Compass Maps vs Boatlink
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Compass Maps
Navigate with a digital compass that displays direction on a map. Features include real-time traffic, land area measurement, and location sharing. It utilizes GPS for auto-direction and allows map interaction.
- Digital compass on map
- Real-time traffic maps
- Land area measurement
- Location sharing
- GPS auto-direction
- Satellite map mode
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Maps compass - directional compass & digital is free the application to support show compass on the map, Traffic maps in real time, Land area measurement, show address on maps with satellite map mode and share location to networks social, email, sms or for any app you like. With GPS technology the application will auto direction compass for you. - You can move on maps , compass will auto update state and direction, It also can calculate radius, corner. show your current location on maps. zoom maps or share location with your friends *Note: + E is east + W is the west + N is the north + S is the south + SE is the Southeast + SW is Southwest + NE is North-East - You need to grant permission and turn on the GPS. Here is a request with any application that supports digital compass. The compass app depends on connecting to wifi/internet for your device exactly. If the compass works perfectly, it means that your internet is perfect, too. - Compass map: + Locate or calculate direction at anywhere appears on map + Move the compass by touching the location you want on the map. Some other feature for Compass Maps - Directional Compass application - Show True North - Show Magnetic Field Power - Level Error Correction - Connect To Google Map - Show latitude longitude - Show level Maps compass - Directional Compass also is a tool to measure calculators for measuring Land Area on maps easiest way. There is an inbuilt Unit Converter for measuring areas in various Land Units. Supported m2, km2, fit2 and ha. You can convert these units. Measure area between three points on map. The application will auto calculate and figure out the result. You can choose some types such as: hybrid maps, satellite, terrain maps... Land Area measurement easiest way tools. It allows you to use pivots to operate on maps. If you have any feedback to build maps compass - directional compass application. Please contact me via email: onedevzteam@gmail.com. We will research and improve it to become better for our smart compass application. Thanks. Privacy Policy: https://compassmaps.wordpress.com/here-is-privacy-policy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Boatlink
Facilitates hands-free communication among crew members on a boat, even in noisy environments. It creates a private, local network that requires no internet or phone signal, ensuring secure and reliable communication.
- Hands-free crew communication
- No internet or phone signal required
- Local network creation
- Encrypted communication
- Individual volume control
- Direct ringing feature
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A boat is a loud place. The engine is running, the wind takes your voice away, and the person you need is at the other end of the deck with a line in both hands. Boatlink puts the crew on one line. Every phone and tablet aboard talks to every other one, hands-free, so "ready on the bow" is heard at the helm in a normal voice. It needs no internet and no phone signal. On a boat with wifi, the router carries it. With no router, one person turns on Personal Hotspot in iOS Settings and the crew join that. Boatlink cannot switch a hotspot on for you — iOS does not let any app do that — so somebody has to do it by hand. GETTING ABOARD One person hosts. Their screen shows a QR code; everyone else points a camera at it and they are on. If a camera will not do the job — rain, dark, glare, a cracked screen — the host reads out a four-letter code instead, and the crew type that in with the boat's address. TALKING Open mic by default: speak and the crew hears you. Or switch to VOX, which opens the line when you start talking and closes it when you stop. Mute is one large control, sized to be hit with a glove on and found without looking. If someone is not answering, ring them. Their phone chimes, vibrates and flashes its camera light. They answer or they decline. LEVELS The ICS panel gives you a level for each person on the line, plus a master. Every level is yours alone. Turning the foredeck down on your phone changes nothing for anybody else, and the person you turned down is never told. MUSIC Everyone plays music in their own app. Boatlink can show the crew what you have on, as text, so they can put the same thing on. Boatlink plays no audio itself, and it cannot read your music app — you type the track in. PRIVACY Nothing leaves the boat. No account, no sign-up, no server, no analytics, no tracking, no ads. Traffic between phones is encrypted with AES-256-GCM under a key derived from the boat's own code, so a phone in the next berth can neither join the line nor read what is on it. IF THE HOST GOES DOWN If the phone that is hosting runs its battery flat or goes over the side, the rest of the crew re-form around another phone in about three seconds. Nobody types anything in again. WHAT IT NEEDS Two devices, at least. One phone on its own shows an empty "find the boat" screen, because there is no boat to find. All devices on the same network — the boat's wifi, or a Personal Hotspot somebody has turned on. Permission to use the local network, which iOS asks for the first time you host or join. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO YET It does not relay from phone to phone. If there is no router and no hotspot, there is no line. It does not reach anyone who is ashore or otherwise off the boat's network. Ringing does not wake a locked phone the way an incoming call does. It has no alarms of any kind. Man overboard, anchor watch and alarm handling belong to the full Sea Glass Cockpit product, not to this app. There is no chat, and no music service is connected to it. Boatlink is free, and it stays free.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Boatlink at 100% against Compass Maps's 56%. Boatlink also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Compass Maps's advantage is ratings volume (656 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Compass Maps sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per year. Boatlink asks for nothing beyond the download.
Boatlink holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Compass Maps has 656 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 56% of Compass Maps's written reviews are positive against 100% of Boatlink's.
Compass Maps ships an update every 4 weeks, Boatlink fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Compass Maps | Boatlink |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (656 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 656 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KIET NGUYEN TAN | Robert wood |
Customer experience
Compass Maps
Boatlink
In-app purchases
Compass Maps
- Remove Ads (Yearly)$7.991 Year
- Remove Ads – Lifetime$12.99
Boatlink
No in-app purchases
Questions
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