Crimson Map vs Kompressed
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Crimson Map
This app provides a detailed map for Crimson Desert, highlighting points of interest like Abyss Nexuses and map reveal bells. It allows users to save their progress and organize their exploration of Pywel's strongholds, caves, and landmarks.
- Detailed Pywel map
- Abyss Nexus locations
- Map reveal bell locations
- Save game progress
- Organize exploration
- Landmark identification
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The newest guide for Crimson Desert has just arrived. Want to find the nearest Abyss Nexus, or find all bells to reveal the map? Here you will find a detailed map of Pywel, with all the strongholds, caves, landmarks and more. You'll also be able to save your progress in the game, so you'll be able to keep your map organized and explore new places more easily. *Some options are only unlocked after purchase. **Crimson Map is a third party App. The developer of this software is not affiliated with Pearl Abyss in any way. Privacy policy: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r363qBFglX1MawViEcYgSHbB508MW4an Terms of service: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N6wuZbthPCChFerp0eRaDGOtW1AQC1W9
Kompressed
This app compresses various file types, including photos, videos, and documents, to fit specific data budgets for transmission over low-bandwidth connections. It offers flexible size setting options and ensures data integrity through verification before allowing a compression ratio.
- Byte budget compression
- Photo, video, voice memo compression
- Data file compression
- Multiple size setting methods
- Binary-search quality encoder
- Re-encoding for video
- Presets for specific links
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Kompressed gives you a byte budget instead of a quality slider, then finds the best photo, video, voice memo or data file that fits inside it. For every link that was never meant to carry pictures. WHEN THE CONNECTION IS THE PROBLEM Hotel and campground wifi, a shared satellite terminal, one bar of LTE, a Meshtastic mesh, HF, packet, Iridium SBD. On a link like that, a 4 MB photo is not slow — it never arrives. Kompressed makes it 24 KB and tells you how long that will take to send. Flying on slow WiFi on an airline but want to get the data out, Kompressed can help you with that. Say the size three ways: pick a radio and a transmit window and let the arithmetic hand you the budget, type a plain 200 KB, or set quality and bitrate by hand. Then it works backwards. Stills binary-search encoder quality to land just under the budget, giving up resolution only when quality alone cannot get there. Video encodes, measures, corrects and re-encodes until the file actually fits — because a bitrate setting is a request, not a promise. MESHTASTIC AND OTHER TINY LINKS Ships with presets for Meshtastic thumbnails, VARA HF recon photos, Iridium SBD single bursts and a one-QR handoff, so a net can agree on one set of numbers and export them as JSON. Text armor sends numbered Base64 blocks with a CRC, so the far end knows block 7 of 12 never arrived and asks for exactly that. Reed-Solomon FEC packets cover one-way links where there is nobody to ask. QR covers phone to phone with no network at all. TAK Results can even leave as an ATAK data package — a MANIFEST and a CoT event built from the photo's own EXIF position — so the picture lands on the map at its coordinates instead of in a downloads folder. One tap of the share sheet reaches ATAK, iTAK, TAKAware, Messages, AirDrop or Files. NOT JUST PHOTOS GPS tracks 246 KB to 2.0 KB with waypoint names intact. Telemetry and CSV 211 KB to 12 KB, cell for cell identical. Scanned pages 414 KB to 3.5 KB. Screenshots, short reports, any other file. Every package is decoded again and compared against the original before a ratio is allowed to be the headline. EVERYTHING RUNS ON THE PHONE No upload, no account, no server, no network calls of any kind. It works in airplane mode, in a valley, on a boat. What you compress never leaves the device until you choose where it goes — which is the point, on a connection even if it is the thinnest of IP pipes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Crimson Map at Free against Kompressed's $1.99. Crimson Map also leads on ratings volume (294 vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). Kompressed's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Crimson Map is free to download; Kompressed costs $1.99 up front. Crimson Map sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 3 months. Kompressed asks for nothing beyond the download.
Kompressed holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Crimson Map has 294 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Crimson Map ships an update every 3 days, Kompressed weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crimson Map | Kompressed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (294 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 22.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 294 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 170 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Felipe Braunger Valio Desenvolvimento de Sistemas Ltda | MARSHALL TYLER FRITH |
Customer experience
Crimson Map
Kompressed
In-app purchases
Crimson Map
- Full access (3 Months)$2.993 Months
- Lifetime purchase$9.99
Kompressed
No in-app purchases
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