Compass

by Catch.com

>250,000 downloads, 81865 ratings (4.34 average), 677 kb

Featured in “Best Android Apps, The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders”, published by O’Reilly Media.

Key features:
- Compass view with location display
- Places: Save your favorite places (home, work place, school, restaurant, shops, etc.) or even your car location. Navigate back to them later with Google Navigation
- Notes: Capture and view your location-based notes in your area (uses the free Catch app)
- Select the compass type and background you prefer
- Automatically save your favorite places to a Catch.com account: restore them if your phone breaks; share them among multiple devices
- Move the app to SD card.

Internet permission is used only for Google Analytics so we know which features are used the most and where to improve. There is no unique identifier tied to your usage, and your data is not shared.

Note that this app relies on the magnetometer of your mobile device so accuracy may vary.

Recent changes:
- Fix true North on Honeycomb
- Various bug fixes

Latest version: 2.1.1 (for all Android versions, supports App2SD)

Pages about this Android app:

Must Have Android Apps - Android Forums [androidforums.com]
Compass | FREE Android Applications [freeandroidapplications.net]
ideos - Applicazioni consigliate [ideos.wikispaces.com]
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xda-developers - View Single Post - Make your Android life easier with these Apps to make your SGS cool [forum.xda-developers.com]

(66 likes, 6 dislikes)

User reviews of Compass

dbareis
Jan 28, 2012

A good compass that can store locations also.

0kti
Dec 13, 2011

Works fine

dckc
Sep 29, 2011

compass on my SGS Vibrant still doesn't work

Atropa
Jul 1, 2011

Ok su Motorola Milestone 1

osquou
Jun 28, 2011

Excellent, simple app. Used it on an Army Land Navigation course awhile back as a general course guide. Have aligned antennas with it etc...

Android Market Comments (5937)

dakota
Friday 6:42 AM

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Satish
Friday 3:00 AM

Decent enough.. Not as responsive as one on iphone.

Darryl
Thursday 5:52 PM

Kills My Battery Nice features and display. But uninstalled because uses 30% of my battery even when did not run the app. Too much background processing.

Teddy
Thursday 8:04 AM

Ted Works fine and its awesome:)

James
Thursday 6:40 AM

inaccurate depending on how u line up yr phone, north varied by 30 degrees. I've recalibrated many times but no imprvmnt on Galxy S2. Will remve this app othrs r bettr.