A GPS speedometer for iPhone — your speed clearly and honestly, with the instruments around it, and now every trip preserved. No ads, no tracking, no account; works offline.
Trip history with route maps and charts. Two display modes, one tap apart. A live compass, barometer-fused altitude, and a Lock Screen Live Activity that doesn't quit when you pocket your phone.
Save every drive, ride, cruise, or train. Each trip becomes a route map with speed-bucket coloring, speed and elevation charts, pause segments, notes, and titles — searchable, categorisable, and exportable to GPX or CSV.
Start a trip and lock your phone. Velocita keeps running on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island — speed, bearing, max, distance, and elapsed time.
A full analog speedometer with a live compass ring, min/max markers, and tick marks that auto-scale as you go faster. Tap the numeric speed to switch in.
Phone face-up on the dashboard; speed reflects off the windshield, right-way-round. Red-on-black at night preserves dark-adapted vision.
Asymmetric smoothing responds fast to acceleration but snaps to zero the instant you stop. Poor GPS is dimmed with a ~ prefix.
Altitude accurate to about one meter, fused from the barometer and GPS — far more stable than GPS-only readings that drift by 10–30 meters.
Direction of travel from GPS course when you're moving; magnetometer when you're stationary. The gauge view embeds a rotating compass ring with degrees and cardinals.
Set a threshold — Velocita flashes a red border and delivers a haptic buzz when you cross it. Optional haptic ticks every 10 mph or km/h, too.
Speed in any unit. Distance in miles, kilometers, or nautical miles. Altitude in feet or meters. Defaults follow your locale; switch any time.
Record a trip and Velocita keeps the route — colored by speed, with pause segments left visible — and pairs it with speed-over-time and elevation charts drawn straight from the recording. Add a title, a note, a category, mark a favorite.
Search, filter, sort, export to GPX or CSV when you want the data elsewhere. Recordings live on your phone as plain files; nothing is uploaded anywhere.
Start a trip and lock your phone. Velocita keeps running — current speed, bearing, max reached, distance, and elapsed time — on the Lock Screen and inside the Dynamic Island.
The Live Activity is driven by a dedicated timer inside the tracking engine, not SwiftUI refresh, so updates keep flowing while the device is locked or Always-On Display is active.
GPS is noisy. Velocita uses asymmetric smoothing that responds to acceleration immediately but doesn't linger at 1 mph when you've stopped. A Core Motion stationary detector snaps the display to zero as soon as your device's motion classifier confirms you aren't moving.
Under poor GPS the reading is dimmed and prefixed with ~. Minimum, maximum, and average speeds are only recorded when signal quality is good enough. No phantom speeds on a parked car.
Place your iPhone face-up on the dashboard. The HUD renders big numerics mirrored, so the reflection in your windshield reads right-way-round — a heads-up speedometer without the hardware.
Bright white by day for readability against sunlight. Red-on-black at night, so the glow doesn't kill your dark-adapted vision. Cross your speed threshold and a single haptic confirms it; the display itself stays calm — flashing a red reflection across your windshield would be worse than the problem.
Every reading passes through a pipeline tuned for honesty — fast to react, quick to settle, quiet when it should be.
GPS smoothing alone keeps the needle elevated for 20+ seconds after you actually stop. Velocita uses asymmetric smoothing — a faster decay than ramp-up — plus two independent stop detectors: a GPS fast-zero when two consecutive readings drop to the noise floor, and a Core Motion stationary check that snaps to zero the moment the accelerometer and gyro classifier confirms the device isn't moving.
Raw GPS altitude drifts by 10–30 meters, even with a clear sky. Velocita reads the iPhone's built-in barometer and fuses it with GPS for altitude accurate to about one meter — with transparent fallback on devices without a barometer.
Velocita computes everything on-device. Location, speed, heading, altitude, and trip recordings are yours — they live on your phone and are never sent to us. The only off-device calls are Apple's reverse geocoding (for the city name on screen) and anonymous, aggregate usage signals via TelemetryDeck — never raw values, never anything that could identify you.
The base app is free — numeric speed, trip stats, compass, altitude, units, background tracking. Velocita Pro unlocks trip history, the gauge, the windshield HUD, speed alerts, haptic ticks, and the Live Activity for $3.99 once. No subscription. Shared with your Family Sharing group at no extra cost.
Velocita is available on the App Store for iPhone.