Tactical Navigator App Reviews

I sure hope they fix this problem. It seems to me like it's a hit-an-miss with this app if it works or not.

It make Landing Navigation a lot Easier. Awesome tool.

This app is great! Just used it on a Land Nav course and I was within 5 meters of all the points. Highly recommend to other military

I like the old version better a compass might help but every one think change is better nope.

I'm in the military and teach my soldiers landnavigation for deployments, this is what us Soldiers want to see on this app. - you have true north and magnetic north and the declination(g-m angle) but why not make it calculate to Grid North, I don't know how many hundreds of times I could of used that feature to make my job 30% more efficient. That one simple feature will probably get 20% more sales for you from guys like me in just the army alone. - I haven't checked but if you do a night landnav add-on to this app, give us the option to use red, blue or green so the enemy doesn't see us. Make it simple and a font large enough to read when moving fast. - give us a way to dim down the brightness of the screen. - lacks descriptions for each option in settings and I couldn't figure out how to set the third time zone on top right. - lastly, it requires google maps using an Internet connection, need an offline map option so we can browse to topographic maps we have or provide us with a way to get those maps. Orr let us take a picture of a map and import it into your app for use w/ an option to pick the correct scale 1:50,000 or 1:24,000 - with all of this I would gladly pay $10.00. Without it it's just another app I can never use.

Anyone within D.O.D will appreciate this app

Got me the info I needed and the map support is amazing

I've used this app since its introduction. It has been extremely useful in the field. "Unclassified bar" seems like a waste of screen real estate, but it's forgivable for an otherwise excellent tool. Keep up the improvements. It would be useful to have waypoint route calculations based on a programmable/custom rate of progress -- handy for planning purposes. You could also add in rough calculations for foot, vehicular-ground, helo, air, and sea/amphib that take into account any available environmental data.

I love this thing but it doesn't work with the current OS at least on my phone thats the Error Im getting...can't wait to use it again

As a member of our armed forces, the ability to quickly plot and determine direction and distance is important. Since the update, I am unable to manipulate the waypoints to enter a grid. This was the most useful feature in previous versions. Please provide this functionality again!!

I like this app, I just wish the mgrs conversion would be in wgs84 and not nad27

Working in the field or for personal Rec, handy little app to have. Perfect for lat/long and MGRS conversions.

Would be nice if it had a way to save a certain area for offline viewing sense if cellular towers were down and I was stuck out there for example. Just suggesting I would rate it five stars.

Well worth the money!!!

I have been looking for an app like this for a long time. I am glad I finally found it.

Helpful reference tool

I love this app it located me in the middle if nowhere with no reception!

Works like a dream! I have all my routes lined out in case of a pandemic.

As of right now I love it. Useful and spot on. Thank you and I hope the updates ( if any ) are top notch.

This app does everything it says it will. I use this app all the time for all my navigation needs. A big thank you to the developer!

Update just made this thing invaluable! Great for field use, I use it almost everyday. Grids are accurate. Needs zoom on current location when opening field map. I have to tap about twenty times to get to 50 to 1.

Very good app but I just recently downloaded it and it works as advertised. Curious if the devs are still keeping up with this app or is it going the way of the dodo when it comes to updates?

Wish I had this when I was a young infantry platoon leader/company commander. Go to, young captain! Good hunting and good luck..... Chuck Pelto LTC, IN (ret) P.S. It works even better in an iPad with 3G capabilities.....

Excellent app! Very usefull to orient oneself in the woods.. And all the extras that are included are really awesome!

Use this every day in the military and hasn't failed me once !

Can't open, running 3.1.3

Used overseas but sluggish...

Great ap everyone should get this one.

On 3GS, app won't run. I get a screen that says it's "loading" for about 1 second. Then it goes back to the desktop. Nothing.

I've wanted an app like this for some time. Would be nice to be able to load CADRG files and use without an internet connection.

This app is great for placing trail cameras, deer stands and unique spots in the timber and locating them later and sending the information to others. It out to help in military land navigation purposes as well.

I'm out on a FOB conducting training and this app was useful to double-check my land nav skills.

I actually use apps like this in the field and test their accuracy for ranging targets for precision engagements on tactical operations in the law enforcement arena. I look for map ruler features to range targets based on GPS locks. It's never perfect but it has been getting better for operational applications. Yes milling with a mildot master is great, but I like having several options. This app has become my new range buddy (with the pin dropping feature that provides distance) so I can test it out and so far I'm pleased with it. Odds are I won't take my phone out for navigation unless I want to check my routes in a RON to transfer to my map, but this app no doubt simplifies it. So far the only changes I'd like to see is to trash the digi homescreen background or switch to a multicam - or provide optional camo for fun. Also the light button would be awesome if it activated the iPhone 4's LED. I'll be testing the app more, but I definitely recommend it.

I have been looking for two years for an application like this! The conversion from MilGrid to Lat/Long is awesome for frequency managers!!! Great for UHF TACSAT as well with the new Satellite Az/El calculations. Compared MilGrids to those on paper for our training areas and it is pretty dead on. It's hard to get a true 10-digit grid. And did I mention it was a great help for a night land nav course! Great app!

I am a professional skydiver, and former military man. Using this app makes my job so much easier. I can place pins where I am taking off from and where I am landing at. Comparing elevation offsets and doing real time distance and direction can at times literally be a life saver. The different unit values and display functions would really come in handy for anyone trying to compare lat/longs to the MGRS system. This is the first review I've written for an app. Good job guys.

Would have been better if it worked. Started program once, looked a the diffrent screens and settings, then the screen went black and it never worked again.

It's a great app for the military but being able to label waypoints and plan routes would make it perfect

Worked once then tried to reopen it an it goes to load page and closes. I have not been able to reopen or use it since. And I have reported it to them and have not recieved any response. Fix it or refund my money.

Would be nice to see a feature that pinpoints your location giving you the MGRS, and then let's you enter a MGRS point to navigate to and shows the compass pointing in the direction you need to go and updates gps frequently for accuracy, possibly include terrain maps as well/metric units. Great app though

Needed to go report my location as a possible FTX site. Was able to quickly get a 10 digit grid and plot it on a map easily and accurately.

The only app to use if you need to convert to MGRS.

I’ve been using this app weekly since it first came out and it’s still best in class after all this time! I definitely recommend this app for anyone needing to plot points with MGRS coordinates and elevation data. The only thing I find lacking is the ability to draw custom line/polygon overlays on top of the map to delineate airspace or other area boundaries (something similar to the routes feature, but with the waypoint markers hidden and locked so they can’t be accidentally moved). Please keep up the great work!

The app has come along way in the 6 years I’ve used it. I am a huge proponent of it and recommend it frequently with guys I work with. Having said that, a few thing I would LOVE to see and would be willing to pay for is simulating some of the capabilities found in ATAK/APASS; the availability to save your own maps via SQLite/KMZ i.e so the app can be used in areas of limited reception would be a HUGE leap forward. Another massive game changer would be the availability to export point as KMZ’s as-well, its awesome that you can export KML and TacNav however if KMZ’s were available that would be 10/10. Another huge thing would be ordnance REDS/MSD’s so if you dropped a point, we’re you can label as a symbol has a piece or artillery or ADO with the appropriate safe distance of said ordnance auto pop similar to that of the radius function. Lastly if you could have locations being folder-ized that would be incredible. I have about 800 some odd points from all over the US stored and being able to select a predefined folder for a geographic area would make life simpler. Thanks for the great app, love what you do and please if you can make those changes. I’d drop $20.00 for those capabilities (if they were non-glitchy) in a heartbeat!