Emerald Setup vs Survey Compass
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Emerald Setup
This app offers guided setup and monitoring for a touch-free health measurement system. It uses environmental wireless signals to track vital signs, sleep, and mobility without requiring wearables or user interaction.
- Touch-free health measurement
- Continuous vital sign monitoring
- Sleep and mobility tracking
- Guided system configuration
- Wireless signal monitoring
- Passive health tracking
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Emerald is a revolutionary passive and touch-free health measurement system that does away with the hassle of wires and wearables. Emerald provides continuous monitoring of vital signs, sleep, and mobility metrics without needing any physical contact. Emerald measures these metrics by monitoring the wireless signals in the environment, and does not require people to wear any sensors, interact with the device, or otherwise change their behavior in any way. This app provides easy, guided configuration and monitoring of the Emerald system.
Survey Compass
This app provides real-time bearing, elevation, and GPS coordinates using your phone's camera. It's designed for quick outdoor measurements, calculating heights, and logging readings with optional notes. Easily convert between coordinate formats and share results.
- Live camera HUD with azimuth and pitch
- Multiple GPS coordinate formats (Lat/Lon, UTM, MGRS)
- A-B angle and height estimation
- Reading log for up to 200 entries
- Coordinate conversion tool
- Shareable A-B results
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Survey compass app for field angles: aim your phone camera at a target and read its bearing, elevation angle and GPS position on one live screen. It is built for quick outdoor checks such as sighting a ridge, a mast or a tree, logging where you stood, and working out a height from two angles. ▶ LIVE CAMERA HUD • Azimuth ribbon across the top with the bearing in degrees and a 16-point direction (N, NNE, NE…) • Crosshair reticle with a small bubble that shows when the phone is level • Pitch gauge on the side with the elevation angle, percent grade and 1:n slope • Switch between magnetic north and true north (true north appears once your location gives the local declination) ▶ YOUR POSITION IN THREE FORMATS • Latitude and longitude in degrees, minutes and seconds • UTM zone, easting and northing • MGRS grid reference While there is no GPS fix the panel shows a dash instead of a number, so a coordinate on screen always comes from a real GPS fix, never from a placeholder. ▶ A–B ANGLE AND HEIGHT Mark point A, mark point B, and read the horizontal angle and vertical angle between the two sightings. Enter the horizontal distance to the object and the app estimates its height from the base and top angles. If you have a slope distance instead, switch to slope mode to get the horizontal distance and the rise. ▶ READING LOG Save a reading with its bearing, pitch, coordinates and an optional note. Up to 200 readings stay on your phone. A reading saved without a GPS fix is marked as having no position rather than being given a made-up one. ▶ COORDINATE CONVERTER Type any latitude and longitude, or pull in your current GPS fix, and read it as decimal degrees, DMS, UTM and MGRS at once. Add a second point to get the great-circle bearing and distance between them. ▶ SHARE Send an A–B result as plain text to a message, a note or a work order. HONEST LIMITS Bearing and angle come from your phone's compass and motion sensors, and position comes from GPS. Nearby metal, cars and power lines disturb a compass; move away from them and hold the phone steady for a better reading. The app does not measure distance by itself: for a height estimate you enter the distance. This is a field aid for planning and estimating, not survey-grade instrumentation, so confirm critical measurements with proper equipment.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Emerald Setup at none against Survey Compass's shown. Emerald Setup also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and device support (3 vs 1). Survey Compass's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). On price, rating, ratings volume 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Emerald Setup against 5.0 for Survey Compass. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 3 respectively.
Emerald Setup ships an update every 2 months, Survey Compass weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Emerald Setup | Survey Compass |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Emerald Innovations, Inc. | heekyung moon |
Customer experience
Emerald Setup
Survey Compass
In-app purchases
Emerald Setup
No in-app purchases
Survey Compass
No in-app purchases
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