Lodestone

Crooked Crown Communications LLC

About this app

Long before glowing maps, travelers trusted a trembling sliver of iron that always remembered where north hid. Lodestone gathers that quiet magic into a calm, lamplit companion for anyone drawn to the old art of finding the way. Deep indigo pages, the soft glow of a brass compass rose, and a slow, unhurried layout invite you to slow down and read the earth the way mariners once did. It is part museum of the magnetic needle and part personal wayfinding notebook.

Open the Cabinet to wander through the story of the compass, from lodestone spoons and floating needles to gimballed binnacles and dry-card cards, each entry written to be read for pleasure. Wake the live needle on the Home rose to feel true direction under your own thumb, then use Set the Bearing to line the app up with a famous heading from history and log the moment as a Sighting you can keep. A gentle daily Bearing of the Day arrives like a small ritual, favorites live in your Kept shelf, and short quizzes let you test how well you have learned to read the rose.

What’s new

First release