Compass Complication - WearOS

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Compass Complication - WearOS app icon
10+$0.99
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Never lose your way again. Compass Complication for Wear OS brings a sleek, highly functional, and battery-efficient compass directly to your favorite watch face. Designed specifically for Wear OS, this app allows you to keep your bearings at a glance, right from your wrist.

Why choose Compass Complication?

Flexible complication display: Supports short_text, long_text, range_text and small_image formats, allowing it to fit perfectly into various watch face designs.

Seamless Integration: Add the compass as a complication to any watch face that supports them.

Total Control: Toggle the compass on or off easily to suit your needs and save resources.

True North Precision: Enable the True North option for enhanced navigational accuracy.

Haptic Feedback: Receive subtle, intuitive vibration cues to keep you focused on your path.

Battery Optimization: Built with performance in mind, ensuring minimal battery drain even with regular use.

Battery Optimization: OFF (Recommended / Unrestricted)

• Continuous Location Tracking: The app can track your location and altitude in the background even if the watch screen is off.
• Real-Time Accuracy: As you move, your coordinates and True North declination update instantly, ensuring the compass is always accurate the moment you look at it.
•Stable Background Service: The compass complication on your watch face will update reliably throughout the day without being "frozen" by the system.
•SOS Reliability: If you trigger an SOS, it will use your most recent, precise coordinates even if you haven't opened the app in a while.

Battery Optimization: ON (Standard / Optimized)

•Throttled Background Updates: The system may stop location and altitude tracking once the screen turns off or enters Always-On Display (AOD) mode.
•Re-Sync Delay: When you wake the watch after moving, you may see "stale" coordinates from your previous location for several seconds while the watch waits to reconnect to GPS.
•Background Freezing: Samsung and other Wear OS devices may forcefully close the compass service to save power, which could cause the watch face complication to stop updating.
•Lower Background Precision: To save battery, the system may only allow the app to check your location once every few minutes instead of in real-time.

Complication display customization: Choose to display icon, title, both or none.

One tap to generate your SOS coordinates and map link, ready for your messaging app.

Whether you are hiking, exploring a new city, or just want a quick directional reference, our app provides the reliability you need without the bulk.

Precision You Can Trust:
Unlike basic compasses, Compass Complication for Wear OS uses advanced location-based algorithms to provide True North calibration and real-time Latitude, Longitude, Altitude and Incline tracking. Built for explorers, it ensures your data remains accurate even when you are off the grid. Privacy-First Design: All location data is processed locally on your watch in real-time. We do not track, store, or share your location.

Need help? Email: simplewf25@gmail.com

Premium watch faces: simplewf.com
Developer email
simplewf25@gmail.com
Developer website
https://simplewf.com/
Released
May 28, 2026
Current version
VARY
Android version
VARY

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