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Transmits your phone's GPS location to Sony Alpha cameras over Bluetooth LE for geotagging photos. Includes automatic time synchronization, background reconnection, and a remote shutter with focus sequence.

Alpha GPS geotags your photos by transmitting your phone's GPS location to Sony Alpha cameras over Bluetooth LE — a lightweight alternative to the official apps. It also offers a Bluetooth remote shutter.

Features

  • Continuous location transmission to the camera while shooting, including automatic time synchronization

  • Automatic reconnection when the camera is turned on, even with the app in the background and the screen off (via Android's companion device manager)

  • Remote shutter with a focus → shutter sequence

  • Optional "Always On" foreground service for devices with aggressive battery management

  • Multiple cameras can be paired

  • No account, no ads, no tracking

Works with Sony cameras that support location linking via Bluetooth (as used by Imaging Edge Mobile or Creators' App).

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Latest release

Oct 18, 2026
Unclaimed app No Google servicesShares dataSource available · GPL-3.0-only

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Contains Sentry SDK for Java, which can send data off the phone.

Permissions

Coarse locationFine locationNearby devicesNotificationsAlways runningFiles What they allow
  • Coarse location ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION See your approximate location ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION,ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION to transmit location to cameras.
  • Fine location ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION See your precise location ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION,ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION to transmit location to cameras.
  • Nearby devices BLUETOOTH_CONNECT Find and connect to devices around you
  • Notifications POST_NOTIFICATIONS Send you notifications
  • Always running REQUEST_IGNORE_BATTERY_OPTIMIZATIONS Keep running in the background without limits
  • Files WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE Read files on this phone

Uses location access to transmit your position to Sony cameras over Bluetooth.

Release notes

What's Changed

Fixed

  • Improved Wi-Fi remote compatibility for the Sony ZV-1 and other older Sony cameras, including live view startup and photo transfer.
  • Fixed repeated Bluetooth disconnections during location sharing with cameras such as the Sony RX0 II when Always On is disabled.

Other Changes

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Saschl/alpha-gps/compare/v1.7.0...v1.7.1

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v2.0.4 · 71.2 MB · Android 10+

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macOS, Apple silicon · 18.6 MB 99018fb9744e5ace2b44557550dc333496239912c0e9b1137266d4922c803346

Linux, x86-64 · 23.8 MB 1ef5373f8ecd9ba63d2c3fab98abb0d31b2244a2aac31b3749fb205c7d5f5b38

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