VeloGPS
Handheld GPS for your iPhone
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
A rebuilt recording engine: smoother tracks, truthful stats, honest signal-loss handling, and steadier memory on all-day recordings.
VeloGPS turns your iPhone into a full handheld GPS. Precise coordinates, barometric altitude, compass, waypoints, track recording, and GPX export — everything a dedicated GPS unit does, on the device you already carry. Built for hiking, cycling, kayaking, sailing, skiing, backcountry travel, geocaching, and anything else you'd reach for a handheld for.
Live GPS Dashboard
A frost-glass overlay on the map shows coordinates, speed, and direction by default — tap the chevron to expand for altitude and pressure. The Info tab gives you the full readout: coordinates, speed, altitude, course, compass heading, and barometric pressure on one screen. Coordinates display in DD, DMS, or UTM.
Track Recording & GPX Export
Record your route with a single tap. Tracks auto-pause when you stop and resume the moment you move again, so distance and elevation gain reflect what you actually did. Each track is auto-classified as cycling, hiking, running, walking, driving, or flying based on motion sensors during recording. Saved tracks appear as colored polylines on the map and export as standard GPX files — complete with metadata block and activity type — for any mapping tool. Rename, recolor, re-tag activity, toggle visibility, swipe to delete with undo.
Smooth, Accurate Altitude
A fused altimeter combines the iPhone's barometer with GPS for steady, responsive elevation — with an outlier filter that rejects physically impossible pressure spikes from tunnels, doors, and cabin-pressure changes. EMA smoothing keeps recorded altitude clean. On iPads and devices without a barometer, GPS-only smoothing keeps the reading stable.
Waypoints
Save your current location with one tap. Tap a pin on the map to jump to details. Distance to each waypoint updates as you move. Mark trailheads, campsites, caches, hazards, summits — anywhere you want to find again.
Interactive Map
Standard, Hybrid, and Satellite views. A live accuracy circle shows your GPS precision. Tracking mode centers the map on you; pan or pinch to release it instantly. Long recorded tracks render smoothly at every zoom level. Haptic feedback confirms every interaction.
Flight Mode
A dedicated mode for aviation: GPS altitude (cabin pressure would corrupt the barometric altimeter), pre-flight checklist, and tuned filters.
Live Activity & Lock Screen
Keep speed, coordinates, altitude, distance, and your activity glyph on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island — even when the app is in the background.
Charts & Session Stats
Real-time charts for speed, altitude, and pressure with windows from 1 minute to 1 hour. Session stats show distance, elevation gain/loss, max speed, average moving speed, and current grade — now on a true rolling window so the last hour is always the last hour.
Power Saver
Extend battery on long outings. Lowers GPS update frequency, pauses the magnetometer, and auto-suspends GPS when you're stationary.
GPS Signal Quality
A color-coded toolbar indicator shows your fix quality at a glance. Tap for detailed horizontal, vertical, speed, and course accuracy — plus a Processing section showing the current altitude source (fused, GPS-only, or flight mode) and live motion activity.
Flexible Units
Coordinates in DD, DMS, or UTM. Speed in mph, km/h, or knots. Distance in imperial or metric. Pressure in kPa, hPa/mbar, inHg, or mmHg.
iPhone & iPad
Tabbed navigation on iPhone, sidebar on iPad. Adapts to split-screen and slide-over. Portrait and landscape.
Private by Design
No accounts, no analytics, no servers. All data stays on your device.
Track recording, rebuilt for accuracy
This release overhauls the recording pipeline end to end. A new motion-aware filter suppresses GPS jitter as you record — no more zig-zags at stoplights or wander while you're stopped — and when you save, the entire track is re-smoothed using the full recording for the cleanest possible line. Stopped recordings no longer accumulate phantom distance, max speed ignores single-fix glitches, and average moving speed is properly time-weighted.
Honest about signal loss
When GPS drops out — tunnels, airplane cabins, urban canyons — VeloGPS now says so instead of guessing. Charts show a gap rather than a fabricated flat line, the Live Activity switches to a clear SIGNAL LOST state, the map draws a dashed bridge across the outage, and GPX exports split the track at real outages so other apps don't invent impossible speeds.
Better in the air
Flight mode adds an altitude filter that rejects physically impossible single-sample spikes, and it no longer accepts coarse ground-level fixes during a GNSS outage at cruise — your flight tracks stay at altitude where they belong.
Better on rails and in traffic
Multipath "teleports" — the sideways jumps you see on trains and among tall buildings — are now detected and rejected before they reach your track.
Steadier on long recordings
A new memory guard suspends the map view before iOS can terminate the app mid-recording, so all-day tracks survive aggressive memory pressure. Background recording is also more robust, no longer tied to UI updates.
Sharper GPX exports
Trackpoint timestamps now carry fractional seconds, so exported tracks show correct point-to-point speeds in other mapping tools.
The developer, AIDAN STANLEY MARCUSS, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- AIDAN STANLEY MARCUSS
- Size
- 4.7 MB
- Category
- Navigation
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Aidan Stanely Marcuss
