Simple Compass vs Big Arrow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Compass
This app offers a straightforward and highly readable compass for instant direction and heading information. Its large display and simple design make it easy to determine your orientation at a glance, ideal for navigation and travel.
- Huge, easy-to-read display
- Accurate real-time direction
- Quick orientation for travel
- Simple and clutter-free design
- Reliable heading information
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Simple Compass-Direction is a super simple compass designed for unmatched clarity and ease of use. This app provides reliable, real-time direction and heading information instantly using your device's sensors. Its simple design features a huge display, making it very easy to read your current direction and cardinal points at a glance. Key Features for Simple Navigation: • Easy to Read: Features a huge display and a simple design that prioritizes clarity over clutter. • Accurate Direction: Provides precise heading and direction readings for confident navigation. • Quick Orientation: An essential tool for hiking, travel, and easily determining your orientation. • Simple Usability: Designed to be the quickest and easiest compass tool on your device. Download Simple Compass-Direction and experience the clarity required for straightforward navigation and direction finding.
Big Arrow
Navigate without cellular data using a large directional arrow. Set destinations on your iPhone and track them on your iPhone or Apple Watch. Features GPS accuracy indicators and notifications for nearby destinations.
- Large directional arrow for navigation
- Offline GPS navigation
- Apple Watch support
- GPS accuracy indicator
- Proximity notifications
- Battery saving mode
- Apple Maps extension
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Big Arrow is a simple navigation app designed to direct you towards your destination when you are unwilling or unable to use cellular data, when there is no road to follow, or when you simply want a big arrow to point you towards your destination. The eponymous big arrow will indicate the direction pointing towards your selected destination, depending on your current direction (for example, if you are moving directly towards your destination, the arrow will point upwards). Only on iPhone, enabling the magnetometer allows the arrow to point in the correct direction when standing still. New destinations are added on your iPhone, and you will be able to navigate back to them using your iPhone or Apple Watch GPS, using no cellular data. On Apple Watch Series 5 and above, the integrated magnetometer (compass) can also be used to improve the responsiveness of the arrow. GPS accuracy while navigating is indicated by a number of dots (top right). It is shown only when accuracy is suboptimal. • red (1 dot): low accuracy (error margin above 66 m or 72 yd). •• yellow (2 dots): medium accuracy (error margin below 66 m or 72 yd). ••• green (3 dots) / hidden: good accuracy (error margin below 16 m or 17 yd). The indicator should disappear shortly after the 3 dots are shown. On Apple Watch, it also supports a compass mode that will point you towards north.. Additional features: • Notifications to alert when you are nearby a destination, or about to reach it • Battery saving mode • Handoff from Watch to iPhone • Apple Maps extension to add destinations from Apple's Maps app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Big Arrow at 83% against Simple Compass's 0%. Big Arrow also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.1) and ratings volume (73 vs 7). On price, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Big Arrow holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Big Arrow has 73 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Simple Compass's written reviews are positive against 83% of Big Arrow's.
| Parameter | Simple Compass | Big Arrow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (7 ratings) | 4.5 (73 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 73 — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | — | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 10.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ramalingam Sivaramakrishnan | Marco Filetti |
Customer experience
Simple Compass
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In-app purchases
Simple Compass
No in-app purchases
Big Arrow
No in-app purchases
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