Comparison

Talk Compass vs Always On Location

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

Head to head
About

Talk Compass

This navigation app provides cardinal and ordinal directions through voice output. Users can customize the speaking rate, volume, and sound effects for a personalized experience.

Highlights
  • Voice output for directions
  • Adjustable speaking rate
  • Customizable volume
  • Sound effect options
  • Supports cardinal and ordinal directions
Features
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This compass app lets you know that cardinal directions and ordinal directions by voice. You can adjust speaking rate, volume and sound effects.

About

Always On Location

Features
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Always On Location records this phone's position all day, including while the app is closed, and writes one plain CSV and one GPX file for each day. Point any geotagger at the GPX and photographs from a camera with no GPS of its own land on the map. WHAT IT WRITES • One CSV per day: time in UTC and local, latitude, longitude, altitude, the accuracy of each, speed, course, time zone, and which iOS mechanism produced the fix. • One GPX per day, split into segments at gaps, so a geotagger never interpolates a photograph across a hole in the record. • Both appear in Files ▸ On My iPhone ▸ Always On Location, and in Finder over USB. WHERE THE FILES GO Nowhere, unless you move them. There is no server, no account, no analytics and no third-party SDK. The app contains no networking code for your data. Files leave this phone only when you export them, or through an iCloud backup you control. HOW IT KEEPS RECORDING • Recording starts by itself at launch. A logger you have to remember to start is a logger you forgot to start. • If iOS ends the app, it is relaunched in the background and picks the day back up. • A missed midnight is repaired at the next launch, so a day is never left half-written. • Three fidelity profiles trade battery against detail, and GPS parks itself when the phone stops moving. WHAT THE MAPS SHOW An accuracy limit, an optional speed limit, and the reach of the year map's shading are all yours to set. None of it edits the log: every fix stays in the CSV, and raising a limit brings it straight back. HOW TO STOP IT Pause recording whenever you like, delete any single day, or erase the whole archive. An afternoon somewhere is yours not to record. Open source under Apache-2.0. The code and the privacy policy live in a public repository.

Screenshots

Talk Compass2 screens
Always On Location4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Talk Compass at 3 against Always On Location's 1. Talk Compass also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Talk Compass versus Always On Location: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTalk CompassAlways On Location
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (11 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 18 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYoshiyuki KoyanagiBoteanu Consulting

In-app purchases

None

Talk Compass

No in-app purchases

None

Always On Location

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Talk Compass free?
Talk Compass is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Always On Location free?
Always On Location is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Talk Compass or Always On Location have ads?
Neither Talk Compass nor Always On Location shows ads.

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