CompassMB/MBCompass
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Modern FOSS Compass and Navigation app without Ads, IAP or Tracking
14 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 7 stories, 7 comments · first 2025-08-08 · latest 2026-03-28
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Show HN: 2MB FOSS Nav App with GPX Trackingstory by nativeforks · 2026-03-28 · 0 comments
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…done much research about it (the same as you've mentioned here) related to OSM vector maps. See:( https://github.com/CompassMB/MBCompass/releases/tag/v1.1.4 ), for Android, the available map rendering libs like Maplibre-Native are an…
comment by nativeforks · 2026-01-15 · in Show HN: Tiny FOSS Compass and Navigation App (<2MB) -
…has been important to me, whether it’s shipping regular releases with real improvements ( https://github.com/CompassMB/MBCompass/releases ) or writing about Android development and FOSS alongside the project. I really appreciate the…
comment by nativeforks · 2026-01-14 · in Show HN: Tiny FOSS Compass and Navigation App (<2MB) -
…there are also users who aren’t familiar with open source or compiling apps themselves, like here: https://github.com/CompassMB/MBCompass/issues/48 . For them, donations are a simple way to support the project, and they’re definitely…
comment by nativeforks · 2026-01-14 · in Show HN: Tiny FOSS Compass and Navigation App (<2MB) -
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Show HN: Tiny FOSS Compass and Navigation App (<2MB)story by nativeforks · 2026-01-14 · 47 comments
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Show HN: FOSS De-googled Compass and Nav app with live location trackingstory by nativeforks · 2025-11-21 · 1 comment
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MBCompass v2.0 Design Proposal by solo devstory by nativeforks · 2025-10-09 · 0 comments
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Show HN: FOSS Compass and Navigation Appstory by nativeforks · 2025-08-30 · 0 comments
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This GitHub issue tracks https://github.com/CompassMB/MBCompass/issues/52 , new feature requests, improvements, and upcoming features. Feel free to suggest improvements.
comment by nativeforks · 2025-08-14 · in Show HN: MBCompass – FOSS Compass and Navigation App -
…reproducible build, izzy says >>Not necessarily "your fault" – baseline often has such issues: https://github.com/CompassMB/MBCompass/issues/90 Seems like he is talking about the developer being responsible for that also!
comment by nativeforks · 2025-08-13 · in F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs -
…Catima example: https://github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Android/issues/2608 MBCompass case: https://github.com/CompassMB/MBCompass/issues/88
comment by nativeforks · 2025-08-13 · in F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs -
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F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUsstory by nativeforks · 2025-08-13 · 297 comments
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This GitHub issue tracks https://github.com/CompassMB/MBCompass/issues/52 , new feature requests, improvements, and upcoming features. Feel free to suggest improvements.
comment by nativeforks · 2025-08-08 · in Show HN: MBCompass – FOSS Android and Compass App -
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Show HN: MBCompass – FOSS Android and Compass Appstory by nativeforks · 2025-08-08 · 1 comment