# Compass

> Very accurate compass with offline navigation and status bar notification!

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.fulminesoftware.compass](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.fulminesoftware.compass)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.fulminesoftware.compass`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Fulmine Software
- **Category:** MAPS\_AND\_NAVIGATION
- **Downloads:** 1,111,837
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (17,398 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.6.10.1
- **Last updated:** 2025-08-30
- **First published:** 2015-12-31
- **Publisher country:** PL
- **Size:** 7.70 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-25
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fulminesoftware.compass)
- **Website:** [http://www.fulminesoftware.com](http://www.fulminesoftware.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.fulminesoftware.com/privacy-policy.html](http://www.fulminesoftware.com/privacy-policy.html)

## Description

Compass is a highly responsive, accurate, and feature-rich offline navigation tool designed for travelers, hikers, and outdoor enthusiasts. Featuring a clear Material Design interface, it works worldwide without requiring an internet connection. The app offers navigation capabilities including direction, distance, and altitude difference to your selected destination, and even allows marking your current location to navigate back easily.

With a convenient status bar notification, Compass provides quick access to compass data even while using other apps, including visibility on the lock screen for Android Lollipop and newer devices. Additional features include customizable app themes, support for Plus codes (Open Location Codes) for easy location sharing, multiple compass scale units, magnetic and true heading, and various latitude/longitude formats. Compass ensures privacy by requiring no unnecessary permissions, making it a reliable tool for navigation and orientation, whether you are hiking, geocaching, or simply finding your way in unfamiliar territory.

## Rankings

- #64,408 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_TOPICS`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_LOCATION`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_SPECIAL_USE`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS`
- `android.permission.WAKE_LOCK`
- `com.fulminesoftware.compass.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION`
- `com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID`

## Review summary

Overall, the reviews show Compass is easy to use, accurate, and useful for navigation—often preferred when GPS data is faulty or unavailable. Many praise its simple, clean design and reliable performance. A few caveats appear: some users report trust issues or unreliability in certain conditions, including GPS-related directional accuracy, and one notes altitude display inaccuracies. A separate entry mentions accessibility via text-to-speech for blind users. Despite these, the app is frequently described as one of the few compass apps that works as described on Android.

### Pros

- Easy to use and well-designed interface
- Accurate and reliable compass that works as described
- Very useful for navigation, especially when GPS is wrong or unavailable
- Clean, pleasant design/UI
- Accessibility support for visually impaired users (works with text-to-speech)

### Cons

- Occasional GPS-related reliability issues where directions can be untrustworthy in certain conditions

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.fulminesoftware.compass)