Guides you when GPS is jammed.
Turn-by-turn navigation for driving and walking. When satellites disappear or report a position in another city, Shturman notices, ignores them, and keeps moving you along the route using the phone’s motion sensors.
A shturman is a ship’s or aircraft’s navigator who works out the position by calculation when there are no landmarks. The app does the same when satellites are jammed.
When the GPS signal disappears, or suddenly puts you in another city or country, Shturman detects it and stops trusting the satellites.
In the car, your position moves along the route at the road’s planned speed, only while the phone says you are in a vehicle; the gyroscope picks up turns. On foot it uses your steps and the phone’s heading.
As soon as GPS returns, the position is corrected. If you turn off the route without GPS, the app asks “Are you on … now?”, and you can always drag the map under a pin to set your position (“Set my position”).
Blue marker: position from GPS. Orange marker: estimated, so you always know when the position is calculated rather than measured. The estimate drifts with distance: it is a driving aid, not a guarantee.
Air-raid alerts by oblast and for Kyiv: a red banner, a short voice message, and a warning when a route crosses an oblast under alert. 32,000 shelters are built into the app, so the nearest one is found without internet, and one tap builds a route there.
6,700 places that work without grid power: Invincibility Points (Пункти незламності), fuel stations and pharmacies with generators, and bank branches on the National Bank’s POWER BANKING list.
Download the map of your region and it displays without internet. Building a new route still needs a connection for now.
After every trip: distance, time, distance driven without GPS, how far off the position was when GPS returned, and fake-GPS events. Share it if you like.
Search with history, Home and Work, and press and hold the map to route anywhere. On iPhone, ask Siri to take you home, to work or to the nearest shelter. On Android, the same three are launcher shortcuts.
Android Auto on Android 10 and later. CarPlay on iPhone once Apple approves the app for CarPlay navigation.
The map turns dark after sunset where you are and light by day. Voice guidance in Ukrainian or English.
Your positions, sensor data, trips, Home and Work and search history stay on your phone: we have no server and no accounts. To show the map, find addresses and build routes, the app calls open services (OpenFreeMap, Photon, Valhalla) without any device identifier. No ads, no analytics, no tracking, and no data is sold. Privacy policy
Jammed means there is no signal at all and your position freezes. Spoofed means the phone receives fake coordinates and puts you in another city or country. Shturman detects both, ignores the bad data and keeps going on the motion sensors. Fake-GPS events are counted in the trip summary.
Dead reckoning drifts with every kilometre. The app shows that uncertainty and turns the marker orange, and corrects the position as soon as GPS returns. It is a driving aid, not a guarantee: follow road signs.
Partly. Downloaded offline maps display without a connection, and the nearest shelter is found without internet. Building a new route still needs internet today; offline routing is planned.
In the car, Shturman notices the turn and asks “Are you on … now?” with the street name. You can also drag the map under a pin to set your position yourself.
Alerts come from a public feed and may be delayed, so always follow official alerts. Shelters come from government open data (data.gov.ua), city portals and OpenStreetMap. Shelter and blackout data are snapshots: check the signs on site, as places can be closed.
We collect nothing: there is no server, no account, no ads and no analytics. The third-party map, search and routing services receive only what each request needs (for example, a route’s start and destination). Details are in the privacy policy.
Android Auto, yes, on Android 10 and later. CarPlay will work once Apple approves Shturman for CarPlay navigation.