About
Explore Theft Auto is the free, spoiler-safe exploration companion for GTA 6, made for players who want to find things themselves. Tell it how far you are in the story and nothing past that point is ever shown. When you are stuck, it gives hints instead of pins, one step at a time: how many are left in an area you have reached, then a clue, then a rough circle on the map, and the exact spot only if you ask for it. Completionists get the full checklist too. It works in the browser on any phone or PC, needs no account, has no ads and no in-app purchases, and hosts no leaked images or videos. Built by one fan, in the open, with a public roadmap and a Discord where every channel is gated by story progress.
Who builds this
One developer, one fan, in the open. Explore Theft Auto is being built in public in the weeks before the game launches, and the roadmap, the Discord and this site are all run by the same person. There is no company behind it and no plan to put ads in it.
Something wrong, a question, or a request about your data? Email hello@exploretheftauto.com. Data details are in the privacy policy.
Install it
Explore Theft Auto works in the browser, and you can also keep it on your home screen, where it opens full screen and the map and checklist keep working without a connection once you have visited them.
On Android, in Chrome: open the menu and choose Install app (or Add to Home screen).
On iPhone or iPad, in Safari: open the Share menu and choose Add to Home Screen.
On a computer, in Chrome or Edge: use the install icon at the end of the address bar.
Credits
The base map and many of the places on it come from open data that fans made and shared. Its contributors traced the map by hand before release; the data is not taken from the game's files. Each source below says what we use, under which licence, and what we changed.
GTADB community map
- What we use
- The base map tiles and the landmark names and positions. Fans traced the map by hand before release; the data is not taken from the game's files.
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit line
- gtadb.org and all contributors
- Version
- tile set yanis,17 and map/data/6/landmarks.json
- Commit
f399260- Taken on
- What we changed
- Tiles recoloured to our palette, with fog and markers added. Landmarks sorted into our own regions and categories, unnamed places given descriptive names, positions rounded to whole metres, real-world addresses and editor notes left out.
The small print
Unofficial fan-made app. Not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Rockstar Games or Take-Two Interactive. Grand Theft Auto, GTA, Rockstar Games and related names and marks are trademarks of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. and are used only to describe what this app is about. Nothing is shown before your point in the story. Places come from official material, from openly licensed fan-made maps credited on the about page, and from players after release; we host no leaked images or videos.