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Online Compass
Point your device to find your exact heading. Works purely in your browser using hardware magnetometer sensors.
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Sensor Access Required
To detect True North and magnetic fields, this tool requires access to your device's orientation sensors.
About the Online Compass Tool
The Online Compass Tool transforms your smartphone or tablet into a highly accurate navigation instrument. By accessing the HTML5 DeviceOrientation API and the built-in magnetometer, it calculates your absolute heading relative to Earth's magnetic North directly in your web browser.
Common Use Cases
- Outdoor Navigation: Quickly orient yourself while hiking, camping, or exploring a new city when you don't have a physical compass.
- Real Estate & Feng Shui: Easily determine the facing direction of a house, apartment windows, or furniture alignment.
- Satellite Dish Alignment: Accurately find the correct azimuth (heading) to point antennas or satellite dishes.
Core Advantages
- No App Required: Forget downloading bulky navigation apps loaded with ads. Just open the page and get your bearing instantly.
- Absolute Privacy: Navigation and heading calculations are executed 100% locally on your device. We do not track your location or facing direction.
- Smooth Rotation Engine: Built-in anti-jitter algorithms and continuous rotation logic prevent the dial from snapping back when crossing the 360-degree mark.