Canada Prospector Downloads & RevenueCanada Prospector · App Store & Google Play
Canada Prospector gets 100+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Canada Prospector by Nigel Brown is on App Store and Google Play. Active Users (MAU & DAU), Downloads, rankings, keywords, revenue, and rating totals.
📦iOSUpdated to version 2.2.1📦iOSNow updating weekly✏️AndroidDescription updated✏️AndroidNew screenshots✏️iOSDescription updated✏️iOSNew iPad screenshots📈iOSEntered the top 100🆕AndroidFirst spotted by AppInsider🆕iOSFirst spotted by AppInsider📈iOSEntered the top 100🆕AndroidReleased on Google Play🆕iOSReleased on the App Store
Full timeline · 17 events
- 📦Canada Prospector updated to version 2.2.1iOSFixed a crash that could happen when starting your first track if you chose not to allow Motion & Fitness access.
If Motion & Fitness is off, the recording screen now lets you know your climb is measured by GPS, with a shortcut to turn it on in Settings for more accurate elevation.… more - 📦Canada Prospector: now updating weeklyiOS4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- ✏️Canada Prospector: app got smalleriOS114 MB → 72 MB (-37%)
- 📦Canada Prospector updated to version 2.2iOSLAYER PRESETS
• Save your favourite set of layers, filters, base map and terrain as a named preset, and bring it all back in one tap
• Starter presets for each province get you going, including Gold Prospecting
• See exactly what you've changed since applying a preset, then update it or save it as new
• Set each layer's filters right from the preset's own page
REMEMBERS YOUR MAP
• Your layers and filters are kept between launches, separately for each province
NEW MAP STYLES
• Choose Standard, Satellite or Topo from the new Map button
• Hillshade, contours and 3D terrain switches for Pro members
APPEARANCE
• Choose Light, Dark or System in Settings — keep the app dark for night use without changing your whole phone
TRY PRO FREE
• 14-day free trial on the annual plan
• A clearer upgrade screen that shows what each feature unlocks
ONTARIO
• Abandoned mine sheets now list each site's workings and their hazards
ALSO
• Faster layer loading and smoother maps
• Tapping the map picks the most specific feature under your finger
• Larger, easier-to-tap map buttons and more responsive feedback
• Many smaller fixes and refinements… more - ✏️Canada Prospector: description updatedAndroid· US
- ✏️Canada Prospector: new screenshotsAndroid12 screenshots (was 12) · US
- ✏️Canada Prospector: description updatediOS· CA
- ✏️Canada Prospector: new iPad screenshotsiOS· CA
- ✏️Canada Prospector: new screenshotsiOS7 screenshots (was 6) · CA
- 📦Canada Prospector updated to version 2.1iOSGPS TRACKS (PRO)
• Record your route as you walk, even with the screen off
• Pause and resume from the Lock Screen while you work
• Every track keeps its distance, time and elevation profile
• Mark waypoints along the way, give a track its own colour, and export it as GPX
• Your tracks live in their own tab in Saved, with a preview of each route
PROPERTY PARCELS IN EVERY PROVINCE
• Lot lines and private land now cover Ontario and British Columbia as well as Nova Scotia
• Tap anywhere and What's Here names the parcel under your finger
CLEARER ANSWERS
• What's Here agrees with itself: when ground is in a park or other restricted area, the land status and property sections say so too
• British Columbia and Ontario claim sheets name the claim type, such as Placer Claim
EXPANDED BRITISH COLUMBIA LIDAR
• Hillshade rebuilt from LidarBC's own 1 m elevation data, filling ground the old layer left blank
ALSO
• Search results go straight to the record
• Follow Canada Prospector on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok from Help
• Many smaller fixes and refinements… more - 📈Canada Prospector entered the top 100iOSTop Free · Navigation · CA
- 🆕Canada Prospector first spotted by AppInsiderAndroidCanada
- 🆕Canada Prospector first spotted by AppInsideriOS#63 in Top Grossing · Navigation · Canada
- 📈Canada Prospector entered the top 100iOSTop Grossing · Navigation · CA
- 📦Canada Prospector version 2.0iOSNova Prospector is now Canada Prospector. The app has gone cross-Canada: one app, the same Pro membership at the same price, now covering more provinces, starting with Nova Scotia, Ontario and British Columbia. Existing subscribers keep everything they have and get the new provinces included.
THREE PROVINCES
• Nova Scotia, Ontario and British Columbia, each with its own live claim registry, staking rules, regulations and data layers
• Choose your province on first launch and switch any time; everything on the map follows
NEW MAP ENGINE
• Mapbox maps replace Apple Maps, with satellite imagery, terrain and 3D pitch
• Province-wide claim fabric drawn at every zoom from nightly-refreshed tiles, colour-coded by expiry
• LiDAR hillshade and contours, and aeromagnetic and gravity surveys where the province publishes them
MORE DATA
• Occurrences, abandoned mines, drill holes, bedrock and surficial geology, faults and glacial ice-flow in every province
• Ontario: gold deposits, mine features, held tenure, protected areas, exploration permits, Crown land use, iron formations and dikes
• British Columbia: MINFILE showings, mineral reserves, notices of work, assessment reports, Crown grants and parks
• Nova Scotia: geochemistry, historic mining districts, the Faribault survey, coal, tailings, restricted areas and Crown land
• Search across every layer and by place name
SERVER-DRIVEN ALERTS
• Watch an area and get a push notification when claims there lapse and ground opens, with a Recent Open Ground ledger of exactly which parcels
• Reminders before a watched claim expires, and calendar events for its dates
• Expiring Claims panel with expiring, expired and watched tabs
FIND AND STAKE
• Ranked exploration targets checked against open ground, and a prospecting heatmap
• What's Here: tap anywhere for the geology, workings and claims under your finger
• Near Me: everything within a chosen radius of you
• Staking calculator for each province: frame an area, pick cells under that province's rules, price the application and read the cells off in the registry's format
• Tenure and cell history, and holder drill-down
DO THE WORK
• Assessment-work trackers for each regime: Nova Scotia licence terms with Form 10 and Form 11 export, Ontario unit credits with receipt photos and the MLAS cost summary, BC hectare-work with a statement of work
• Staking and regulation guides written against the actual rules
OFFLINE AND YOURS
• Download a province's data pack and map areas and work with no signal
• Favourites, field pins with photos and notes, synced across your devices with iCloud
• KML, GeoJSON and CSV export
• Guided tour, help, dark mode
Canada Prospector Pro unlocks targets, watching, alerts and unlimited saves and exports.… more - 🆕Canada Prospector released on Google PlayAndroid
- 🆕Canada Prospector released on the App StoreiOS
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.4 ★
12 ratings, both stores
Measured
Best rank now
#52
Android · 
Maps & Navigation Free
Maps & Navigation FreeMeasured
New ratings a week
2
▲ +50% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
App Store
App details
App ID
6782352375
Publisher
Nigel Brown
Publisher country
Canada
On the store since
Jul 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 18.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
1
EN
Size
72 MB
Also listed in
Reference
Google Play
App details
App ID
com.aurivenlabs.novaprospector
Publisher
NIGEL EDWARD BROWN
Publisher country
Canada
Content rating
Everyone
Canada Prospector 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 | 10+ | 1k+ Measured |
| Total | 100+ Confidence | 1k+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
App Store: chart positions and rating growth per country, anchored on its own Android downloads; lifetime from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Google Play: the daily change in its exact install count. The total adds every store.
Where Canada Prospector'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
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.
Business model: In-app purchase-led
How Canada Prospector makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
In-app purchases
One-off purchases
/mo
of revenue
Where it ranks now
Both stores, across every country we track.
| Store | Best rank | Charting in | US Top Free | US Top Grossing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | #53 Navigation Free | 1 of 30 countries | – | – |
| Google Play | #52 Maps & Navigation Free | 1 of 23 countries | – | – |
Full chart lists: App Store · Google Play.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
2
▲ +50% vs the 2 weeks before
Lifetime rating
4.5★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
70/100
faster than 71% 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.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.4 ★ | 12 |
| Google Play | – | – |
| Both stores | 4.4 ★ weighted by ratings | 12 |
About Canada Prospector
Canada Prospector is a native mapping app built specifically for gold prospecting and mineral exploration — covering Nova Scotia, Ontario, and British Columbia.
Mining claims, mineral occurrences, drill holes, bedrock geology, faults and geochemistry — all on one fast, easy-to-use map.
FREE FEATURES:
Claim boundaries for all three provinces, refreshed nightly and colour-coded by expiry (active, expiring within a year, expiring within 90 days)
More than 40 data layers across the three provinces, spanning geology, geochemistry, geophysics, and historic mining
Save up to 3 favourites and 3 field notes (unlimited with Pro)
Satellite imagery and detailed records one tap away
DATA LAYERS:
Every province — Claims, Staking Grid, Property Parcels, Mineral Occurrences, Mines, Drill Holes, Bedrock Formations, Surficial Geology, Faults, Water & Streams
Nova Scotia — Available Staking Ground, Abandoned Mines, Ice Flow, Gold Geochemistry, Historic Mining Areas, Mine Tailings, Coal Seams & Workings, Anticlines, Restricted & Protected Areas, Crown Land, Oak Island Treasure Licence, Aeromagnetics, Radiometrics, Gravity, VLF-EM
Ontario — Available Staking Ground, Abandoned Mines, Geochemistry, Iron Formations, Dikes, Gold Mines & Deposits, Mine Workings, Exploration Permits, Patents & Leases, Withdrawn Lands, Crown Land Use, Protected Areas
British Columbia — MINFILE Producing & Past-Producing Mines, Regional Geochemistry, Assessment Reports, Work Permits, Mineral Reserves, Crown Granted Claims, Protected Areas
PRO UNLOCKS:
Pro Map Layers — Expired Claims, LiDAR Hillshade with coverage outlines, the prospecting heatmap, and terrain hillshade, contours and 3D
Claim Assessment — multi-layer prospectivity scoring for any claim in one tap
Assessment Work Tracker — Nova Scotia Form 10/11 PDFs, Ontario cost summaries with receipt photos, BC Statement of Work summaries
Prospecting Targets — ranked locations where multiple data sources agree, with commodity filtering and an open-ground check (Nova Scotia and Ontario)
Staking Calculator — select cells for a live fee and area total, with registry-ready output like NovaROC Tract Descriptions
Faribault 1898–1919 Survey (Nova Scotia) — exclusive digitised shafts, veins, faults, and anticlines
Claim Watch & Notifications — expiry reminders at 90, 30, 7, and 1 day, plus an alert if a watched claim leaves the registry early
Open Ground Alerts — watch an area and get notified when claims there lapse, with a ledger of exactly which parcels opened
Expiring Claims — province-wide expiry list, recently released ground, and your watchlist in one view
Staking History — the chain of title for a cell, where the province publishes it
What Is Here — tap anywhere for nearby occurrences, geochemistry, drill holes, and mines
Near Me Search — occurrences, mines, drill holes, and more within a chosen radius of your GPS
GPS Tracks — record your route, even with the screen off, with an elevation profile, waypoints and GPX e
Mining claims, mineral occurrences, drill holes, bedrock geology, faults and geochemistry — all on one fast, easy-to-use map.
FREE FEATURES:
Claim boundaries for all three provinces, refreshed nightly and colour-coded by expiry (active, expiring within a year, expiring within 90 days)
More than 40 data layers across the three provinces, spanning geology, geochemistry, geophysics, and historic mining
Save up to 3 favourites and 3 field notes (unlimited with Pro)
Satellite imagery and detailed records one tap away
DATA LAYERS:
Every province — Claims, Staking Grid, Property Parcels, Mineral Occurrences, Mines, Drill Holes, Bedrock Formations, Surficial Geology, Faults, Water & Streams
Nova Scotia — Available Staking Ground, Abandoned Mines, Ice Flow, Gold Geochemistry, Historic Mining Areas, Mine Tailings, Coal Seams & Workings, Anticlines, Restricted & Protected Areas, Crown Land, Oak Island Treasure Licence, Aeromagnetics, Radiometrics, Gravity, VLF-EM
Ontario — Available Staking Ground, Abandoned Mines, Geochemistry, Iron Formations, Dikes, Gold Mines & Deposits, Mine Workings, Exploration Permits, Patents & Leases, Withdrawn Lands, Crown Land Use, Protected Areas
British Columbia — MINFILE Producing & Past-Producing Mines, Regional Geochemistry, Assessment Reports, Work Permits, Mineral Reserves, Crown Granted Claims, Protected Areas
PRO UNLOCKS:
Pro Map Layers — Expired Claims, LiDAR Hillshade with coverage outlines, the prospecting heatmap, and terrain hillshade, contours and 3D
Claim Assessment — multi-layer prospectivity scoring for any claim in one tap
Assessment Work Tracker — Nova Scotia Form 10/11 PDFs, Ontario cost summaries with receipt photos, BC Statement of Work summaries
Prospecting Targets — ranked locations where multiple data sources agree, with commodity filtering and an open-ground check (Nova Scotia and Ontario)
Staking Calculator — select cells for a live fee and area total, with registry-ready output like NovaROC Tract Descriptions
Faribault 1898–1919 Survey (Nova Scotia) — exclusive digitised shafts, veins, faults, and anticlines
Claim Watch & Notifications — expiry reminders at 90, 30, 7, and 1 day, plus an alert if a watched claim leaves the registry early
Open Ground Alerts — watch an area and get notified when claims there lapse, with a ledger of exactly which parcels opened
Expiring Claims — province-wide expiry list, recently released ground, and your watchlist in one view
Staking History — the chain of title for a cell, where the province publishes it
What Is Here — tap anywhere for nearby occurrences, geochemistry, drill holes, and mines
Near Me Search — occurrences, mines, drill holes, and more within a chosen radius of your GPS
GPS Tracks — record your route, even with the screen off, with an elevation profile, waypoints and GPX e
Canada Prospector App Store
Canada Prospector gets 100+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Canada Prospector is #53 in Navigation Free in Canada and charting in 1 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperNigel Brown
CategoryNavigation
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.4 (12)
Version2.2.1
Age rating4+
First seen by us 7 Oct 2026
7 Oct 2026Rating
4.4 ★
12 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#53
Navigation FreeMeasured
New ratings a week
2
▲ +50% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
Canada Prospector on the App Store
App details
App ID
6782352375
Publisher
Nigel Brown
Publisher country
Canada
On the store since
Jul 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 18.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
1
EN
Size
72 MB
Also listed in
Reference
Canada Prospector 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.
Where Canada Prospector'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
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.
Business model: In-app purchase-led
How Canada Prospector 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 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | NavigationFree | #53 |
Apps near Canada Prospector on the chart
Navigation Free, around #53.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.4 ★
12 ratings
Measured
Ratings
12
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
2
▲ +50% vs the 2 weeks before
Lifetime rating
4.5★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
70/100
faster than 71% 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 Canada Prospector
Canada Prospector is a native mapping app built specifically for gold prospecting and mineral exploration — covering Nova Scotia, Ontario, and British Columbia.
Mining claims, mineral occurrences, drill holes, bedrock geology, faults and geochemistry — all on one fast, easy-to-use map.
FREE FEATURES:
Claim boundaries for all three provinces, refreshed nightly and colour-coded by expiry (active, expiring within a year, expiring within 90 days)
More than 40 data layers across the three provinces, spanning geology, geochemistry, geophysics, and historic mining
Save up to 3 favourites and 3 field notes (unlimited with Pro)
Satellite imagery and detailed records one tap away
DATA LAYERS:
Every province — Claims, Staking Grid, Property Parcels, Mineral Occurrences, Mines, Drill Holes, Bedrock Formations, Surficial Geology, Faults, Water & Streams
Nova Scotia — Available Staking Ground, Abandoned Mines, Ice Flow, Gold Geochemistry, Historic Mining Areas, Mine Tailings, Coal Seams & Workings, Anticlines, Restricted & Protected Areas, Crown Land, Oak Island Treasure Licence, Aeromagnetics, Radiometrics, Gravity, VLF-EM
Ontario — Available Staking Ground, Abandoned Mines, Geochemistry, Iron Formations, Dikes, Gold Mines & Deposits, Mine Workings, Exploration Permits, Patents & Leases, Withdrawn Lands, Crown Land Use, Protected Areas
British Columbia — MINFILE Producing & Past-Producing Mines, Regional Geochemistry, Assessment Reports, Work Permits, Mineral Reserves, Crown Granted Claims, Protected Areas
PRO UNLOCKS:
Pro Map Layers — Expired Claims, LiDAR Hillshade with coverage outlines, the prospecting heatmap, and terrain hillshade, contours and 3D
Claim Assessment — multi-layer prospectivity scoring for any claim in one tap
Assessment Work Tracker — Nova Scotia Form 10/11 PDFs, Ontario cost summaries with receipt photos, BC Statement of Work summaries
Prospecting Targets — ranked locations where multiple data sources agree, with commodity filtering and an open-ground check (Nova Scotia and Ontario)
Staking Calculator — select cells for a live fee and area total, with registry-ready output like NovaROC Tract Descriptions
Faribault 1898–1919 Survey (Nova Scotia) — exclusive digitised shafts, veins, faults, and anticlines
Claim Watch & Notifications — expiry reminders at 90, 30, 7, and 1 day, plus an alert if a watched claim leaves the registry early
Open Ground Alerts — watch an area and get notified when claims there lapse, with a ledger of exactly which parcels opened
Expiring Claims — province-wide expiry list, recently released ground, and your watchlist in one view
Staking History — the chain of title for a cell, where the province publishes it
What Is Here — tap anywhere for nearby occurrences, geochemistry, drill holes, and mines
Near Me Search — occurrences, mines, drill holes, and more within a chosen radius of your GPS
GPS Tracks — record your route, even with the screen off, with an elevation profile, waypoints and GPX e
Mining claims, mineral occurrences, drill holes, bedrock geology, faults and geochemistry — all on one fast, easy-to-use map.
FREE FEATURES:
Claim boundaries for all three provinces, refreshed nightly and colour-coded by expiry (active, expiring within a year, expiring within 90 days)
More than 40 data layers across the three provinces, spanning geology, geochemistry, geophysics, and historic mining
Save up to 3 favourites and 3 field notes (unlimited with Pro)
Satellite imagery and detailed records one tap away
DATA LAYERS:
Every province — Claims, Staking Grid, Property Parcels, Mineral Occurrences, Mines, Drill Holes, Bedrock Formations, Surficial Geology, Faults, Water & Streams
Nova Scotia — Available Staking Ground, Abandoned Mines, Ice Flow, Gold Geochemistry, Historic Mining Areas, Mine Tailings, Coal Seams & Workings, Anticlines, Restricted & Protected Areas, Crown Land, Oak Island Treasure Licence, Aeromagnetics, Radiometrics, Gravity, VLF-EM
Ontario — Available Staking Ground, Abandoned Mines, Geochemistry, Iron Formations, Dikes, Gold Mines & Deposits, Mine Workings, Exploration Permits, Patents & Leases, Withdrawn Lands, Crown Land Use, Protected Areas
British Columbia — MINFILE Producing & Past-Producing Mines, Regional Geochemistry, Assessment Reports, Work Permits, Mineral Reserves, Crown Granted Claims, Protected Areas
PRO UNLOCKS:
Pro Map Layers — Expired Claims, LiDAR Hillshade with coverage outlines, the prospecting heatmap, and terrain hillshade, contours and 3D
Claim Assessment — multi-layer prospectivity scoring for any claim in one tap
Assessment Work Tracker — Nova Scotia Form 10/11 PDFs, Ontario cost summaries with receipt photos, BC Statement of Work summaries
Prospecting Targets — ranked locations where multiple data sources agree, with commodity filtering and an open-ground check (Nova Scotia and Ontario)
Staking Calculator — select cells for a live fee and area total, with registry-ready output like NovaROC Tract Descriptions
Faribault 1898–1919 Survey (Nova Scotia) — exclusive digitised shafts, veins, faults, and anticlines
Claim Watch & Notifications — expiry reminders at 90, 30, 7, and 1 day, plus an alert if a watched claim leaves the registry early
Open Ground Alerts — watch an area and get notified when claims there lapse, with a ledger of exactly which parcels opened
Expiring Claims — province-wide expiry list, recently released ground, and your watchlist in one view
Staking History — the chain of title for a cell, where the province publishes it
What Is Here — tap anywhere for nearby occurrences, geochemistry, drill holes, and mines
Near Me Search — occurrences, mines, drill holes, and more within a chosen radius of your GPS
GPS Tracks — record your route, even with the screen off, with an elevation profile, waypoints and GPX e
Latest updates
2.2.1
Fixed a crash that could happen when starting your first track if you chose not to allow Motion & Fitness access.
If Motion & Fitness is off, the recording screen now lets you know your climb is measured by GPS, with a shortcut to turn it on in Settings for more accurate elevation.
2.2
LAYER PRESETS
• Save your favourite set of layers, filters, base map and terrain as a named preset, and bring it all back in one tap
• Starter presets for each province get you going, including Gold Prospecting
• See exactly what you've changed since applying a preset, then update it or save it as new
• Set each layer's filters right from the preset's own page
REMEMBERS YOUR MAP
• Your layers and filters are kept between launches, separately for each province
NEW MAP STYLES
• Choose Standard, Satellite or Topo from the new Map button
• Hillshade, contours and 3D terrain switches for Pro members
APPEARANCE
• Choose Light, Dark or System in Settings — keep the app dark for night use without changing your whole phone
TRY PRO FREE
• 14-day free trial on the annual plan
• A clearer upgrade screen that shows what each feature unlocks
ONTARIO
• Abandoned mine sheets now list each site's workings and their hazards
ALSO
• Faster layer loading and smoother maps
• Tapping the map picks the most specific feature under your finger
• Larger, easier-to-tap map buttons and more responsive feedback
• Many smaller fixes and refinements
2.1
GPS TRACKS (PRO)
• Record your route as you walk, even with the screen off
• Pause and resume from the Lock Screen while you work
• Every track keeps its distance, time and elevation profile
• Mark waypoints along the way, give a track its own colour, and export it as GPX
• Your tracks live in their own tab in Saved, with a preview of each route
PROPERTY PARCELS IN EVERY PROVINCE
• Lot lines and private land now cover Ontario and British Columbia as well as Nova Scotia
• Tap anywhere and What's Here names the parcel under your finger
CLEARER ANSWERS
• What's Here agrees with itself: when ground is in a park or other restricted area, the land status and property sections say so too
• British Columbia and Ontario claim sheets name the claim type, such as Placer Claim
EXPANDED BRITISH COLUMBIA LIDAR
• Hillshade rebuilt from LidarBC's own 1 m elevation data, filling ground the old layer left blank
ALSO
• Search results go straight to the record
• Follow Canada Prospector on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok from Help
• Many smaller fixes and refinements
Store changes
What Canada Prospector changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
App got smaller
114 MB → 72 MB (-37%)
Description updated
New iPad screenshots
Canada Prospector Android
43 days old
Canada Prospector gets 100+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Canada Prospector is #52 in Maps & Navigation Free on Google Play in Canada and charting in 1 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperNigel Brown
CategoryMaps & Navigation
PriceFree
Released
Installs1k+
Rating–
Updated–
Content ratingEveryone
Best rank now
#52
Maps & Navigation FreeMeasured
Canada Prospector on Google Play
App details
App ID
com.aurivenlabs.novaprospector
Publisher
NIGEL EDWARD BROWN
Publisher country
Canada
Content rating
Everyone
Canada Prospector downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Google Play shows an exact lifetime install count; downloads per day are its daily change (measured). When Play hasn't refreshed the count, they come from new ratings and Top Free chart positions. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Canada Prospector'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
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.
Business model: In-app purchase-led
How Canada Prospector makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
In-app purchases
One-off purchases
/mo
of revenue
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | Maps & NavigationFree | #52 |
Apps near Canada Prospector on the chart
Maps & Navigation Free, around #52.
About Canada Prospector
Canada Prospector is a native mapping app built specifically for gold prospecting and mineral exploration — covering Nova Scotia, Ontario, and British Columbia.
Mining claims, mineral occurrences, drill holes, bedrock geology, faults and geochemistry — all on one fast, easy-to-use map.
FREE FEATURES:
Claim boundaries for all three provinces, refreshed nightly and colour-coded by expiry (active, expiring within a year, expiring within 90 days)
More than 40 data layers across the three provinces, spanning geology, geochemistry, geophysics, and historic mining
Save up to 3 favourites and 3 field notes (unlimited with Pro)
Satellite imagery and detailed records one tap away
DATA LAYERS:
Every province — Claims, Staking Grid, Property Parcels, Mineral Occurrences, Mines, Drill Holes, Bedrock Formations, Surficial Geology, Faults, Water & Streams
Nova Scotia — Available Staking Ground, Abandoned Mines, Ice Flow, Gold Geochemistry, Historic Mining Areas, Mine Tailings, Coal Seams & Workings, Anticlines, Restricted & Protected Areas, Crown Land, Oak Island Treasure Licence, Aeromagnetics, Radiometrics, Gravity, VLF-EM
Ontario — Available Staking Ground, Abandoned Mines, Geochemistry, Iron Formations, Dikes, Gold Mines & Deposits, Mine Workings, Exploration Permits, Patents & Leases, Withdrawn Lands, Crown Land Use, Protected Areas
British Columbia — MINFILE Producing & Past-Producing Mines, Regional Geochemistry, Assessment Reports, Work Permits, Mineral Reserves, Crown Granted Claims, Protected Areas
PRO UNLOCKS:
Pro Map Layers — Expired Claims, LiDAR Hillshade with coverage outlines, the prospecting heatmap, and terrain hillshade, contours and 3D
Claim Assessment — multi-layer prospectivity scoring for any claim in one tap
Assessment Work Tracker — Nova Scotia Form 10/11 PDFs, Ontario cost summaries with receipt photos, BC Statement of Work summaries
Prospecting Targets — ranked locations where multiple data sources agree, with commodity filtering and an open-ground check (Nova Scotia and Ontario)
Staking Calculator — select cells for a live fee and area total, with registry-ready output like NovaROC Tract Descriptions
Faribault 1898–1919 Survey (Nova Scotia) — exclusive digitised shafts, veins, faults, and anticlines
Claim Watch & Notifications — expiry reminders at 90, 30, 7, and 1 day, plus an alert if a watched claim leaves the registry early
Open Ground Alerts — watch an area and get notified when claims there lapse, with a ledger of exactly which parcels opened
Expiring Claims — province-wide expiry list, recently released ground, and your watchlist in one view
Staking History — the chain of title for a cell, where the province publishes it
What Is Here — tap anywhere for nearby occurrences, geochemistry, drill holes, and mines
Near Me Search — occurrences, mines, drill holes, and more within a chosen radius of your GPS
GPS Tracks — record your route, even with the screen off, with an elevation profile, waypoints and GPX e
Mining claims, mineral occurrences, drill holes, bedrock geology, faults and geochemistry — all on one fast, easy-to-use map.
FREE FEATURES:
Claim boundaries for all three provinces, refreshed nightly and colour-coded by expiry (active, expiring within a year, expiring within 90 days)
More than 40 data layers across the three provinces, spanning geology, geochemistry, geophysics, and historic mining
Save up to 3 favourites and 3 field notes (unlimited with Pro)
Satellite imagery and detailed records one tap away
DATA LAYERS:
Every province — Claims, Staking Grid, Property Parcels, Mineral Occurrences, Mines, Drill Holes, Bedrock Formations, Surficial Geology, Faults, Water & Streams
Nova Scotia — Available Staking Ground, Abandoned Mines, Ice Flow, Gold Geochemistry, Historic Mining Areas, Mine Tailings, Coal Seams & Workings, Anticlines, Restricted & Protected Areas, Crown Land, Oak Island Treasure Licence, Aeromagnetics, Radiometrics, Gravity, VLF-EM
Ontario — Available Staking Ground, Abandoned Mines, Geochemistry, Iron Formations, Dikes, Gold Mines & Deposits, Mine Workings, Exploration Permits, Patents & Leases, Withdrawn Lands, Crown Land Use, Protected Areas
British Columbia — MINFILE Producing & Past-Producing Mines, Regional Geochemistry, Assessment Reports, Work Permits, Mineral Reserves, Crown Granted Claims, Protected Areas
PRO UNLOCKS:
Pro Map Layers — Expired Claims, LiDAR Hillshade with coverage outlines, the prospecting heatmap, and terrain hillshade, contours and 3D
Claim Assessment — multi-layer prospectivity scoring for any claim in one tap
Assessment Work Tracker — Nova Scotia Form 10/11 PDFs, Ontario cost summaries with receipt photos, BC Statement of Work summaries
Prospecting Targets — ranked locations where multiple data sources agree, with commodity filtering and an open-ground check (Nova Scotia and Ontario)
Staking Calculator — select cells for a live fee and area total, with registry-ready output like NovaROC Tract Descriptions
Faribault 1898–1919 Survey (Nova Scotia) — exclusive digitised shafts, veins, faults, and anticlines
Claim Watch & Notifications — expiry reminders at 90, 30, 7, and 1 day, plus an alert if a watched claim leaves the registry early
Open Ground Alerts — watch an area and get notified when claims there lapse, with a ledger of exactly which parcels opened
Expiring Claims — province-wide expiry list, recently released ground, and your watchlist in one view
Staking History — the chain of title for a cell, where the province publishes it
What Is Here — tap anywhere for nearby occurrences, geochemistry, drill holes, and mines
Near Me Search — occurrences, mines, drill holes, and more within a chosen radius of your GPS
GPS Tracks — record your route, even with the screen off, with an elevation profile, waypoints and GPX e
Store changes
What Canada Prospector changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Description updated
New screenshots
12 screenshots (was 12)