupported
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- Only accurate to 541 feet
- 50 meter deviation
- Accuracy is wrong
- Coordinates constantly change
- Streaming ad
- App disables home button
- GPS shuts down with messages
- Cannot turn off app without phone restart
- Strobe light pop-up
- Location jumps erratically
- Email 'To' autofill not working
- App crashes on settings
- Screen becomes unresponsive
- Coordinates contrary to known coordinates
- App does not detect GPS
Requested features
12 requests- Selectable snapshots
- Selectable layout
- Rotate layout frame
- Scale snapshots independently
- Apple Watch support
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- Screen rotation
- Dark mode
- Advanced analytics
- Default email address setting
- Date/time stamp in email body
- Marine VHF coordinate format
- iPad version
SW Maps
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
My GPS Coordinates
No in-app purchases
SW Maps
No in-app purchases
Questions
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