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APRS Mobile connects your iPhone and iPad straight to APRS-IS, the internet side of the Automatic Packet Reporting System used by amateur radio operators worldwide. Watch the stations around you live, look up any station, message other hams and beacon your position. No account needed. Work over your own radio too - with a Bluetooth or network TNC, or with nothing but an audio cable and the built-in software modem.
LIVE MAP
. Stations appear the moment they're heard, with their APRS symbols and callsigns
. Tracks, PHG circles and a Layers panel: fixed, mobile and weather stations, digipeaters, IGates and objects
. Via: one control for every link - APRS-IS, TNC and software modem
STATION DETAILS
. Tap a station for a quick card, then its full page, updated live
. Last heard, beacon prediction, digipath, comment and status
. Position, Maidenhead grid, speed, course, altitude and distance from you
. Current weather, plus weather and telemetry charts
APRS MESSAGING
. Chat with any station, with conversations and message bubbles
. Messages go out over APRS-IS or straight over your radio; IGates carry them between the two
. Automatic retries until acknowledged, with receipts
. Notifications for messages to your callsign, even with the app closed
. Block or report a station; offensive language is hidden behind a tap
RADIO - TNC (OPTIONAL)
. Connect a Mobilinkd TNC4, or a TNC3 on Bluetooth LE firmware, to send and receive over your own radio
. Or reach a KISS TNC on your network: Direwolf on a Raspberry Pi, or a TNC on a serial-to-WiFi bridge
. Choose how messages and beacons go out, and where map stations come from: radio, APRS-IS or both
. Stays connected in the background, so beaconing and receiving carry on
. Run a fill-in digipeater or an IGate from your phone
. A TNC and a radio are separate purchases; everything else works without them
RADIO - SOFTWARE MODEM (OPTIONAL)
. No TNC required: with an audio cable your phone is the modem - 1200 baud APRS decoded from your radio's audio
. Transmit through a radio set to VOX, with adjustable TX delay and level
. A live spectrum with both tones marked, a level check in plain language and a clipping warning
. Receiving needs no licence; transmitting is off until you confirm you hold one
OFFLINE MAPS
. Download OpenStreetMap-based maps for the areas you care about, and the map works with no network
BEACONING
. Four ways to beacon, from Settings or the map: off, SmartBeaconing, every so often, or fixed
. SmartBeaconing beacons more often when moving fast or turning, less when slow or stopped
. Fixed position suits a home station: type it in once, and no GPS is used
. Carries on in the background when you allow it, with a low-power mode
. Choose your APRS symbol, comment and position ambiguity
AND MORE
. Search for any callsign, city or zip code
. An Apple Watch app: beacon, messages, nearby stations and weather graphs
. Imperial, metric and nautical units, any APRS-IS server
Receiving is free: anyone can watch APRS activity and weather stations. Transmitting - beacons, messages, the digipeater - needs APRS Mobile Transmit, a yearly auto-renewing subscription with the first month free. If you had APRS Mobile before version 1.4, transmitting stays free for you. It also requires an amateur radio license; over APRS-IS it needs the passcode for your callsign, and over the air it has to be switched on by hand.
Terms: https://aprsmobile.app/terms
Privacy: https://aprsmobile.app/privacy
The software modem uses the microphone to hear your radio. The audio is decoded on your device, never recorded and never sent.
Weather and telemetry history charts, and offline map downloads, come from openaprs.ai; everything else comes straight from APRS-IS or your radio. Offline map data (c) OpenStreetMap contributors. Positions you send can be seen on other APRS websites too.
Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
A live APRS-IS feed uses a lot of data.
Version History Your phone can now be a digipeater or an IGate, there's an Apple Watch app, and transmitting moves to a small yearly subscription — free forever if you already had the app.
• Already have APRS Mobile? Nothing changes. If you downloaded it before this version, transmitting stays free for you, with nothing to do. Settings › Transmit says Founder.
• New here? Receiving is free, for good. Transmitting — beacons, messages, the digipeater — needs APRS Mobile Transmit, a yearly subscription with the first month free. Cancel any time in Settings › Transmit › Manage Subscription.
• Digipeater: with a radio connected, Fill-in repeats WIDE1-1 packets after waiting 5 seconds to see whether another digipeater already did, so a weak station nearby gets a hand without adding noise. Wide is there for genuine hilltop sites. Settings › Radio.
• IGate: forward what your radio hears to APRS-IS, and optionally carry APRS-IS messages out to stations your radio heard directly. Forwarding to APRS-IS is free and needs no licence confirmation.
• Apple Watch: beacon your position with your own symbol and comment, read and answer your conversations, and see the stations nearest you. Tap one for its details, and a weather station's graphs by day, week, month or year.
• Fixed: a station whose only radio was a network TNC — Direwolf on your network — could never transmit. Network TNC settings now carry Allow Transmitting too.
• Off the grid when your subscription renews? You keep transmitting for 14 days, until the phone can reach the App Store.
• Fixed: a station with an SSID showed no weather or telemetry history.
• Fixed: the network TNC's status showed its port with a comma, as in 8,001.
• The app is now named APRS Mobile on the Home Screen, and Help covers all of the above, including how to cancel. 1.4.0 1d ago Beacon the way your station actually works, and a fix for background beaconing.
• Four ways to beacon, in Settings › Beaconing and from the beacon button on the map: Off, SmartBeacon, Every so often, and Fixed position. Tap the button and pick one — the panel shows which is in use.
• Fixed position is for a home station: type your latitude and longitude once and beacon from it. No GPS, no location permission, no drift, no battery cost.
• Every so often is the simple one: a beacon every so many seconds, from wherever you are, and an optional minimum distance so a parked station stays quiet.
• Network TNC: send and receive over the air through a KISS TNC on your network — Direwolf on a Raspberry Pi, or a TNC behind a serial-to-WiFi bridge. Settings › Network TNC. It can be on at the same time as a Bluetooth TNC and the software modem.
• Fixed: SmartBeacon could go quiet for a whole drive with the app in your pocket. iOS wakes the app on significant changes of position, and those positions are worked out from cell towers and Wi-Fi, so they are often too rough to publish — the app held every one of them back and never gave up waiting. It now sends one anyway once you have been quiet for your Slow Rate, because a position a few hundred metres out beats no position at all.
• Also fixed: SmartBeacon's rates never applied in the background without High Precision. A wake-up carries no speed, so the app read every one as a station standing still and used your Slow Rate. It now beacons on each wake-up instead, never closer together than your Fast Rate, and says so under Settings › Beaconing › What Happens in the Background.
• A typed latitude or longitude is no longer rounded to a tenth of a degree. 1.3.0 Sep 28 APRS over the air with no TNC, offline maps, and a clearer map.
• Software modem: with an audio cable between your radio and your phone, APRS Mobile can be the modem itself — it decodes 1200 baud APRS from your radio's audio and transmits the same way through a radio set to VOX. A live spectrum, a level meter and a list of decoded packets make setting the audio straightforward.
• Transmitting over the air is now off until you confirm you hold an amateur licence. Receiving needs no licence and is unaffected.
• Offline maps: download OpenStreetMap-based map data for the areas you care about and the map works with no network at all. Downloads resume where they left off, even after the app is closed, and show their progress on the map.
• Via: one control on the map for every link — APRS-IS, a Bluetooth TNC and the software modem — with what each one is doing.
• Background beaconing now says what it will actually do: the map shows when the app keeps asking for your position, and explains what to expect in each mode.
• Station cards carry more: drag one up for how the packet reached you, the grid square, how often the station beacons and the raw packet.
• Messages with offensive language are hidden behind a tap; blocking and reporting are unchanged.
• Long sessions stay light: stations and tracks are pruned by age and by hard limits, so leaving the app running all day can't grow without end.
• Help is now a button on the map, and covers everything above. 1.2.1 Sep 23 APRS Mobile is back, rebuilt from the ground up for iOS 26.
• A new map with live station symbols, tracks and PHG circles, a Layers panel to choose what's shown, and a status bar that shows your APRS-IS connection at a glance.
• Tap any station for a quick card, then its full details page, updated live every time the station is heard.
• Weather and telemetry history charts for stations that report them.
• APRS messaging: chat with any station over APRS-IS, with automatic retries and delivery receipts. IGates can carry your messages to radios on RF.
• Search nearby stations, callsigns, cities and zip codes.
• Improved SmartBeacon, with background beaconing when you allow it.
• Landscape support on iPhone and a full-screen layout on iPad.
• An updated Help page. 1.2.0 Sep 18 Added iPhone 6+ support
Fixed speed conversion bug in beaconing
Turn on secure text in passcode cell
Show last beaconed position on map 1.1 12/18/2014 1.0 09/18/2014
About APRS Mobile
The company that develops APRS Mobile is Gregory Carter. The latest version released by its developer is 1.4.0.
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- If you are not logged-in the iOS appstore app, you'll be prompted for your your Apple ID and/or password.
- After APRS Mobile is downloaded, you'll see an INSTALL button to the right. Tap on it to start the actual installation of the iOS app.
- Once installation is finished you can tap on the OPEN button to start it. Its icon will also be added to your device home screen.
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version 1.4.0
posted on 2026-10-16
Version History Your phone can now be a digipeater or an IGate, there's an Apple Watch app, and transmitting moves to a small yearly subscription — free forever if you already had the app.
• Already have APRS Mobile? Nothing changes. If you downloaded it before this version, transmitting stays free for you, with nothing to do. Settings › Transmit says Founder.
• New here? Receiving is free, for good. Transmitting — beacons, messages, the digipeater — needs APRS Mobile Transmit, a yearly subscription with the first month free. Cancel any time in Settings › Transmit › Manage Subscription.
• Digipeater: with a radio connected, Fill-in repeats WIDE1-1 packets after waiting 5 seconds to see whether another digipeater already did, so a weak station nearby gets a hand without adding noise. Wide is there for genuine hilltop sites. Settings › Radio.
• IGate: forward what your radio hears to APRS-IS, and optionally carry APRS-IS messages out to stations your radio heard directly. Forwarding to APRS-IS is free and needs no licence confirmation.
• Apple Watch: beacon your position with your own symbol and comment, read and answer your conversations, and see the stations nearest you. Tap one for its details, and a weather station's graphs by day, week, month or year.
• Fixed: a station whose only radio was a network TNC — Direwolf on your network — could never transmit. Network TNC settings now carry Allow Transmitting too.
• Off the grid when your subscription renews? You keep transmitting for 14 days, until the phone can reach the App Store.
• Fixed: a station with an SSID showed no weather or telemetry history.
• Fixed: the network TNC's status showed its port with a comma, as in 8,001.
• The app is now named APRS Mobile on the Home Screen, and Help covers all of the above, including how to cancel. 1.4.0 1d ago Beacon the way your station actually works, and a fix for background beaconing.
• Four ways to beacon, in Settings › Beaconing and from the beacon button on the map: Off, SmartBeacon, Every so often, and Fixed position. Tap the button and pick one — the panel shows which is in use.
• Fixed position is for a home station: type your latitude and longitude once and beacon from it. No GPS, no location permission, no drift, no battery cost.
• Every so often is the simple one: a beacon every so many seconds, from wherever you are, and an optional minimum distance so a parked station stays quiet.
• Network TNC: send and receive over the air through a KISS TNC on your network — Direwolf on a Raspberry Pi, or a TNC behind a serial-to-WiFi bridge. Settings › Network TNC. It can be on at the same time as a Bluetooth TNC and the software modem.
• Fixed: SmartBeacon could go quiet for a whole drive with the app in your pocket. iOS wakes the app on significant changes of position, and those positions are worked out from cell towers and Wi-Fi, so they are often too rough to publish — the app held every one of them back and never gave up waiting. It now sends one anyway once you have been quiet for your Slow Rate, because a position a few hundred metres out beats no position at all.
• Also fixed: SmartBeacon's rates never applied in the background without High Precision. A wake-up carries no speed, so the app read every one as a station standing still and used your Slow Rate. It now beacons on each wake-up instead, never closer together than your Fast Rate, and says so under Settings › Beaconing › What Happens in the Background.
• A typed latitude or longitude is no longer rounded to a tenth of a degree. 1.3.0 Sep 28 APRS over the air with no TNC, offline maps, and a clearer map.
• Software modem: with an audio cable between your radio and your phone, APRS Mobile can be the modem itself — it decodes 1200 baud APRS from your radio's audio and transmits the same way through a radio set to VOX. A live spectrum, a level meter and a list of decoded packets make setting the audio straightforward.
• Transmitting over the air is now off until you confirm you hold an amateur licence. Receiving needs no licence and is unaffected.
• Offline maps: download OpenStreetMap-based map data for the areas you care about and the map works with no network at all. Downloads resume where they left off, even after the app is closed, and show their progress on the map.
• Via: one control on the map for every link — APRS-IS, a Bluetooth TNC and the software modem — with what each one is doing.
• Background beaconing now says what it will actually do: the map shows when the app keeps asking for your position, and explains what to expect in each mode.
• Station cards carry more: drag one up for how the packet reached you, the grid square, how often the station beacons and the raw packet.
• Messages with offensive language are hidden behind a tap; blocking and reporting are unchanged.
• Long sessions stay light: stations and tracks are pruned by age and by hard limits, so leaving the app running all day can't grow without end.
• Help is now a button on the map, and covers everything above. 1.2.1 Sep 23 APRS Mobile is back, rebuilt from the ground up for iOS 26.
• A new map with live station symbols, tracks and PHG circles, a Layers panel to choose what's shown, and a status bar that shows your APRS-IS connection at a glance.
• Tap any station for a quick card, then its full details page, updated live every time the station is heard.
• Weather and telemetry history charts for stations that report them.
• APRS messaging: chat with any station over APRS-IS, with automatic retries and delivery receipts. IGates can carry your messages to radios on RF.
• Search nearby stations, callsigns, cities and zip codes.
• Improved SmartBeacon, with background beaconing when you allow it.
• Landscape support on iPhone and a full-screen layout on iPad.
• An updated Help page. 1.2.0 Sep 18 Added iPhone 6+ support
Fixed speed conversion bug in beaconing
Turn on secure text in passcode cell
Show last beaconed position on map 1.1 12/18/2014 1.0 09/18/2014
version 1.3.0
posted on 2026-10-09
Version History Beacon the way your station actually works, and a fix for background beaconing.
• Four ways to beacon, in Settings › Beaconing and from the beacon button on the map: Off, SmartBeacon, Every so often, and Fixed position. Tap the button and pick one — the panel shows which is in use.
• Fixed position is for a home station: type your latitude and longitude once and beacon from it. No GPS, no location permission, no drift, no battery cost.
• Every so often is the simple one: a beacon every so many seconds, from wherever you are, and an optional minimum distance so a parked station stays quiet.
• Network TNC: send and receive over the air through a KISS TNC on your network — Direwolf on a Raspberry Pi, or a TNC behind a serial-to-WiFi bridge. Settings › Network TNC. It can be on at the same time as a Bluetooth TNC and the software modem.
• Fixed: SmartBeacon could go quiet for a whole drive with the app in your pocket. iOS wakes the app on significant changes of position, and those positions are worked out from cell towers and Wi-Fi, so they are often too rough to publish — the app held every one of them back and never gave up waiting. It now sends one anyway once you have been quiet for your Slow Rate, because a position a few hundred metres out beats no position at all.
• Also fixed: SmartBeacon's rates never applied in the background without High Precision. A wake-up carries no speed, so the app read every one as a station standing still and used your Slow Rate. It now beacons on each wake-up instead, never closer together than your Fast Rate, and says so under Settings › Beaconing › What Happens in the Background.
• A typed latitude or longitude is no longer rounded to a tenth of a degree. 1.3.0 Sep 28 APRS over the air with no TNC, offline maps, and a clearer map.
• Software modem: with an audio cable between your radio and your phone, APRS Mobile can be the modem itself — it decodes 1200 baud APRS from your radio's audio and transmits the same way through a radio set to VOX. A live spectrum, a level meter and a list of decoded packets make setting the audio straightforward.
• Transmitting over the air is now off until you confirm you hold an amateur licence. Receiving needs no licence and is unaffected.
• Offline maps: download OpenStreetMap-based map data for the areas you care about and the map works with no network at all. Downloads resume where they left off, even after the app is closed, and show their progress on the map.
• Via: one control on the map for every link — APRS-IS, a Bluetooth TNC and the software modem — with what each one is doing.
• Background beaconing now says what it will actually do: the map shows when the app keeps asking for your position, and explains what to expect in each mode.
• Station cards carry more: drag one up for how the packet reached you, the grid square, how often the station beacons and the raw packet.
• Messages with offensive language are hidden behind a tap; blocking and reporting are unchanged.
• Long sessions stay light: stations and tracks are pruned by age and by hard limits, so leaving the app running all day can't grow without end.
• Help is now a button on the map, and covers everything above. 1.2.1 Sep 23 APRS Mobile is back, rebuilt from the ground up for iOS 26.
• A new map with live station symbols, tracks and PHG circles, a Layers panel to choose what's shown, and a status bar that shows your APRS-IS connection at a glance.
• Tap any station for a quick card, then its full details page, updated live every time the station is heard.
• Weather and telemetry history charts for stations that report them.
• APRS messaging: chat with any station over APRS-IS, with automatic retries and delivery receipts. IGates can carry your messages to radios on RF.
• Search nearby stations, callsigns, cities and zip codes.
• Improved SmartBeacon, with background beaconing when you allow it.
• Landscape support on iPhone and a full-screen layout on iPad.
• An updated Help page. 1.2.0 Sep 18 Added iPhone 6+ support
Fixed speed conversion bug in beaconing
Turn on secure text in passcode cell
Show last beaconed position on map 1.1 12/18/2014 1.0 09/18/2014
version 1.1
posted on 2014-12-18
18 Dec 2014 Version 1.1
This app has been updated by Apple to use the latest Apple signing certificate.
Added iPhone 6+ support
Fixed speed conversion bug in beaconing
Turn on secure text in passcode cell
Show last beaconed position on map
version 1.1
posted on 2014-12-18
Dec 18, 2014 Version 1.1
Added iPhone 6+ support
Fixed speed conversion bug in beaconing
Turn on secure text in passcode cell
Show last beaconed position on map
version 1.1
posted on 2014-12-18
Dec 18, 2014 Version 1.1
This app has been updated by Apple to use the latest Apple signing certificate.
Added iPhone 6+ support
Fixed speed conversion bug in beaconing
Turn on secure text in passcode cell
Show last beaconed position on map
version 1.1
posted on 2014-12-18
Dec 18, 2014 Version 1.1
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Added iPhone 6+ support
Fixed speed conversion bug in beaconing
Turn on secure text in passcode cell
Show last beaconed position on map
version 1.1
posted on 2014-09-18
version 1.1
posted on 1970-01-01
18 Ara 2014 Version 1.1
Added iPhone 6+ support
Fixed speed conversion bug in beaconing
Turn on secure text in passcode cell
Show last beaconed position on map
version 1.1
posted on 1970-01-01
2014年12月18日 Version 1.1
Added iPhone 6+ support
Fixed speed conversion bug in beaconing
Turn on secure text in passcode cell
Show last beaconed position on map
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