Precise digital compass GPS vs Compass Map
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Precise digital compass GPS
This app provides a precise digital compass to help you find your direction and location. It's ideal for outdoor activities like hiking and traveling, ensuring you never get lost by showing real-time orientation to magnetic and true north.
- Digital compass functionality
- Find location and direction
- Supports magnetic and true north
- Professional and simple design
- Useful for outdoor activities
- GPS compass navigation
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Useful digital compass to help you find your location. Essential for all hikers or travelers who wish to know the exact direction or magnetic north pole. It is easy to use our smart compass, just hold your device flat like a real compass. Your device will read earth magnetic field. It is made for all those tricky situations so you won't get lost. When travel or lost your way then check your direction by GPS compass map. The most precise of all compass app supports high definition displays. This smart compass can be used for most of your outdoor activities such as travel, picnics, camping, hiking or boating. GPS compass navigation is a real compass, which shows device’s real-time orientation to magnetic fields and true north. • Digital compass • Simple to use, use it like a real compass • Professional design • Ability to switch between true and magnetic true north. • Magnetic and true north are available, the app automatically takes care of variation. • Find out the orientation and where the most relevant cities are by clicking on the cities drop-down list. If you like our app, please rate and comment to help us improve!
Compass Map
Overlay a camera view with map and compass data to mark and track objects. Visualize your marked locations directly within the camera feed.
- Camera view integration
- Map and compass overlay
- Object marking on map
- AR object visualization
- Direction finding
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Compass Map-Camera integrates the image from the camera with the map and compass. With the application you can mark objects on the map and observe them in the image from the camera.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Compass Map at none against Precise digital compass GPS's shown. Compass Map also leads on update cadence (every 11 days vs every 17 months) and ratings volume (69 vs 1). Precise digital compass GPS's advantage is review sentiment (30% vs 0%). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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. Precise digital compass GPS sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Compass Map sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Compass Map holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Compass Map has 69 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 30% of Precise digital compass GPS's written reviews are positive against 0% of Compass Map's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Precise digital compass GPS ships an update every 17 months, Compass Map every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Precise digital compass GPS | Compass Map |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 4.3 (69 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 30.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 69 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 17 months | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 11.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sara Fernandez de Cordoba | Pawel Mitek |
Customer experience
Precise digital compass GPS
Compass Map
In-app purchases
Precise digital compass GPS
- Remove Ads$3.99
Compass Map
- Pro Version$1.99
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