Pressure Altimeter was a tools app developed by Edward Falk. It was removed from Google Play Dec 3, 2021 and is no longer available for download.
Download Statistics
Pressure Altimeter had been downloaded 22 thousand times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
Pressure Altimeter was rated 3.91 out of 5 stars, based on 100 ratings.
App Information
Pressure Altimeter was free to download. The APK download size was 204.76 kB. The last available version was 1.1. The last update was on July 10, 2014.
Technical Requirements
Pressure Altimeter required Android 1.6+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play April 2014.
Description
Does what it says on the tin. This is a basic barometric pressure altimeter. Uses your Android device's built-in barometer to implement a standard pressure altimeter. Only works on devices with barometers.
Great for hikers or anybody else who would like to know their elevation.
No ads. No spyware. No nonsense.
Instructions:
Go to settings and set your preferred units: feet or meters; inches of mercury or millibars.
Find out the local altimeter setting (pilots can get this from the nearest airport). This will look something like "29.92" (inches of mercury) or "1013" (millibars). Touch the display to bring up the Kollsman window. Set this to the local altimeter setting on the left. Now you simply look at the display. Altitude is displayed numerically on the left, and via the three hands. The very skinny hand ending with a triangle represents 10,000 feet (or meters), the short fat hand is 1,000 feet, and the long hand is 100 feet. You read it pretty much like a clock.
If you don't know the local altimeter setting, use 29.92.
OR, if you know your altitude and want to find the altimeter setting, use the Kollsman window and just enter your altitude on the right.
This is what is known in aviation as a "sensitive altimeter", meaning that altitude is calibrated based on a sea-level reference pressure. Touch the altimeter face to bring up the Kollsman adjustment window. Enter the current sea-level pressure (altimeter setting) to calibrate the altimeter. OR, enter the known local elevation to get the altimeter setting.
See Wikipedia for more information about sensitive altimeters and how they're used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altimeter. Aviation altimeter settings can be obtained from aviation weather reports (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METAR) and airport information broadcasts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atis) if you have an aircraft-band radio.
Pro-tip: use the Kollsman window to set the local elevation to zero, to get the local barometric pressure.
Preferences allow you to select altitude (meters or feet), pressure units (inches mercury or millibars), screen orientation, and keep screen on.
Not approved for aviation use. Compare to a real altimeter before you even think of using this, even as a backup.
Privacy policy: this app never collects personal data of any kind and it never even connects to the internet. It does not display ads.
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★★★★★
Know Them All! You can't go wrong with this. Set the Kollsman window to 29.92 and you get your pressure altitude or QNE. Set it to your known elevation and you get your altimeter setting (and vice versa) or QNH. Set it to zero elevation to get your local barometric pressure (and vice versa) for QFE. What more can you ask for? And it's free! Many thanks!
★★★★★
This is the only one App that read air pressure from sensor and then translate to altitude based on adjustable sea level pressure references. It works perfectly as the real altimeter should be.
★★★★★
Great app! Needs pressure offset This is a perfect app, however it needs a way to offset real pressure. My Samsung S4 is 5 millibars out, so it would be great if the app allowed compensation offset of this, like many other apps do. I'm constantly having to add 5mb to the real pressure to get the altitude showing the correctly
★★☆☆☆
No preferences or settings option on S7 to change to mb / hPa. Stuck with inches of mercury which is not used in international met reports.
★★☆☆☆
No way to calibrate barometer to offset internal pressure sensor. No settings.
★★☆☆☆
Settings options No access to settings on the Galaxy S7 though it can be calibrated.
★★☆☆☆
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