Ariadne GPS Downloads & RevenueAriadne GPS · App Store
Ariadne GPS is #59 in Navigation Paid in Japan and charting in 13 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 9 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperGiovanni Ciaffoni
CategoryNavigation
Price4.99 USD
Released
Rating★ 5.0 (4)
Version4.5.3
Age rating4+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)1k+ worldwide
✏️Description updated✏️New iPad screenshots📦Updated to version 4.5.4📦First update in 2444 days📈Entered the top 100 in 2 charts📈Charting in a new country🆕First spotted by AppInsider🆕Released on the App Store
Full timeline · 31 events in the last 12 months
- ✏️Ariadne GPS: description updated· 7 countries
- ✏️Ariadne GPS: new iPad screenshots· 7 countries
- ✏️Ariadne GPS: new screenshots6 screenshots (was 1) · 7 countries
- ✏️Ariadne GPS: description updated· RU
- ✏️Ariadne GPS: new iPad screenshots· RU
- ✏️Ariadne GPS: new screenshots6 screenshots (was 3) · RU
- ✏️Ariadne GPS: description updated· KR
- ✏️Ariadne GPS: new iPad screenshots· KR
- ✏️Ariadne GPS: new screenshots6 screenshots (was 3) · KR
- ✏️Ariadne GPS: description updated· JP
- ✏️Ariadne GPS: new iPad screenshots· JP
- ✏️Ariadne GPS: new screenshots6 screenshots (was 3) · JP
- ✏️Ariadne GPS: description updated· IT
- ✏️Ariadne GPS: new iPad screenshots· IT
- ✏️Ariadne GPS: new screenshots6 screenshots (was 3) · IT
- ✏️Ariadne GPS: description updated· FR
- ✏️Ariadne GPS: new iPad screenshots· FR
- ✏️Ariadne GPS: new screenshots6 screenshots (was 3) · FR
- ✏️Ariadne GPS: description updated· DE
- ✏️Ariadne GPS: new iPad screenshots· DE
- ✏️Ariadne GPS: new screenshots6 screenshots (was 3) · DE
- ✏️Ariadne GPS: description updated· BR
- ✏️Ariadne GPS: new iPad screenshots· BR
- ✏️Ariadne GPS: new screenshots6 screenshots (was 3) · BR
- 📦Ariadne GPS updated to version 4.5.4Ariadne GPS is renewed: faster with VoiceOver, more reliable while you walk, ready for today's iPhones and iOS.
VOICEOVER ACTIONS
• Favorites: in the list, using the rotor actions, you can observe, activate or deactivate, edit, share and open any favorite in maps without entering its details.
• New Repeat action on Where Am I? and Monitor: hear the last message again whenever you want.
• Quick save, Favorite Details and Edit Favorite are now actions on the Home screen too, alongside the usual gestures.
MAP
• The three-finger tap now also says the size of the area shown and, if the map rotates with the compass, degrees and cardinal point. For example: Main Street, 1 km, 120° south east.
• With VoiceOver you zoom with a vertical flick, and the announced radius is accurate.
• The map orientation always matches what is spoken.
• Map updated to the latest version of Google Maps.
MONITOR AND VOICE
• VoiceOver is no longer interrupted at every data update.
• Alerts are not lost: phrases are spoken in order, one after the other.
• Addresses also arrive with the screen locked, and the chosen interval is respected.
• When you stand still, GPS drift no longer produces new addresses or false directions.
• The voice no longer gets stuck.
• New option to choose whether to hear nearby points of interest during the Monitor.
SETTINGS AND FAVORITES
• With VoiceOver each setting is a single row: you hear its name and state and change it with a double tap.
• Clearer favorite editing: the Use presets, Update address and Update location buttons are always visible.
LOOK AND COMPATIBILITY
• New Home screen with large high-contrast buttons, full-screen layout and dark mode.
• Fixed the distance of proximity alerts and the direction of favorites.
• TomTom and Apple Maps updated. Navigon, ViaOpta and Loadstone removed.
• Requires iOS 18 or later.… more - 📦Ariadne GPS: first update in 2444 days
- 📈Ariadne GPS entered the top 100 in 2 chartsTop Paid · Navigation · GB · Top Paid · Navigation · US
- 📈Ariadne GPS charting in a new countryUnited States
- 📈Ariadne GPS charting in a new countrySaudi Arabia
- 🆕Ariadne GPS first spotted by AppInsider#31 in Top Paid · Navigation · Italy
- 🆕Ariadne GPS released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
5.0 ★
4 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#59
Navigation PaidMeasured
Ariadne GPS on the App Store
App details
App ID
441063072
Publisher
Giovanni Ciaffoni
On the store since
Jun 2011
15 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 10.0+
iPhone 5 and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad · Watch
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
19
HR CS DA NL EN FR DE EL IT JA KO NB …
Size
40 MB
Also listed in
Lifestyle
Ariadne GPS downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | NavigationPaid | #59 |
 South Korea | NavigationPaid | #52 |
 Brazil | NavigationPaid | #42 |
 Germany | NavigationPaid | #79 |
| Italy | NavigationPaid | #35 |
 United Kingdom | NavigationPaid | #95 |
 France | NavigationPaid | #61 |
 Russia | NavigationPaid | #48 |
 India | NavigationPaid | #64 |
 Canada | NavigationPaid | #79 |
 Australia | NavigationPaid | #86 |
 Indonesia | NavigationPaid | #158 |
 Saudi Arabia | NavigationPaid | #186 |
Apps near Ariadne GPS on the chart
Navigation Paid, around #59.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
5.0 ★
4 ratings
Measured
Ratings
4
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
under 1
4-week average
Lifetime rating
3.5★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
20/100
faster than 0% of Navigation apps
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.
About Ariadne GPS
There are hundreds of gps apps. Do we really need one more?
Ariadne GPS is more than a simple gps app.
Besides offering you the possibility to know your position and to get information about the street, the number, etc. it also lets you explore the map of what's around you.
What do we mean by saying "explore"? You'll deal with a talking map. If you have VoiceOver activated on your device, you will be able to know the street names and numbers that are around you by touching them.
Just put your finger on the screen of your device, when showing the map and moving it you will be told the info's about the street you're touching.
Your position is on the center of the screen. What's in front of you is on the top half of the screen and things behind you are on the bottom half of the screen.
You can also explore a different region than the one around you by telling the app the street and the city.
You can ask for information about your position at any time, also activating a function, called monitor, that will give you this info periodically (Please read the note below).
This app has also got some other useful features that might help when walking or traveling by bus, train etc.
If you add your favourite points to the app database, you can be alerted when you get closer than a certain distance to one of them.
This app is completely accessible using VoiceOver and gives you access to information that are normally unavailable to people using the speech synthesizer and can be therefore especially useful to blind and partially sighted people.
Note: The features of Ariadne GPS are based on the location services and on the Maps server for what concerns the information about the position. This information may not be accurate, due to the location accuracy, which is generally below fifteen metres but in some cases can be few tens of metres and to the Maps service, which might be unresponsive at certain times (Ariadne GPS will tell you if this is the case). The aim of Ariadne GPS is to give you an idea of your position and what is around you. Please do not completely rely on it.
Please note that the use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
For more info and suggestions please visit http://www.ariadnegps.eu
Ariadne GPS is more than a simple gps app.
Besides offering you the possibility to know your position and to get information about the street, the number, etc. it also lets you explore the map of what's around you.
What do we mean by saying "explore"? You'll deal with a talking map. If you have VoiceOver activated on your device, you will be able to know the street names and numbers that are around you by touching them.
Just put your finger on the screen of your device, when showing the map and moving it you will be told the info's about the street you're touching.
Your position is on the center of the screen. What's in front of you is on the top half of the screen and things behind you are on the bottom half of the screen.
You can also explore a different region than the one around you by telling the app the street and the city.
You can ask for information about your position at any time, also activating a function, called monitor, that will give you this info periodically (Please read the note below).
This app has also got some other useful features that might help when walking or traveling by bus, train etc.
If you add your favourite points to the app database, you can be alerted when you get closer than a certain distance to one of them.
This app is completely accessible using VoiceOver and gives you access to information that are normally unavailable to people using the speech synthesizer and can be therefore especially useful to blind and partially sighted people.
Note: The features of Ariadne GPS are based on the location services and on the Maps server for what concerns the information about the position. This information may not be accurate, due to the location accuracy, which is generally below fifteen metres but in some cases can be few tens of metres and to the Maps service, which might be unresponsive at certain times (Ariadne GPS will tell you if this is the case). The aim of Ariadne GPS is to give you an idea of your position and what is around you. Please do not completely rely on it.
Please note that the use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
For more info and suggestions please visit http://www.ariadnegps.eu
Latest updates
4.5.4
Ariadne GPS is renewed: faster with VoiceOver, more reliable while you walk, ready for today's iPhones and iOS.
VOICEOVER ACTIONS
• Favorites: in the list, using the rotor actions, you can observe, activate or deactivate, edit, share and open any favorite in maps without entering its details.
• New Repeat action on Where Am I? and Monitor: hear the last message again whenever you want.
• Quick save, Favorite Details and Edit Favorite are now actions on the Home screen too, alongside the usual gestures.
MAP
• The three-finger tap now also says the size of the area shown and, if the map rotates with the compass, degrees and cardinal point. For example: Main Street, 1 km, 120° south east.
• With VoiceOver you zoom with a vertical flick, and the announced radius is accurate.
• The map orientation always matches what is spoken.
• Map updated to the latest version of Google Maps.
MONITOR AND VOICE
• VoiceOver is no longer interrupted at every data update.
• Alerts are not lost: phrases are spoken in order, one after the other.
• Addresses also arrive with the screen locked, and the chosen interval is respected.
• When you stand still, GPS drift no longer produces new addresses or false directions.
• The voice no longer gets stuck.
• New option to choose whether to hear nearby points of interest during the Monitor.
SETTINGS AND FAVORITES
• With VoiceOver each setting is a single row: you hear its name and state and change it with a double tap.
• Clearer favorite editing: the Use presets, Update address and Update location buttons are always visible.
LOOK AND COMPATIBILITY
• New Home screen with large high-contrast buttons, full-screen layout and dark mode.
• Fixed the distance of proximity alerts and the direction of favorites.
• TomTom and Apple Maps updated. Navigon, ViaOpta and Loadstone removed.
• Requires iOS 18 or later.
4.5.3
Store changes
What Ariadne GPS changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Description updated 
New iPad screenshots
New screenshots
6 screenshots (was 1)