Beautiful Compass Pro vs Year Progress Bar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beautiful Compass Pro
This app provides a beautiful and easy-to-use compass for your iPhone and iPad. It accurately displays Magnetic and True North, calibrating to your location to show the correct direction.
- Beautiful designs
- Easy to use interface
- Magnetic North display
- True North calibration
- Multi-language support
- Location-based declination calculation
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Best compass for your iPhone & iPad. √ Beautiful designs and easy to use. √ Magnetic North √ True North √ Multi-Language Notes: In order to let Compass locate the True North direction, please select “Allow” when it requires your location information. Useful Knowledge: Magnetic North, which differed from True North, changes over time. Between the True North and Magnetic North, there is the angle which is called Magnetic Declination. It varies from 0 to 20 degrees (up to 60 degrees or even more) in different areas of the world. Based on your geographic location, Compass Easy will calibrate the True North direction by calculating the Magnetic Declination. URL scheme is "FLCompassPro://" Help translate: Contribute to the Compass translation in your language. Let's make Compass available to everyone in the world! We will show translator's info in Compass, if you so desire. In addition, we also give several redemption code as a gift.
Year Progress Bar
This app provides a complication for your Apple Watch to visualize the progress of the year, day, or hour as a percentage. It serves as a subtle reminder to reflect on long-term goals and stay on track. Users can customize which time period is displayed.
- Year progress complication
- Day progress complication
- Hour progress complication
- Apple Watch integration
- Goal reflection reminder
- Customizable settings
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Remind yourself to think long term with this simple complication for Apple Watch. It provides an Apple Watch complication that shows you how much of the year has passed. As you glance at your wrist, and see the number go up every few days, you can take an opportunity to check in with yourself. Are you staying on track for your long-term goals? Alternatively, you can choose to see the percentage of the day that has elapsed (midnight to midnight) or hour, represented as a percentage rather than minutes. Note: The Apple Watch app is only used to update the complication settings. When you change the setting in the Apple Watch app, it will update the complication.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Year Progress Bar at Free against Beautiful Compass Pro's $0.99. Year Progress Bar also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 78%). Beautiful Compass Pro's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 11 months). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Year Progress Bar is free to download; Beautiful Compass Pro costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Beautiful Compass Pro against 5.0 for Year Progress Bar. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 3 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 78% of Beautiful Compass Pro's written reviews are positive against 100% of Year Progress Bar's.
Beautiful Compass Pro ships an update every 2 months, Year Progress Bar every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beautiful Compass Pro | Year Progress Bar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 77.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 11 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 13.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 良峰 侯 | Ganotis Holdings, Inc. |
Customer experience
Beautiful Compass Pro
Year Progress Bar
In-app purchases
Beautiful Compass Pro
No in-app purchases
Year Progress Bar
No in-app purchases
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