GPS vs GPS Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GPS
Record your outdoor activities like hiking, cycling, or driving with live route tracking. Monitor speed, altitude, and create custom map markers. Share your recorded routes with friends in various export formats.
- Live route tracking on map
- Record speed and altitude
- Create custom map markers
- Pause and resume recordings
- Export routes in KML, GPX, CSV
- Share recordings with friends
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Record your hikes, runs, bike rides and journeys with GPS-Tracker Pro. View your routes on the map, explore your stats and share your trips. All features: • GPS recording in the background • Pause and resume recording • Auto Pause when you stop moving • Distance, duration, moving time and idle time • Current, average and maximum speed, plus pace • Altitude, elevation gain and descent • Interactive speed, altitude and pace charts by time or distance • Standard, satellite and hybrid maps • Route colours based on speed • View all tracks together on one map • Markers with titles, notes and photos • Move markers on the map and change their colours • Search, rename and trim the beginning or end of tracks • Import GPX, KML and GTP files • Export as GPX, KML, CSV and GTP, optionally with photos in a ZIP • Share routes as map images with optional trip details • Widgets, Live Activities and Dynamic Island on supported devices • Adjustable GPS accuracy and distance filter • Inactivity alerts, poor GPS signal alerts and regular status reports Background GPS use may reduce battery life.
GPS Tracker
Record and relive your adventures with offline maps and detailed stats. Automatically detects and records your activities like walking, running, and cycling. Share your journeys visually or export data for other platforms.
- Offline maps for any region
- Automatic activity recording
- Route tracking with screen off
- Live activity on Lock Screen/Dynamic Island
- Geofenced auto-start
- Mark points of interest
- Sync tracks across devices
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Some days you remember exactly where you went. Most days you don't. GPS Tracker keeps the route for you. Start a track, or let the app start one by itself the moment it notices you are driving, and it keeps recording in the background. If the system shuts the app down in the middle of a trip, the track comes back on the next launch with nothing lost. This app records your own movement and nobody else's. It doesn't show other people's location, and it doesn't share yours. RECORDING THAT STARTS ITSELF AutoTrack begins a recording once it detects driving, so the trip you forgot to start is saved anyway. An Auto Zone starts a recording once, when you leave an area you choose. Activity-Based mode follows you continuously and labels each stretch as walking, running, cycling, driving or standing still. In Single Track mode all of it stays in one unbroken line, colored by activity, so a walk, a bus ride and a walk home end up as a single trace. WHILE YOU ARE MOVING A Live Activity puts distance, speed and elapsed time on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with a stop button you can reach without opening the app. A live accuracy indicator shows how strong the fix is right now, so you know when the signal is worth trusting. MAPS AND OFFLINE Three map sources and nine styles: standard, satellite, hybrid, terrain, topographic, dark, minimal, open data and flyover. On the open-data source you can download map regions to your device and keep using them with no connection. Downloaded areas hold detail to zoom 17 on raster styles and zoom 14 on vector styles, which is street level where you need it. ROUTES, AND THE WAY BACK Plan a route for car, bike or hiking by tapping waypoints onto the map. The route is calculated online, then the shape and every turn instruction are stored on the device, so navigating works after the signal is gone. Arrows and text on screen give you the turns and warn you when you drift off the route. There is no spoken guidance, so nothing talks over your music. Any track you have saved can also be navigated in reverse, which is the quickest way back to the car or the trailhead. THE DETAIL AFTERWARDS Pins in 16 categories with notes: water, viewpoint, campsite, parking, fuel, hazard, restroom and more. An elevation profile you can scrub with a finger. Splits per kilometer, moving time, pace, average and top speed. A statistics dashboard with week, month and year charts, totals and streaks. Every track you own on one map at once, under a heat overlay that shows where you really spend your time. Share cards that turn a track into a finished image in four styles. GPX export for one track or for your whole filtered list. Any pin can be handed to another navigation app. YOURS, AND ONLY YOURS Your history lives on your device. Premium keeps your tracks in step across your own devices. There is no feed, no followers and nobody else in your data. Units are metric or imperial, chosen per measurement. HONEST LIMITS There is no address or place search: waypoints and pins are placed by tapping the map. Route planning needs a connection; only the finished route works offline. Offline map packs exist on the open-data source only. The app writes GPX files but does not read them. And GPS is GPS, so tunnels, deep canyons and indoor stretches will wander. SUBSCRIPTION Recording a track requires Premium. Browsing your saved tracks and statistics, planning a route and using the map itself all stay free. Premium starts with a free trial, then continues as a yearly or monthly subscription at the price shown in the app. It renews automatically at the end of each period unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the period ends, and you can manage or cancel it at any time in Settings. Terms of Use: https://digitalhero.tech/terms-of-usage Privacy Policy: https://digitalhero.tech/application-privacy-policy Support: https://digitalhero.tech/application-support
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: GPS Tracker at 5.0 against GPS's 3.4. GPS Tracker also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 60%) and iOS requirement (17 vs 26.0). GPS's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (17 vs 4). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. GPS Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. GPS asks for nothing beyond the download.
GPS Tracker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 17 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of GPS's written reviews are positive against 100% of GPS Tracker's.
GPS ships an update every 2 weeks, GPS Tracker weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GPS | GPS Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (17 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 59.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marvin Wagner | Ivanna Blinova |
Customer experience
GPS
GPS Tracker
In-app purchases
GPS
No in-app purchases
GPS Tracker
- Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Yearly3 Days trial$24.991 Year









