Comparison

Compass AR vs DataFastView

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

Head to head
About

Compass AR

This utility app provides precise directional, altitude, and speed readings on a clear interface. It offers augmented reality views of the sun and moon's paths, along with location data and weather information. Pro features include time scrubbing, AR tracking, and speed recording.

Highlights
  • AR sun and moon tracking
  • Precise direction and altitude
  • Live speed and acceleration
  • Sunrise, sunset, and golden hour
  • Location and weather data
  • Time scrubbing for celestial paths
Features
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CompassPlus is an instrument. Direction, altitude, speed — one screen each, in numbers big enough to read while you walk. COMPASS · A large heading and a dial. True North or Magnetic North, switched any time. · The Sun and Moon are marked on the dial, with sunrise, sunset and elevation. · Scrub time (Pro) by year, month, day, hour or minute and see where the Sun sits at that moment. When you are not on Now, the app says so, and one tap brings you back. · A coordinate card: decimal degrees or DMS, tap to copy, with the place name. · A level, so you can tell whether the phone is flat. · When the magnetic field is disturbed it tells you, and walks you through the figure-eight calibration. ALTITUDE · One big number, colored by how high you are. · GPS + Barometer fused, GPS alone, or automatic — your call. · Meters or feet, with the vertical accuracy beside it. · Pressure, temperature and wind, while you are here. SPEED · Live speed and acceleration, from GPS speed, the motion sensors, or both fused. · It works out whether you are still, walking, running, cycling or driving, and tells you how confident it is. · Tap once to record a stretch (Pro). The average is integrated over time rather than averaged across readings, so the minutes spent parked do not drag it down. Max speed and duration are kept with it. FIND SUN / MOON IN AR (PRO) · Hold up the phone and the Sun and Moon are drawn on the real sky. · It draws the whole day's arc: where it rose, the path it takes, where it sets — including the stretch below the horizon. · The Moon's path drifts a little each day. The gap in the arc says by how much. · When the target is off screen, the edge points you toward it. · Sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset and the golden hour sit on the arc. · Drag to move the reticle onto the real thing — slowly to fine-tune, quickly to move far. Exposure stays automatic, and a lock is always one tap from released. SETTINGS Which screen opens first, north reference, altitude source and unit, coordinate format, speed unit, whether to show accuracy. Set it once. PRICE Free to download. Direction, altitude and live speed — with weather, the level and coordinates — stay free. The AR finder, time scrubbing, widgets and speed recording make up CompassPlus Pro: a one-time purchase, not a subscription, with future updates included and Family Sharing on. No ads. ABOUT LOCATION Location and motion data are used on the device to work out direction, altitude and speed. Nothing is uploaded to my server — I don't have one. Place names go through the system geocoder, and the weather reading comes from Apple Weather (WeatherKit). Those are the only two places your location leaves the phone; both use coordinates alone, and both go only to Apple. REQUIREMENTS iOS 26 or later, iPhone only. Barometer-fused altitude needs a device with a barometer. AR needs an ARKit-capable device and camera access.

About

DataFastView

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Make your Home Screen look the way you always wanted it to. DataFastView is a collection of twenty-four Home Screen widgets designed to look like they shipped with the phone — and to go transparent, so your wallpaper shows through every one of them. No subscriptions: the app is free, three widgets are free, and each page of widgets is a single purchase that is yours forever, on every iPhone signed in with your Apple Account. PICK A PAGE, MAKE IT YOURS • Free — Holidays for your country, the calendar list, and Storage and network. For everyone. • Status Portal — a large sci-fi control panel with the time, the weather, your month, your next events and reminders, and your battery. Two palettes. • Weather and time — the sky now and the next three hours, today by the hour, the week ahead as soft curves, and a glass clock that looks like the Lock Screen’s. Temperatures in °C or °F, by your region. • Calendar — a large calendar with your events, reminders and the weather on one panel, the next events as cards, today’s date, and the whole month. By day and by night. • Productivity — ten shortcuts to your apps with their real icons, a four-tile version at icon size, the time with two shortcuts under it, and three world clocks that show whether it is day or night there. • Mail — unread messages from two accounts, on small or medium cards, in the colour you choose. Works with any IMAP account, Gmail included. • Health — this week’s steps as a curve with today’s count, and your average distance over the last 21 days. • Dashboards — Calendar Dashboard: the time, the weather, your month, what is coming up and your steps on one board of carved panels, with a button to show or hide your reminders. EVERY WIDGET CAN BE TRANSPARENT Each widget has a switch: draw its own background, or let your wallpaper through. Light and dark follow your phone, and every widget’s options are together in Settings. AND THE REST OF THE APP • Status — free space, link quality and a real speed test: download, upload, latency and jitter, with charts. • Dynamic Island and Lock Screen — fourteen live metrics, or a phrase of your own, in the colour you pick. • Control Center — your shortcuts one swipe away. • Passwords — a generator for strong passwords, ready to paste. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your calendars, reminders, steps, distance and mail are read on your device and shown on your widgets. Nothing is sent anywhere. Mail passwords live in the Keychain and never leave the phone. In English and Spanish. Made for iPhone.

Screenshots

Compass AR4 screens
DataFastView4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: DataFastView at 18.6 against Compass AR's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Compass AR sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and DataFastView sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 7 level
Compass AR versus DataFastView: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCompass ARDataFastView
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyFortnightlyFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.018.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer飞 吕Moscoso Pacheco, Gonzalo Juvenal

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Compass AR

One-time4
  • Sponsor · A Lunch$0.99
  • CompassPlus Pro$2.99
  • Sponsor · A Coffee$2.99
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  • Sponsor · A Resupply$6.99
8 purchases

DataFastView

One-time8
  • Buy me a Coke / A small thank-you$0.99
  • Dashboards$1.99
  • Weather and Time Widgets$2.99
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  • Status Portal Widgets$3.99
  • Calendar Widgets$3.99
  • Productivity Widgets$3.99
  • Mail Widgets$3.99
  • Steps and Distance Widgets$3.99

Questions

Is Compass AR free?
Compass AR is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DataFastView free?
DataFastView is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Compass AR or DataFastView have ads?
Neither Compass AR nor DataFastView shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Compass AR or DataFastView?
Compass AR ships an update fortnightly, and DataFastView fortnightly. Most recently, Compass AR was updated on November 5, 2026 and DataFastView on November 10, 2026.

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