Compass & Altimeter

In-app purchases
4.4
117K reviews
5M+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
Screenshot image
Screenshot image
Screenshot image
Screenshot image
Screenshot image
Screenshot image
Screenshot image
Screenshot image

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
Nov 8, 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

4.4
116K reviews
7he Plague
February 7, 2025
Page states no data shared with 3rd parties but when you first start it up you can go through the list of seemingly hundreds of advertising vendors that want to store cookies on your device to -- yes share your data with 3rd parties. There's no reject all slider. So I went through them all, confirmed my selections to share with none. In the end I'm hit with another prompt asking me to consent to share or pay $9.99 for privacy. Have a compass that doesn't spy on me, I'll skip altimeter, uninstall
25 people found this review helpful
Did you find this helpful?
A Google user
October 7, 2019
No better or worse than the competition I guess, but none of these apps get the message... point is in a consistently correct direction! Kind of like the 'old fashion' handheld floating needle type did. This is useless at best ... life threatening at worst. Maybe it's best to carry a real compass and/or use some of that precious data space and access a map app to get there safely. Yes?
38 people found this review helpful
Did you find this helpful?
Mark Walton
April 1, 2022
I went through the calibration routine but the app only seems to give location and altitude information when you first open the app. No matter how far I go after that this information fails to update. That effectively renders the app useless. Who wants to have to constantly close the app and restart it during a hike? Oh, and half of the time the compass is wrong, sometimes laughably so. Sacrifice my privacy for an app that doesn't work? I think not. Uninstalled.
170 people found this review helpful
Did you find this helpful?