Bearing Pilot vs TargetNavigator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bearing Pilot
This navigation tool helps sailors take quick apparent bearings, displaying the bearing, target course, and required correction. It also provides real-time speed, position, and aids in determining wind direction.
- Apparent bearing measurement
- Target course display
- Wheel correction in degrees
- Real-time speed and position
- Wind direction estimation
- Simple interface
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Bearing Pilot is a new tool for both beginners and profesional sailors. Its extreme simplicity let us take quick apparent bearings, showing us in the screen the bearing taken, the target course and also the correction required at the wheel (in dregrees). Additionally, it provides speed and real-time position. Using a piece of wool or tasting winds, it also help us to get the wind direction easily. Several tools in just one easy App. A great tool for racers, buoy tenders, professionals and recreational sailors. Marinus Apps www.marinusapps.com
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.
- 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
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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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: TargetNavigator at Free against Bearing Pilot's $8.99. TargetNavigator also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 8 months). Bearing Pilot's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (9 vs 1). 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
TargetNavigator is free to download; Bearing Pilot costs $8.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bearing Pilot holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bearing Pilot has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Bearing Pilot ships an update every 8 months, TargetNavigator fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bearing Pilot | TargetNavigator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $8.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (9 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 88.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alejandro | Gerrit Grunwald |
Customer experience
Bearing Pilot
TargetNavigator
In-app purchases
Bearing Pilot
No in-app purchases
TargetNavigator
No in-app purchases
Questions
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