Orientation vs SkyPocket
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Orientation
Easily locate yourself and find directions with this intuitive navigation tool. Search for any address or landmark and get real-time guidance on a map that functions as a compass. Ideal for urban exploration, outdoor adventures, or simply finding your way back.
- Locate yourself easily
- Get directions and distance to destination
- Find your car or return to starting point
- Intuitive address search
- Map orients as a compass
- Display current address
- Zoomable map
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Keep your bearings, wherever you are. Orientation lets you choose up to six places and instantly see where they are in relation to your current position. Compare their direction and distance, view their coordinates, and keep important places in sight while traveling, walking, hiking, or going about your day. Keep your hotel, parked car, starting point, meeting place, landmark, or any position you select on the map in view. MAIN FEATURES • View up to six places at the same time • See the direction and distance to each place on a visual compass • Check latitude and longitude coordinates • Display all selected places together on the map • Search for a place or address, or tap the map to place or move a target • Recenter on your current position and switch map types • Share a position or open a target in Apple Maps • Designed for iPhone and iPad Built for orientation at a glance, Orientation gives you a clear view of each selected place relative to you, so you can compare destinations and choose where to head. Location access and an internet connection are required. Compass accuracy may be affected by magnetic or electromagnetic interference.
SkyPocket
Transform your phone into an in-flight cockpit. Track live flight data, view offline maps, and record your journeys. Learn about your aircraft and the world below, all without ads or subscriptions.
- Live flight data (speed, altitude, track)
- Offline moving map with points of interest
- Aircraft-specific phase explanations
- Flight recording with lock screen stats
- Post-flight logbook and replay
- Photo and video stamping with flight data
- Multi-language support
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SkyPocket is a simple app for anyone who flies, and it works entirely in flight mode with no ads, sign ups, user analytics or in-app purchases. Buy it once and it's yours for life. A window seat is recommended for the best results. The Aviation Nerd: • Live ground speed, altitude, track and vertical speed on cockpit-style tapes • An offline moving map with coastlines packed inside the app. Mid-ocean included • Cabin pressure altitude from the barometer: watch the cabin climb to 7,000 ft on its own schedule • Turbulence, g-force and bank angle from the motion sensors • The country below you, its local time and a fact to read as you cross it • The sun's position, so you know which side of the plane to sit on • 41,000 named peaks and 3,000 lakes on the chart, with a layer panel to tune what you see • Pick a destination for distance to go, live ETA and your arrival time • Share a flight card, or export CSV and GPX • Replay flies the whole route in thirty seconds, numbers ticking as it goes The Nervous Flyer: • Tell SkyPocket what you're flying, or let it work it out with you: seats across, engines, windows, even the A320's famous barking dog • Every phase explained as it happens, with your aircraft's own numbers: takeoff roll, gear up, the sudden quiet a minute after takeoff, cruise at its usual Mach • Two dozen cabin sounds decoded, and the ones nervous flyers ask about wear a calm NORMAL badge • 65 aircraft with the numbers, spotting clues and trivia that make them themselves, from the A220 to the Queen of the Skies The Storyteller: • Photos stamped with your speed, altitude and position; clips with a live stats marquee • Flight notes: a thought at 36,000 feet, saved with the moment it happened • Turn the flight into a 9:16 reel: route, records, shots, clips and notes, in the order they happened. You pick every ingredient • In flight, the tab bar becomes a flight deck: photo, clip, note, one thumb The Globetrotter: • Flights name themselves from 4,000 airports: BFS to BCN, not just a date • A logbook counts your lifetime flights, hours airborne and kilometres flown • A ten-language phrasebook, spoken aloud, with a sentence builder and the answers to listen for Record the whole flight: Tap once before takeoff. SkyPocket keeps recording with your phone locked in your pocket, shows live stats on the lock screen, and detects the landing by itself. Force-quit, crash, dead battery: your flight survives and offers to resume. In your language: English, Arabic, Japanese, Italian, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese in both scripts, Korean, Ukrainian, Russian, Hebrew and Polish: the whole app and the whole bundled World Factbook, so all 238 countries can be read about in your language while you fly over them.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: SkyPocket at every 2 days against Orientation's every 2 months. SkyPocket also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 81%). Orientation's advantage is ratings volume (142 vs 3) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Orientation costs $2.99 and SkyPocket $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SkyPocket holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Orientation has 142 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Orientation's written reviews are positive against 100% of SkyPocket's.
Orientation ships an update every 2 months, SkyPocket every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Orientation | SkyPocket |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (142 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 142 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chaviro Software | John Mckay |
Customer experience
Orientation
SkyPocket
In-app purchases
Orientation
No in-app purchases
SkyPocket
No in-app purchases








