Compass & Altimeter

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4.3
117K reviews
5M+
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Content rating
PEGI 3
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About this app

A simple and easy to use Compass to retrieve useful information about your current position such as true Geographic north and true altitude above sea level.

• Works perfectly offline and without network access
Geographic north using magnetic declination
True altitude above mean sea level (AMSL)
Sunrise & Sunset times
• Azimut angles in deg, grad, mrad, gon
• Various dials and color themes (including high contrast)
• Angle measurement (with dials including measuring capabilities)
• Bubble Level functionnality (available in iPhone dial)
• Use EGM96 as the geoid reference for computing altitude
• Latitude & Longitude in MGRS, UTM coordinate formats
• Latitude & Longitude in DD, DMM or DMS format
• British National Grid (OSGB86) coordinate system
• SwissGrid (CH1903 / LV95 / MN95)
• Magnetic field strength to detect potential perturbations
• Sensor accuracy
• Address of your current location (requires data connectivity)

Compass better works outside where magnetic perturbations are low. Magnetic closure cell phone cases may also disrupt the accuracy of the compass.

EGM96 (Earth Gravitational Model) is used as the geoid reference to compute true altitude above sea level from data collected by the GPS sensor. UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) is a system for assigning coordinates to locations on the surface of the Earth.

Have fun !
Updated on
8 Nov 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
App info and performance and Device or other IDs
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.3
116K reviews
Jubbly 2015
27 January 2025
Find a different compass app - this one's not good. Used this compass periodically over the years and it was just ok, nothing special or that good. Now you have to consent to personalised ads and personal data collection (which gets shared massively) or pay to remove ads. If you don't do either of those then you can't use it at all. It doesn't tell you this before you spend ages going through and turning all the legitimate interest consents off and thereby wasting your time. Deleted.
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Sarah Baker
9 October 2024
You're forced to have targeted ads and all sorts of other tracking, or pay £9.99, but it doesn't tell you that before you spend ages in the 'manage options' settings deselecting the legitimate interest settings and saving, at which point you're asked to either consent or manage options or pay to go ad-free. Just tell me up front that I have 2 choices - either pay to go ad free or consent to everything. The 'manage options' thing was a waste of time and you don't allow it. Ridiculous. Uninstall!
32 people found this review helpful
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A Google user
15 February 2020
Great free and more importantly advert free compass app. Helped me to orientate my weather station correctly. Location permission for more accurate readings and very helpful for correct altitude, again helping to configure my weather station correctly. People having issues with accuracy, try going outdoors away from electronic devices and power lines and if it's a persistent problem it's probably an issue with your phone's magnetometer not the app! Thank you developers.
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