Spyglass is an advanced compass and GPS navigation app for iOS and Android. Spyglass comes in handy as a car, bike, boat, aircraft, vehicle, or walking compass. GPS navigator gives you directions while driving, cycling, sailing, flying, hiking off the road, in the field and in the woods, in the sea and in the air.
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Turn your device into an advanced multispectral gadget that includes all sensors you need: GPS, digital compass, gyroscope, accelerometer, camera.
Reach unbelievable precision with the gyrocompass that is similar to air or marine navigation. Forget about any compass interferences. Get a live compass working on devices with no compass sensor.
Find and track your location. Monitor your coordinates in geo and military formats. Check altitude, current and maximum speed, and course. Use imperial, metric, nautical, and military units.
Find directions with the Mil-Spec compass operating in 3D space at any orientation. Monitor direction hints about lots of targets, updated in real time on the azimuth circle.
Measure distances to objects with a rangefinder reticle as in famous sniper scopes in real time.
Observe both your target’s and your own position on maps rotated automatically according to the current azimuth. Use street, satellite, or hybrid maps.
Track the position of any location, bearing, or star along with the Sun and the Moon in real time. Look at the objects through the planet Earth. Some objects are shown with the help of augmented reality. Get information about object distances, azimuths, and elevations.
Visually estimate the heights of buildings, mountains and other objects. Calculate distances from dimensions or vice versa. Get a visual picture of angles and distances measurements.
Tag locations and bearings.
This video shows how you can save your custom places and waypoints, see them on maps or augmented reality displays, and navigate precisely to them later using the gyrocompass mode and navigating by the sun for higher precision.
This video shows how you can share your current or saved location with your friends so that they could easily find the way to it, no matter what device or software they are using.
This overview video shows what you will see when you first open and start using Spyglass. It covers the app's main features, modes, and customization options.
This video shows how you can use the Rangefinder to measure distance to your target. Just like a reticle in a sniper rifle, the Rangefinder in Spyglass is based on the height of an average human (1.7m/5.6ft).
This video shows how you can solve the hazardous accuracy issues, typical of most digital compasses, and get the highest precision possible on your device.
This video shows how using the Sextant tool you can measure the size of a building/object if you know the distance to it. Or vice versa – how you can measure the distance if you know the size.
This video explains how to improve accuracy of the compass on iPhone or iPad using maps and the gyrocompass mode.
This video shows how you can document significant locations, trail hazards, violations, or incidents by grabbing pictures with myriads of positional data overlaid.
This video shows how you can use Spyglass as a backup speedometer for your vehicle, get clear compass directions on back road and cross country road trips, trace your position on the map, and control your vertical speed.
That's how your iPad screen looks when you use night mode maps in Spyglass and Commander Compass apps.
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