Inside every trip
- Route map, traced in speed colour
- Speed curve and altitude profile
- Distance, average, maximum, average pace
- Total time, moving time, stopped time
- Elevation gain, highest and lowest point
- Splits, and 0–50 / 0–100 acceleration
GPS speedometer · trip recorder
Every drive you take, kept as a trip.
Press start and the drive records itself. Afterwards you get the route on a map, the speed and altitude curves, how long you actually moved, how much you climbed — and where this one sits against your personal bests. And with a vehicle set up, every drive also carries what it cost you in fuel — and, if somebody is paying for it, what it is worth back.
Free to start · No account · Your trips stay on your phone · Android 7.0 and up
Auto
Trips name themselves from where you started and where you ended
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Accounts to create. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to sync
Per trip
Fuel cost and what it is worth back, on every drive you record
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Languages, from Portuguese to Japanese
The trip recorder
A speedometer forgets.
A trip keeps.
Most speed apps show you a number and lose it the moment you close them. This one writes the drive down.
Start it and put the phone down
One tap starts the recording. It keeps going with the screen off and the app in the background, so nothing is lost when a call comes in or you switch to maps. Pause at the coffee stop and resume after — the gap does not become a straight line across town.
The drive names itself
On the first good GPS fix the trip takes the name of where you are, and the address at each end is resolved for you. No typing, no forms. Rename it later if you want a better title.
Open it and read the drive
The route, drawn in colour from your slowest stretch to your fastest. The speed curve and the altitude profile. Moving time against stopped time. Elevation gained. Splits. How smoothly you drove it.
What it does
Built for the drive,
and for reading it afterwards.
How you drove, not just how fast
Every trip is scored for smoothness from your own hard braking and hard acceleration events, and broken down into the speed zones you spent your time in. Useful whether you are trying to drive more economically or just curious what your commute really looks like.
Records that accumulate
- All-time top speed and best average
- Longest trip, longest duration
- Highest altitude and biggest climb
- Lifetime distance, time and trip count
- Achievement badges as the totals build
- A trophy on any trip holding a record
A gauge worth looking at
A layered analogue dial with 22 colour themes in light and dark, a compass heading, altitude corrected to real sea level, battery, clock, and a speed limit alert you can set to a European circle, a US octagon or plain text — with an optional sound.
HUD and Picture-in-Picture
HUD mode mirrors the speed so it reads the right way round reflected in your windscreen at night. Picture-in-Picture keeps the speed floating in a small window while you use maps or music, and the recording carries on underneath.
Yours, and only on your phone
Trips live in a database on the device. There is no account, no login and no cloud copy of where you have been. When you want a trip somewhere else, export it as GPX or share it as a card — on your terms, one at a time.
Costs and mileage
What each drive costs you,
and what it is worth back.
Set your fuel price and consumption once. From then on every trip carries its own cost, frozen at the price of the day you drove it — so changing the price next month never rewrites last month.
The cost of the drive itself
Add a vehicle with its consumption, fuel price and currency, and each recorded trip gets a cost of its own. Car, motorcycle, boat or bicycle, on petrol, diesel, electricity or gas.
A tag is whoever pays
Tag a drive as a commute, a client or a job. Give the tag a rate per kilometre and every trip carrying it is worth that much back — the app tells you which tag the rate came from, on every trip.
A log you can hand over
Pick a week, a month, a quarter, a year or any range you like. Export it as a CSV that opens straight in Excel or Google Sheets, or as a PDF laid out as a document: dates, addresses, distance, cost, rate, page numbers and totals.
Every period adds up
A week, a month, a quarter or a year: what you spent, what is claimable, and where the distance went — by vehicle and by tag.
The cost sits on the trip
Each drive carries the fuel it burned, what it cost and which vehicle did it, next to the route it took.
The rate is yours to set. The app ships no official rates and gives no tax advice — it keeps the log, you decide what it is worth.
Inside the app
Readable at a glance while driving,
detailed when you park.
While you drive
Speed, heading, altitude and the trip so far — with the recording running behind it.
After you park
The route on a map, both addresses resolved for you, and the time you actually spent moving.
The numbers behind it
Speed against distance, and the elevation profile with the climb totalled up.
Pricing
Recording is free. Always.
The speedometer and the trip recorder cost nothing, so nothing you drive goes unrecorded while you make up your mind. Pro opens up what is inside each trip.
Free
Free, no accountNothing expires, nothing counts down
- Live GPS speedometer, in km/h, mph or knots
- Trip recording, including in the background
- Full trip history: distance, top speed, duration
- Distance, altitude, average and top speed live
- Compass heading and speed limit alerts
- HUD mode for night driving
Pro
Monthly, yearly or one-timeThe price where you live is the one shown in Google Play
- The full trip: route map, curves, splits, smoothness
- Personal records and achievement badges
- GPX export and shareable trip cards
- Rename and delete your trips
- All 22 colour themes
- Mileage report for any period, with CSV and PDF export
- Picture-in-Picture, and no ads anywhere
Straight answers
Questions worth asking first.
How much did fuel cost me this month?
That is the question the Costs screen answers. Give a vehicle its consumption and fuel price, and every trip you record gets a cost of its own, computed at the price of the day you drove it. Pick today, this week, a month, a quarter, a year or any range, and you get the total for that period, how far you went, and a breakdown by vehicle and by tag. The current week is free; the other periods are part of Pro.
Can I export my trips as a mileage log?
Yes. Pick any period — a week, a month, a quarter, a year or a custom range — and export it as a CSV that opens straight in Excel or Google Sheets, or a PDF laid out as a document. Both carry the date, time, start and end address, distance, cost, the rate applied and the amount it is worth, with totals at the end. The current week is free to view; other periods and the export files are part of Pro.
Where does the rate per kilometre come from?
From you. A rate can sit on a tag — which is whoever pays for that drive — or on the vehicle, and you can override it on a single trip. When several apply, the app uses the tag's rate over the vehicle's and shows you on the trip which one it used. Speedometer One ships no official rates for any country and gives no tax advice: it records the log, you decide what a kilometre is worth.
If fuel prices change, do my old trips change too?
No, and that is deliberate. The cost is frozen onto each trip at the price of the day you drove it, so updating your fuel price never rewrites a month you have already reported. If you do want an old period recalculated at today's price, there is an explicit action for it that shows you the before and after totals first, and it leaves anything you edited by hand alone.
Does it keep recording with the screen off?
Yes. Recording runs in a foreground service with its own notification, so the trip continues while the screen is off, while you are in another app, and while the phone is in your pocket. The one thing to watch is your phone's battery optimisation: some manufacturers stop background apps aggressively, and if yours does, the recording can be cut short. There is a walkthrough in how to record a GPS trip without losing it.
Is trip recording free, or do I need Pro?
Recording is free, and so is the history list — every trip you drive is saved with its distance, top speed and duration whether you pay or not. Pro opens what is inside a trip: the route map, the speed and altitude charts, the time breakdown, splits and smoothness, plus records, GPX export and sharing.
Are my trips backed up anywhere?
No. Trips are stored in a database on your phone and nowhere else. There is no account and no cloud sync, which is good for privacy and bad for phone upgrades: uninstalling the app or moving to a new device does not bring your history with it. Exporting a trip as GPX keeps every recorded point.
How accurate is GPS speed compared with my car's speedometer?
The two rarely agree, and it is usually the car that is off. Car speedometers are required by law to never under-read and are typically set a few per cent high, while GPS measures your actual movement over the ground. The full explanation is in why your car's speedometer reads higher than GPS.
Does it work for cycling, or on a boat?
Yes. There are three vehicle profiles — car, bicycle and boat — and each changes the gauge scale to something sensible for that speed range. Units can be metric, imperial or nautical.
Is there an iPhone version?
No — Speedometer One is Android only, and no iOS version is planned. If you are on iPhone there are two I recommend without reservation, both by bithaus.tech: speedometer.app, a GPS speedometer with a HUD windscreen mode and Picture-in-Picture, and speedtracker.app, which adds a full trip computer with distance, route and speed limits, for driving, cycling or on the water. I have used both and they are excellent.
Your next drive
Start recording it.
Free on Google Play. About a minute from download to your first trip.
Eyes on the road. GPS speed is an estimate, not a legal reference — keep using your car's own speedometer, obey the limits, and set the app up before you move off rather than while driving.