Digital Compass app for iPhone and iPad

4.4 ( 864 ratings )

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Developer: Patrick Giudicelli

1.99 USD

Current version: 1.3.5, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 18 Apr 2009
App size: 1.62 Mb

Digital Compass is a compass that uses the iphone GPS to display the course.
A course is the intended path of a vehicle over the surface of the Earth.

Features:
- Display the course in degrees
- Display the latitude et longitude
- Display the altitude
- Display the honrizontal and vertical accuracy
- Display the speed
- Display the course in a Today Widget

You must have the location service activated and you must use the app outdoor.
To display the course you must be moving.

Pros and cons of Digital Compass app for iPhone and iPad

Digital Compass app good for

With each new update theres some type of feature that makes the app better. Keep up the great work.

Given the limitations of the GPS module in the 3G iphone, this app does a great job. Not as slick as what you get in the 3GS but we cant all upgrade. As long as you are moving this app does a good job and the author is continually improving it.

Best Digital Compass Ive ever downloaded. Totally worth the $1

Some bad moments

Direction course works well but speed maxes out at 32 mph/kph. Also it does not convert miles to kilometers when switching to metric. No point Im having just the course.

Tried it several times under different circumstances. It doesnt work.

I didnt understand the movement of the arrow provided while moving arround. I had hoped it would point north. It didnt do so. The speed indicator worked fairly well in kilometres but failed badly when changed to miles per hour. The latitude and longitude were quite accurate but doesnt need to have so many decimal points because of the existing posted accuracy can have a very large range.

The problem with this and any other GPS device is that you have to be moving to get a compass bearing. When I tied out this application I found you had to be move a lot to get the compass bearing to change at all. I tried walking around with it. Nothing. So I got in my car and drove and sure enough I got a reading of my direction, but the speed recorded by the device was way off, showing 9km when I was doing 20. So I think selling this as a "compass", even at 99c is misleading.

Terrible. Does not show direction no matter which way i faced or Turned. It always showed I was north.

Horrible, doesnt work, will be contesting this charge with itunes

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