Accurate Compass Navigation vs NorthPin True North Compass
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Accurate Compass Navigation
Navigate with confidence using a globally accurate compass. Customize its appearance with various designs and colors. Features include true or magnetic north, a bubble level, and location sharing.
- Global accuracy for true and magnetic north
- Display location with coordinates and address
- Bubble level for tilt measurement
- Customizable housing colors, disk, needle, and background
- Location sharing via email and SMS
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Accurate Compass is a simple application and easy to be used with various designs and colors customized to produce high quality graphic. Accurate Compass can be used for most of your outdoor activities such as travel, picnics, camping, hiking or boating. There are many compass apps on the market but most of them work accurately only in America but less accurate in Australia and Asia. Our app can work accurately all over the world. It can display True North (default, GPS on) or Magnetic North and Level (tilt). With this application you can customize your compass as follow: - 7 housing (case) colors from white to blue - Option for black or white disk - 4 background options - 3 types of direction needle Features: - Display directions in magnetic north and true north - Display location with coordinates, address and gps altitude (check Setting). Click location will show on map - Display bubble level. - Share your location with friends through email, sms... * GPS must be turned on and fixed for True North, coordinates, address and altitude, you choose "Allow" when first run * Important note: Hold phone/tablet in fixed magnetic field, away from computers, other phones / tablets, cables and electrical devices for accurate measurement results * During the time you use our app, we collect anonymous data and error reports in order to improve application. Follow our official Twitter account: https://twitter.com/pvdapps or Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/accucompass/ *** If you like this app, please support us, you can remove ads from the Menu *** We welcome your ideas and suggestions, please email us at: support+compass@pvdapps.com
NorthPin True North Compass
This offline compass provides accurate headings with multiple stability modes and a magnetic interference detector. Save waypoints, get direction guidance, and access sun, moon, and Qibla information without an internet connection. It also offers various coordinate formats and a night mode.
- Offline compass with stable bearings
- Magnetic interference detection
- Waypoint saving and guidance
- Offline sun, moon, and Qibla data
- Multiple coordinate and heading formats
- Night mode and home-screen widget
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NorthPin is an offline compass you can trust — no ads, no analytics, no background tracking, and no internet needed. STABLE, HONEST HEADING • Smooth 0–360° bearings with 3 stability modes and a live jitter score • Magnetic interference detector with µT field strength and warnings • Guided figure-eight calibration to fix a wobbly compass TRUE NORTH, OFFLINE • Magnetic or True North with offline WMM declination — one-time location or manual coordinates WAYPOINTS & PIN DIRECTION • Pin a bearing and get left/right guidance until you are on target • Save named waypoints and use back-bearing to retrace your steps SUN, MOON & QIBLA — OFFLINE • Sun and moon azimuth, elevation, sunrise/sunset direction and moon phase • Offline Qibla direction, computed on your device FIELD TOOLS • Coordinates in DD, DMS, UTM and MGRS with one-tap copy • Heading in degrees, NATO mils (6400) or gradians • Red night mode to preserve night vision, home-screen widget and outdoor mode PRIVACY PROMISE No data collected. No account. Nothing is uploaded — your location never leaves your phone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: NorthPin True North Compass at none against Accurate Compass Navigation's 1. NorthPin True North Compass also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Accurate Compass Navigation's advantage is ratings volume (206 vs 1). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Accurate Compass Navigation sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. NorthPin True North Compass asks for nothing beyond the download.
NorthPin True North Compass holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Accurate Compass Navigation has 206 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Accurate Compass Navigation ships an update every 13 months, NorthPin True North Compass every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Accurate Compass Navigation | NorthPin True North Compass |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (206 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 206 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ngo Na | lapnito.cz s.r.o. |
Customer experience
Accurate Compass Navigation
NorthPin True North Compass
Bugs and requests
Accurate Compass Navigation
Reported bugs
12 issues- Compass needle is frozen
- Compass is backwards
- Compass does not work on iPad
- Compass does not work on iPhone
- Compass is not accurate
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- Compass gives two different outcomes (True/Magnetic North)
- Compass needle stays at 0 degrees
- Text dial does not rotate
- Altitude does not display
- Decimal coordinates do not display
- App is just a picture of a compass
- Compass doesn't move
Requested features
6 requests- Improve graphics
- Allow color customization
- Reduce calibration needs
- Fix altitude display bug
- Fix decimal coordinate bug
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- Make the app more modern
NorthPin True North Compass
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Accurate Compass Navigation
- Use compass app without ads$1.99
NorthPin True North Compass
No in-app purchases
Questions
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