Detector Maps Downloads & RevenueDetector Maps · App Store & Google Play
Detector Maps gets 100+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Detector Maps by GOLD DISCOVERY SOLUTIONS PTY LTD is on App Store and Google Play. Active Users (MAU & DAU), Downloads, rankings, keywords, revenue, and rating totals.
Full timeline · 31 events
- ✏️Detector Maps: new iPad screenshotsiOS· US
- ✏️Detector Maps: new screenshotsiOS10 screenshots (was 7) · US
- ✏️Detector Maps: new iPad screenshotsiOS· GB
- ✏️Detector Maps: new screenshotsiOS9 screenshots (was 6) · GB
- ✏️Detector Maps: new iPad screenshotsiOS· AU
- ✏️Detector Maps: new screenshotsiOS8 screenshots (was 6) · AU
- 📦Detector Maps updated to version 6.1.0iOS• Search finds gold occurrences by name, offline too, in a new Occurrences tab.
• Burnt Ground now covers the last 3 years in every state.
• More layers: Fossicking Areas and General Permission Areas in Queensland, Fossicking Areas in the NT, Stock Routes and Mining Restrictions in Queensland, Woomera Prohibited Area in SA, Aboriginal Heritage Sensitivity, 4WD Tracks and Quartz Veins in Victoria.
• Permissions in NSW, Queensland, SA, Tasmania and the NT: save a property as a permission from its boundary.
• Bush basher: an Avoid leases switch plans your route around mining leases.
• WA: hatching shows where live tenements sit over pending ones, and one popup now pages through every tenement under your finger.
• Pro tools are back on the map as the pickaxe, with Tenement alerts and Ground Scanner inside.
• Tenement changes: one page per tenement, with a History tab.
• NSW Structure & Lines has a legend, and tap cards name each line.
NEW EVERYWHERE
• Academy: short lessons on geology, LiDAR and detecting, written for your region. Each one shows you on a moving drawing, then lets you try it.
• Your vault: log your finds with photos and see what they're worth. It locks with a PIN or Face ID. Open it from Settings.
• Rain & Storms by Hour: a new Weather Forecast layer plays the next 7 days on the map. Drag its slider to pick a time, or tap the map for the forecast there.
• Full screen map: the round button under 3D clears the controls off the map. Its navigation button adds a bearing bar, or locks the map on your position so it turns with you.
• Location sharing: Invite by link. Anyone with the link can ask to join, and you still say yes or no to each person.
• Saved areas now update themselves on Wi-Fi, and removing one gives the space back. See Settings > Storage.
• Dynamic LiDAR: a new Copán colour for Local relief and Multi-scale. 1 m LiDAR draws sharper close up.… more - 🚀Detector Maps: now shown next to Gold Maps, LuckyFind: Metal Detecting App, RockHoundR: Rockhounding Map +5 moreiOSthe store's “similar apps” for it changed: who it's seen as competing with
- 📈Detector Maps entered the top 100iOSTop Grossing · Navigation · CA
- 📈Detector Maps charting in a new countryiOSCanada
- ✏️Detector Maps: app got smalleriOS146 MB → 121 MB (-17%)
- 📦Detector Maps updated to version 6.0.1iOSNEW FOR AUSTRALIA
• Tenement alerts (Pro): watch an area you draw or a whole state, and get alerts when tenements there change.
• Tenement sheets now have a History tab showing what has changed on that title.
• Terrain+ in Queensland, NSW, Victoria and Tasmania: build a 3D model of the ground from state LiDAR. Its tools highlight possible old workings, loaming lines, natural gold traps and where gold may have shed downhill.
• LiDAR draws sharper from zoom 14, and Premium LiDAR saves for offline use with your areas.
• SA tenements are now identified by their title number.
• New Zealand: a Roads switch on the map.… more - 📦Detector Maps updated to version 6.0.1AndroidNew in 6.0.1: New gold state maps with detailed geology, gold host rock filters and Alaska. Land Permissions for coin & relic. Dynamic LiDAR and Terrain+ 3D lidar models. Property boundaries from zoom 13. Explorer plans now on Android. Location sharing over mobile data or a GME XRS radio. A new Community with Events. More reliable Trail recording, a faster start, Android 16 support and fixes.… more
- 📈Detector Maps entered the top 100AndroidTop Grossing · Maps & Navigation · TR
- 📈Detector Maps charting in a new countryAndroidTurkey
- 📈Detector Maps entered the top 100iOSTop Grossing · Navigation · US
- 📈Detector Maps charting in a new countryiOSUnited States
- 📈Detector Maps new best rank in the overall chart: #160AndroidTop Grossing · All Apps · AU
- 📈Detector Maps new best rank in the overall chart: #176AndroidTop Grossing · All Apps · AU
- 📈Detector Maps new best rank in the overall chart: #179AndroidTop Grossing · All Apps · AU
- ✏️Detector Maps added hidden keywords: trailiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Detector Maps entered the top 100iOSTop Grossing · Navigation · GB
- 📈Detector Maps charting in a new countryiOSUnited Kingdom
- 🆕Detector Maps first spotted by AppInsideriOS#5 in Top Grossing · Navigation · Australia
- 🆕Detector Maps first spotted by AppInsiderAndroidUnited States
- 📦Detector Maps version 6.0.0iOSDetector Maps 6.0.0 is our biggest update yet.
CARPLAY
Plug your iPhone in and your map is on the car's screen. It follows the car and shows your layers, waypoints, finds and Trails, plus the land and tenure under you. Start a Go to from your saved waypoints or the car's own search and get turn by turn directions with spoken guidance. Record a Trail or mark a waypoint from the car. Detector Maps also appears on the CarPlay Dashboard.
GETTING TO THE SPOT
- Drive and follow roads to any waypoint, dropped pin, search result or shape, with spoken directions, distance and arrival time.
- Drive then walk: the drive ends nearest the spot and the walk carries on from where the sealed road ends.
- Off road routes on foot or bike: follow tracks and paths, take the ridges and spurs with Bush basher, or go straight line.
- A ring around your location arrow shows which way to walk.
TRAILS, REBUILT
- A live panel while you record: time, distance walked, metres climbed, your elevation now, and finds marked.
- Pause and resume without ending the Trail.
- Trail replay: watch your day redraw itself with your finds appearing where you logged them, then export it as a video to share.
- Trail overview with an activity timeline, elevation profile and your finds.
- Trim a Trail to cut off the drive in and the drive home.
- Trails+: every Trail you have walked on one map, as a heatmap or honeycomb coverage, coloured by walking, detecting and stopped.
YOUR DATA, BACKED UP
- Automatic private backups. Your data copies itself to your own iCloud Drive whenever it changes. Nothing to set up.
- Turn sync off and your data stays on this iPhone only.
- A new Storage screen shows exactly what the app is keeping on your phone.
NEW ON THE MAP
- Active Fires (Australia): live satellite hotspots drawn as a glow, updated every 10 minutes, with sliders for how recently seen and how precisely placed.
- Apple Maps as a basemap.
- Roads as their own layer, with category filters.
- Far deeper layer filters for QLD, NSW, VIC, WA, NT and SA: search tenements by holder, filter geology by rock type, and a Gold host rocks only switch.
- Tap anything and get a clean bottom sheet, with the feature marked on the map. Large leases now select in full.
- A layer information sheet on every layer.
DRAW, MEASURE AND IMPORT
- Draw polygons, lines and grids, edit their points on the map, and measure distance and area.
- Rebuilt importing: KML, GPX, GeoJSON, CSV and TCX from Gaia GPS, Avenza Maps, Google Earth or a GPS unit, plus Trilobite backups, geochemistry CSVs and your own georeferenced maps. We read the file first and show you what is inside before anything lands on your map.
OFFLINE
- Rebuilt Offline Maps with ready made areas, a detail screen for every saved area, live progress, and a download that picks up where it stopped.
- Choose which LiDAR renderings to keep.
- Imported maps and LiDAR packs now keep drawing with no signal.
NEW HERE?
A guided first run from Tom and Matt, then five short in-app lessons on your own map. Find them any time in Settings, Map, In-app Tutorials.
FREE PLAN
Gold occurrences and the tenement, claim and finds layers are now free Australia wide and switched on by default. All of Palmerville Station in Queensland is free on every plan, and you can claim one free offline area anywhere. Saving new offline areas is now part of the paid plans; areas already on your phone stay where they are.
FASTER AND STEADIER
Quicker launches, smoother maps and a long list of fixes, including imported maps and LiDAR going blank with no signal, and trimming a Trail that had a duplicate copy.… more - 📦Detector Maps updated to version 6.0.0AndroidDetector Maps 6.0, our biggest update yet.
• Android Auto: your map on the car's screen
• Drive there with voice directions, then walk in from where the road ends
• Trails rebuilt: live stats, pause, trim, replay your day as a video
• Automatic backups to your own Google Drive or OneDrive
• Historical maps free to view, added on a paid plan
• Cleaner popups and a layer info sheet
• Guided first run and in-app lessons
• Faster, smoother, many fixes… more - 📦Detector Maps version 5.7.4AndroidWhat's new
• Faster start-up. The app opens in seconds even after a long Trail recording, and the map works while the rest of the recording loads.
• Smoother map with lots of saved Trails. They draw faster and no longer slow the app down.
• No more surprise logouts on patchy signal, like driving out of wifi range. You stay signed in.
• Cleaner launch. No more white flash when the app opens.… more - 🆕Detector Maps released on Google PlayAndroid
- 🆕Detector Maps released on the App StoreiOS
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Detector Maps at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-07. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Detector Maps is a specialized navigation tool for metal detectorists and prospectors that integrates geological data, historical maps, and LiDAR overlays to identify high-potential hunting sites. The app has achieved notable commercial traction in Australia (#4 Navigation Grossing) and the UK (#53 Navigation Grossing), indicating strong monetization potential within its niche despite being free to download.
Similar apps: Gaia GPS, OnX Hunt, CalTopo
App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
Detector Maps’s App Store privacy label declares 1 data category used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 4 linked to your identity and 0 collected anonymously.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Google Play
App details
Detector Maps downloads & installs
Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.
| Store | Downloads / day | Lifetime installs |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 50+ | – |
| Google Play | 50+ | 50k+ Measured |
| Total | 100+ Confidence | 50k+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
Where Detector Maps's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend before Apple and Google take their fee.
| Store | Per day | Per month | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | |||
| Google Play | |||
| Total | Confidence | 100% |
Business model: Subscription-led
How Detector Maps makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Yearly Plan subscription | |
| 2 | Monthly Plan subscription | |
| 3 | Yearly Explorer Plan subscription | |
| 4 | Monthly Explorer Plan subscription |
Where it ranks now
Both stores, across every country we track.
| Store | Best rank | Charting in | US Top Free | US Top Grossing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | #4 | 3 of 30 countries | – | #80 |
| Google Play | #3 | 3 of 23 countries | – | #51 |
Full chart lists: App Store · Google Play.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisGrowing fastest in
Australia ▲ +50%
New ratings by country (3)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 59% | ▲ +50% | |
| 3.8 | 32% | ▼ -30% | |
| 1 | 8% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.6 ★ | 269 |
| Google Play | 4.2 ★ | 1k 63 written reviews |
| Both stores | 4.3 ★ weighted by ratings | 1.3k |
What users say about Detector Maps
From the 21 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users are sharply divided between those who value the advanced mapping features for prospecting and those who feel misled by aggressive paywalls and technical bugs. While power users praise the LiDAR and historical data integration, many complain that essential tools are locked behind expensive subscriptions or fail to work in specific regions.
Mixed (52% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions, and privacy and spam.
What people like
- Features & content: “I had used spartan forge for the some of the lidar and tracking features”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “Bs can’t use lidar on free trial”
- Privacy & data: “Don’t waist your money on this obvious scam application”
About Detector Maps
Whether you are swinging a detector for gold nuggets, coin shooting an old homestead, hunting Civil War relics or panning a creek, it puts serious research intelligence in your pocket - and it works offline, where the finds actually are.
COIN & RELIC HUNTING - NATIONWIDE
Research old towns, ghost towns, homesteads, schoolhouses and long-forgotten gathering places - the ground where old coins, buttons, buckles and relics are still waiting.
- Historical map overlays: hunt the buildings, roads and fields the modern map forgot
- Historic USGS Topo maps, coast to coast
- LiDAR that reveals cellar holes, old roads and house sites hiding under the trees
- Plan permissions with confidence before you knock
GOLD PROSPECTING - 15 STATES
Serious geology for nugget hunting, from California to the Carolinas. Detect where gold has already been found, then find what the old-timers missed.
- Historic gold mines, diggings and workings - proven gold ground
- Surface geochemistry with pathfinder-element filtering
- Current and expired mining claims, updated every weekday
- 1-metre LiDAR hillshade that reveals old workings worth a closer swing
DETECTOR ACADEMY
A built-in crash course: 34 short video lessons, most under a minute - layers, LiDAR, waypoints, trails, offline maps and Pro tools.
DETECTOR GRIDS
Plan complete, methodical coverage of a site with adjustable search lanes you follow while recording your trail - never grid the same ground twice.
BREADCRUMB TRAIL TRACKING (BACKGROUND GPS)
Record your exact trail even with the app in the background or the screen off. See where you have walked and save paths for the next trip.
WHY WE REQUEST "ALLOW ALL THE TIME" LOCATION ACCESS
Detector Maps only uses background location when you switch breadcrumb tracking ON, keeping an unbroken log while your phone is idle. Disable it anytime in the app or device settings.
WAYPOINT MARKING AND FIND LOGGING
Drop waypoints on coins, relics, gold finds and old workings. Add names, notes and photos, then sync securely between your phone and the web app so your finds are never lost.
REAL-TIME GPS NAVIGATION
Watch boundaries, geology, historical maps and terrain update around you as you move - a GPS built for prospecting, coin shooting and relic hunting.
COVERAGE
USA COIN & RELIC: Nationwide
USA GOLD: CA, AL, NC, AZ, NV, ID, OR, UT, CO, MT, WA, SC, VA, GA, NM
AUSTRALIA: QLD, NSW, VIC, WA, SA, TAS, NT
NEW ZEALAND: historic goldfields, geology and offline maps
CANADA: British Columbia
SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION
All plans include every map, standard data layers, offline downloads, and access to Australia, USA, New Zealand, Canada (BC) and the U
Detector Maps App Store
Detector Maps gets 100+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Detector Maps is #4 in Navigation Grossing in Australia and charting in 3 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 9 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
Detector Maps at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-07. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Detector Maps is a specialized navigation tool for metal detectorists and prospectors that integrates geological data, historical maps, and LiDAR overlays to identify high-potential hunting sites. The app has achieved notable commercial traction in Australia (#4 Navigation Grossing) and the UK (#53 Navigation Grossing), indicating strong monetization potential within its niche despite being free to download.
Similar apps: Gaia GPS, OnX Hunt, CalTopo
Detector Maps on the App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
Detector Maps’s App Store privacy label declares 1 data category used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 4 linked to your identity and 0 collected anonymously.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Detector Maps downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Detector Maps's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Detector Maps before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Business model: Subscription-led
How Detector Maps makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Yearly Plan subscription | |
| 2 | Monthly Plan subscription | |
| 3 | Yearly Explorer Plan subscription | |
| 4 | Monthly Explorer Plan subscription |
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| NavigationGrossing | #4 | |
| NavigationGrossing | #80 | |
| NavigationGrossing | #50 | |
| NavigationFree | #78 |
Apps near Detector Maps on the chart
Navigation Grossing, around #4.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisGrowing fastest in
Australia ▲ +50%
New ratings by country (3)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 59% | ▲ +50% | |
| 3.8 | 32% | ▼ -30% | |
| 1 | 8% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Detector Maps
From the 21 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users are sharply divided between those who value the advanced mapping features for prospecting and those who feel misled by aggressive paywalls and technical bugs. While power users praise the LiDAR and historical data integration, many complain that essential tools are locked behind expensive subscriptions or fail to work in specific regions.
Mixed (52% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions, and privacy and spam.
What people like
- Features & content: “I had used spartan forge for the some of the lidar and tracking features”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “Bs can’t use lidar on free trial”
- Privacy & data: “Don’t waist your money on this obvious scam application”
About Detector Maps
Whether you are swinging a detector for gold nuggets, coin shooting an old homestead, hunting Civil War relics or panning a creek, it puts serious research intelligence in your pocket - and it works offline, where the finds actually are.
COIN & RELIC HUNTING - NATIONWIDE
Research old towns, ghost towns, homesteads, schoolhouses and long-forgotten gathering places - the ground where old coins, buttons, buckles and relics are still waiting.
- Historical map overlays: hunt the buildings, roads and fields the modern map forgot
- Historic USGS Topo maps, coast to coast
- LiDAR that reveals cellar holes, old roads and house sites hiding under the trees
- Plan permissions with confidence before you knock
GOLD PROSPECTING - 15 STATES
Serious geology for nugget hunting, from California to the Carolinas. Detect where gold has already been found, then find what the old-timers missed.
- Historic gold mines, diggings and workings - proven gold ground
- Surface geochemistry with pathfinder-element filtering
- Current and expired mining claims, updated every weekday
- 1-metre LiDAR hillshade that reveals old workings worth a closer swing
DETECTOR ACADEMY
A built-in crash course: 34 short video lessons, most under a minute - layers, LiDAR, waypoints, trails, offline maps and Pro tools.
DETECTOR GRIDS
Plan complete, methodical coverage of a site with adjustable search lanes you follow while recording your trail - never grid the same ground twice.
BREADCRUMB TRAIL TRACKING (BACKGROUND GPS)
Record your exact trail even with the app in the background or the screen off. See where you have walked and save paths for the next trip.
WHY WE REQUEST "ALLOW ALL THE TIME" LOCATION ACCESS
Detector Maps only uses background location when you switch breadcrumb tracking ON, keeping an unbroken log while your phone is idle. Disable it anytime in the app or device settings.
WAYPOINT MARKING AND FIND LOGGING
Drop waypoints on coins, relics, gold finds and old workings. Add names, notes and photos, then sync securely between your phone and the web app so your finds are never lost.
REAL-TIME GPS NAVIGATION
Watch boundaries, geology, historical maps and terrain update around you as you move - a GPS built for prospecting, coin shooting and relic hunting.
COVERAGE
USA COIN & RELIC: Nationwide
USA GOLD: CA, AL, NC, AZ, NV, ID, OR, UT, CO, MT, WA, SC, VA, GA, NM
AUSTRALIA: QLD, NSW, VIC, WA, SA, TAS, NT
NEW ZEALAND: historic goldfields, geology and offline maps
CANADA: British Columbia
SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION
All plans include every map, standard data layers, offline downloads, and access to Australia, USA, New Zealand, Canada (BC) and the U
Latest updates
Store changes
What Detector Maps changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Detector Maps Android
Detector Maps gets 100+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Detector Maps is #3 in Maps & Navigation Grossing on Google Play in Australia and charting in 3 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 9 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
Detector Maps at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-07. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Detector Maps is a specialized offline navigation and research tool for metal detectorists, gold prospectors, and relic hunters that overlays geological data, historical maps, and LiDAR imagery to identify high-potential search sites. The app has achieved strong commercial traction in Australia (#4 Grossing) and notable positions in Turkey (#41) and the US (#53), indicating rapid adoption among niche hobbyist communities shortly after its August 2025 release.
Similar apps: Gaia GPS, CalTopo, OnX Hunt
Detector Maps on Google Play
App details
Detector Maps downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Detector Maps's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Detector Maps before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Business model: Subscription-led
How Detector Maps makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Yearly Plan subscription | |
| 2 | Monthly Plan subscription | |
| 3 | Yearly Explorer Plan subscription | |
| 4 | Monthly Explorer Plan subscription |
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Maps & NavigationGrossing | #3 | |
| Maps & NavigationGrossing | #51 | |
| Maps & NavigationFree | #58 | |
| Maps & NavigationGrossing | #39 |
Apps near Detector Maps on the chart
Maps & Navigation Grossing, around #3.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisReview momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Detector Maps
From the 110 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Users highly value the app's specialized LiDAR and geological mapping features for prospecting, often calling it an indispensable tool despite the high cost. However, significant complaints arise regarding subscription billing errors, login failures, and a lack of data coverage in certain regions.
Mostly positive (75% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and being useful. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions, and login and account problems. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Features & content: “Fantastic tool in the pack”
- Useful: “A must have for detectorists”
- Price & subscription: “well worth the money in my opinion”
- Updates: “Great app, regular updates”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “wants you to pay to do anything on it”
- Login & account: “taking my payment but won't let me log in ???”
- Ads: “misleading advertisement as free app”
- Crashes & bugs: “won't load on my phone you pay for it now won't work”
About Detector Maps
Whether you are swinging a detector for gold nuggets, coin shooting an old homestead, hunting Civil War relics or panning a creek, it puts serious research intelligence in your pocket - and it works offline, where the finds actually are.
COIN & RELIC HUNTING - NATIONWIDE
Research old towns, ghost towns, homesteads, schoolhouses and long-forgotten gathering places - the ground where old coins, buttons, buckles and relics are still waiting.
- Historical map overlays: hunt the buildings, roads and fields the modern map forgot
- Historic USGS Topo maps, coast to coast
- LiDAR that reveals cellar holes, old roads and house sites hiding under the trees
- Plan permissions with confidence before you knock
GOLD PROSPECTING - 15 STATES
Serious geology for nugget hunting, from California to the Carolinas. Detect where gold has already been found, then find what the old-timers missed.
- Historic gold mines, diggings and workings - proven gold ground
- Surface geochemistry with pathfinder-element filtering
- Current and expired mining claims, updated every weekday
- 1-metre LiDAR hillshade that reveals old workings worth a closer swing
DETECTOR ACADEMY
A built-in crash course: 34 short video lessons, most under a minute - layers, LiDAR, waypoints, trails, offline maps and Pro tools.
DETECTOR GRIDS
Plan complete, methodical coverage of a site with adjustable search lanes you follow while recording your trail - never grid the same ground twice.
BREADCRUMB TRAIL TRACKING (BACKGROUND GPS)
Record your exact trail even with the app in the background or the screen off. See where you have walked and save paths for the next trip.
WHY WE REQUEST "ALLOW ALL THE TIME" LOCATION ACCESS
Detector Maps only uses background location when you switch breadcrumb tracking ON, keeping an unbroken log while your phone is idle. Disable it anytime in the app or device settings.
WAYPOINT MARKING AND FIND LOGGING
Drop waypoints on coins, relics, gold finds and old workings. Add names, notes and photos, then sync securely between your phone and the web app so your finds are never lost.
REAL-TIME GPS NAVIGATION
Watch boundaries, geology, historical maps and terrain update around you as you move - a GPS built for prospecting, coin shooting and relic hunting.
COVERAGE
USA COIN & RELIC: Nationwide
USA GOLD: CA, AL, NC, AZ, NV, ID, OR, UT, CO, MT, WA, SC, VA, GA, NM
AUSTRALIA: QLD, NSW, VIC, WA, SA, TAS, NT
NEW ZEALAND: historic goldfields, geology and offline maps
CANADA: British Columbia
SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION
All plans include every map, offline downloads, and access to Australia, USA, New Zealand, Canada (BC) and the UK.
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