# Compass Course Navigator — Build a compass course.

> Build a compass course. (iPhone/iPad app by Videre Research, LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/compass-course-navigator/id6816220268 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Videre Research, LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/6815477681)
- Category: Navigation, Utilities
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 6 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-13
- Data updated: 2026-10-16

## What is Compass Course Navigator?

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 — either with GPS assistance while learning, or "blind," GPS-hidden, when it's time to prove they can actually do it with a compass alone. 
It's designed for orienteering instruction, land-nav training, and anyone teaching or practicing dead-reckoning navigation.

Free Features

Instructor Mode
- Set a start point and add any number of legs, each a heading and a distance
- Delete legs as the course comes together
-Unlimited waypoints — no cap pushing you toward Pro

Student Mode
- Pace Count Practice. 
- Practice mode: GPS-assisted, so a student can see exactly where they are relative to the planned course while they learn the technique
- Test mode: GPS hidden — the real test of whether someone can navigate by compass and pace count alone
- Mark each waypoint as cleared while running the course
- Student Performance Report (free, not Pro). After a test run, generate a PDF showing the planned course against the student's actual GPS track, with the error at each waypoint clearly marked. We kept this free deliberately — the whole point of the app is teaching, and a student's own performance record shouldn't sit behind a paywall.
- Optionally enter your name before a run, and it's included on your performance report automatically
- Sharing and Data
- Share a course with students via QR code or link — declination travels with it, so the course lands on the correct heading regardless of what declination is set on the receiving device
- JSON import/export for backup or moving a course between devices
- Full data backup and restore, exportable as a file you control
- Manual magnetic declination entry
- Street and satellite base maps
- Tap a shared course link and, if the app's already installed, it opens directly with the course loaded


Pro Features — What You're Unlocking (only available in IOS Application)
- Compass Course Navigator Pro is a one-time purchase. Here's what it adds, and why:
 -Waypoint Hints Attach a short note to any waypoint — "old oak tree by the creek," "cairn on the ridge line" — the kind of contextual detail that turns a bare heading-and-distance course into one that actually teaches terrain awareness. Students see these for free, on the map and in their waypoint list; authoring them is the Pro feature, not reading them, so nothing you build is locked away from the people you're teaching.
- GPX Export Your course, in a format every GPS and mapping tool already reads — for cross-referencing against other planning tools, or handing off to someone running the course with their own GPS unit.
- Saved Course Library Save named courses and reuse them — a real asset if you're running the same course for multiple groups, or building a library of courses at different difficulty levels.
- Course Report PDF A polished, shareable report for the course itself: the full route on a map, a table of every leg (heading, distance, coordinates, and any hint you've attached), total distance, and leg count. Built for handing to a co-instructor, attaching to a lesson plan, or keeping as a record of exactly what was run.
- Live Magnetic Declination Fetched automatically from a live geomagnetic model based on GPS position, instead of looking it up by hand — one less place for a training exercise to go wrong before it even starts.
- Reorder Legs Rearrange a course's leg order directly, instead of deleting and rebuilding from scratch when the layout needs to change.
- Offline Maps Draw the area you'll actually be running the course in and download it in advance — genuinely useful the moment training happens somewhere without reliable signal, which is most of the time worth training for in the first place.
- Keep Screen Awake Keeps the screen on through a full course run, practice or test, so a lock-screen timeout never gets in the way mid-navigation.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Compass Course Pro | $4.99 | one-time |


## Is Compass Course Navigator safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Compass Course Navigator.

## Is Compass Course Navigator legit?

Compass Course Navigator has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Compass Course Navigator is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.2 — 2026-10-14

No release notes.

## More apps by Videre Research, LLC

- [Compass Triangulation](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/compass-triangulation/id6815477679)

All apps by Videre Research, LLC: https://appshunter.io/developer/6815477681

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