Live Compass and GPS Sensor Dashboard
GPS Status & Toolbox turns the phone’s navigation hardware into a readable status dashboard. The main screen places a compass-style sky grid beside heading, orientation, satellite counts, signal strength, GPS accuracy, speed, altitude, pitch, roll, acceleration, brightness, and battery readings, so users can see more than a single blue location dot. A live status view is useful when waiting for a fix, checking a sensor, or confirming that a phone is pointing the way you expect.
The compass distinguishes magnetic and true north, while GPS-derived movement can help refine direction once the phone is moving. A leveling indicator and aGPS data age add practical context, making the dashboard useful for travel, outdoor work, vehicle checks, and troubleshooting.
Radar Waypoints for Finding Your Way Back
Radar navigation gives a saved point a simple direction-and-distance workflow. Mark a current position or enter coordinates, then use the radar view to see the target’s bearing, distance, accuracy range, and relative position while walking back toward it. That makes the app practical for returning to a parked car, a trail junction, a campsite, or another spot that is easy to lose in an unfamiliar area.
The Locations area can keep waypoints, assign colors, edit targets, and share a position with mapping apps. KML, CSV, and GPX import or export extend the workflow for people who move points between devices, mapping tools, and outdoor planning notes.
Sensor Checks, Calibration, and Display Settings
GPS Status & Toolbox includes tools for checking whether a phone’s sensors are reporting sensible values. The sensor list can identify available hardware and show readings that help diagnose a compass, motion, or GPS problem before it affects navigation. If the compass drifts, the calibration flow guides users through rotating the phone or moving it in a figure-eight pattern, while the leveling aid helps check horizontal and vertical surfaces.
Settings keep the dashboard adaptable for everyday use. Users can change display units, interface language, sensor filtering, color scheme, coordinate presentation, and the message used when sharing a location. These controls make the app easier to read in a vehicle, outdoors, or in low-light situations.
PRO Tools for Saved Locations and Background Use
The free dashboard covers everyday readings, while the Get PRO entry adds tools for people who need more persistent navigation data. PRO can expand waypoint storage, add export and editing capacity, expose extra sensor values such as pressure or rotation, and support widgets, background aGPS downloads, picture-in-picture, and an ad-free experience when the phone offers the relevant hardware.
This makes the app flexible for different routines: a traveler can keep a few reference points, a geocacher can organize more locations, and a technician can keep sensor data visible beside another task. Because pressure, temperature, humidity, and rotation depend on device sensors, the available readings can vary across phones.
