Pro Compass app for iPhone and iPad

4.0 ( 7600 ratings )

Utilities Navigation
Developer: Craig Hunter

1.99 USD

Current version: 2.0.1, last update: 3 years ago
First release : 17 Apr 2012
App size: 2.34 Mb

Pro Compass replicates the look and feel of classic pocket compass hardware in use since the 1800s, adding modern features and technologies. The app uses advanced OpenGL graphics (normally reserved for games) to render 3D floating compass hardware for realistic operation.

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, youll see why its 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.

Pros and cons of Pro Compass app for iPhone and iPad

Pro Compass app good for

How about adding GMT to this app? I use this at work and exact time is important.

Again, a wonderful app from Hunter. Very professional looking, functional and apparently very accurate/precise. Great implementation of iPhone resources. It might be nicer if the needle pointer was in a contrasting color, say red or green etc.

Where can I find a prism to sit on the face of this compass to get an accurate bearing at Sea from an Excellent Tool

Great job - love theodolite- keep them coming (and) great job - well done. Anyone considering a "Hunter" App - go for it theyre work/apps are great!!!

Love it as I love all the apps these guys release, simply the best. Thanks for this.

Some bad moments

I really like this application. For the 5th star, consider adding UTM coordinates, and ability to copy the readings to the clipboard. I would love to be able to paste them into Filemaker Go.

The best of many nav apps I have tried. If you have wifi it will get you there with ease, otherwise you still have the compass.

Only had it 30 minutes and it is the best compass I have seen.

This is a great compass. I know have used it out kayaking and has worked flawlessly.

I am a map, GIS, and device junkie. This is a fantastic compass app... the best I have seen. It truly turns your device into a full-fledged location sensor and direction finder of the highest quality, hardware permitting.

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.

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