Comparison

Offline GPS Navigation vs Compass 55. Map & GPS kit.

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

Head to head
About

Offline GPS Navigation

This app helps you navigate and find your way back, even without an internet connection. Easily bookmark locations like your parked car or hiking trails, and receive precise directional guidance to return. Sync your saved spots across devices for seamless access.

Highlights
  • Walking directions
  • Navigational bookmarks
  • Parked car locator
  • Offline navigation
  • Sync across devices
  • Directional guidance
Features
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Best New Navigation Apps — Apple “It’s the compass reinvented with walking directions, navigational bookmarks, and a simple parked-car locator, all in a friendly design.” — App Store Editor’s Note --- Never get lost again. GPS Navigation Offline is your all-in-one offline GPS, compass, and navigation app for hiking, travel, parking, and everyday navigation, no internet required*. Whether you're exploring the outdoors, visiting a new city, or trying to find your parked car, this powerful GPS navigation app keeps you on track with precise direction and distance guidance. --- What You Can Do • Find Your Way Back Anywhere, Even Offline No signal? No problem. Navigate confidently in remote areas, mountains, forests, or abroad without internet access. • Instantly Locate Your Parked Car Save your parking spot in one tap and return to it easily, no more wandering through crowded parking lots. • Always Know Your Direction Use a precise digital compass with real-time distance and direction to guide you back to saved locations. • Save Important Places in Seconds Bookmark trails, parking spots, or favorite locations and access them anytime. • Track Your Distance in Real Time See exactly how far you are from your destination so you stay in control of your journey. • Access Your Locations on All Devices Your saved places sync across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, ready whenever you need them. --- Perfect For • Hiking & outdoor adventures • Travel & city exploration • Parking & car locator • Cycling & walking navigation • Offline navigation anywhere --- Why Users Love GPS Navigation Offline “Saved me while hiking super accurate and easy to use!” — Bjverano “The best GPS compass app for off-roading and hiking.” — Jimbo6765 “Perfect for tracking my parking spot and navigating hikes.” — S N Khan --- Simple. Reliable. Offline. Turn your iPhone into a powerful GPS navigator and compass tool. With offline navigation, accurate location tracking, and an intuitive design, you’ll always find your way back anytime, anywhere. A Simple Alternative to Complex Navigation Apps Looking for a lightweight alternative to apps like Google Maps, Waze, or Apple Maps? GPS Navigation Offline focuses on what matters most: offline navigation, compass direction, and location saving, without clutter, distractions, or the need for a constant internet connection. Perfect when you don’t need traffic updates or complex routing, just a reliable way to find your way back, track locations, and stay oriented anywhere. --- * Park Car feature works best in open parking areas due to GPS limitations. Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://pleeq.com/anchor-pointer/privacy-policy.html

About

Compass 55. Map & GPS kit.

This navigation app offers a comprehensive suite of tools for land, air, and marine use. It includes a detailed map, compass, GPS coordinates, altitude, distance, speed tracking, and route planning. Advanced features like offline maps, GPS track recording, and sensor integration are available through an upgrade.

Highlights
  • GPS coordinates in 6 formats
  • Advanced waypoint editor
  • Speedometer with speed tracking
  • Offline map downloads
  • GPS track recording and sharing
  • Magnetic declination calculation
  • Sunset and sunrise times
Features
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Compass 55 is an offline-capable GPS map and navigation toolkit for hiking, off-road travel, fieldwork, aviation, and marine use—with a compass, waypoints, routes, coordinate tools, and video recording. + Advanced target/waypoint editor. Can be also used as a coordinates converter. You can use map to check or set waypoint location and add photo or audio note. + Share your location via email, text message, Facebook or Twitter. This includes UTM, MGRS and Latitude/Longitude (MENU>Share my location). + You can use UTM, MGRS or Lat/Long, just pick your preference in settings (Coordinate Format). + Speedometer. Shows you the speed and pace. Speedometer also gives you options to control average and max speed and pace counters (MENU > RESET and PAUSE/RESUME counters). + Compass. Instant reaction compass, no delays. Automatically pickups the direction based on magnetic or GPS course. If you mostly walk or drive, you can change this automatic mode in app settings > Compass or GPS course. NATO mils? Same place in settings to set. + Magnetic declination δ for the current location and any location on the map (via World Magnetic Model, WMM, no need for data/internet). + Sunset and sunrise. So you can plan your travel better. + Arrow pointing to your target waypoint. Distance and bearing to it. + Create/measure routes and areas. + Barometric Vertical Speed Indicator (VSI, IVSI) in both scale and graph forms. + Integration of bluetooth sensors: Cycling cadence, Heart rate, Cycling speed. + Video recording for action and fieldwork. Add real-time G-Cross, map, QR code, and pitch & roll overlays as needed, then replay your recordings. The basic version stores one video and exports a branded 15-second clip. All above belong to a basic version. PRO Pack upgrade will add following capabilities: + Recording and sharing GPS tracks. + Moving waypoints between folders. + Showing ETA to a target as this requires GPS tracking. + Native Google map with fantastic terrain map, amazing 3D and real night mode. + Adding own/custom tile map servers. + Downloading offline maps. Offline maps import in .sqlitedb, rmaps, mbtiles formats. Support for overzoom and underzoom - offline map is shown even for zoom levels that are not downloaded. + GPX import and export for waypoints, tracks and routes. + Google Earth KML support for waypoints and tracks import/export. KMZ support for waypoints and tracks export, waypoints import. + Ground overlays. Import KMZ ground overlay or draw your own on the map in the app and share as kmz files! + CSV import/export for waypoints. + Voice coach to tell you active track distance and duration, current speed and altitude without need to open the app. + Support for Siri shortcuts in IOS 12 for starting and stopping GPS tracks. + From version 4.2 - support for OSGB (including grid shifts) and SK 42 in the coordinates converter. + Unlimited saved videos and full-length exports of stamped or original video. + BACKGROUND MODE. App will work in background automatically when tracking. You can use other apps while Compass 55 does its job in the background! + PRIVACY. Compass 55 never shares your location data with 3rd parties or ad agencies. Location data is used solely for telling you direction to a target and recording GPS tracks and never leave the app unless you decide to share by means of a track export. It always lets you know when background mode is on and never runs in background unless the track is being recorded. ! You can use this app on your iPhone as well as on any cellular iPad. **App will not work properly on iPods and wifi only iPads as they don't have GPS (external GPS module is required). As quite a lot of us are using external GPS modules, app is available for wifi only iPads and iPods. ! Please note that as with all GPS apps, continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Offline GPS Navigation4 screens
Compass 55. Map & GPS kit.4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Offline GPS Navigation at every 11 days against Compass 55. Map & GPS kit.'s monthly. Compass 55. Map & GPS kit.'s advantage is review sentiment (91% vs 78%) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.6). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Offline GPS Navigation sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Compass 55. Map & GPS kit. sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Offline GPS Navigation against 4.7 for Compass 55. Map & GPS kit.. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2.9K and 1.5K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 78% of Offline GPS Navigation's written reviews are positive against 91% of Compass 55. Map & GPS kit.'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Offline GPS Navigation ships an update every 11 days, Compass 55. Map & GPS kit. monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Offline GPS Navigation versus Compass 55. Map & GPS kit.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOffline GPS NavigationCompass 55. Map & GPS kit.
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (2.9K ratings)4.7 (1.5K ratings) — better
Positive reviews77.6% of reviews90.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.9K — better1.5K
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB89 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexander DeplovKalimex-Consulting s.r.o. @Blocoware & Stanislav Dvoychenko

Customer experience

Offline GPS Navigation

All ratings2,924 ratings
Positive89.9%
Neutral4.2%
Negative5.9%
Written reviews290 reviews
Positive77.6%
Neutral5.2%
Negative17.2%

Compass 55. Map & GPS kit.

All ratings1,545 ratings
Positive93.7%
Neutral3.8%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews396 reviews
Positive90.7%
Neutral5.3%
Negative4.0%

User reviews

Offline GPS Navigation

From 2.9K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Simple and easy to use
  • 🚀 Accurate and reliable
  • 📍 Useful for finding parked cars and locations
  • 🗺️ Helpful for hiking, traveling, and exploring new areas
  • 💻 Works well without internet connection

Room to improve

  • 💰 Subscription model is too expensive for some users
  • 🔒 Lifetime users not grandfathered in after switch to subscription
  • 🐛 Occasional issues with accuracy and pointing in the wrong direction
  • 📱 Doesn't work well with magnetic cases or in cars

Compass 55. Map & GPS kit.

From 1.5K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Best Mapping and Navigation tool
  • 👍 Great, simple inexpensive GPS
  • 👍 Accurate GPS and navigation
  • 👍 Useful for various activities
  • 👍 Offline maps and navigation

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Compass direction issues
  • 💡 Desire for more language support (Turkish, Polish, etc.)
  • 💡 Need for more map options (Yandex, IGN, etc.)
  • 💡 Improvements to interface and customization
  • 💡 Difficulty with some features and learning curve

Bugs and requests

Offline GPS Navigation

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • App crashes or becomes unusable when signal is weak
  • Saved anchors sometimes get lost or disappear

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add option to switch between GPS heading and magnetic heading
  • Improve integration with mapping apps like Apple Maps and Google Maps
  • Allow importing/exporting of saved locations
  • Add more customization options for anchors (icons, colors, notes, etc.)

Compass 55. Map & GPS kit.

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Issues with GPX file import and tracking
  • Occasional crashes or freezes
  • Inaccurate GPS positioning in some cases

Requested features

6 requests
  • Ability to download and cache more map types
  • Option to show map grid coordinates
  • Elevation profile for planned routes
  • Apple Watch app support
  • Faster map updates
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  • More coordinate system options (e.g., PZ-90)

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Offline GPS Navigation

Subscriptions2
  • Full Access Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Full Access Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
3 purchases

Compass 55. Map & GPS kit.

Subscriptions2
  • Pro pack.$1.991 Month
  • Pro pack.$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro pack$14.99

Questions

Is Offline GPS Navigation free?
Offline GPS Navigation is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Compass 55. Map & GPS kit. free?
Compass 55. Map & GPS kit. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Offline GPS Navigation or Compass 55. Map & GPS kit.?
Compass 55. Map & GPS kit. is rated higher. Offline GPS Navigation averages 4.6 out of 5 from 2.9K ratings, while Compass 55. Map & GPS kit. averages 4.7 from 1.5K ratings.
Do Offline GPS Navigation or Compass 55. Map & GPS kit. have ads?
Neither Offline GPS Navigation nor Compass 55. Map & GPS kit. shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Offline GPS Navigation or Compass 55. Map & GPS kit.?
Offline GPS Navigation ships an update every 11 days, and Compass 55. Map & GPS kit. monthly. Most recently, Offline GPS Navigation was updated on September 28, 2026 and Compass 55. Map & GPS kit. on September 27, 2026.

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