Useless
This app is completely useless unless you also buy the related Marine Barograph app for $15. I didn’t bite.
Response from developer
May I please note that the listed functions of the free Marine Barometer are not in any way tied to the functions of the Marine Barograph app. The latter is a totally separate app with enhanced storage and display options, but none of these are needed to benefit from the described functions of the Marine Barometer.
Great app!
I just discovered the “graph” view. How long has that been there. So very helpful, thanks.
Marine Barometer
Just started looking at this app. Just on the basis of the detailed info it contains, the references it lists and the potential it affords with incredible ease, the publisher should be greatly admired and complemented. App is very well designed and explained and brings this data and science within easy reach of even the more casual user. Many kudos!
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Good tool
Great app, easy to use especially as we are always at sea level. I like that it generates lat and long at the same time.
Could really gain from having some sort of graphing tool to easily see the trends.
Could really gain from having some sort of graphing tool to easily see the trends.
Useful but could be better
I would like to be able to generate a graph from the saved data.
Excellent
Excellent useful app.
Thank you!
Thank you!
Best in the App Store
I have never taken the time to review an app before, but I am so pleased with this one that I had to stop and write one.
My wife and I are offshore sailors, and I’ve been looking for a really accurate barometer for about a year. I really accurate barometers are really expensive, so I hoped to make do with an iPhone app.
I think I have most of them, at this point, but this is the first one that ticks all the most important boxes.
First, it’s not a black box with hard to understand calibration parameters. It has exactly two, and they are the two obvious and critical ones: altitude and sensor offset. These are the only two required for accurate readings, so I’m not sure why other apps have more. This is a case where more is not better.
Second, it averages the readings. The sensor in the iPhone is pretty jittery so averaging is absolutely necessary.
The result is a simple, accurate barometer that — I hope — will stay accurate over a goodly period of time. I haven’t used it long enough to know if it drifts over time, but I guess that would be the fault of the sensor, not the app.
I intend to track its accuracy over time, with the hope I don’t have to buy one of those $700 barometers!
Well done.
My wife and I are offshore sailors, and I’ve been looking for a really accurate barometer for about a year. I really accurate barometers are really expensive, so I hoped to make do with an iPhone app.
I think I have most of them, at this point, but this is the first one that ticks all the most important boxes.
First, it’s not a black box with hard to understand calibration parameters. It has exactly two, and they are the two obvious and critical ones: altitude and sensor offset. These are the only two required for accurate readings, so I’m not sure why other apps have more. This is a case where more is not better.
Second, it averages the readings. The sensor in the iPhone is pretty jittery so averaging is absolutely necessary.
The result is a simple, accurate barometer that — I hope — will stay accurate over a goodly period of time. I haven’t used it long enough to know if it drifts over time, but I guess that would be the fault of the sensor, not the app.
I intend to track its accuracy over time, with the hope I don’t have to buy one of those $700 barometers!
Well done.
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Damn good app
I read the info on the Starpath site, d/l the iOS app, calibrated for elevation, and took a reading. Then I went to a weather site to cross check the pressure with the government data. They matched within 1 mm of pressure. ‘Nough said!
Useful utility
Straight forward and nicely organized for the sailor. I can now compare my ships barometer to the barometer in my iPhone
