Positional: Your Location Info

4.2
211 reviews
5K+
Downloads
Content rating
PEGI 3
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About this app

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 various 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 entire 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 want to try the app before making a purchase, you can do so from here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.simple.positional.lite

Discussions are more preferred way of communication over email, for feature request, bug report or any discussion related to app you can join app's Telegram group: https://t.me/pstnl

And last, If you want to contribute to translate the app in your native language, you can do so here: https://bit.ly/positional_translate
Updated on
Feb 11, 2024

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Ratings and reviews

4.2
211 reviews
Adam Peek
February 9, 2024
Provides everything missing from Google Maps in a distinctly attractive interface. High version numbers usually mean a high level of refinement. I like having a choice of location provider. It's my go to app for retrieving my current address. Changing the location pin is quirky, but not a big deal.
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Anthony C
January 13, 2024
This is a very good location app. Has timely email support. The only negative is setting a different app icon in Settings. It doesn't work. The developer says that issue is unique for my device, nevertheless. If anyone has that issue, please report it.
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Hamza Rizwan
December 30, 2023
It was a tough one to fix, but it's fixed now in the build179 and an update is on the way.
Jon-Cameron Bates (Gadgetologist)
April 29, 2021
Since last update (25/4/21) the compass keeps disappearing, leaving only the text at the top. Even that will then show N/A after a few seconds. You have to switch tabs and go back to make it reappear again. I have calibrated the compass and no problems in other apps. EDIT: Developer has put a great deal of effort into trying to resolve my issue via email. App deserves 5 stars again!
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Hamza Rizwan
April 26, 2021
I have recently changed the compass framework and there maybe some potential issue I'm unaware of at the moment. Can you change physical properties of the compass a little bit and see if it does something. If the problem persists would it be possible for you to email me about the problem as I may need more information to fix this issue

What's new

• Added moon crescent width, radius and elongation
• Fixed pin skin not changing
• Added full screen map search
• Added moon's true altitude
• Fixed Fused Location provider crashing when app is minimized
• Fixed clock day/night icon
• Fixed an old issue of needles randomly disappearing in various devices
• Fixed collapsed bottom sheet elements getting clicked issue
• Fixed directions address not updating properly
• Compatibility for Android 14 service requirements