Geocaching with Geosphere App Reviews

The features available in this app are incredible and its my Go-To app when Im out in the field, and sometimes when Im at my desk. I LOVE the addition of the .1 mile bubbles around the caches that are a valuable aid in planning new caches. A few wishes and Id make this a 5: include the recent log activity in the list views, Inclusion of OpenStreet Maps, working with waypoints is a bit fiddly to add new ones in the field (adding related waypoint when viewing a waypoint didnt seem to work right and having number pad to enter coords would be so much faster.)

I open this app at least once daily to see whats around me that can be found. Its great and very user friendly yet its so in depth with features, Im still learning all of the bells and whistles. My only question or concern is that there is a benchmark icon loaded but no way to search for them that Im aware of. Otherwise, Im extremely pleased with this app and how fully loaded with features it is.

If you use an iPhone this is a no brainer! Buy it. Updated user interface is now leveraging the direct API which means you get best of both worlds: ad hoc anywhere anytime access or offline DB mode with thousands of caches pre loaded. Gr8 integration with Dropbox for exporting and importing GPX and field notes etc. Now you can deal with photos and trackables at the same time youre logging a geocache! The mode strip is very convenient for turning the GPS on and off - and the flashlight button kicks butt! Nice touch! Ive been hoping that I could sort on attributes and favorites and my wish has now come true! Overall, an amazing and powerful update. The potential is absolutely there. I cant wait to get out and put it through its paces. Hopefully its as reliable and high-performance as the previous version. All indicators are that it will be. ******************************* The one feature I would like to see added is the display of the last few logs in List View using symbols indicating whether a cache was found, not found, or notes. Remains top desire able. ******************************** I dont love the constant compass calibrate screen at most in opportune times! Would love a way to quickly bypass sometimes!!! My experience caching w iPhone 4/5 is very positive. Battery life is as decent as can be expected. Recommend you invest in aux charger pack for all day sessions. Integration w navigon and maps is handy. Pick a target cache, using built-in bookmark send target coords to Navigon and let it voice turn by turn get you to nearest drivable spot, then jump back into Geosphere and got get it on bike or foot! Very handy and safer to keep eyes on road rather than GPS unit or phone. Lately, I have enjoyed speaking or dictating my log entries into the phone. It works very well! Its nice to be able to upload as log in real time now if desired rather than as a field note like before. Since I am a GSAK user I tend to log and load after a day or two all at once, but sometimes, like FTF you want to put something in place quick. No I have no need for ground speaks app at all!!! Great job. More later on battery life and operation.

Ill change my rating as soon as I can figure out how to get the descriptions and logs of selected caches. Every cache i select doesnt have any of that information

Purchased this ap a few days ago. It looks like a good ap but it hasnt worked one time I cant get it to link to geocach dot com all my e-mail to support have not been answered. I dont recommend buying this ap

I am very new to geocaching so this is my very first app. For those who complain that nothing happens I can tell that I count figure out how this app works for 30 minutes. Just watch a videos provided by a developers. So after watching the very first video I was finally able to figure out how this app works. It may look very confusing in the begging yet it is very easy and fun app to use for your geocaching. Just give it a try you will love it in the end. I updated my account to a premium and I love that app now shows me special caches and most importantly a parking spot close to the cache. I like that it shows which direction Im currently going, because few times while driving I realized that I was going Opposite direction.

I have tried all the major caching apps, and this is the only one that I have not deleted. It offers the best display for cache information. Its ability to import caches, filter, merge lists, and export gpx files lets it act as a mini-gsak. I use Geosphere to keep track of puzzles that have been completed, qualified challenges, or other caches that I particularly want to do. It quickly loads pocket queries or performs live searches, allows me to filter and map the results, and offers a beautiful display of cache pages. I can easily export the results to my handheld gpsr or use the app to cache with the iPhone. And it interfaces nicely with routing apps to get me where I want to go. Did I mention that you can also edit caches, view the underlying html, and ignore caches fr within the app?

The official app looks so much better compared to this design of a bygone era of iOS.

Ive been using Geosphere for a couple of years; my iPad and this app have replaced my Garmin handheld GPS. The information which it displays and maps are supurb! A must have!

I love everything about Geosphere except for the black screen with the little ball that tells me to circle the ball to recalibrate the compass. Please do away with this feature as it comes up at the most inopportune times. For geocaching, I love the new Online feature. Ive used the Offline with a downloaded query for about 4 years. It is very easy to use and I will give Geosphere a 5 rating as soon as there is a fix for the compass calibration. Please fix the problem of uploading field notes. It says something is expired.

My favorite app for traveling and having hundreds of pocket queries loaded into it! Great way to filter online and offline caches! Must have for the advanced player!

This app is amazing! At first,I didnt think it had spoken driving directions.. But it does at the bottom of the cache page using Maps. I love that it is legible in bright sun, that it is user friendly, that it allows you to do everything possible, and that there are features you see on no other caching app! Kudos!! Update: Suddenly it says the geocaching access token has expired! What does that mean? I paid for this app!

So far I have watched the videos they provide for this app to learn how to use it. However, they dont show how you come up with a target, or how to creat your own geocache at all. This app is one big puzzle that seems impossible to solve. There isnt one geocache that pops up for me to find, and nothing here is labeled. You have to guess what the icons are (i.e. A ghost emoticon, an arrow, a man with a pipe. I paid $7.99 for this app that is essentially hard to use or impossible to figure out. Id suggest going to another highly-known geocaching site instead. Extremely disappointed, as Ive gone through all of the trouble to create and hide a BEAUTIFUL geocache I cant seem to include in this app!

Tip: start over and design a UI people can actually understand and then let users just find caches nearby. I couldnt use this app out of the box and bought another so we could actually go searching. I may come back to it later when I have more time and patience.

This is hands down the app you need for geocaching. The developer has returned back to updating the app and will get even better. I am really looking forward to the updates and making the gui easier to use. Even with its issues this is the best version to have.

Despite not being updated in over two years, geosphere is still far better than the Geocaching.com apps. Its especially nice at filters and preserving updated coordinates for puzzles and multis.

After listening to GeoGearHeads Podcast, I figured that I would give this app a try. I live in Japan, and this apps ability to correctly log the time/date in countries is a big plus. The only thing that keeps me from using this app to log in the field is that it doesnt have an "all visited" button for logging trackables. You have to individually add each TB that you would like to visit the cache. A pretty big pain when you are carrying a lot of TBs.

For just going on spontaneous geocaching outings I use the regular geocaching official app. But that doesnt have 10% of the feature geosphere has! Geosphere has everything. It can map pocket querys and then let you sort by owner and much more! This app has it all! TFTA developers!

This app is a ripoff! It redirects you to Geocaching.com which is a free app you can get through the App Store. Here will be your best most valuable cache of the day, its the grand prize of keeping the $7.99 these people ask for this horrible app in your pocket! Hapoy caching!

This geocaching application is great. Overall it beats the "official" geocaching program. You really need a Geocaching premium account to use it, but in my case I already do. The interface is very easy to use. I like that you can easily switch from/to the cache you are looking for. This is well worth the price. The program has a lot of features. I have used this for over three years and hardly pick up my Garmin or open the "official" app.