Comparison

Simple Digital compass for you vs Kokoro Compass

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Simple Digital compass for you

This app provides a precise digital compass to help users find their location and magnetic north. It's ideal for hikers, travelers, and adventurers needing to determine direction for navigation, sailing, or general orientation.

Highlights
  • Precise digital compass
  • Find location and north orientation
  • Map option to indicate direction
  • City drop-down for orientation
  • Displays cardinal directions
Features
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Useful precise digital compass to help you to find the location, for all hikers or travelers who wish to know the direction or magnetic north pole. If you are lost or you have lost the North, open the compass and find the direction. Very useful application to help you with sailing, hiking or for all those travelers, sailors, adventurers, mountaineers, campers and hikers who want to know the location and orientation of magnetic north anywhere in the planet and to know where the North, South, East and West is. • Find the location and north orientation. • You can press the map option and indicate which direction a place is. • You can know the orientation and where the most relevant cities are found by clicking on the cities drop-down list. A compass is an instrument used for navigation and orientation that shows direction relative to the geographic cardinal directions (or points). Usually, a diagram called a compass rose shows the directions north, south, east, and west on the compass face as abbreviated initials. When the compass is used, the rose can be aligned with the corresponding geographic directions; for example, the "N" mark on the rose really points northward. Compasses often display markings for angles in degrees in addition to (or sometimes instead of) the rose. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Kokoro Compass

Features
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Every place you've been becomes a star in the night sky. This isn't a map with directions. It's an app that lets you quietly feel which way your meaningful places lie from where you are now, and how far, on a beautiful night-sky compass. Travel memories, places you want to return to, distant people and your hometown. The more you collect, the more they become your very own constellation. ◇ Who it's for ・For anyone who, on the night they get home from a trip, wants to keep their photos as "footprints" instead of letting them vanish into the camera roll. Add your photo locations all at once, and each place you visited becomes part of a night-sky collection. ・For anyone who doesn't want to forget the town they once lived in, the place they can never return to. Just by gazing at its direction from where you stand, a half-forgotten place quietly comes back to you. ・For anyone who travels to anime filming spots, concert venues, and places tied to the artists they love, collecting "proof I was here." The spots you've reached and the ones you haven't yet grow into a pilgrimage chart all your own. ・For anyone who has left home for school or work and suddenly wants to check the direction where family lives. On the way home, feel the distance shrink; on a quiet night at the window, sense the way to your parents' home. ・For anyone who wants to cherish the places of memories with a partner or family, tied to the people themselves. Even apart, point the arrow toward where they are, and your heart feels quietly connected. ◇ Main features ・Night-sky compass: beautifully shows which direction and how far each saved place is from where you are now ・Place list and details: keep photos, notes, a visit record, and how you felt that day ・Destination mode: a large arrow points straight toward the place you want to head to ・Memory timeline: scroll in the order you visited and retrace the places you've been ・Photo map import: pull the locations from your photos to add the places you've been all at once ・Map view and proximity alerts: a gentle notice when a saved place is nearby ・Widget and Apple Watch: see the direction to your meaningful places anytime, from your home screen or your wrist ◇ What you get with Pro (one-time purchase) One payment, yours forever. No monthly subscription. ・Save unlimited places ・Attach multiple photos to a single place ・All 6 design themes (Cherry Blossom, Summer Sea, Autumn Leaves, Snow, Travel Note, Fan Culture) ・Apple Watch support ・iCloud sync and backup ・Notifications when you're nearby * Theme packs are also available as one-time purchases. ◇ Privacy Your current location is used only to calculate direction and distance, and is processed entirely on your device. We never send your location to outside servers or track your activity. Even the places you can never return to are still right here. Light up the places you hold dear on your night-sky compass.

Screenshots

Simple Digital compass for you4 screens
Kokoro Compass4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Kokoro Compass at none against Simple Digital compass for you's shown. Kokoro Compass also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 51 months). Simple Digital compass for you's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Simple Digital compass for you sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Kokoro Compass sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Simple Digital compass for you ships an update every 51 months, Kokoro Compass weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Simple Digital compass for you versus Kokoro Compass: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple Digital compass for youKokoro Compass
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 51 monthsWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBonifacio Melerokazunari aoki

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Simple Digital compass for you

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly plan$2.997 Days
  • Annual plan3 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time2
  • Remove advertisements.$3.99
  • Forever plan$29.99
2 purchases

Kokoro Compass

One-time2
  • テーマパック$1.99
  • Pro(全機能・買い切り)$6.99

Questions

Is Simple Digital compass for you free?
Simple Digital compass for you is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Kokoro Compass free?
Kokoro Compass is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Simple Digital compass for you or Kokoro Compass have ads?
Simple Digital compass for you shows ads; Kokoro Compass does not.
Which is updated more often, Simple Digital compass for you or Kokoro Compass?
Simple Digital compass for you ships an update every 51 months, and Kokoro Compass weekly. Most recently, Simple Digital compass for you was updated on November 3, 2026 and Kokoro Compass on October 28, 2026.

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