Comparison

Crimson Map vs Kompressed

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Detailed Pywel map
  • Abyss Nexus locations
  • Map reveal bell locations
  • Save game progress
  • Organize exploration
  • Landmark identification
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Crimson Map4 screens
Kompressed4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Crimson Map ships an update every 3 days, Kompressed weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Crimson Map versus Kompressed: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrimson MapKompressed
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.6 (294 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews22.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings294 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size170 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFelipe Braunger Valio Desenvolvimento de Sistemas LtdaMARSHALL TYLER FRITH

Customer experience

Crimson Map

All ratings294 ratings
Positive89.5%
Neutral5.1%
Negative5.4%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive22.2%
Neutral38.9%
Negative38.9%

Kompressed

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Crimson Map

Subscriptions1
  • Full access (3 Months)$2.993 Months
One-time1
  • Lifetime purchase$9.99
None

Kompressed

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Crimson Map free?
Crimson Map is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Kompressed free?
Kompressed costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Crimson Map or Kompressed?
Kompressed is rated higher. Crimson Map averages 4.6 out of 5 from 294 ratings, while Kompressed averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Crimson Map or Kompressed have ads?
Neither Crimson Map nor Kompressed shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Crimson Map or Kompressed?
Crimson Map ships an update every 3 days, and Kompressed weekly. Most recently, Crimson Map was updated on October 16, 2026 and Kompressed on October 4, 2026.

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