Digital Bearing Compass User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience50.0% of reviews
Neutral9.1% of reviews
Negative experience40.9% of reviews

~ Based on 22 written reviews from the US App Store.

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Top reviews

Great little app

Very handy, simple and functional. Working fine for me on an iPhone 13 Mini running iOS 17.

First it didn’t but now it does.

The Digital Bearing Compass for some inexplicable reason didn’t work when I first installed it on my iPad Pro. It worked on my wife’s ipad but even with Thomas’s help, I couldn’t get it to work on mine. Today, whilst cleaning out unused apps, I fired it up just to be sure before deleting it and lo and behold, it works perfectly. Must have had some updates. As far as the app goes, it’s brilliant, I love it!
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Does what it says on the box

This app is easy to use and has no unnecessary cruft. When I had a question about locating a distant fix (which appear smaller due to the distance), the developer responded quickly and helpfully.

Digital bearing compass is excellent

I live work and play in Australia where the magnetic declination is 13° east. I have a boat and use it a great deal and I am always trying to ensure parity between the magnetic compass and the digital true North GPS, heading sensor and fluxgate compass. I see that this app gets an average of three stars and honestly that’s not fair. The rules for easterly declination are the opposite of westerly declination and I suspect most people don’t even know the declination of their area and therefore can never reconcile true and magnetic north. I purchased this app fired it up and blow me down...it is almost perfect.
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Pas mal du tout

What’s can of precision could we obtain with this app?

No camera on I pad

Works very well on my i phone, I would give five stars, but camera function not working on my i pad. Please advise, thank you

Very unsatisfactory

I am using an iPhone 8+ with latest version.. App needs phone to be held horizontally and will not zoom so only very near items can be identified. After much trying at sea and on land I have not achieved a single reliable fix and request a refund.

So far so good

Nice useful app, reasonable price. would love to see one feature added... the ability to re-zero (or offset) pitch, bank and compass heading from any iPad / iPhone position so iPad could be mounted in some position other than directly in line of sight but still give (relative) pitch / bank and heading...
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Camera not visible on iPad Air 2

I downloaded the app about a week ago and the camera worked fine. Since the update 3 days ago the camera does not work.

Very nice navigation app.

Useful for boating. I wish there were a way to have it record the bearing so that I can check my progress on a return journey.

Usefull

Juste great !

Can’t see

One star because despite following all the instructions I can’t see as the camera is not being picked up. Using latest iOS version
Contacted the developer and no response. Very poor

Thomas
Thanks for reply
I am using iPhone 6+ on ver 12.4.4
It is not jailbroke

Regards Rob

Thomas
Thanks at least I know
Reason I downloaded as it say it runs on
my device
No intention of buying new phone so sadly I must ask for the refund🙁
Thank for taking time to explain

Regards
You sent a message on Apple using the same wording as used here then asked me same questions
Even though the app say iPhone + will run the app we know it will not
Please simply process the refund

It seems that the promise is hollow I have asked 3 times and all you can ask is my phone jailbroke
Please just do the refund

Thomas the App Store actually says “works on this device” nothing about what phone
Rob
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Nettes Spielzeug...

...aber auf See im Wellengang kaum zu gebrauchen. Dafür sind die Schriften zu klein und heben sich oft genug nicht vom Hintergrund ab.

GPS Positions

I have just purchased and downloaded this app and so far so good.
However, as I use Degrees Decimal Minutes (DDM) for all my GPS positions, is there any way of changing the screen display from Degrees Minutes Seconds (DMS) to DDM please?

Great app

Started using this app on an iPhone 7, now using on an iPhone Xs. Works great, never any problems.

Cannot get camera to work

No image on iPhone 6+

Ganz gut, aber ...

... folgende Verbesserungen wären wünschenswert:
- die Buttons ‚Save Bearing‘ sprechen schlecht an. Ich muss oft Tippen. Stört beim Peilen
- Kamera-Zoom zur besseren Erkennung der zu peilenden Objekte
- Ausgabe der Koordinaten des Fix
- Angabe einer Einheit bei der Distanz zum Fix (bitte km wenn metrisch gewählt, ansonsten nm, in jedem Fall aber bitte angeben!
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Cannot see

Potentially a good app.. but in sunlight, I just cannot see the text no matter how I change it. Please make it readable and bigger!

Digital Bearing Compass

App will not display camera view.
Using iPhone 5s and latest iOS

Response from developer

As I wrote to you in the email, iPhone 5s does not support augmented reality, only iPhone 7 upwards. You should not be able to download the app, most probably your device is jailbroken.

Not worth the cost

Terrible app..completely freezes up the phone/camera..junk. I’m an 40 year airline pilot, power boat and sailboat user. My iPhone 8 and IPad Air has the latest software.