Pro Compass
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navigation | $0.99 | Craig Hunter | iPhone, iPad |
Pro Compass offers nine different compass modes with direct read, traditional, and rosette styles capable of displaying degrees, quads, or mils (the direct read mode shows a North-South needle and reversed East-West convention). In all display modes, Pro Compass shows both magnetic and true direction simultaneously, with a rotating outer true ring that is automatically adjusted for local magnetic declination. Sun and Moon position are marked on the compass rings and continually updated.
Pro Compass displays location and altitude, with decimal, degree-minute-second, UTM, and MGRS position formats. An optional "Datum Pack" adds over 230 geodetic datums covering regions and countries on all continents around the world. The app also contains a built in two-axis inclinometer that drives two independent bubble levels and a bullseye level. The inclinometer has angle readout dials for each axis, making it useful for many different types of measurements including slopes, pitches, sight lines, and geological angles like dip and strike.
After using Pro Compass, you'll see why it's the best and most realistic compass available on the App Store! Also be sure to check out the new Pro Compass for Watch, available for all Apple Watch models running watchOS 6 or later.
***** IMPORTANT ACCURACY NOTE *****
Pro Compass reports accuracy directly from the magnetometer sensor in your device. This accuracy is determined by the hardware, not the application itself.
To improve results, operate Pro Compass away from any electronics or other sources of electro-magnetic interference, including car dashboards, aircraft cockpits, metal structures, and other devices.
Please contact the developer via the support link if you need additional information about accuracy or operation of Pro Compass.
Reviews
The most elegant and useful professional compass app
Sea_Salt
What it does, it does incredibly well - true and magnetic bearings, when either horizontal or vertical. Gps location readout, including magnitude of error. 2-dimensional bubble levels plus analog scale so you can assure the instrument is level. Choice of scales. I have tried multiple compass apps. This one is so intuitive yet powerful it easily rises to my top preference.
A little disappointed on IPad
The Nickster 483736
I got to this link from the "other apps by hunter" feature of the app store. Wanted to use this as the main compass on a boat, but I really didn't notice that this is NOT an iPad app but an iPhone app. I mean it works, but the graphics are small and poorly rendered on an iPad. It doesn't seem that it would be a lot of work on the developers part to provide native screen support for the larger iPad screen (hint, hint). Also would like an option to REMOVE the bubble levels from the screen and perhaps another one to hide the tan-colored info boxes at either end for a cleaner look in a marine instrument environment. I DO like the extra work put into making the rosette appear 3D though, that is brilliant!
Beautiful and effective
JoshCarter
Graphic detail is excellent and the rosette responds to incline perfectly. Direction has been accurate in my tests. Also displays position and supports MGRS, making it perfect for the military or metric-minded.
Great app. Needs UTM
SnarkyFish
I love this app and want to use it for quick position info, but it doesn't have UTM as a format so it's not compatible with my paper map.
Great
beagleman2009
One of the best compasses on the app store it would be nice if the needle was red for north black for south and have the ability to open theodolite at the touch of a button for photos of the area. Still a great compass still wish it worked in conjunction with theodolite.
Almost what I want it to be
W Guthrie
I like everything about the app, but would like one addition. I'd like to see an setting allowing adjustment +\- of so many degrees to make it more accurate. I know the app is limited to the info it gets from the phone, but to be able to set it to compensate for the phones deficiency would be awesome. As it stands now, mine is about 10 to 20 degrees off from my Trimble/meridian setup I use at work.
