Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Altimeter
Altitude - Location - Navigation
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Altimeter launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Skyty▲69Your flight's altitude, ground speed, nearest airport + ETA
Apr 2026 · skyty.app · its alternatives →
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A compass that shows landmarks, sunrise/sunset + golden hour
Jan 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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- 11AM
2018 · oalley.net · its alternatives →
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Where am i now? address, gps, ip, elevation, altitude
2025 · whatismylocation.org · its alternatives →
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- 14XD
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A simple web-app to check your current elevation & altitude
2024 · elevation.place · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, I live in northern part of USA where winters are snowy. Whenever I took long trips, I always wondered what the weather along the route is going to be. For those who live in northern USA, you know weather can change frequently, so when you're traveling matters a lot, not just the route. To solve this problem for myself, I built https://navimodo.com/. NaviModo calculates the route, and then checks weather along the route based on your start time, and displays weather along the route. Change start time, and the whole thing is recalculated. I am not expecting any…
Apr 2026 · navimodo.com · its alternatives →
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Descent▲160Set a budget and get alerted when flights get cheap
Mar 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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I find myself often texting people, "where are you?" so I wrote this little iPhone app that lets me text them a special link. When they click the link, it uses the HTML5 geolocation API to report their location and shows it on a map. http://whru.at/ It's only as accurate as the HTML5 geolocation API, but I've been finding it pretty useful. What do you think?
2012 · its alternatives →
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I've been working on this for a while now, and I'm happy to share! I've been into launching weather balloons for a few years. One aspect of the hobby that really drew me in was the tracking side of things. Tracking systems let you follow the balloon's position throughout the flight and, most importantly, know exactly where it lands so you can recover the instrumentation. APRS is what I started out using during my first few years in the hobby, after I got my amateur radio license in 2020 (W0MXX). I designed a few small boards using the trackuino…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Offline topographical maps and crowdsourced trail guides
2019 · its alternatives →
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