Comparison

EZ Celestial Navigation vs WMM 2025

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

Head to head
About

EZ Celestial Navigation

This app simplifies celestial navigation using a sextant, providing tools to calculate your position at sea. It offers automated calculations or manual table access, with features for observation archiving and compass checks. Ideal for learning and practicing traditional navigation methods.

Highlights
  • Automated sight reduction and LOP plotting
  • Manual Nautical Almanac and Pub. 229 table access
  • Observation archiving and restoration
  • Compass check functionality
  • Printable Nautical Almanac pages and reports
  • Universal app for iOS and macOS
Features
Currently charting
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Celestial navigation has never been easier! With ezAlmanacOne and a sextant you will be finding your fix like a pro in no time! ezAlmanacOne is an evolution of the iPad version of ezAlmanac with the modern user interface used in the Windows 10 version of ezAlmanac. All of the features of ezAlmanac plus new features including: - Universal app runs on iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and the new MacBook with M1 processor. - Supports all device orientations. All screens support zoom and pan. - Make bearing observations to perform compass checks. - Archive saved observations and restore observation data from an archive. - Includes quick start guide, usage examples, and other documentation to learn celestial navigation. - Print/Output Nautical Almanac pages, observation reports, and other app documentation. ezAlmanacOne will help you perform celestial navigation exactly as it has been done for hundreds of years. It produces all Nautical Almanac (1960-2059) and Pub. 229 tables exactly as you are used to seeing them in the printed form. All tables can be accessed directly for manual usage if you choose to do so. Since they are produced by the software they support zooming and panning, and you can highlight in the tables to easily find the correct value to use. Most users, however, will prefer to let ezAlmanacOne do all of the work. Simply enter the basic sight parameters, make and enter your observations, and ezAlmanacOne will do the rest. It performs all of the steps to correct your observation, find GP of the object, do the sight reduction, and plot the LOP. No steps are skipped and all details are shown. Click where the LOPs cross in the plot and you have found your fix! Besides finding your fix, ezAlmanacOne is one of the best tools available to perform compass checks from a bearing observation of one of the navigational bodies. The compass check function supports checking up to 5 devices from a single bearing observation. ezAlmanacOne will also create a report of your compass check that can be saved as a PDF file or printed for the ships records. Celestial navigation instructors love ezAlmanacOne because it does celestial navigation exactly as they teach it. Values obtained from the Nautical Almanac and Pub. 229 are clearly identified with an icon of the book. When you press the book icon you are taken to the page that has that value with the row, column and value highlighted. Even when ezAlmanacOne is doing all the work, it can teach you how to do it manually using the books. For manual celestial navigation you can generate and print Nautical Almanac pages to use as a backup on a passage. You can even print the sight reduction forms and plotting sheets you will need. ezAlmanacOne performs all astronomical calculations using the NOVAS 3.1 software from the US Naval Observatory (USNO) and a JPL ephemeris that covers the years 1960 through 2059. It also implements WMM-2020, the latest World Magnetic Model software available from NOAA, to compute magnetic declination. Since all calculations are performed in the software, ezAlmanacOne is fully functional with no dependency on the internet.

About

WMM 2025

This navigation app calculates magnetic declination and inclination for any location on Earth. It's useful for pilots, sailors, cartographers, and anyone using maps and compasses to plot courses. The model is accurate from 2024 to 2029.

Highlights
  • Magnetic declination calculation
  • Magnetic inclination calculation
  • Accurate for 2024-2029
  • Declination trend over time
  • Supports various navigation professionals
Features
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WMM 2025 is targeted towards anyone interested in navigation. This includes, pilots of aircraft, captains of sea going vessels, cartographers, engineers and surveyors. Anyone who uses maps and a compass will find the declination calculation (also referred to magnetic variation) very useful. (Declination is the difference between true and magnetic north and used when plotting a course on a map.) WMM 2025 (World Magnetic Model) calculates the magnetic flux density for any location on the Earth. The model is accurate for dates ranging from January 1, 2024 up through December 31, 2029. Using the model, the app calculates declination and inclination. In addition, the declination trend is calculated over the five year period.

Screenshots

EZ Celestial Navigation4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: WMM 2025 at $0.99 against EZ Celestial Navigation's $29.99. EZ Celestial Navigation's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 24 months) and ratings volume (26 vs 1). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

EZ Celestial Navigation costs $29.99 and WMM 2025 $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for EZ Celestial Navigation against 5.0 for WMM 2025. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: EZ Celestial Navigation has 26 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

EZ Celestial Navigation ships an update monthly, WMM 2025 every 24 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
EZ Celestial Navigation versus WMM 2025: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEZ Celestial NavigationWMM 2025
Price$29.99$0.99 — better
Rating4.9 (26 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings26 — better1
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 24 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#28 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size153 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEZ Celestial LLCRobert Walker

Customer experience

EZ Celestial Navigation

All ratings26 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

WMM 2025

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

In-app purchases

None

EZ Celestial Navigation

No in-app purchases

None

WMM 2025

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is EZ Celestial Navigation free?
EZ Celestial Navigation costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is WMM 2025 free?
WMM 2025 costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, EZ Celestial Navigation or WMM 2025?
WMM 2025 is rated higher. EZ Celestial Navigation averages 4.9 out of 5 from 26 ratings, while WMM 2025 averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do EZ Celestial Navigation or WMM 2025 have ads?
Neither EZ Celestial Navigation nor WMM 2025 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, EZ Celestial Navigation or WMM 2025?
EZ Celestial Navigation ships an update monthly, and WMM 2025 every 24 months. Most recently, EZ Celestial Navigation was updated on October 20, 2026 and WMM 2025 on October 2, 2026.

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