Comparison

Griddy vs Survey Compass

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

Head to head
About

Griddy

This app helps you create precise drawings by overlaying customizable grids onto your images. Adjust grid properties, remove backgrounds, and pin your image to focus on your artwork. Save and share your creations easily.

Highlights
  • Customizable grids (size, color, opacity)
  • Background removal and custom backgrounds
  • Device kept awake while working
  • Pinning feature to lock image
  • Save and share designs
  • Pre-made app icons
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Welcome to Griddy - the ultimate grid drawing app that helps you unleash your creativity! In a nutshell, it adds grids to images. With Griddy, you can create beautiful and precise drawings by simply drawing on a customizable grid. Whether you're an artist or designer or love to doodle, Griddy is the perfect app for you. Griddy features a sleek and intuitive interface that makes it easy to create your own grids. You can adjust the line width, colour, and opacity to suit your needs, and even remove or fade in/out the background from your portrait image so you can focus entirely on the subject. Once you've finished adding grids to the image, you can easily save and share it with others on social media or use Griddy’s Zen Mode to outline. With Griddy, the possibilities are endless! Features: - Customizable grids (rectangle, square row only, square column only) with adjustable size, color, and opacity - Able to keep your device awake while you are working - Pinning feature to lock your image from accidental scrolling or zooming in/out while drawing - Powerful background removal and custom background colour for portrait images - Save and share your designs with others on social media or via email - A variety of pre-made app icons Get started with Griddy today and do hyperrealistic artwork!

About

Survey Compass

This app uses your phone's camera and sensors to measure bearing, elevation, and GPS position of targets in real-time. It's designed for quick outdoor checks, calculating heights, and logging readings with optional notes. Easily convert coordinates and share results.

Highlights
  • Live camera HUD with azimuth ribbon
  • Pitch gauge for elevation and grade
  • Multiple GPS coordinate formats (DMS, UTM, MGRS)
  • A-B angle and height calculation
  • Reading log for saved measurements
  • Coordinate converter
  • Shareable results
Features
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Survey compass app for field angles: aim your phone camera at a target and read its bearing, elevation angle and GPS position on one live screen. It is built for quick outdoor checks such as sighting a ridge, a mast or a tree, logging where you stood, and working out a height from two angles. ▶ LIVE CAMERA HUD • Azimuth ribbon across the top with the bearing in degrees and a 16-point direction (N, NNE, NE…) • Crosshair reticle with a small bubble that shows when the phone is level • Pitch gauge on the side with the elevation angle, percent grade and 1:n slope • Switch between magnetic north and true north (true north appears once your location gives the local declination) ▶ YOUR POSITION IN THREE FORMATS • Latitude and longitude in degrees, minutes and seconds • UTM zone, easting and northing • MGRS grid reference While there is no GPS fix the panel shows a dash instead of a number, so a coordinate on screen always comes from a real GPS fix, never from a placeholder. ▶ A–B ANGLE AND HEIGHT Mark point A, mark point B, and read the horizontal angle and vertical angle between the two sightings. Enter the horizontal distance to the object and the app estimates its height from the base and top angles. If you have a slope distance instead, switch to slope mode to get the horizontal distance and the rise. ▶ READING LOG Save a reading with its bearing, pitch, coordinates and an optional note. Up to 200 readings stay on your phone. A reading saved without a GPS fix is marked as having no position rather than being given a made-up one. ▶ COORDINATE CONVERTER Type any latitude and longitude, or pull in your current GPS fix, and read it as decimal degrees, DMS, UTM and MGRS at once. Add a second point to get the great-circle bearing and distance between them. ▶ SHARE Send an A–B result as plain text to a message, a note or a work order. HONEST LIMITS Bearing and angle come from your phone's compass and motion sensors, and position comes from GPS. Nearby metal, cars and power lines disturb a compass; move away from them and hold the phone steady for a better reading. The app does not measure distance by itself: for a height estimate you enter the distance. This is a field aid for planning and estimating, not survey-grade instrumentation, so confirm critical measurements with proper equipment.

Screenshots

Griddy4 screens
Survey Compass4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Griddy at none against Survey Compass's shown. Griddy also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Survey Compass's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Survey Compass holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Griddy ships an update every 3 months, Survey Compass weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Griddy versus Survey Compass: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGriddySurvey Compass
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB80 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperKyaw Zay Ya Lin Tunheekyung moon

Customer experience

Griddy

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Survey Compass

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Griddy

No in-app purchases

None

Survey Compass

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Griddy free?
Griddy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Survey Compass free?
Survey Compass is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Griddy or Survey Compass?
Survey Compass is rated higher. Griddy averages 4.8 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Survey Compass averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Griddy or Survey Compass have ads?
Survey Compass shows ads; Griddy does not.
Which is updated more often, Griddy or Survey Compass?
Griddy ships an update every 3 months, and Survey Compass weekly. Most recently, Griddy was updated on November 3, 2026 and Survey Compass on November 8, 2026.

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