Location Maps vs Compass Course Navigator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Location Maps
Easily track your current location in real-time, share it with friends, and measure land areas using GPS. Find routes, search addresses, and utilize a built-in compass for accurate directions. Supports satellite, terrain, and hybrid map views.
- Live location tracking
- Location sharing
- Land area measurement
- Route finding
- Compass
- Address search
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My location live maps that allows you to easily tracker your location, live current location in real-time, copy coordinate and do any things you like on maps Share current your location on map to your friends, you enter a address or a location. Land area measurement use GPS technology and algorithm to area calculator for land on maps. You can find route from your current location to that location. It will calculate the best find route and distance. Features: - Location tracker - Live location sharing, calculate distance and draw route from your current location to you - Location maps - Compass show the accurate direction - Area calculator for land - Find My Location - Search any address that you want to find - Location map application support four maps type : that is map satellite, terrain, hybrid. - Share and copy location to your friends - Zoom in , zoom out on maps - Show current your location *Maps distance calculator: Distance and area measurement land allow you to measure distance of the area and path length. Mark at least three point or multiple to measure area. *Location share tracker: In real-time you can move on maps; the application will auto rotate with you. Get coordinates anywhere in the world, when you successfully share your location (coordinate: latitude and longitude) with your friends or family members, your friend can move to that location very easily. To do this you need to copy your location and send it to sms, network or any app. - Find route with google maps: In this application you find location with coordinate format: (latitude, longitude) Land area measurement by walking: you can move anywhere in the world in real-time, Live location share will auto calculate area measure and show the result to you on screen. Compass with direction east west south north, compass 360° can calculate angle in any direction by rotating device. If you have any feedback to build a location tracker application. Please contact me via email: onedevzteam@gmail.com. We will research and improve it to become better for our live location application. Thanks.
Compass Course Navigator
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Build a compass-and-pace course. Run it, or teach it. Compass Course Navigator is built around two roles: an Instructor who lays out a course as a sequence of compass headings and distances, and a Student who navigates it, with GPS help while learning, or with GPS hidden when it's time to prove they can do it with a compass alone. It's made for orienteering instruction, land navigation training, and anyone teaching or practicing dead reckoning. INSTRUCTOR MODE • Set a start point and add as many legs as you need, each a heading and a distance. • Unlimited waypoints. • Share a course with students by QR code or link. The magnetic declination travels with it, so the course lands on the right heading whatever declination is set on their device. STUDENT MODE • Practice mode: GPS on, so students see where they are against the planned course while they learn. • Test mode: GPS hidden, the real test of navigating by compass and pace count alone. • Mark each waypoint as cleared along the way. • Pace count practice: walk 100 m (or 100 ft), measured by GPS or on a taped course, and the app averages your last five trials. Every leg then shows its distance in paces, and Practice mode counts down the paces to the next waypoint. • Free student performance report: after a test run, a PDF of the planned course against the student's actual GPS track, with the error at each waypoint marked. SHARING AND DATA • JSON import and export, full backup and restore to a file you control. • Manual magnetic declination, street and satellite maps. • Shared course links open straight in the app. • Your pace data stays on your device and is never included in a shared course. PRO, A ONE-TIME PURCHASE • Waypoint hints: add notes like "old oak by the creek". Students see them for free; writing them is Pro. • GPX export, for any GPS or mapping tool. • Saved course library. • Course report PDF: the route on a map, a table of every leg, total distance. • Live magnetic declination from a geomagnetic model, based on your position. • Reorder legs. • Offline maps: download the area of your course in advance. • Keep the screen awake through a full run. No subscription: an instructor who builds a course library isn't billed indefinitely for a tool they teach with. Available in English, Español, Français, Deutsch, Português, Italiano, 日本語, 한국어.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Location Maps at none against Compass Course Navigator's 1. Location Maps also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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 Course Navigator sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Location Maps asks for nothing beyond the download.
Location Maps ships an update every 5 days, Compass Course Navigator every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Location Maps | Compass Course Navigator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (166 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 166 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KIET NGUYEN TAN | Videre Research, LLC |
In-app purchases
Location Maps
No in-app purchases
Compass Course Navigator
- Compass Course Pro$4.99
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