GPS Stakeout
Deed Corner & Line Finder
Free · In‑App Purchases
Scan or paste your deed and turn it into corners you can walk to — your own land, or as a field aid alongside a licensed survey. On-device, no subscription.
GPS Stakeout turns a written property description into corners you can walk to.
Photograph a printed deed with your camera, paste the text, look up a PLSS section, enter a single bearing-and-distance line, or import a KML boundary — then the app plots the parcel and guides you to each corner with live distance and bearing, plus a haptic pulse when you arrive.
Built for two kinds of use: exploring your own land — walking your deed, seeing your parcel's shape, and getting an approximate sense of where your lines run — and serving as a field aid for licensed surveyors and their crews.
NOT A SURVEY. GPS Stakeout shows approximate, deed-derived locations anchored by your device's GPS. It is not a boundary survey and does not replace one. Only a licensed Professional Land Surveyor can establish or certify a property corner. For anything legal or precise — a fence, construction, a sale, or a boundary dispute — rely on a licensed survey.
FEATURES
Scan a deed with your camera — on-device text recognition, works offline
Paste or type a deed — bearings and distances in feet, chains, rods, metres and more, including curve calls
PLSS section lookup (U.S.) — township/range/section corners from BLM data
Single line — one bearing and distance to stake a course (free)
KML import (Pro) — bring in a boundary from Google Earth or county GIS
Navigate to any corner — real-time distance and bearing, with an arrival haptic
Map view — boundary and corners on standard or satellite maps, with a live GPS accuracy ring
AR boundary overlay (Pro) — property lines on your live camera view
External GPS support — connect a Bluetooth receiver (XGPS160, Bad Elf, Garmin GLO) for tighter accuracy
Bearing basis correction — set true, grid, magnetic, or assumed north; rotate a magnetic-north deed to true, or auto-solve the exact rotation from two known corners
Feet or meters — choose your units; defaults automatically to your region
KML export (Pro) — open your boundary in Google Earth and other tools
Private by design — your plats and location stay on your device
No subscription — one optional one-time Pro upgrade
Whether you're a landowner curious about your own boundary or a survey crew in the field, GPS Stakeout gets you from a paper description to the right spot on the ground.
Free tier now includes 2 corners per plat (previously 3) — a locked 3rd corner still shows live distance and bearing, dimmed, so you can see what you're navigating toward.
Smarter deed parsing: flags a suspiciously short leg (a common sign of a stray mark misread as an extra corner), catches degree symbols mistakenly typed as a straight or curly quote mark (common on older typewritten deeds), no longer mistakes an opening tie line from a section corner for part of your boundary, and now flags a bearing it can't read instead of silently guessing due north.
Saving a plat with open parser warnings now asks for one confirmation instead of saving past them silently.
New Guided Tips (on by default, toggle in Settings) — quick empty-state hints on the Corners and Map tabs.
PLSS lookup now resolves quarter, quarter-quarter, and quarter-quarter-quarter section citations, not just whole sections — clearly labeled as a geometric estimate.
The developer, Rivertop Development, LLC, 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
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Information
- Seller
- Rivertop Development, LLC
- Size
- 2.2 MB
- Category
- Navigation
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- GPS Stakeout Pro $29.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 RiverTop Development, LLC
