Smart Compass helps you find accurate direction no matter where you are.
Mobile Solution TechSome warnings 1 confirmed warning. Checked: 212 reviews and the Android app’s code.
From our automated analysis, 30 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 9.7 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-30 .
The store currently lists version 9.7, updated 2026-09-29.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Smart Compass helps you find accurate direction no matter where you are. Whether you're finding your way in unfamiliar terrain or simply orienting yourself, this app provides accurate readings of both magnetic north and true north. With a built-in bubble level for precise slope measurements and a Qibla compass to help you locate the direction of prayer, Smart Compass app is the ultimate tool for daily navigation.
🎯 Precision Navigation Features
Digital Compass Technology: Experience pinpoint accuracy with our advanced digital compass that displays both magnetic north and true north.
GPS Location Tracker: Get real-time location updates with integrated GPS tracking. Smart Compass - Digital Compass combines magnetic readings with GPS data for unmatched directional accuracy.
Qibla Direction Finder: Locate Qibla direction instantly from anywhere in the world.…
From the developer’s store description.
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The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Findings that met the published evidence standard.
Aggressive ad load: raised by 14 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 15 reviews we read)
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.
Offers a one-time or lifetime purchase: "One-time purchase grants access to all premium features."
The app's own text offers a one-time or lifetime purchase, or reviewers report that the price is stated clearly.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:04be9adecd32039d1579bcd8530a995384af50d2fd7ce85fd92746d6fcfd269cThe developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
The app's own text says: "Subscriptions are managed via your Google Play Billing and will renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. After purchase, you can manage your subscriptions in your Acco…
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
Package artefact
sha256:04be9adecd32039d1579bcd8530a995384af50d2fd7ce85fd92746d6fcfd269cThe app's own text says: "Remove Ads"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
Package artefact
sha256:04be9adecd32039d1579bcd8530a995384af50d2fd7ce85fd92746d6fcfd269cPurchase screen steers the choice: "Best Offer"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The purchase screen arrives with one plan already framed as the recommended or most popular choice, so the default is the app's preference rather than the user's. We do not compare the plans' prices, and only the app's own text evidences this, so it is shown, but never counted as a charge.
Package artefact
sha256:04be9adecd32039d1579bcd8530a995384af50d2fd7ce85fd92746d6fcfd269cThe app's own text says: "No thanks"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
Package artefact
sha256:04be9adecd32039d1579bcd8530a995384af50d2fd7ce85fd92746d6fcfd269cThe app's own text says: "Thanks for your interest. We will share more once you're back online."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own copy describes working without a connection — offline mode, downloading for offline use, or content saved for later. Shown because readers filter on it; it is a feature, not a fairness property, and never counts for or against an app.
Package artefact
sha256:04be9adecd32039d1579bcd8530a995384af50d2fd7ce85fd92746d6fcfd269c212 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
There is such a thing as 'try before you buy', but there are so many ads upon opening that you can't even use the app to see if you like it. I understand fully the need for the developers to make money from the app, but I can't use it…
Nice app but I uninstalled it. Too many ads. Looks like an Advert magnet, we get you want to make money, but you chase people away because they feel exploited. If you want us to pay for the pro version, atleast lets try out the app, too…
No worky just pop up ads
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
Android package 9.7, scanned 29 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 9.7 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-30 .
The store currently lists version 9.7, updated 2026-09-29.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
No release notes were provided for this version.
smart-compassAssessed 2026-10-30 from 212 user reviews and the app's package.
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This assessment is produced automatically. Four independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every recurring plan the store lists is named as weekly, the term read from the purchase names, with a list cut off at the store’s 10-item maximum not assessed; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
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