Apple / navigation / АВТОВЕКТОР
REVIEW
Автовектор is a fleet dashboard squeezed into a pocket.
GLONASSsoft's mobile companion is built for the dispatcher who left the office and still wants to know where every truck is — narrow, Russian-only, and useful if you already live in their system.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
Автовектор — “Autovector” — is not a consumer app, and pretending otherwise would do nobody any favours. It is the iPhone companion to GLONASSsoft, a Russian-market telematics platform that sells vehicle tracking, fuel monitoring, and fleet analytics to logistics operators. If you are the dispatcher, the fleet manager, or the owner who left the office at six and wants to know where every truck is at nine, the app is the back-office system in your pocket.
That framing is the whole review. Judged as a consumer GPS app, this thing scores in the threes — the interface is Russian-only, there is no way to use it without a paid account on the back end, and the App Store page does not really explain who it is for. Judged as a companion to a working telematics platform, it is genuinely competent: the live object list, the map, and the historical timeline are the three screens a dispatcher actually needs on the move, and they all work.
The trick is knowing which review you are reading.
It is not a consumer GPS app and it does not pretend to be one — this is a back-office tool wearing a phone.
FEATURES
The app is a thin client for GLONASSsoft's vehicle-tracking platform. Sign in with the same credentials your dispatcher uses on the desktop, and the three core screens light up: a live object list with ignition, motion, and last-ping freshness; a map view that plots whichever vehicle you tap; and a chronological history that walks back through movement, stops, refuelling, and fuel drains for any date range.
Statistics are the third pillar — totals for distance driven, time parked, time in motion, and fuel events, scoped to a single vehicle or a group. The numbers match what the desktop console shows, which is the whole point of having the app at all.
There is no driver-facing mode, no route planning, no traffic overlay, no offline maps. The entire interface is in Russian, and the app assumes you have an active GLONASSsoft account on the back end. Without one, it is a login screen.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
As a companion to a real telematics platform, it does the job. The history timeline is the standout — being able to scrub through a vehicle's day on a phone, with refuelling and stop events marked, is genuinely faster than opening a laptop in a yard or at a depot gate.
Updates have stayed regular through 2026, the app is free for existing customers, and ratings on the Russian App Store are unusually high for a B2B utility. That last detail is rare in this category, where most fleet-companion apps sit at 2.3 stars under a pile of one-line complaints about login bugs.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The narrow audience is the whole story. There is no English localisation, no demo mode, no way to evaluate the app without an account, and no public pricing — GLONASSsoft sells the platform to operators, not to drivers. If you are a small-business owner with two vans and no telematics contract, this app cannot help you, and the App Store listing does not really try to tell you that.
The interface also leans heavily on the desktop console for anything beyond viewing — editing geofences, configuring alerts, and managing users still send you back to a browser. A few of the recent App Store reviews mention sluggish map redraws on older iPhones and occasional silent logouts after long idle periods.
CONCLUSION
Install this if your company already runs GLONASSsoft and you have ever wanted to check a truck's location from a parking lot. Skip it if you are shopping for a consumer GPS app, a personal car tracker, or a general fleet tool — there are better-known international options in those categories, and none of the friction here is worth it for an outside user.