“No longer free — I got this because it was free and it worked great for years, now they have ads and you have to pay. Ridiculous.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 540 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.7 ★128,842 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
81 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Speedometer Simple is a simple speedometer that is very easy to use.
This app uses phone's GPS to accurately determine your speed.
Speedometer has large fonts and supports mph, km/h, and knots speed display. Optionally, city name and a compass can be shows on the screen. The app also shows the traveled distance. Average and maximum speed is displayed in an optional screen as well. Interface color can be set one of many pre-selected colors. Speedometer app can record the speed during your trips and provide post-trip statistics like maximum speed, traveled distance etc.
Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://bit.ly/speedometer_privacy
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 2026.9.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2026.9.1, updated 2026-09-30.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (0.9% of 540 reviews scanned)
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (5 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Scam app — Not a free ofers a free version but won’t work”
“Dark pattern for payment; beware — App forces you to agree to a trial but instead of falling back to asking you again, it enrolls you in a $20/yr subscription (that gets charged a few days later when you forget about it and refunds are…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2026.9.1.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown3
Lowest$4.99
Highest$19.99
Remove Ads$9.99
Speedometer Premium$19.99
Speedometer Premium$4.99