Altimeter Reviews

Please, for the love of god, provide the ability to set the background color! I can’t believe that the developers ever used this in the outdoors. Dark blue on a black background is completely invisible outdoors making an otherwise excellent app absolutely worthless in real world applications. Unless you’re in a darkened cockpit that would already have an this app. I had to delete it and use an inferior product that I could use.

I was under the impression that Altimeter would be independent from my iPhone 7 but NO you do need to turn on Bluetooth for it to work with the Apple Watch . What is the purpose of Altimeter when you need your phone close by....am I missing something here? I was deceived first hand when I downloaded Altimeter for .99cents and now I feel like a sucker....don't download Altimeter if you want the Apple Watch to be independent from your phone !!

A complete hack job of an app. Will not correctly install on watch 5 with cellular. Many circular error messages. No english language support. Barometric pressure at US airports is in inches, and no way to enter the local pressure to calibrate. Watch says “Requires iPhone. Please launch “this app plus” on iphone to complete setup. Did that. Nothing. Dead end. Deleted. Reinstalled. Both on phone and watch. Nothing. Phone app will not function until both phone and watch are rebooted. Serious pairing problems. Watch app will not work without phone.

The dial this app only has 1 hand, so it’s only accurate to the hundreds position.

Instead of smoothly incrementing up and down, one digit at a time, the digital this app spins wildly, in one direction only, like a slot-machine, making you think it’s broken.

You cannot tell at a glance, whether you are ascending or descending. ...you have to wait for the slot-machine to stop spinning to see whether your altitude is higher or lower than the previous reading.

It has a cool look, like an old, analog aviation this app. Unfortunately it does not work and the interface is unfathomable garbage. It wants calibration, and I know my current barometric in inches of Hg, but it does not seem to know that is, nor have a decimal to enter the measurement any closer than the nearest whole number. Two free ones I downloaded work great, while this one is shiny garbage. It should be easier to get a refund when when buying something that is clearly just fraud. This thing is a wooden nutmeg.

It works great but I wish it would work while flying too and while in plain mode but it doesn’t. I thought I red something that it works but it did not. That was the main reason I got it.
Too bad. But other than that it works great.

Great app. Only one suggestion. Make the data available to the Apple Watch complications. It would have been great to see my altitude on the main display of my watch instead of having to open Altimeter every time.

Barometer calibration not working on Apple Watch Ultra 2 WatchOS 11.1. Need this function to offset altitude from my current ground altitude. Help!! App has all the potential, the best one by far, just need this fixed. Thank you.

I appraise real estate in some very rural and out of the way places in the west where high altitudes are important to know. Altimeter is easy to use but needs to be calibrated occasionally when pressure changes with weather changes (sometimes that’s a challenge).

Needs to self calibrate using gps automatically. The watch app asks me to enter the correct elevation every 24 hours. That's why I opened Altimeter ! I want to know the elevation not tell some app what the elevation is! As it stands I have to use another app to tell Altimeter what it's elevation is. :( also PLEASE support inches of mercury for US customers. Consider changing the calibration to known mmHg/inches since we can gain this data locally. Thanks for the great app!

My darling wife got Altimeter for me. We live 17' above sea level so it came in handy during last months trip to the Rockies. It was accurate when we drove up Mt. Evans. But in the Tetons, reception was intermittent -- also on the airline. Still, an interesting tool to have.

This has been my go to this app app for years. I recently got a new Apple Watch and have found my only complaint. There is no way to add Altimeter as a complication on the watch face. Adding this functionality would bring Altimeter back to perfect for me.

Been using my Watch for altitude information when flying my ultralight aircraft and found other GPS altitude apps to be completely inaccurate and not precise at altitude. Using the barometric function with this app+ has been incredibly accurate. I used it for a flight this morning and 15 hours later at a known elevation, I'm basically right on with the baro this app.

I have checked it against posted altitudes many times and it’s always right on the mark, so I have great confidence when I measure a very random location. I consider it very reliable.

Bought it as an Apple Watch 4 complication for the Infograph face. Unfortunately it is not available as a complication for this face. Please fix. It’s available as a complication for older faces though. Altimeter itself looks good on the phone and on the watch.

Altimeter gives you multiple choices as far as data sources
Can easily be calibrated via known altitude
It makes me sad that people give Apps bad reviews when they don’t understand how science works

I can’t believe how often I use this. You too will find yourself standing on a cliff above the ocean wondering how high you are! This gives you the answer immediately. It just sits there and waits because Altimeter knows you’ll be back soon!

Pressure altitude is always more reliable than GPS. Altimeter is simple and easy to look at. It’s also very accurate. Only thing I wish it had was a GPS speedometer and it would be a great paraglider app!

I use Altimeter every day.
I’m a Ham Radio Operator.
I use Altimeter to find my elevation when operating in my car to find the best location.
The higher the better.
I find Altimeter to be very accurate.

Have used Altimeter for ears now, mostly when hiking in the mountains, and many times in places where I don’t even get service and it has been very reliable.