Gold Prospector for Desktop
The same map, layers and tools as the phone app, in your browser. Everything you save on the desktop shows up on your phone, and everything from the phone is waiting on the desktop.
For Pro subscribers and free-trial users. Nothing to install.
Research is easier with a mouse, a keyboard and a screen the size of a map. The desktop app is built for the evening before the trip.
Satellite, topo, mining claims, historic mines, ghost towns, property lines, public lands, historic topo sheets and the rest. Every layer from the phone app, with the same opacity controls, on a screen you can actually read.
The bare earth at half-meter detail, drawn live with all six looks and every slider, and SiteScan to scan any spot into a 3D model you can turn, tilt and study. Scans you save here open on your phone.
Plan a route with distance and climb, measure between points, draw a shape around the ground you mean to work, or set a range ring. Save any of them and walk it with your phone.
Log a find with its weight, photo and notes, drop pins on anything worth coming back to, and keep your tracks. All of it lands in Saved on the phone, and your phone's finds and pins are already here.
Pick the ground on the big screen and send it. The download shows up on your phone, ready to run with no signal, with every layer you chose.
Lay a scanned historic sheet over today's map, line it up, and save the result as a layer of your own. The mill, the cabin and the ditch that are gone from every modern map, back where they stood.
Satellite under mining claims, historic mines, property lines and public lands, tilted into 3D. The same layers and opacity controls as the phone, with room to see all of them at once.
Native LiDAR straight down at half-meter detail. Ditches, tailings and bench cuts the trees have hidden for a century, drawn live as you pan.
Open Scouting Tools and plan the day on the terrain itself. Click out a route along a bench and see its distance and climb, measure from the tailings to the creek, outline the ground you mean to work, or set a range ring to judge distance all around.
Save what you draw and it is on your phone, in Saved under Scout, when you get out of the truck.
Finds, pins, tracks, scans and scouted items live on your account, not on one device. Log a find on the desktop and it is in your gold log on the phone. Drop pins in the field and they are on the desktop map that evening.
Saved keeps them in one place, with a switch on each to show it on the map or tuck it away.
Choose the cells on the big screen, pick the layers, and send. The download appears on your phone, ready to open with no signal.
The desktop app is part of Pro. If your account has an active Pro subscription or a running free trial, you can sign in. There is nothing extra to buy.
Accounts are created in the phone app. New to Gold Prospector? Install it on your iPhone or Android phone, sign up there, and the same account works on the desktop.
Open desktop.goldprospector.app and sign in the same way you do on your phone: with Apple, with Google, or with your email and password.
Or sign in with your phone
No. The desktop app is part of Pro. Any account with an active Pro subscription or a running free trial can sign in.
No. It runs in Chrome, Safari and Edge on Mac and Windows. Open the link and sign in.
Accounts are created in the phone app. Install Gold Prospector on your iPhone or Android phone, sign up there, then sign in on the desktop with the same account.
On the phone. Offline maps live on the phone, so they are deleted there, in the Offline Maps panel.
No. The desktop app needs a connection. Offline maps are for the phone, which is the device you carry into the canyon.
Sign in with your Gold Prospector account and start planning.
