Spyglass
- Category: Navigation
- First released: October 4, 2009
- Versions: 9 archived
- Installable: 9 of 9
- Availability: Still on the App Store ↗
- com.paully.spyglass
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
Something off?
Report an issueSpyglass is an essential offline GPS app for outdoors and off-road navigation. Packed with tools it serves as binoculars, heads-up display, hi-tech compass with offline maps, gyrocompass, GPS receiver, waypoint tracker, speedometer, altimeter, Sun, Moon and star finder, gyro horizon, rangefinder, coordinate converter, sextant, inclinometer, angular calculator and camera. It saves your custom places and waypoints, navigates precisely to them later, shows them on maps and using real-time augmented reality displays detailed GPS info, measures distances, sizes, angles, and does a lot more.
COMPASS & GYROCOMPASS
Accuracy improvement techniques, special compass modes and calibration methods available in Spyglass only make it a real instrument – the most advanced and accurate digital compass.
FINDER, TRACKER & AR NAVIGATION
Spyglass operates in 3D and uses augmented reality to show real-time object positions, info and directions to them overlaid over camera or maps.
Save current position, add points from maps, manually enter location coordinates and bearings, add stars by hand or use a built-in star catalogue.
Find saved places and objects later simply by following directional arrows.
Spyglass tracks multiple targets simultaneously and shows their info – distance, direction, azimuth, elevation and estimated time of arrival.
Copy, paste and share locations, coordinates and map links using many supported formats.
GPS, SPEEDOMETER & ALTIMETER
Find and track your location and get detailed real-time GPS data – coordinates in dozens of formats, altitude, course, current, maximum and vertical speed, using imperial, metric, nautical and surveying units.
OFFLINE MAPS
See your and targets’ positions on maps using different map styles and alternative map providers – plan waypoints and measure distances. Offline maps optimized for retina displays are available for download.
TRACK STARS, SUN AND MOON & NAVIGATE BY STARS
Track positions of stars, Sun and Moon with arc second precision – use them as a reference to calibrate compass for maximum accuracy.
OPTICAL RANGEFINDER
Measure distances to objects in real time with a rangefinder reticle similar to sniper sights.
SEXTANT, ANGULAR CALCULATOR AND INCLINOMETER
Find out heights of objects and distances to them – measure visually and calculate dimensions and distances.
CAMERA
Take pictures overlaid with all available GPS, positional and directional data.
DEMO & HELP
Videos: http://j.mp/spyglass_vids
Manuals: http://j.mp/spyglass_help
If you need specific map sources for hiking, cycling, skiing and many more outdoor activities, feel free to enjoy Spyglass PLUS. At confirmation of the Spyglass PLUS purchase, payment will be charged to your iTunes account, and it will be charged for renewal within 24-hours before the end of the current period. Automatic renewal can be turned off at any time in your Account Settings after purchase. After the cancellation of the renewal, Spyglass Plus will expire at the end of the current period.
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact us at https://spyglassnav.com
Privacy Policy: https://www.unblip.com/tmp/privacy_and_terms/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.unblip.com/tmp/privacy_and_terms/terms.html
Chart History
Archived Reviews
8 of 25Don’t Panic 🌍👍 It’s a little confusing but it’s safe update. If you’re new, this is great app and you should definitely try it out. Kudos to the creator of this app for taking care of the longtime users. If you’ve been burned by other apps, it’s understandable but don’t worry this dev is managing a transition as well as possible with the App Store framework. I upgraded mine successfully. There is: Spyglass, Spyglass Pro, and Spyglass Plus. If you paid for to upgrade previously to Pro grab the new version, ignore the expired subscription notice, and Restore Purchase in the app’s settings menu. You will have Pro again. If you had just Spyglass before v3,31 it looks like (ie I may be wrong) the developer is giving you Pro as well, which is generous. There is also an option to subscribe right now to Plus at a discount for maps and places when offline. The Pro features do not need a Plus subscription. I really enjoy this app. It’s very cool, has never given me problems, and does what it says. The creator is still maintaining it all these years on and hopefully this transition helps keep it profitable to do so for many more to come.
Great app - but good luck explaining to Country X military/law enforcement why you have an app called “Spyglass” installed and/or open on your phone, unless you just get kicks out of being detained.
Been using this for years. Excellent compass and nav app. Good for long distance shooting as well
This app works very well for a variety of functions. Useful for finding your way day or night. The interface is pretty intuitive, and with some practice, it works very well. I have also been very pleased with the performance, and the free updates! Thank you!
I paid for Spyglass in 2014 and had full access to all features including augmented reality. Now this feature has been taken away and I’m met with a subscription schedule to use something I’ve already paid for? This has to be illegal.
The complexity of the display and the myriad of features intrigued me. BUT in my day to day world … This app is pretty much useless.
I brag about this app to most everybody in my industry. I work in the Radio Communications field aligning antennas for long distance point point microwave paths. This thing has saved me so much time and headache from the way I used to do it before it’s unbelievable. Once you wrap your head around the power of this app, you will be amazed. My favorite feature is being able to calibrate my physical position on the earth and fine tuning adjustment using the sun, or a physical way point on cloudy days this gets the accuracy down to minimal error if done correctly.
No subscription I never buy subscriptions to any thing. An annoying marketing gimmick to fleece buyers of product. The quality will go down the price will go up and eventually you simply give away your money. Marketing the main problem with the modern world everything is designed to be a rip off. No product just marketing. Once was good is now a gimmick. If I could I would give it no stars I can’t seem to take one back.
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.