APRS Connect - Radio Messaging
APRS messaging, map, services
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
APRS Connect is an APRS client built around messaging. Conversations are threads, not a wall of packets, and everything it puts on the air is visible before it goes.
FREE OVER APRS-IS. PRO ADDS THE RADIOS
Free to install and use over APRS-IS. APRS Connect Pro, a subscription, adds radio channels, the IGate and digipeater, the ISS, offline maps, radar, track export, extra beacons, capture replay, retry when heard and mobiles nearby. Lapse and nothing is deleted or goes off the air.
WORKS WITH YOUR RADIO (PRO)
• Bluetooth LE KISS TNC — a Mobilinkd TNC4 in LE mode, or a B.B. Link
• Audio modem — no TNC: a cable to the radio, and the app decodes and sends AFSK itself
• Network TNC — KISS over TCP: Direwolf, or a TNC on your network
• APRS-IS over the internet
IGATE AND DIGIPEATER (PRO)
• Your phone as an IGate: radio traffic to the internet, and messages back out for stations your radio has heard
• A fill-in or wide-area digipeater that stays quiet when another already repeated the packet
• A coverage map of everywhere you have provably reached a digipeater
MESSAGING
• One thread per station, delivery state read off the air: queued, transmitted, digipeated, acked or failed
• Automatic acks, a retry you can stop, long messages split and rejoined
• Retry when heard (Pro): a failed message goes again when its station is next on the air
• Bulletins in their own room; mute, archive and block
NETS AND GROUPS
• ANSRVR groups become rooms: #APRSThursday, an ARES net, a club group — its traffic in one conversation
• Join by name, renew before it lapses, browse the directory, see who is on tonight
APRS OTA
• Chase ops over APRS-IS, the position-report rule checked for you; host one from a radio
SERVICES ARE AN API. THIS IS A FRONT END TO IT
Each APRS service gets a screen: the SMS and email gateways, WXBOT, WHO-IS, QRX and more. Pick an action and the app writes the command, shown before it goes.
THE ISS (PRO)
• The space station on the map from its orbit, the next passes with an alert, a beacon that waits for a pass, and VIA ISS marks on repeated packets
MAP, AND OFF THE GRID
• Vector map with real APRS symbols, station trails, objects and weather
• Viewed tiles redraw offline; whole regions download with Pro
• Filter by age, by RF or internet, by pinned stations, or by VIA ISS
• Mobiles nearby (Pro): a notification when a moving station comes into range
STATIONS AND PACKETS
• Every station heard, with distance, bearing and how long ago; pin the ones that matter
• The radio behind each station, weather and telemetry charted, Mic-E decoded
• Every packet decoded field by field, with raw frame and hex dump
YOUR DATA IS A FILE YOU CAN READ
• Backup is plain JSON; the packet log exports as NDJSON and replays through the same parser
• A station's track leaves as GPX, or as KML for Google Earth
MAKE IT YOURS
• Beacon profiles — your station, and with Pro a second SSID, a fixed object or a vehicle — with Smart Beaconing or a fixed interval
• Arrange the tab bar yourself; beaconing continues in the background
NEW ON IPHONE
A young iOS release, lightly field-tested. If something misbehaves, feedback is one tap away.
YOUR LICENCE, YOUR RESPONSIBILITY
An amateur radio licence is required to transmit; receiving needs none. Everything it puts on the air goes out under your callsign and is your responsibility — including beacons on a timer and acks it sends for you. Operating within your national regulator's rules is on you; in the United States that is FCC Part 97. The app does not verify your licence, callsign or privileges.
APRS carries no encryption, and encrypting amateur traffic is generally prohibited — treat everything you send as permanently public. Do not rely on it for emergencies: it is best-effort, and messages are lost routinely.
Terms of use (EULA): https://aprsconnect.com/terms
Privacy policy: https://aprsconnect.com/privacy
APRS is a registered trademark of the APRS Foundation and of Bob Bruninga, WB4APR.
ISS pass sky chart
Tap a pass on the ISS screen to see its path across the sky. On a phone, a compass pointer shows which way to aim.
Dashboard for all your devices
With an account, the Dashboard can show this device’s numbers or all your devices together.
The rest of the world loads faster
It has been reworked to better display congested areas.
Bug fixes
Several big fixes.
The developer, Alexander Riggs, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Alexander Riggs
- Size
- 89.6 MB
- Category
- Social Networking
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.4 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 16.4 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 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+
- Contains
Messaging and Chat
User-Generated Content
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Pro - Yearly $29.99
- Pro — Monthly $3.99
- Copyright
- © AxelStack LLC
