HandBearing: Marine Compass
Sailing Log & Pelorus Sight
Only for iPhone
$1.99 · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
A real hand bearing compass on your phone: sight your target at eye level and read the vertical card, damped and with a red night mode. Log each bearing with one tap.
The compass apps on your phone show a dial from above, as if the phone lay flat on a chart table. A real hand bearing compass works differently: you hold it up at eye level, sight your target over it, and read the bearing off the side of a floating vertical card. HandBearing puts that instrument on your screen.
SIGHT AND READ
- Hold your phone up and aim at a lighthouse, a buoy, a vessel or a peak
- The vertical card turns behind dome glass, damped like the real liquid-filled instrument, and the lubber line reads your bearing
- True or magnetic reference, with the reciprocal bearing always at hand
- Lay the phone flat and the same card shows its top face, a round compass rose; tilt it in between and you see both, because it is a cylinder
MARK IT
- One tap records the bearing with the time, and your position if you choose
- Keep a log, label each bearing and share it as plain text
- HOLD freezes the reading while you write it down
- Track a marked bearing over time and see on the display whether it holds steady or drifts
MADE FOR THE WATCH ON DECK
- Night mode: deep red illumination keeps your night vision
- A degrees-of-error readout is always on screen, plus a calibration guide: check the instrument against a known landmark before you rely on it
GOOD TO KNOW
The phone's magnetic sensor is affected by nearby metal, electronics and magnets. Base navigation decisions on your vessel's proper instruments, charts and official information. This app is not a substitute for required marine equipment.
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Information
- Seller
- Netflowers Inc.
- Size
- 8.8 MB
- Category
- Navigation
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.5 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.5 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.5 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 43 more
- English, Arabic, Bengali, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Oriya, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 netflowers
