Compass for iPhone and iPad

A compass with true north.

3pNorth shows your heading, your coordinates and where north really is. Quick to read, nice to look at.

Coming soon to the App Store One purchase for iPhone and iPad

3pNorth on iPad with the Needle face on the Petrol background, heading 23 degrees north-east, with the heading tape and coordinates on the right

3pNorth on iPhone with the Disc face on the Plum background: a white disc with a red ball toward north, heading 23 degrees north-east

Simple on purpose.

One screen, one job. Open it and you know which way you are facing.

True or magnetic north

3pNorth points to true north, the real geographic one, using your location to correct the compass. Prefer magnetic north? Tap the star at the top right.

Your heading at a glance

A big number and a heading tape that shows what is ahead. Don't want the tape? Turn it off in Settings.

Make it yours

Six faces and 12 backgrounds, including true black for OLED screens. Or pick Automatic, and it goes light or dark with your device.

Your coordinates

In three formats: decimal degrees, degrees minutes seconds, or degrees and decimal minutes. Your altitude shows too, when the GPS signal is good.

Works with VoiceOver

And with larger text. Double-tap with two fingers to hear your heading, or turn on Speak heading and it tells you when the heading settles.

Tells you when to calibrate

If the compass is not accurate, a small "calibrate" shows up at the top. Tap it to see how to fix it with a figure 8.

Pick a face.

A white disc with a red ball, a ring, a classic needle, an arrow, or something less serious: a paper plane or a rocket. Then pick one of 12 backgrounds to go with it.

Petrol
Black
Graphite
Navy
Forest
Plum
Light
Paper
Sand
Mist
Sage
Sky

Or Automatic: Paper by day, Black at night.

Disc on Paper
Ring on Black
Needle on Forest
Arrow on Sky
Paper plane on Mist
Rocket on Navy

A little 3D, if you like.

Turn on the tilt effect and the face leans as you tilt your device, with a real feeling of depth. It is off by default, because a compass should stay calm, and it stays off while Reduce Motion is on.

Find it in Settings, under Face. This is a demo for the website: in the app, the face follows the real tilt of your device.

Move your mouse over the compass.

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North is north. Even face down.

Lie down and hold your phone above you.

Does your compass still point north? Ours does.

Seen from below, east is on the left of north, so 3pNorth mirrors the dial and north stays where it really is. The big number and the heading tape still show where the top of your phone points.

Looking up through trees at a blue sky, two hands hold an iPhone flat overhead. On the screen, 3pNorth shows the Needle on black at 23 degrees north-east, with the dial mirrored so north points the right way.

Turn it sideways.

Hold your iPhone in landscape and you get a big heading tape and number, with nothing else in the way. Made for a mount in a car or on a bike. While you drive or ride, a small mark on the tape shows your direction of travel. The screen stays on.

3pNorth in landscape on an iPhone, on the Petrol background: a wide heading tape, a big 23 degrees north-east, and the travel mark

The same landscape view on the Black background

Next to your maps.

On iPad, 3pNorth works in a window of any size, side by side with your maps or any other app. Make the window short and it keeps just the heading tape and the big number.

One purchase for iPhone and iPad. On iPad, the direction of travel and the coordinates need a Wi-Fi + Cellular model.

An iPad with Apple Maps on the left and 3pNorth in a narrow window on the right, with the Needle face at 23 degrees north-east

Your location stays on your phone.

Read the privacy policy

No account and no sign-up.
No ads and no tracking.
Location is used only while the app is open, to show your coordinates and find true north.