Velocita is a GPS speedometer that does one thing well: show your speed, clearly and honestly. No ads, no tracking, no account — just a fast, native instrument that works offline.
Two display modes, one tap apart. A live compass, barometer-fused altitude, trip stats that actually make sense, and a Lock Screen Live Activity that doesn't quit when you pocket your phone.
A big numeric readout with heading and altitude, or a full analog gauge with a live compass ring, min/max markers, and auto-scaling tick marks.
Start a trip and lock your phone. Velocita keeps running on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island — speed, bearing, max, distance, and elapsed time.
Asymmetric smoothing responds fast to acceleration but snaps to zero the instant you stop. Poor GPS is dimmed with a ~ prefix — so you always know what to trust.
Altitude accurate to about one meter, fused from the barometer and GPS — far more stable than GPS-only readings that drift by 10–30 meters.
Direction of travel from GPS course when you're moving; magnetometer when you're stationary. The gauge view embeds a rotating compass ring with degrees and cardinals.
Set a threshold — Velocita flashes a red border and delivers a haptic buzz when you cross it. Optional haptic ticks every 10 mph or km/h, too.
Speed in any unit. Distance in miles, kilometers, or nautical miles. Altitude in feet or meters. Defaults follow your locale; switch any time.
A pure-black background for night driving and OLED power savings. Signal stays awake while tracking so the screen doesn't sleep mid-trip.
Start a trip and lock your phone. Velocita keeps running — current speed, bearing, max reached, distance, and elapsed time — on the Lock Screen and inside the Dynamic Island.
The Live Activity is driven by a dedicated timer inside the tracking engine, not SwiftUI refresh, so updates keep flowing while the device is locked or Always-On Display is active.
GPS is noisy. Velocita uses asymmetric smoothing that responds to acceleration immediately but doesn't linger at 1 mph when you've stopped. A Core Motion stationary detector snaps the display to zero the instant your device knows you aren't moving.
Under poor GPS the reading is dimmed and prefixed with ~. Minimum, maximum, and average speeds are only recorded when signal quality is good enough. No phantom speeds on a parked car.
Velocita computes everything on-device. Location, speed, heading, altitude, and trip data are never transmitted off your iPhone. The only off-device calls are Apple's reverse geocoding (for the city name on screen) and anonymous, aggregate usage signals via TelemetryDeck — never raw values, never anything that could identify you.
Velocita is available on the App Store for iPhone.