Global Locator
Your position, in every coordinate system that matters — and the numbers never need a signal.
Global Locator turns your iPhone into a precise coordinate reader and navigation tool for hikers, geocachers, travellers, photographers and anyone who needs exact position data in a particular format.
SIX COORDINATE FORMATS
Read your position, or any point on the map, in Decimal Degrees, DMS, UTM, MGRS, USNG and UPS. Pan the map anywhere and every format updates together. Copy any single format to the clipboard with one tap.
PASTE ANYTHING
Auto Detect works out which format you pasted and tells you what it found, so you don't need to know whether a coordinate is MGRS or USNG before the app will take it. Pick a format manually whenever you prefer — your choice is remembered.
NOW IN 25 LANGUAGES
English, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish (Spain and Mexico), Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese — including the compass rose in each language's own convention, and full right-to-left layout for Arabic and Hebrew. Choose your language inside the app without changing your device.
THE NUMBERS RUN ON YOUR DEVICE
No account, no sign-in, no tracking. Every conversion, the compass, your saved places and the built-in city list work with no connection. Map tiles come from Apple Maps and need a signal like any map app — the coordinates never do.
YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE
Global Locator collects nothing and transmits nothing. Your location and your saved places never leave your iPhone.
SAVE THE PLACES THAT MATTER
Mark your parked car, a trailhead, a campsite, or anywhere you want to return to. Each saved location keeps its timestamp and all six coordinate formats. Search your favourites, sort them by name, date saved, or distance from where you are now, and rename them whenever you like.
Recent targets are kept separately, so a coordinate you used this morning is one tap away without cluttering the places you meant to keep.
NAVIGATION THAT TELLS YOU WHAT TO DO
The compass says "Turn slightly right" with the distance below it, and shows the target's true bearing separately. Your live GPS accuracy stays on screen. When you arrive, the app says so — and waits until the fix is good enough to mean it.
AR NAVIGATION
Set a target, raise your camera, and follow a marker placed at the target's true bearing. Six marker styles, sized by real distance, and an edge arrow when the target is behind you. Optional spoken guidance announces turns, distance milestones and arrival. If AR can't get its bearings, the app says why and offers the compass instead.
GEOCACHING
Enter published cache coordinates in whatever format they were given — or paste them and let the app work it out. Navigate in with the compass, then mark the find and add a note.
83 WORLD CITIES BUILT IN
Athens, London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, New York, Tokyo, Sydney, Dubai, Singapore and 73 more across 60 countries. Search by city or country, or browse by region.
ACCESSIBILITY
VoiceOver reads a full navigation summary — distance, turn, bearing and accuracy — so the AR marker is never the only way to follow a target. Dynamic Type is supported throughout, and the compass stops animating when Reduce Motion is on.
BUILT FOR THE FIELD
Switch between kilometres and miles
Choose your GPS accuracy to balance precision against battery life
Light, Dark, or follow your device
Standard, satellite and hybrid map views
Share any saved location as a complete multi-format coordinate list, by message, mail, or any app you like
Whether you're walking back to your car in an unfamiliar city or reading a grid reference in the field, Global Locator gives you the number you need, in the format you need it.
