Compass Course Navigator

Build a compass-and-pace course. Run it, or teach it. Compass Course Navigator is built around two roles: an Instructor who lays out a course as a sequence of compass headings and distances, and a Student who navigates it, with GPS help while learning, or with GPS hidden when it's time to prove they can do it with a compass alone. It's made for orienteering instruction, land navigation training, and anyone teaching or practicing dead reckoning. INSTRUCTOR MODE • Set a start point and add as many legs as you need, each a heading and a distance. • Unlimited waypoints. • Share a course with students by QR code or link. The magnetic declination travels with it, so the course lands on the right heading whatever declination is set on their device. STUDENT MODE • Practice mode: GPS on, so students see where they are against the planned course while they learn. • Test mode: GPS hidden, the real test of navigating by compass and pace count alone. • Mark each waypoint as cleared along the way. • Pace count practice: walk 100 m (or 100 ft), measured by GPS or on a taped course, and the app averages your last five trials. Every leg then shows its distance in paces, and Practice mode counts down the paces to the next waypoint. • Free student performance report: after a test run, a PDF of the planned course against the student's actual GPS track, with the error at each waypoint marked. SHARING AND DATA • JSON import and export, full backup and restore to a file you control. • Manual magnetic declination, street and satellite maps. • Shared course links open straight in the app. • Your pace data stays on your device and is never included in a shared course. PRO, A ONE-TIME PURCHASE • Waypoint hints: add notes like "old oak by the creek". Students see them for free; writing them is Pro. • GPX export, for any GPS or mapping tool. • Saved course library. • Course report PDF: the route on a map, a table of every leg, total distance. • Live magnetic declination from a geomagnetic model, based on your position. • Reorder legs. • Offline maps: download the area of your course in advance. • Keep the screen awake through a full run. No subscription: an instructor who builds a course library isn't billed indefinitely for a tool they teach with. Available in English, Español, Français, Deutsch, Português, Italiano, 日本語, 한국어.