Anchor
Find your way back, with or without signal
Anchor is an offline direct-line wayfinder. Drop a pin at your car, campsite or meet-up point, walk away, then follow a live compass with bearing and distance back to it using only the iPhone's GPS, compass and motion sensors.
Screenshots
A closer look.
Features
What Anchor does.
When GPS is obstructed, a Step Estimate mode uses step count and heading to keep estimating your position while showing the growing uncertainty.
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Live compass
Direction, distance and bearing back to any dropped anchor.
- 02
Anchor categories
Car, meet-up, campsite, trailhead, hotel, boat or a custom coordinate.
- 03
Step Estimate
A step-and-compass fallback with visible uncertainty when GPS is blocked.
- 04
Private vault
Saved anchors with editable names, notes and manual coordinate entry, excluded from backups.
- 05
Night-vision palettes
Five OLED-friendly colour schemes and metric or imperial units.
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Haptic guidance
Optional tactile feedback as you turn toward the target.
There is no map to download and nothing is sent anywhere: no account, ads, analytics or server.
- Platforms
- iOS
- Status
- Available
- Category
- Navigation
- Languages
- English
- Built with
- SwiftUI, CoreLocation, CoreMotion
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