Last updated on February 16th, 2026 at 06:30 pm
Intel Helper for Ingress – Simulation Game Review
Intel Helper for Ingress is a Simulation/Adventure/Utilities game from Matthew Davies, first launched in 10th June 2015.
It’s rated 17+ and currently has 320+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Intel Helper for Ingress Stand Out
Intel Helper for Ingress app on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
This is in no way affiliated with Niantic Labs, or Ingress.
• On-the-fly linking
• Quick location saving and loading
• Easy navigation to put the important information at your fingertips
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Intel Helper for Ingress is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 15th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
Finally sorted out the login bugs, more bugfixes and features are on the way! Thanks for sticking with this app, still committed to maintaining and keeping this app up and running!
Download & Availability
Intel Helper for Ingress is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Intel Helper for Ingress on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This has become inaccessible on our iphone! Why.
Love the app but the Apple ID login broke this app and a bunch of other intel helpers hope ure still around Matthew Davies.
Cant login anymore on our iPhone. We enter credentials either via google or Apple ID and one gives error and the other a blank black screen.
Compared to similar apps,this one is efficient,clear and easy to navigate.
2 taps from home screen and Im logged into intel map. Works identical to the official website. Updates for any issues always come out within a reasonable amount of time. (Waited about a year to review).
We love this app very convenient but…. It can be externally slow to move around the map even on a high speed WiFi connection. It you place a couple of yellow planing lines it becomes useless. We are using a iPhone XS Max so not the fastest anymore but not super slow either.
It is a very helpful app to be able to zoom out and see the state of things, which you cant do in the game. We have to restart it a lot because a map fragment will stick. This happens on both iPad and iPhone. The ads are also annoying. It is a free app, so we get it, but wish if you closed the ad, the window would go away so you could see more of the app. Also would like to be able to toggle back to mobile from full. This appears to be a unidirectional UX.
We enter user info and the wheel just keeps spinning without actually logging in.
We have not been able to log on with our iPhone for months. We love this app. Not being able to use it has made Ingress much less fun for us. Please fix as soon as you can. Thank you.
Stupid app won't download AND it won't allow us to cancel the download in order to try again!! Seriously!!?? Doesn't inspire confidence in the functionality of your app.
This was a great app but for almost a month we have not been able to use it. Keep getting a login error. Been fielding in the dark off memory.
It would be better if the screen would open at the last location entered into the search field such as a zip code.
Why do we have to log in. Should just display the map. Now because you have to log in and google is blocking it the app is non functional.
It crashed and wont let us log back in.
Was working okay but now all we get is a black screen.
Login error for over a week. No response from dev.
Ads newly added take this from 5 stars to 1. Always used before. Will not use any more. [update] Turns out we still use it all the time. Our previous point was that is annoying that the ads take up screen real estate that you cannot get back, and we had thought we couldn't live with the reduction. Would be nice to be able to scroll the ad away to get the space back. It could even pop up on a timer, but full screen is desired. But, this app is still the best way for us to access Intel. It remembers the map we last used, and gets us away from the crashing iPhone browsers. It's quick. We find ourselves accidentally opening the bookmarks occasionally- to close this, press the book icon. Niantic server of course can be slow, but the app can't fix that.
Had a problem restoring our purchase to remove ads, but the author got back to us within minutes and said this has been fixed in a pending release. The issue was fixed in the next release, and everything is working great. Definitely worth 5 stars because we love this app and the support is excellent. We have no problem paying a couple dollars for an app like this, knowing it helps the author and will ensure future updates.
Complaints about ads are whiny. Previous purchases don't remove ads. But it's two bucks, you've spent more on dumb things. Hook this developer up. It's worth having a easy intel app. Stop thinking everything should be free. The widget is very handy for glancing at cycle times. The bookmarks are great for jumping around the map to check on farms or other locations of interest.
Brings Intel to our phone in a native way. Responsive developer and good support! Fight the Shapers.
Used the free version, works well. As a new player this is a useful tool. Bought the pro version to support the dev. This app will certainly come in handy as we learn to play the game. Good job.
The app is essentially the Intel map from the standard browser, but with the ability to save bookmarks for individual maps or portals. Very helpful. No ads too. Edit: Developer updated the app to include ads. $1.99 in-app to get rid of them. Reduced to 4 stars.
This app would be great worked good for a couple days, but now always says "refresh page". You refresh the page and it never updates. We like the bookmark feature so you can have areas of play accessible easier. After long term use intel helper has become our default map for ingress. IITC-MOBILE has its benefits although this app is quicker loading and for general play and link drawing has an easier interface than the other. A great standard for the game on IOS.
We've been using this for a few weeks and just now the background of the map is all blue! Why.
Im having complications on the app. When we sign in the screen turns completely black and we have no idea what to do. Any advice.
Upgraded, and now a chunk of the screen is covered by ads. Don't need you. Hope you lose users and the ad revenue isn't worth it.
It's pretty good app. But now it's taking about 400mb.
Old release (v1.x) widget worked. New release widget does not work with no hint on what is required to make it work. It loads much more slowly and once it hits the background, for some reason iOS dumps it more quickly than before. That means any temporary draws we do on intel map disappear if we view pretty much any other app after drawing and then pop right back in. The bookmark "feature" is slightly improved. The real feature we want is for our intel draws to stick or at least auto-bookmark so we can quickly restore them. We find it annoying also the only way to share a draw is first switch to desktop view before that option appears. Maybe something can be done? It's so close to being a very useful tool. In v1.x is was fairly useful. Right now it's more intel nuisancer than helper.
This app works amazing and runs a lot better than standard Intel map. Definitely a must have for any iOS ingress agent.
Was totally useful, functional, and helpful. Latest update add ads. Not cool. Blatant money grab.
There is literally no value to this app. All it does is show Intel map and there are plenty of similar apps that do it for free withou a huge annoying Ad.
Great update, thanks! (iPhone 5s, iOS 8).
A lightweight, completely rule-abiding Intel map. Super useful for sharing links with other agents and planning out fields. We also like the bookmarking functionality.
So much easier than referring to the web-based map! Also aids in planning links.
This more or less just logs you into Ingress Intel instead of using the web browser. Don't use the "full" version of the site or it'll glitch out.
This app worked on the first day we used it and now it doesn't work. It just sits on the "opening screen" and doesn't move on from there. It obviously not the developers fault but probably Niatinic because they hate third party apps from using their servers for useful apps like this from working. Because they are greedy.
If you're looking to set up or tear down big fields this app does it quickly. You have to rely on the software to use your email info, so be warned! The scaling is done quick and portal, link, and field locations are accurate. We have no complaints and only complements.
Best app we've found in conjunction with ingress, Intel map fast and far better than viewing via the browser. Thanks.
Very helpful app and the developer has done a great job of making useful and user friendly updates and feature adds.
Thanks for making this app and keeping it updated. It does what it says and it does it well. Can we maybe have our GPS location show up on the map for reference.
We would really like to use this app, but when we go to log in, it says there is an SSL error and won't let us log in.
Much quicker and easier to use than the web based version.
We had been viewing Intel directly through our browser. It was slow and would crash. This app is quick, clean, and makes it easy to view what's around us.
Not much better than regular Intel. Sketchy, and constantly throws us to different states! Must let rest for 30 seconds for each map scroll.
Works better than the desktop version on a computer, and far better than trying to navigate the full site on a phone browser. It's the perfect solution to using intel on an iPhone that is designed and works as good, if not better, than any official app Google could create. Thank you for this.
Finally a decent Intel app for the iPhone, iPad, that loads fast please please keep up the good work.
We've used several Intel apps and this one instantly became our favorite. The feature of bookmarking locations and views is incredibly helpful. But what won us instantly was the ability to switch to a landscape view. This seemingly simple feature has been missing from other Intel clients but makes a big difference when viewing and planning field areas. Thanks for making this app.
We love this app. It's so much quicker than running Intel through a browser and the fact that it caches our credentials is for the win. Just a couple of things: A) Dyin for that update so we can happily pay for more bookmarks. B) we want to edit and reorder our bookmarks. If you can do that now, we haven't figured it out yet.
This App works great, Extremely helpful for on the fly Ingress playing. Amazingly it is also free, would recommend purchasing the 0.99$ upgrade. It add a little extra Boom to the experience.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.1
- Size: 11.73 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN, ES
- Content Advisory: Unrestricted Web Access
- Developer: Matthew Davies
Last updated: 15th December 2025 | Genre: Simulation, Adventure | Developer: Matthew Davies