Handy GPS

Handy GPS

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Handy GPS: Professional Precision for the Off-Grid Adventurer

Replace your handheld GPS with a powerful navigation tool featuring UTM/MGRS coordinates, offline map tiles, and advanced track logs designed for serious explorers and field professionals.

Publisher

Anthony Dunk

Category

Navigation

Downloads

185K+

User Rating

4.2/5

Total Ratings

0

Locales

1

Precision in Sight

Discover the interface used by 185K+ users.

Handy GPS app interface displaying UTM coordinates and technical navigation data

Handy GPS app interface displaying UTM coordinates and technical navigation data

Digital compass screen in Handy GPS app navigating to a specific waypoint

Digital compass screen in Handy GPS app navigating to a specific waypoint

Satellite map view in Handy GPS showing a red flag waypoint and user location along a forested coastline.

Satellite map view in Handy GPS showing a red flag waypoint and user location along a forested coastline.

Handy GPS app showing a magnetic compass interface with true bearing for outdoor navigation

Handy GPS app showing a magnetic compass interface with true bearing for outdoor navigation

Handy GPS waypoint entry interface with UTM coordinates

Handy GPS waypoint entry interface with UTM coordinates

Handy GPS mobile app action menu showing technical navigation features like grid reference and elevation profile

Handy GPS mobile app action menu showing technical navigation features like grid reference and elevation profile

Offline maps download configuration screen in the Handy GPS app showing latitude and longitude coordinate inputs

Offline maps download configuration screen in the Handy GPS app showing latitude and longitude coordinate inputs

A topographic map interface in the Handy GPS app showing terrain details waypoints and user location

A topographic map interface in the Handy GPS app showing terrain details waypoints and user location

Navigate Any Terrain with Professional Precision

The tools that make this app stand out, trusted by 185K+ users.

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Military-Grade Coordination

Seamlessly switch between UTM, MGRS, and Lat/Lon. Perfect for syncing with paper topo maps or performing professional field surveys with pinpoint accuracy.

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True Offline Independence

Navigate the deepest 'dead zones' with confidence. Download map tiles and import custom base maps before you leave to ensure you never lose your way.

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Professional Data Export

Your data belongs to you. Record high-resolution track logs and export them as GPX, KML, or CSV files for analysis in Google Earth or GIS software.

About the app

Everything you need to know about Handy GPS.

Description

The perfect companion for your next outdoor adventure. Seek, find, record and return home with Handy GPS. This app is a real navigation tool designed for outdoors sports like hiking, bushwalking, mountain biking, kayaking and trail riding. It allows you to work in UTM or lat/lon coordinates. Features: * View your current location in UTM or Lat/Lon formats. * Record and/or manually enter waypoints in UTM, Lat/Lon, or MGRS. * Goto a waypoint, with optional audio proximity alarm and spoken directions. * Record a track log. * Show your current location, waypoints and tracklogs on a map. * Export waypoints and tracklogs to a KML file for viewing in Google Earth, or to a GPX file. * Export waypoints to a comma delimited (CSV) text file. * Import KML or GPX files and view in the app. * Email your current location to a friend. * Odometer to keep track of how far you've gone. * Magnetic compass. * Elevation profile. * Compute sun and moon rise and set times. * Supports both metric and US/imperial units. * Supports datums WGS84, GDA94, AGD66 and AGD84. (Use WGS84 for NAD83) * Allows entry of parameters for a custom datum (e.g. ED50, SAD69, OSGB36, GDA2020 etc), as well as supporting affine parameters for local grid systems. * Can display your location a normal grid ref, an MGRS grid ref (WGS84 datum only), or as a UK Ordinance Survey (OS) grid ref. * Can download offline map tiles for use where there is no cellular coverage. * Can import pre-prepared state or country-level base maps from a zip file. * Optional walk timer. * Email your current waypoints and tracklogs as a KML file. * Take photos from within the app to be stored with the current session. Disclaimer: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. To save battery power you can close the app from the task manager. The developer accepts no responsibility for you getting lost while using this app.

Latest Version

14.2

Size

4.7 MB

First Released

Sep 21, 2013

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Download the professional GPS tool trusted by explorers and field workers. Get precision UTM coordinates, offline maps, and complete self-reliance for your next off-grid journey.

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