Horizon Explorer AR
- Name of the landmark
- Distance from you
- Altitude (& relative to you)
- Map of surrounding area
- Nearby towns and cities
- Wikipedia info for any landmark with a Wikipedia page
- Altitude, destination, flight number, airspeed of any commercial airline plane
- Directions to landmark (opens in google maps)
- Street view for where you're pointing (opens in google maps)
Or use 3D Map mode:
- See terrain and hills laid out in front of you
- Move phone to fly around the map
- Roadmap / satellite / hybrid
- Search & display 3D-maps for anywhere worldwide
- Distance, altitude and landmark names
- Markers on hill & mountain peaks
- Infinite scroll
Horizon Explorer works worldwide, but works best on top of a hill with an unobstructed view of your surroundings. You can drag the horizon line with your finger to line up with the camera if the automatic tracking is not working very well. Or try waving your phone around in the air in a figure 8, then press "align using compass" to calibrate the compass.
Live airplanes: Enable planes from the settings menu, then point at a plane to see the flight number, origin, destination, altitude and current airspeed of any commercial airline plane you can see.
If you are in a tall building, or otherwise not standing on the ground, enable "Tall Building mode" and optionally set your altitude using the slider.
Horizon Explorer will show mountain & hill peak names, lakes or forests, the names & designations of roads, and many buildings.
Wikipedia Information will be displayed for anything that has a Wikipedia article with a location set on the article.
Category : Maps & Navigation
Reviews (26)
Kudos to the app developers. So much information brought to the fingertips. Excellent app with great potential. Keep improving and add more awesomeness to this application.
Great app. Worked once. Now spending all day trying to calibrate the compass. But behind that popup saying to calibrate it, everything is right.
Just wow... Very useful. It did seem like the distance measurement feature is not very accurate but close enough. Very good app.
Seems pretty accurate but it only seems to reach out about 6 miles. I have an unobstructed view from my house of Mount Baker in Washington State and it won't identify it (or any of the other mountains in the Cascade Range that we can see). It's about 56 miles away (direct line of sight). Am I doing something wrong?
I have always wanted an app that can do this. Fab. Seems reasonable quality so far after a few minutes. Cant wait to try it out on holidays etc.
I'm looking for an app that easily identifies mountain peaks. I will be using it as a tour guide. I couldn't get this app to load the map. Useless to me.
Won't load the map. Doesn't do anything. And yes, of course I have Internet connection. I used it to download the app
Pretty cool app. Will update once I'm able to try it out in different locales.
What a wonderful app, but it ain't work offline please work on that
Very good but it lags on Moto x4 (Snapdragon 630)
Great app, really shows the power of AR Core.
include lat and long callout where the pointer is.
By far the most amazing and awesome app I've ever seen!
Are you kidding me? This is awesome! This is how I want to view my maps! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
great app to explore pois around
This is just really freaking cool.
One of the coolest apps ever made
This app is really cool, and has improved massively in the short time since I've first downloaded it. Thanks to the developers for fixing the RTL-languages issue I mentioned in my previous review!
I've been playing with this for hours. It's amazing.
I didn't know I needed this
Absolutely brilliant, really useful and great fun to use
Seriously great app! We live on a city mountain side and always wonder what certain lights and buildings in the distance are and this is the tool for just that.
What a great app. I use it for outdoors to compare and plan my runs. If you are a hikker or a mountain enthusiast it's totally recommended. As a small feature request it would be great if we could load a route and get the ar features on that.
Simply incredible. We live in the future. This is just crazy
Totally incorrect every time.
Difficult to use. Display on screen does not match the images in the description. The description shows the word distance and the word altitude. I see something like a ruler laying at a 45 degree angle that might indicate distance and there's some kind of vertical bar that might indicate altitude. but the distance is definitely wrong I pointed at a house across the street that's a hundred fifty feet away and its reporting less than 70. there is a half circle at the bottom of the screen that I have no idea what it's supposed to do. There's also a yellow blotch that sort of floats around on the screen but no description of what it's supposed to do sometimes a strawberry like red icon pops up and floats around I have no idea what that indicates.