Speedometer vs Next Companion
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Speedometer
Track your speed and location with a GPS-powered dashboard. Features include weather updates, a compass, and speed limit alerts based on real-time road data. Customize the display and utilize HUD mode for enhanced visibility.
- GPS speed tracking
- Map location display
- Current weather and temperature
- Analog compass
- Speed limit alerts
- HUD mode
- Apple Watch support
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Measure your speed with this beautiful designed speed dashboard with many other functionality. It can track your speed, location on map by using GPS. Features: * Graphical presentation of speed * Analog and numeric speed * Current location weather and temperature in Celsius or Fahrenheit * Kilometer and Mile unit system selection * Change dashboard different color * Analog Compass * Map location * Maximum, average speed and odometer * Speed limit of current road getting online info from open street.org * Over speed limit warn * Current road name * Portrait and landscape mode * HUD (Head up Display Mode) * Today widget presentation * Apple watch support and syncronisation
Next Companion
This app shares your iPhone's GPS data with a Wi-Fi-only iPad running a companion car dashboard application. It enables features like navigation, speed tracking, and trip analysis on your iPad. It's designed for users who need to enhance their car's digital dashboard experience.
- Share iPhone GPS data
- Enable iPad navigation
- Track speed and acceleration
- Log drive insights
- Manage trip data
- Bluetooth data transfer
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Next Companion is a companion app to ‘Next Car Dashboard’ app on the iPad. Next Companion provides GPS data from your iPhone to your Wi-Fi only iPad running the ‘Next Car Dashboard’ app. GPS is required by Next to provide you with your drive in sights, speed, acceleration, maps, navigation, trips, and etc. This app is only required if you are using ‘Next Car Dashboard’ on a Wi-Fi only iPad which do not have inbuilt GPS. Cellular iPads do not require the ‘Next Companion’ app as they have inbuilt GPS. Transfer of GPS data from ‘Next Companion’ on your iPhone to ‘Next Car Dashboard’ on your iPad happens via Bluetooth. Privacy - Your location data never leaves your device. The app does not collect any personal information.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Next Companion at 5.0 against Speedometer's 4.6. Next Companion also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Speedometer's advantage is ratings volume (1.8K vs 3) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Next Companion holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Speedometer has 1.8K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Speedometer | Next Companion |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.8K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.8K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | UniCom Technology | sachin jeph |
Customer experience
Speedometer
Next Companion
Bugs and requests
Speedometer
Reported bugs
3 issues- Speedometer not accurate at high speeds
- GPS signal slow to update
- Speed limit not always correct
Requested features
2 requests- Option to remove ads
- Thicker/bolder font for better readability
Next Companion
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Speedometer
No in-app purchases
Next Companion
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Speedometer free?
Is Next Companion free?
Which has better reviews, Speedometer or Next Companion?
Do Speedometer or Next Companion have ads?
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