Range Finder Tool vs SkyPocket

Turn your iPhone or iPad into a practical field toolkit for camera measurement, maps, waypoints, compass work, and astronomical planning. RangeFinder brings the instruments you need into one focused app. Estimate a distance, inspect an angle, save a waypoint, measure a shape on the map, or plan around sunlight without breaking your workflow. CAMERA INSTRUMENTS • Estimate distance or height from an object of known size. • Measure distance with LiDAR on compatible devices. • Read heading, inclination, and roll, then capture an A–B angle. • Use Angle Survey with crisp, calibrated vector reticles. • Save camera, reticle, measurement, or full-screen compositions. MAPS THAT GO WITH YOU • Work with raster maps and detailed OSM vector maps up to zoom level 19. • Download supported map areas for use away from a connection. • Start with 512 MB of offline-map storage; save your first offline map to receive another 512 MB. • Search and inspect coordinates in Decimal Degrees, DMS, UTM, MGRS, Plus Codes, and GeoHash. WAYPOINTS WITH CONTEXT • Create waypoints on the map or from a photo’s GPS metadata. • Choose from 175 icons so every place is easy to recognize. • Add notes, photos, and voice messages. • Track selected waypoints on the map, compass, and live camera with their name and distance. MEASURE AND PLAN • Draw distances, polylines, angles, rectangles, polygons, areas, and circles directly on the map. • Use magnetic or true north, waypoint bearings, map rotation, and compass calibration. • Plan with sunrise, sunset, civil, nautical, and astronomical twilight, golden and blue hours, Moon phase, and planet positions—calculated on device. SAVE YOUR FIELDWORK Keep range observations, captures, waypoints, attachments, and map measurements organized for later. A safe migration assistant can bring compatible waypoints, media, and settings forward from the previous app. Camera frames and photo-location analysis are processed on your device. Availability and quality depend on device sensors, permissions, lighting, surface conditions, and location accuracy. Measurements are estimates and are not intended for safety-critical surveying or navigation.

SkyPocket is the flight mode app for anyone who flies: no ads, sign ups, analytics or in-app purchases. Buy it once and it's yours for life. It works on iPhone and Apple Watch, and a window seat helps. The Aviation Nerd: • Live ground speed, altitude, track and vertical speed on cockpit-style tapes • An offline moving map, mid-ocean included, with 41,000 peaks and 3,000 lakes • Cabin altitude, turbulence, g-force and bank from your phone's own sensors • The country below, its local time, and which side the sun is on • Pick a destination for distance to go and a live ETA The Nervous Flyer: • Every phase of the flight explained as it happens, with your aircraft's own numbers • Two dozen cabin sounds decoded, the worrying ones marked NORMAL • 65 aircraft with their numbers, spotting clues and trivia The Storyteller: • Photos and clips stamped with your speed, altitude and position • Notes saved with the moment they happened • Turn the whole flight into a 9:16 reel The Globetrotter: • A logbook of every flight, named from 4,000 airports • A ten-language phrasebook, spoken aloud The Long Haul: • Eight games in the flight deck's style, with your speed and altitude still in view • GPS LOST mode: an honest estimate toward your destination when the fix drops out over a jamming zone On your wrist: • SkyPocket for Apple Watch records with its own GPS, alongside your iPhone or on its own, and the two join into one flight • Speed, altitude, time left and your route on your wrist, plus a complication that shows REC while you fly Record the whole flight: Tap once before takeoff. SkyPocket records with your phone locked, shows live stats on the lock screen and detects the landing itself. If the app closes or the battery dies, your flight is safe and can resume. In 15 languages, including the whole World Factbook for all 238 countries.