Detector Maps
Detector Maps gets 100+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, September 2026, rounded down to a band).
Detector Maps is #8 in Navigation Grossing in Australia and charting in 2 of 24 countries we track.
Updated 27 Sep 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperGOLD DISCOVERY SOLUTIONS PTY LTD
CategoryNavigation
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.8 (1k)
Version6.0.0
Age rating4+
First seen by us
25 Sep 2026
Rating
4.8 ★
1k ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#8
Measured
Detector Maps on the App Store
App details
App ID
6741421159
Publisher
GOLD DISCOVERY SOLUTIONS PTY LTD
Content rating
4+
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
Apple publishes no download counts. iPhone 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.
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.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
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.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Detector Maps before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Not in an overall Top Grossing chart, only in category charts: each category position is converted to the overall position it corresponds to, then priced on the same rank-to-revenue curve, inside the part of each market the charted apps leave over.
Business model: In-app purchase-led
How Detector Maps makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
In-app purchases
One-off purchases
/mo
of revenue
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 24 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| NavigationGrossing | #8 | |
| NavigationGrossing | #93 | |
| NavigationFree | #82 |
Apps near Detector Maps on the chart
Navigation Grossing, around #8.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.8 ★
1k ratings
Measured
Ratings
1k
Measured
About Detector Maps
Detector Maps is the field tool that keeps you on the gold. Built by geologists for real prospectors and metal detectorists across Australia, the United States, New Zealand and Canada, it pairs advanced geological data with rock-solid GPS so you spend your time on high-potential ground, not guessing.
Whether you are swinging a metal detector for gold, panning a creek or hiking into remote country, it puts serious geological intelligence in your pocket - and it works offline, where the gold actually is. Gold detecting is metal detecting, so the same tools help any detectorist work smarter.
DATA LAYERS (where available)
- Surface geochemistry with built-in filtering to target the right pathfinder elements
- Historic gold mines and workings - detect where gold has already been found
- Current and expired mining leases and claims, updated every weekday, so you know where you stand
- 1-metre LiDAR hillshade that reveals old workings and ground features worth a closer swing - where available (a per-state add-on in Australia)
FOR METAL DETECTORISTS
The same tools that find gold help any detectorist. Use historic mines and old workings to find ground that produced before, read LiDAR to spot old sites and diggings the eye misses, and check leases, claims and boundaries before you ask permission. Then log every find, live-GPS your position and record your trail offline - the field kit every detectorist needs.
BREADCRUMB TRAIL TRACKING (BACKGROUND GPS)
Record your exact trail even when the app is in the background or the screen is off. See where you have walked, stop covering the same ground twice, 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. This keeps an unbroken log of your journey while your phone is idle or the screen is off, and saves battery. Disable it anytime in the app or your device settings.
WAYPOINT MARKING AND FIND LOGGING
Drop waypoints on gold finds, targets, quartz outcrops, and old workings. Add names, notes and categories, then sync securely so your finds are never lost.
REAL-TIME GPS NAVIGATION
Track your live position and watch leases, boundaries, geology and terrain update around you as you move - a GPS built for gold prospecting and metal detecting.
COVERAGE
AUSTRALIA: all major gold states - QLD, NSW, VIC, WA, SA, TAS, NT
UNITED STATES: California, Alabama, North Carolina, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Oregon, Utah, Colorado, Montana, Washington, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, New Mexico
NEW ZEALAND: historic goldfields, geology layers and offline maps
CANADA: British Columbia
SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION
All plans include every map, the standard data layers, offline downloads, and access to Australia, USA, New Zealand, Canada (British Columbia) and the United Kingdom.
USA Pricing - Explorer Monthly: $9.99 USD; Explorer Yearly: $99.99 USD.
AUS/NZ/CA Pricing - Explorer Monthly: $9.99; Explorer Yearly: $99.99;
Whether you are swinging a metal detector for gold, panning a creek or hiking into remote country, it puts serious geological intelligence in your pocket - and it works offline, where the gold actually is. Gold detecting is metal detecting, so the same tools help any detectorist work smarter.
DATA LAYERS (where available)
- Surface geochemistry with built-in filtering to target the right pathfinder elements
- Historic gold mines and workings - detect where gold has already been found
- Current and expired mining leases and claims, updated every weekday, so you know where you stand
- 1-metre LiDAR hillshade that reveals old workings and ground features worth a closer swing - where available (a per-state add-on in Australia)
FOR METAL DETECTORISTS
The same tools that find gold help any detectorist. Use historic mines and old workings to find ground that produced before, read LiDAR to spot old sites and diggings the eye misses, and check leases, claims and boundaries before you ask permission. Then log every find, live-GPS your position and record your trail offline - the field kit every detectorist needs.
BREADCRUMB TRAIL TRACKING (BACKGROUND GPS)
Record your exact trail even when the app is in the background or the screen is off. See where you have walked, stop covering the same ground twice, 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. This keeps an unbroken log of your journey while your phone is idle or the screen is off, and saves battery. Disable it anytime in the app or your device settings.
WAYPOINT MARKING AND FIND LOGGING
Drop waypoints on gold finds, targets, quartz outcrops, and old workings. Add names, notes and categories, then sync securely so your finds are never lost.
REAL-TIME GPS NAVIGATION
Track your live position and watch leases, boundaries, geology and terrain update around you as you move - a GPS built for gold prospecting and metal detecting.
COVERAGE
AUSTRALIA: all major gold states - QLD, NSW, VIC, WA, SA, TAS, NT
UNITED STATES: California, Alabama, North Carolina, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Oregon, Utah, Colorado, Montana, Washington, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, New Mexico
NEW ZEALAND: historic goldfields, geology layers and offline maps
CANADA: British Columbia
SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION
All plans include every map, the standard data layers, offline downloads, and access to Australia, USA, New Zealand, Canada (British Columbia) and the United Kingdom.
USA Pricing - Explorer Monthly: $9.99 USD; Explorer Yearly: $99.99 USD.
AUS/NZ/CA Pricing - Explorer Monthly: $9.99; Explorer Yearly: $99.99;
Latest updates
6.0.0
Detector 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.