Positional: Your Location Info

Sleek and Beautiful GPS tools and Geographical information app.

Positional: Your Location Info - GPS Tools & More

"Positional: Your Location Info" is a location-based Android app that uses GPS to provide detailed information like altitude, speed, and address. It features a compass, clock, level, trail markers, and offers a minimalist design with fluid animations. Completely ad-free, the app ensures user privacy by processing all calculations locally. With customizable options, various map styles, and extensive sun and moon data, it's designed for travel enthusiasts seeking a polished and intuitive experience.

App stats

Users: 16,743
42
Version: v180.8.0/lite (Last updated: 2024-10-13)
Creation date: 2020-10-28
Permissions
Location: approximate location (network-based), precise location (GPS and network-based)
Wi-Fi connection information: view Wi-Fi connections
Other:
  • view network connections
  • full network access
  • Google Play license check

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App summary

Positional is a location based app that utilizes the phone's GPS hardware and fetches various details of the current latitude and longitude data like Altitude, Speed, Address and similar other information and show it in easily understandable format to the user. Alongside this main functionality of being a location app, Positional also provides a separate panel for Compass, Level, Trail and Clock, and they serve their own purpose as the name suggests.

Compass provides info related to direction using Geomagnetic field, Clock fetches the time related information based on the current location, time zone and also sun's information like Sunset, Sunrise, Twilight and many other info while the level can be used to get the plain deviation info and for many other purposes. Trail can be used for marking locations on the map and create a travel journal anywhere on the map using many contextual icons.

On top of all the core functionality, Positional is a highly polished app and provides another layer of a very carefully handcrafted minimal designs that organizes every information in a very pleasant way with amazing and beautiful physics based animations and still maintains to do what a location app is supposed to do.

Positional's app interface is customized completely independent of the native APIs and everything is created completely from scratch to give the app a unique design structure and add many features without using too much device memory, making the whole app very lightweight.


What this app has -
• Easy to use
• Smooth, with fluid animations
• Minimal UI
• Many Accent Colors
• Customizable with many options to choose from
• Magnetic Compass
• Compass Sensor Speed
• Compass Physics properties
• Compass bloom
• Gimbal lock
• Minimal Map (with and without labels)
• Dark mode for maps
• High contrast map
• Satellite map
• Many pin styles for the whole app
• Media keys support for map
• GPS information
• Speedometer
• Altitude
• Distance
• Displacement
• Address of the current location
• UTM, MGRS coordinates formatting
• DMS coordinates support
• Movement direction
• Clock
• Clock motion types (both linear and inertia induced motion)
• Clock needle styles
• Custom timezone support
• UTC and Local Time references
• Sun Position/Location
• Sun Azimuth
• Sun Distance and Sun Altitude
• Sunset and Sunrise time
• Astronomical, Nautical, Civil twilight
• Moon Position/Location
• Moonrise and Moon set time
• Moon Altitude
• Moon Phases
• Moon Angle and Fraction
• Moon states (Waning and Waxing)
• Upcoming moon dates i.e. New Moon, Full Moon, Third and First Quarter
• Moon Illumination
• Dark Mode
• Level
• Custom location mode for manually fetching information of any part of the world
• Sun time widget
• Sun time widget with art
• Moon phases
• Trail marker
• Travel journal based on marked trails
• Completely Ad-Free

What this app does not do -
• Does not find nearby places
• Does not show any ads to the user
• Does not collect any sensitive information
• All calculations are done solely inside the app, no location data is sent to any kind of server

Requirements
• Working GPS sensor with low latency
• Working Gravity and Magnetic sensor (calibrated)
• Working internet connection to load maps and other data


If you like this app and would like to support development, you can get the full version from here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.simple.positional

For resolving issues or bug reports, you can join app's Telegram group: https://t.me/pstnl

If you want to contribute to translate the app in your native language, you can do so here: https://bit.ly/positional_translate

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Minimalist and elegant design
  • Good user interface and user interaction
  • Precise location tracking and GPS functionality
  • Multiple functional features without ads
  • Easy to use with smooth animations
Cons
  • GPS functionality can be unreliable for some users
  • Lacks a search option for places
  • Limited features compared to alternatives like Google Maps
  • Some users find navigation and information unclear
  • Issues with time display format (e.g., 24-hour clock preference)
Most mentioned
  • Good design and user interface
  • GPS accuracy and reliability issues
  • Lack of certain features (e.g., search option, navigation updates)
User reviews
minimalist design with elegance.
by Bedant Acharya, 2024-08-08

Nice multiple features and functional app, no ads.
by BA Goh, 2024-05-11

Haven't really tested it much, but I cannot seem to find info about elevation. Edit: Got it, thanks! Changing to 5 stars.
by Filip Mesec, 2024-04-09
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