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SteamCompass app for iPhone and iPad


4.0 ( 5120 ratings )
Travel Navigation
Developer: Juergen Amft
Free
Current version: 1.70, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 18 Mar 2015
App size: 4.28 Mb

A Steampunk themed compass, with way finding capabilities. Also allow you to send your current location, including the street address, to other people, via text or email.

If you push and hold the display for 3 seconds or more, the app will remember your current location, you will receive a single vibrate as confirmation, the text "near" will appear, as well as three gears that rotate, to stay with the Steampunk theme. Once you move more than 10m away from your current location, an arrow will appear that points back to the location you marked no matter which way you turn. The distance between you and the location will be displayed.

The speed and direction at which the gears are spinning is dependent on the speed you are travelling, as well as the direction of the travel.

Once you want to forget the location, you once again push and hold the display for 3 seconds, and the location will be forgotten, two vibrates will confirm, and the gears and arrow disappear.

The focus of the app is to be an extremely simple to use way of finding your way back to your car, your hotel, your home, while being visually pleasing.