Get the Garuda Driver App
Install the app on your phone and start sharing your vehicle's live location. Your manager gives you the login details.
Manager or owner?
тмЗ Download Garuda Manager
- New (Oct 2026): full trip detail, with the delivery photo and signature.
- "Locate now" shows the phone's own answer тАФ GPS off, no permission, or its last position.
- Hide alert types you don't need; driver expenses; your company name and your country's currency shown correctly.
How to install
1
Tap "Download app" above.
2
If the phone asks, allow "install from unknown sources". If "App blocked by Play Protect" appears: Play Store тЖТ profile picture тЖТ Play Protect тЖТ тЪЩ тЖТ turn off "Scan apps with Play Protect", install, then turn it back on.
3
Open the downloaded file and tap "Install".
4
Open the app and log in with the email/password from your manager.
What's new
- While you are on duty, tracking runs all the time; it switches to trip tracking when a trip starts, and back when it ends.
- Backup tracking now uses GPS тАФ accurate location and speed, so overspeed alerts are not missed.
- Fewer false speeds on older phones while the vehicle is parked.
- The Trip tab now shows the office's instructions тАФ gate number, who to call at the site.
- SOS is sent at once even when the phone has no GPS fix yet.
- Fixed a technical "Error" message that sometimes appeared right after signing in.
- Correct currency for companies in Nepal and Bhutan.
- New look: Home, Trip, Stops, Chat and More тАФ five tabs, readable even at the largest text size.
- Proof of delivery can now include a photo and the customer's signature.
- If location is switched off, the app alerts you with a sound every 3 minutes; tap the alert to switch location on in one tap.
- Tracking restarts by itself if the phone puts the app to sleep, and the app warns you about battery saver.
- Nepali language added.
- The manager/admin dashboard has moved to its own Garuda Manager app тАФ a manager signing in here is now pointed there.
- Location upload can no longer start twice at once тАФ prevents an overload of requests hitting the server under heavy network stress.
- On launch the app now checks that every required permission and setting is on тАФ if one is off it says which, and takes you to the right settings page.
- The phone's power state is now reported to the server, so the cause of any tracking gap can be identified.
- Location upload now keeps working by itself even if Android restarts the app in the background.
- No change тАФ reverted the previous map-style change (the new tile service turned out to need an API key).
- The manager map now shows place names more clearly (new map style).
- "Locate now" now works even when the app is fully closed тАФ field-tested and confirmed on device.
- Still testing "Locate now" for a fully-closed app тАФ this release has a likely fix, not yet field-verified.
- Still testing "Locate now" for a fully-closed app тАФ this release only adds diagnostics.
- Still testing "Locate now" for a fully-closed app тАФ this release only adds diagnostics.
- Still testing "Locate now" for a fully-closed app тАФ this release only adds diagnostics.
- Still testing "Locate now" for a fully-closed app тАФ this release only adds diagnostics.
- "Locate now" now works even when the app is fully closed тАФ turn on the new "Notification access" permission in Setup.
- Found and fixed the real cause of the screen reloading repeatedly тАФ it happened when continuous tracking was running.
- Important fix: the last release had a bug causing the screen to reload repeatedly тАФ this is now fixed.
- Fixed a gap from the last release so "Locate now" genuinely responds even when the app has been removed from Recent Apps.
- "Locate now" now responds even if the app has been swiped away from Recent Apps тАФ before, it only showed the notification.
- "Locate now" now answers even when the driver is off duty or not on a trip тАФ it figures out the vehicle on its own.
- The trip screen now refreshes itself the moment a new-trip or cancellation notification arrives тАФ no need to manually refresh.
- "Locate now" now also sends a brand-new location reading right away, not just whatever was already captured.
- Push notifications are now switched on. A manager can now ask a driver's phone to report its location right away ("Locate now"), and new-trip notifications will now actually reach the phone.
- Added a new "Health" tab to the manager/owner app тАФ what each driver's phone is reporting, in one place.
- Improved the location watchdog so it more reliably keeps capturing location if a freeze happens.
- Improved how the location watchdog is tested, and removed harmless entries from the network diagnostics.
- If the phone's location ever freezes, a built-in watchdog now takes over within 75 seconds so the trail doesn't break.
- Network problems are now recorded and reported to the server so we can find the cause of slow or stalled delivery.
- After a phone restart or a weak network the app now recovers by itself: it shows тАЬWaiting for networkтАЭ instead of an endless spinner.
- Tracking resumes right away from its saved state, even with no network.
- Login now retries by itself on a weak network, so тАЬNetwork request failedтАЭ shows far less often.
- The app opens straight away; the login renewal now happens in the background and never waits for the network.
- Fixed the app getting stuck on a spinner when opening or signing in: you now get the login screen or a clear error within seconds.
- You now stay signed in: no login prompt after the app closes or the phone restarts (30 days, renewed every time you open it). Only the тАЬLog outтАЭ button signs you out.
- Continuous tracking that was on picks up again by itself when the app opens.
- Logging out no longer sends the office a false тАЬTracking lostтАЭ alert.
- Logging out now stops live tracking. Added a confirmed тАЬLog outтАЭ link on the driver screen.
- Fixed a false alarm: the GPS-stalled warning could show right after logging back in, before tracking had even been restarted, using leftover state from a session that ended when the phone died.
- If GPS ever stops responding completely, the app now tells you directly to restart your phone тАФ previously the "Live" badge could keep showing green even while frozen, with no way to tell.
- The "keep tracking reliable" setup checklist now covers Samsung, Huawei/Honor and OnePlus battery/autostart screens too, not just Xiaomi/Oppo/Vivo.
- Locked-screen location sharing was still slowing to about once every 10 minutes тАФ now uploads ride on the same GPS capture that was already reliable, instead of a separate timer Android was throttling. Please test again with a 20-30 minute lock.
- Sign in with your phone number now, not just email.
- Another, deeper fix for location sharing while the phone is locked тАФ please test again with a 20-30 minute lock.
- Fixed the in-app "update available" check itself, which was silently failing to run on every previous version тАФ future updates should now appear automatically.
- Location sharing while locked тАФ a deeper internal change this time, no longer dependent on the phone's main app engine staying active. Please test again with a 10+ minute lock.
- Location sharing should now keep working even while the phone is locked тАФ this is the main fix, please test with a 10+ minute lock.
- Pre-trip/post-trip check now opens as a proper full screen тАФ it used to get stuck before reaching the Submit/Back buttons.
- My score, My profile, and similar buttons now properly expand and collapse when tapped.
- The app now clearly shows whether the battery setting actually took effect, instead of leaving you guessing.
- Completing a delivery now double-checks with the server on a network hiccup тАФ it often already went through, just the confirmation got lost.
- App version and battery-optimization exemption now show up correctly in the manager's device-health dashboard.
- Device health reporting (battery, permissions, network) now reaches the manager during an active trip, not just when idle.
- Fixed a bug where location sharing could stop entirely after the phone stayed locked for a long stretch. Reopening the app now detects this and restarts tracking automatically.
- Fixed a bug where reopening the app could sometimes stop location sharing entirely. The app no longer needlessly restarts tracking just from being reopened.
- Fixed a bug where location sharing could silently pause for a long stretch after locking the phone тАФ it now recovers automatically within minutes.
- Cargo on your trip тАФ what the truck is carrying, who each drop goes to, packages and weight. Mark each delivery from the phone.
- Hand a trailer or container back from the phone.
- Vehicle checks (DVIR), your cash book, safety score, chat with dispatch, duty on/off, and Nepal/Bhutan border runs.
- The app now tells you when a new update is available тАФ one tap to download.
- Includes reliable-tracking setup, multi-stop, background tracking, and offline queue.
- New "reliable tracking" setup тАФ one-tap to allow battery / autostart / location so tracking keeps running with the screen off.
- Multi-stop trips shown in order; background tracking + offline queue.
- Trips now show every stop in order тАФ origin, each stop, and destination.
- Fixes a "could not start trip" error тАФ background tracking now starts reliably.
- Tracking keeps working even when your screen is off or the app is in the background.
- No network? Your location is saved on the phone and sent automatically once you're back online тАФ no gaps in the trail.
- See your assigned route and request a re-plan when needed.
v0.2.0тмЗ this version
- Manager/admin dashboard inside the app тАФ map, alerts, trips and reports.
v0.1.0тмЗ this version
- First release: live GPS tracking, trips and proof-of-delivery.
Every release is archived тАФ tap "this version" on any entry to download it.
Android phones only for now. iPhone coming soon.