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REVIEW
SpeedOmeter SP is a one-developer speedometer that does the one thing.
A free GPS speedometer from an independent developer. No subscription, no account, no ambition beyond reading your current speed off Core Location.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
The speedometer category on the App Store is, mostly, a graveyard of free-with-ads apps that demand location permission and then immediately try to sell a subscription for trip logging. SpeedOmeter SP doesn’t do any of that. It is a single-developer iOS app from Spyridon Bousios, free, no account, no upsell visible on the store listing — the kind of small utility the App Store used to be full of.
That restraint is also the limit. There is no long description on the listing, no companion site, no obvious differentiation beyond “it works and it doesn’t bother you.” For some readers — anyone who has installed three other speedometer apps and uninstalled them inside a week — that is exactly the pitch. For everyone else, the absence of context is the friction.
Most of the speedometer category is buried under ads and trip-logging upsells; this one just shows the number.
FEATURES
The app reads location data from Core Location and displays current speed on a single screen. That is the entire pitch. There is no trip log, no cloud sync, no leaderboard, no social layer — features that have crept into nearly every other entry in the speedometer category.
The interface is built around a large digital readout with secondary fields for the supporting numbers a GPS feed gives you for free — heading, altitude, and a fix indicator. Unit selection covers the obvious ones a driver, cyclist, or boater would want.
Because it relies entirely on GPS rather than the vehicle's own sensors, accuracy and update rate are bounded by what iOS hands the app. That is fine on an open road and worse in a parking garage; the app cannot work around physics.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The restraint is the whole product. SpeedOmeter SP is free, has no subscription tier visible on the store listing, and doesn't push an account signup before showing a number. In a category dominated by free-with-ads apps gated behind a Pro upsell, a small utility that simply opens and works is a real choice.
The developer is an individual — Spyridon Bousios — and the update cadence reflects that. Most recent update lands in April 2026, more than two years after the original November 2023 release. For a utility this narrow, that's the right rhythm: enough maintenance to keep up with iOS, not so much churn that a working app keeps getting rearranged.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The store listing is thin. There is no long description, no marketing site, no changelog summary on the App Store page beyond the version row. Anyone trying to decide between this and one of the dozen other GPS speedometers will have to install it to find out what's inside, which is a real friction for an app that doesn't earn revenue from installs.
The other limit is the one any GPS-only speedometer shares: accuracy depends on signal quality and iOS's permission state, and there is no fallback when GPS drops. A higher-effort competitor would integrate HealthKit motion data, offer a HUD-mirror mode for windshield reflection, or add a CarPlay tile. SpeedOmeter SP does none of that, which is consistent with the rest of the app — but it caps how far the utility scales beyond the casual case.
CONCLUSION
If you want a speedometer on your phone and don't want to think about it again, this is a defensible pick. If you want trip history, route mapping, or a polished dashboard, look at one of the larger speedometer apps with a proper Pro tier — you'll pay for them, but you'll get the surface area. Watch for whether the developer adds a CarPlay or Live Activities readout; either would meaningfully change the value of an app this minimal.