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GPSTest vs SatStat: catalog facts
GPSTest	SatStat
Best for: Diagnosing GPS reception and testing GNSS hardware on Android	Best for: Diagnosing GPS and sensor behaviour on an Android phone
Free Free and open source under the Apache-2.0 license, with no ads.	Free Free and open source under the GPL 3.0 or later licence.
Android	Android
Real-time GNSS and SBAS satellite information Supports dual-frequency GNSS All 4 strengths for GPSTest Real-time GNSS and SBAS satellite information Supports dual-frequency GNSS No ads or trackers Long-running, actively maintained project	GPS, sensor and radio network data in one app Manual or automatic AGPS data refresh All 3 strengths for SatStat GPS, sensor and radio network data in one app Manual or automatic AGPS data refresh Optional notification when an app uses GPS
Android only A diagnostic tool rather than a navigation app	Android only AGPS refresh depends on phone support
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: GPL-3.0-or-later
No account needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Sources for GPSTest github.com/barbeau/gpstest f-droid.org/packages/com.android.gpstest.osmdroid Catalog checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Sources for SatStat mvglasow.gitlab.io/satstat f-droid.org/packages/com.vonglasow.michael.satstat Catalog checked October 2, 2026

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