Comparison

Ansky vs GPS Speedometer Compass

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

Head to head
About

Ansky

Features
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Ask a question out loud while you drive and hear the answer through your speakers. Access directions, music, timers, weather. No need for an account. Your history stays on your phone. Description: Ansky is a voice assistant made for the car. Mount your phone on the dash, tap the black hole, and ask your question out loud. The answer plays through your car's speakers so you can keep your eyes on the road. ASK Weather, facts, math, prices, "how far is Marfa from Austin". You get a short spoken answer, and you can ask follow-ups like a normal conversation. DRIVE Say "take me to" any place and you get turn by turn directions on a live map with traffic, laid out for a phone mounted sideways. LISTEN Ask for a song, an album, or a playlist and Apple Music plays it. Pause and skip by voice, or from the on-screen player. DO Timers, reminders, and calendar events by voice. "Remind me to charge the car when I get home" does what you'd expect. EXPLORE For when you're parked or riding along: live imagery of the sun and Earth, weather radar, and a rotating gallery of paintings from The Met and the Art Institute of Chicago. Check out games while parked. PRIVACY There is no account and no sign-in. Your question history and anything Ansky remembers stay on your phone. We don't run ads, trackers, or analytics, and voice recordings are used to answer you and then discarded. Your first 7 days are free, starting automatically when you install. After that, Ansky is $5.99 a month or $49.99 a year for 25 questions a day. Unused questions roll over, up to 100. Payment is charged to your Apple account and the subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel in Settings > Subscriptions. Terms: https://attoscale.io/ansky/terms Privacy: https://attoscale.io/ansky/privacy

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GPS Speedometer Compass

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Vane is a full instrument cluster for your iPhone: a large head-up speedometer, a digital compass, a barometric altimeter, a spirit level and your live position in five coordinate formats. Every reading says which sensor it came from. When the satellite signal drops, in a tunnel, a parking garage or a train, Vane says so: the compass and the barometric altimeter keep reading, the step counter keeps your walking pace, and the speedometer shows dashes rather than a guess. SPEEDOMETER • Large, legible speed in km/h, mph, knots or m/s • Head-up display that mirrors onto the windshield at night • Speed alert with a buzz when you go over • Trip recording: distance, moving time, average, top speed and climb • Odometer and a mileage log by purpose, exported as CSV or PDF COMPASS • Magnetic or true north, with the declination cached so it stays true underground • Bearing lock, and a go-to arrow that points at a mark in a straight line • Sun compass: dawn, dusk, sunrise and sunset where you are • Anchor alarm for the boat ALTIMETER AND BAROMETER • Barometric altitude that keeps reading in a train, a lift or a plane cabin • Calibrate to a known elevation or the local sea level pressure • 48-hour pressure graph with a three-hour trend and a falling-pressure warning • Ski day: runs, vertical and lifts read off the barometer SPIRIT LEVEL • Surface and edge modes, degrees or percent, zero on any surface MARKS AND MAPS • Mark where you parked and walk back to it • Save any place by name, address or coordinate: decimal, degrees-minutes, DMS, UTM, MGRS • Import GPX routes and follow them; export any trip as GPX • A built-in map that works with no network: roads, railways and towns, with your track and marks on it WIDGETS, WATCH AND SIRI • Lock Screen Live Activity while a trip records • Apple Watch app with speed, heading and altitude on the wrist, and walks, hikes, runs and rides saved to the Health app as workouts with their route, and to Vane on your iPhone as trips • Siri: mark my position, where did I park, start a trip FREE, AND NO ADS The speedometer, compass, altimeter, level, head-up display, offline map and trip recording are free. There are no ads. Vane Pro adds: • Every trip kept • Unlimited marks • iCloud sync • Automatic drive recording • Your own maps • Mileage log export • Trip insights • Passport • GPX export and trip pictures • Speed alert • UTM and MGRS grids, sighted marks • Light planner • Backtrack • Anchor alarm Vane Pro is a yearly or monthly subscription that renews automatically, or a one-time purchase. A subscription is charged to your Apple Account and renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage it in your Apple Account settings. PRIVACY Nothing you record is sent to Vane: it stays on your iPhone, and in your own iCloud if you turn sync on. There is no account, no advertising and no analytics. Vane sends only anonymous diagnostic reports (crashes, freezes and a daily performance summary), never your position or your trips, and you can turn them off in Settings. Keep your eyes on the road. Vane is an instrument, not a legal speed reference. YOUR USE OF THIS REAL TIME ROUTE GUIDANCE APPLICATION IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. LOCATION DATA MAY NOT BE ACCURATE. THIS APPLICATION PROVIDES REAL TIME ROUTE GUIDANCE INFORMATION ENABLED THROUGH THE USE OF A SENSOR. VANE IS AN INSTRUMENT AND NOT A LEGAL SPEED REFERENCE, A CERTIFIED ALTIMETER, OR A SUBSTITUTE FOR MARINE OR AVIATION NAVIGATION EQUIPMENT. DO NOT OPERATE THIS APPLICATION WHILE DRIVING. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms and safety: https://vanedash.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://vanedash.com/privacy

Screenshots

Ansky4 screens
GPS Speedometer Compass4 screens

Verdict

The call

Ansky and GPS Speedometer Compass are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Ansky sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and GPS Speedometer Compass sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Ansky versus GPS Speedometer Compass: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnskyGPS Speedometer Compass
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size85 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAttoscale LLCSejalben Bahadursingh Bihola

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Ansky

Subscriptions2
  • Ansky Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Ansky Yearly$49.991 Year
3 purchases

GPS Speedometer Compass

Subscriptions2
  • Vane Pro monthly$5.991 Month
  • Vane Pro yearly1 Year trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Vane Pro$49.99

Questions

Is Ansky free?
Ansky is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GPS Speedometer Compass free?
GPS Speedometer Compass is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Ansky or GPS Speedometer Compass have ads?
Neither Ansky nor GPS Speedometer Compass shows ads.

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