A GPS speedometer for your car
This is a GPS speedometer tuned for driving — the dial scales up to 240 km/h (160 mph) so normal road speeds sit in the comfortable middle of the gauge. It shows your real ground speed in km/h or mph, with your top and average speed for the trip. Use it as a backup if your dashboard gauge fails, or to check how accurate your car's speedometer really is. Everything runs on your device; nothing is uploaded.
How Car Speedometer works
Why GPS speed differs from your dashboard
By law, a car's speedometer must never read lower than your true speed, so manufacturers deliberately set it to read a little high — often by around 5–10%. GPS measures your actual distance over the ground, so it is usually closer to your real speed. Don't be surprised if this reads a few km/h lower than your dash.
Tips for driving
- Mount your phone or have a passenger hold it — never tap the screen while driving.
- Press Start before you set off and allow location access.
- Give GPS a few seconds for a solid fix; the accuracy figure shows the signal quality.
Need distance instead of speed? Try the GPS odometer, or the plain GPS speedometer.
Common uses
- Use as a backup car speedometer
- Check your dashboard speedometer accuracy
- See your true speed in km/h or mph
- Record your top speed on a drive
- Track average speed on a journey
- Show speed for a classic car with no working gauge
- Verify speed limiter behaviour
- Display a large digital speed readout