Altimeter: Elevation & GPS5.0 - App Store

Have you climbed to the top of a mountain and want to know your current elevation? Or are you out and about and wondering how far you still have to go? Altimeter shows you your elevation. It’s also conveniently available on your Apple Watch!

What if you want to mark points along your route so you can find them again later? No problem! With Altimeter, you can name and tag locations with an icon and navigate back to them later. This works on your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.

Altimeter is free, ad-free, and doesn’t track you in any way.
Some features are available only to supporters, but anyone can try them for free for a few days.
The basic features are freely available and will remain so.

If you have questions or comments, you can submit a support request within the app.

Features
- Elevation in meters or feet with high accuracy
- Locations in multiple coordinate systems (International, Swiss, UTM, MGRS)
- Save locations as waypoints for later and organize them into folders.
- With Augmented Navigation, you can see exactly where your destination is right in the camera view.
- The Radar view shows you all waypoints in your vicinity, even in 3D.
- Share your waypoints even without an internet connection.
- The combined view shows you elevation and location at a glance.
- Light/Dark Mode, color or monochrome
- iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch

Altimeter uses your device’s GPS chip to determine your elevation and location. To maximize battery life, the chip is only activated when the app is open on your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch. This means there is no background activity, and your location is not stored.

Note
Accuracy depends on GPS satellite reception. Reception is limited indoors.
Continuous use of GPS can significantly reduce battery life.

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Terms of Use: https://altimeter.22of8.ch/en/terms-of-use.html

Version History Check out what's new!

- You can now organize your waypoints into folders, making it much easier to find everything.
- With Augmented Navigation, you can see exactly where your destination is right in the camera view. Super handy!
- The Radar view shows you all the waypoints in your area, even in 3D. That way, you always have a clear overview.
- Sharing your waypoints is now even easier and works even without an internet connection.
- The combined view shows you elevation and location at a glance.

Some of these new features are only available to our supporters, but don’t worry—everyone can try them out for a few days.
And don’t worry—all existing features will remain available for free and without restrictions, forever! 5.0 Oct 5 More languages, more altitudes, more of the world: Altimeter now also supports French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese. 4.5 Aug 1 Measure heights. Remember routes. Stay free. Altimeter.

What's new:
- sort pins: Now you can sort your marked waypoints by name, distance, and date
- edit pins: At any time you can change the icon, color, name, and exact location of already saved pins
- altitude of pins: Manually dropped pins have the correct altitude
- design changes: A fresh look of Altimeter 4.4 10/17/2025 Hi Altimeters, this is a small bug fix release:

- UTM coordinates are no longer truncated on iOS and on watchOS

If you like Altimeter as much as I do, please consider leaving a tip and/or a review on the App Store.
Any comments or suggestions via mail are welcome, too. 4.3 06/30/2024 Hey there, I'm back with another Altimeter update! Here's what's new:

Today you can have more control over the data displayed.
Previously you could already choose between metric and imperial units, now you can display both at the same time and also specify their order.
You will find a parameter in the settings menu.
The selected unit is also taken into account when sending.

If you like Altimeter as much as I do, please consider leaving a tip and/or a review on the App Store.
Any comments or suggestions via mail are welcome, too. 4.2 05/06/2024 Hi Altimeters, this is mainly a bug-fixed version, but there are also new features.

Fixed:
- The manual coordinate input uses the correct decimal separator of your locale
- Enhanced contrast for buttons
- Improved checks for permissions and location accuracy
- On iPad, navigation shows correct direction for each device orientation

New:
- Long tap on the coordinate in the location view copies it to the clipboard
- Added symbols for pins: climbing, water
- Manual coordinate input shows hint only for invalid values
- Manual coordinate input for WGS system adds minus sign for West and South
- Sending your current location can add a link to the Google maps website (must be enabled in Settings)

Changed:
- Display when too close to your selected pin

If you like Altimeter as much as I do, please consider leaving a tip and/or a review on the App Store.
Any comments or suggestions via mail are welcome, too. 4.1 04/18/2024 Hi Altimeters, this is what I've got for you this time:
- all new design (I hope you like it)
- support for new coordinate system what3words
- set icon and color for dropped pins
- on iPhone you can edit the pin coordinate in your coordinate system of choice

And some bug fixes:
- rounding elevation instead of truncating
- show correct accuracy for elevation and location

If you like Altimeter as much as I do, please consider leaving a tip and/or a review on the App Store. 4.0 01/21/2024 - Drop a pin on the current location. Later you can choose any of these dropped pins and Altimeter shows you the direct horizontal and vertical distance, and the direction using the compass.
- Sharing you current location includes a link into maps.
- Fix: display position with W or S instead of negative E or N 3.0 04/06/2022 Fixes an issue in the "Like" menu which caused an app crash.
Fixes an issue with the colors in the settings menu when the iPhone is in dark mode. 2.3.2 09/25/2020 Bug fix for the Apple Watch. 2.3.1 09/23/2020 Hello

This update of Altimeter brings you two more coordinate systems: UTM and MGRS. On iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.
When you think that the new coordinate systems show wrong values please contact me.

If you like Altimeter please please give a 5 star rating, and/or a tip to support developing this free and ad-free app. 2.3 09/01/2019 Hi everybody
I added the position view on your Apple Watch. Swipe horizontally to switch between altitude mode and position mode. Swipe vertically to change the coordinate system.

Thank you
Thank you everybody for using Altimeter.
My special kudos to all the people helping me to develop new features by giving a tip.
If you like Altimeter please add a five star rating in the app store. 2.2.0.0 03/04/2018 Now you can share your location or copy it to the paste board. Just tap the share icon in the bottom right.

Thank you
Thank you everybody for using Altimeter.
My special kudos to all the people helping me to develop new features by giving a tip.
If you like Altimeter please add a five star rating in the app store. 2.1.0 01/22/2018 - Display your position. Choose the coordinate system. If you need more, contact me by e-mail.
- Faster on the Apple Watch
- Supporting the screen size of the fantastic new iPhone X
- Requires less permissions

Thank you
Thank you everybody for using Altimeter.
My special kudos to all the people helping me to develop new features by giving a tip.
If you like Altimeter please add a five star rating in the app store. 2.0.0 01/15/2018 You like the dark mode? It's the default by now. You can change it to lighter modes at any time.
Now you can add a complication to your Apple Watch to quick launch Altimeter.
Thank you all for your great support! 1.3.0 08/31/2016 - today widget for even faster information: swipe down from the top of the screen and add Altimeter
- landscape view 1.2.0 02/17/2016 - Dark Themes! Beside the light background you can choose from 3 other darker backgrounds. So you will no longer be dazzled in the night.
- Multitasking on new iPads 1.1.0 01/20/2016 1.0.0 12/18/2015