Comparison

Virtual Dashboard vs TargetNavigator

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

Head to head
About

Virtual Dashboard

Create custom dashboards using your device's sensors to display speed, altitude, and more. Navigate with a map featuring route planning, points of interest, and breadcrumb tracking. Customize units, themes, and map views for a personalized experience.

Highlights
  • Customizable sensor gauges
  • Speedometer and odometer
  • GPS and barometric altimeter
  • Artificial horizon
  • Navigational map with overlays
  • Route planning and ETA
  • Points of interest search
Features
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Bring your iPhone and iPad's sensors to life on Virtual Dashboard. Arrange a variety of different gauges to create your own custom dashboards. You can choose from: ○ Speedometer (with peak hold) ○ Odometer (distance travelled, resettable) ○ GPS Altimeter (absolute altitude) ○ Barometric Altimeter (relative altitude) ○ Accelerometer (with peak hold) ○ Artificial Horizon (pitch and roll) ○ Compass (with magnetic heading and true track indicator) ○ Elapsed time (with average speed) Swipe to display a navigational map with resizable gauge overlays. You can select from road, bike, nautical chart, satellite, topographic, and survey (blank) modes.  The map shows your current coordinates, track, and heading, and drops breadcrumb markers as you travel. Tap to set a destination and the map displays your distance, bearing, direction to steer, and ETA to the destination. Search the map for points of interest or street addresses. Customize your units, map features, and gauge behavior. Select from one of the many available themes (theme requires in-app purchase). Connect your external MFI GPS device and see faster updates. We currently support the Bad Elf GPS units.

About

TargetNavigator

Navigate to your chosen destination using a simple compass and bearing. This app provides real-time location data, weather, and celestial information. It also allows for saving custom locations, recording tracks, and exporting them as GPX files.

Highlights
  • Simple compass with bearing navigation
  • Real-time location, altitude, and speed
  • Target location weather and celestial data
  • Save and restore custom locations
  • Record and export tracks as GPX
  • Night mode and customizable display
  • Open Apple Maps for directions
Features
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TargetNavigator - Simple Compass - Use bearing to find your way to selected target location - Comes with night mode - Shows the current location, altitude, speed and slope angle indicator - Shows the target location, weather, temperature, air pressure, sunrise and sunset - Shows either metric or imperial units - Will store last target location and reload after new start, so you don't need to let it run but could also stop and re-run later - Tap on target location will center map on target location - Double tap on target location to enter target location coordinates manually - Tap on current location will center map on current location - Store custom locations on iCloud - Restore target locations from saved locations - Long press button to save current location as target location - Long press button to reverse geocode the current location (street address, zip, city, country, iso code, timezone, daylight saving and latitude, longitude) - Reverse geocoded address will be copied to clipboard so that one can paste it in another document, mail, message, etc. - Open Apple Maps to get directions to target location - Search for locations and move map to selected location - Show estimated time to target location when walking or taking the car - Show the the current position of the sun - Show sunrise and sunset time for current location or overlay the hours of the day (0-23) with their current locations - Visualize angle range of daylight, show blue and golden hours - Show current moon location - Save photos that contain the coordinates, date, time and direction of view - Record a track - Export a recorded track as GPX file - Import a formerly recorded track from the GPX file - Show track on map - Show information like distance, top speed and elevation for track - Show speed/distance diagram of track - Get information about sunrise/sunset, blue hours, golden hours and moon rise/set for the current location - Has live activity that shows current distance of recorded track and time, during recording - Indicate gps signal strength - Dim night mode to your needs - Choose a simple indicator if needed

Screenshots

Virtual Dashboard4 screens
TargetNavigator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TargetNavigator at none against Virtual Dashboard's 2. TargetNavigator also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 months). Virtual Dashboard's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (11 vs 1). On price, ads 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. Virtual Dashboard sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. TargetNavigator asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Virtual Dashboard holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Virtual Dashboard has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Virtual Dashboard ships an update every 5 months, TargetNavigator fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Virtual Dashboard versus TargetNavigator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVirtual DashboardTargetNavigator
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (11 ratings) — better4.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKevinnovate, LLCGerrit Grunwald

Customer experience

Virtual Dashboard

All ratings12 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral8.3%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

TargetNavigator

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Virtual Dashboard

One-time2
  • Donate for Development$0.99
  • Unlock All Themes$2.99
None

TargetNavigator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Virtual Dashboard free?
Virtual Dashboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TargetNavigator free?
TargetNavigator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Virtual Dashboard or TargetNavigator?
Virtual Dashboard is rated higher. Virtual Dashboard averages 4.4 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while TargetNavigator averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Virtual Dashboard or TargetNavigator have ads?
Neither Virtual Dashboard nor TargetNavigator shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Virtual Dashboard or TargetNavigator?
Virtual Dashboard ships an update every 5 months, and TargetNavigator fortnightly. Most recently, Virtual Dashboard was updated on June 4, 2026 and TargetNavigator on September 10, 2026.

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