GeoProof questions and honest answers

Whatever fields the chosen template holds: coordinates in the format you pick (decimal, DMS, MGRS or UTM), date and time, street address, altitude, GPS accuracy, compass heading, speed, direction of travel, project name and custom text, plus an optional logo (Pro) and small map. It does not stamp the weather: a Weather field appears in the editor, but the app never fetches weather, so it prints nothing. The stamp is burned into an exported copy, not into the saved original.

It is evidence, not proof, and it should not be oversold to a client. GeoProof records what the phone's GPS, compass and clock reported at capture time, and shows the accuracy so you can judge it yourself. No app can confirm a phone was not fooled. Whether a photo gets accepted is up to whoever reviews it.

Not for capturing: coordinates, altitude, accuracy and heading work offline. The street address, the Map tab's map, the small map inset on exports, ads and purchases need a connection. There is no weather feature. Pro users can download OpenStreetMap tiles for an area ahead of the job in a separate Offline Maps screen in Settings.

For free, a PDF photo report and stamped photos one by one. With Pro, also an Excel (XLSX) or CSV spreadsheet, GPX waypoints, a KML for Google Earth, a ZIP of every stamped photo and the whole project as a .geoproof bundle. There is no GeoJSON export. A free user can watch one ad to get a single Pro export.

Yes, a small one. Photos exported from the free version carry a GeoProof mark in the top-right corner, in addition to your own overlay, and free PDF reports end with a Made with GeoProof footer. Pro removes both and lets you add your company logo.

Yes. It is a universal app for iPhone and iPad with iOS 18 or later. On iPad the tab bar becomes a sidebar and the app works in every orientation; on iPhone it is portrait only.

As accurate as your iPhone's GPS at that moment, usually a few metres outdoors under open sky and tens of metres indoors, between tall buildings or under trees. The badge on the camera shows the current accuracy as ± metres and the ACC field can stamp it on the photo. Coordinates are shown to 6 decimals, but that is display precision, not accuracy.

GeoProof keeps the original clean and stores the overlay separately so you can change it later. To get a stamped picture, open the photo in GeoProof and tap Export, then save the copy. A PDF report or a ZIP (Pro) also uses stamped versions.

Not the location or clock itself — GeoProof just records what iOS hands it, and a spoofed GPS or a wrong clock looks the same as a real one to the app. What it does catch is someone editing the saved image or its GPS and time fields afterward: the photo's Verification card flags that the image data has changed since capture.

No. The date and time use the format year-month-day hours:minutes:seconds in the phone's local time, without a zone label. If the recipient is in another zone, write the zone in a custom text field or the caption.

The overlay time comes from the latest GPS fix, and iOS only sends a new fix after you move about 2 metres. If you stand still for a long time, the stamped time can be earlier than the shutter moment. The photo's own record in the app and its signature use the real capture time.

Only when you start recording a GPS track, a Pro feature, so the recording continues with the screen off. Taking photos needs only While Using the App.

For voice notes in a project's Notes section. The camera does not record sound and nothing is recorded unless you press the voice note button.

Yes, with Pro: the .geoproof project bundle packs the original photos, metadata, annotations, signatures, waypoints and notes, and your colleague opens it in GeoProof on their device. There is no live shared team workspace.

Do not count on it. Full-resolution photos are stored as files on your device. To keep a copy or move work to another device, export a PDF or ZIP, or share a .geoproof bundle (Pro).

Not in the current version: photos and projects stay until the app is removed, and a project name is fixed once created. You can delete notes, custom templates, attributes, annotations and the logo.

No. GeoProof shows the four formats for your current position and for your photos, but it has no box for typing or pasting coordinates.

Yes: 20 camera captures per calendar month, shown as a counter next to the shutter, and the count starts again when the month changes. Photos you import from your library do not count. Pro removes the limit.

No. GeoProof is metric only: metres for altitude, accuracy and distance, km/h for speed, square metres and hectares for area.