luftline – A Quiet Compass for Travelers 🧭✨

Tired of roaming bills and apps that ask you to download a 200-MB map of every city you visit? luftline is a calm, ink-and-paper compass that lets you save any place while you're on wifi — and find it again on foot, with no signal. One swipe to save, one tap to navigate. That's the whole app.

📌 Why Choose luftline?

✅ Fully Offline Navigation – Saved places work without a network. No tiles to download, no maps that expire, no account to make. ✅ A Real Compass, Not Turn-by-Turn – A single ink needle points to your destination. You choose the route, the city becomes legible again. ✅ Live Telemetry – Distance, bearing, walked-so-far, and ETA on foot, all updating in real time. ✅ MapKit-Powered Search – Tap into Apple Maps' worldwide database while you're online, then keep only what you need offline. ✅ Around-You Suggestions – Nearby cafés, parks, museums, bakeries — fetched automatically when you open Search. ✅ Cached Map View – See all your saved places on a real interactive map, swipe between them in one strip. ✅ Japandi Interface – Sumi ink on washi paper. Light and dark mode. Nothing shouts, nothing distracts. ✅ Multilingual – English and German, following your system locale automatically. ✅ Metric or Imperial – Your choice, persisted across launches. ✅ 100% On-Device – No accounts, no ads, no tracking, no analytics. Your saved places live only on your phone.

🎯 How It Works

1️⃣ While you're online — at home, in a café, in the hotel lobby — search for any place 2️⃣ Swipe right on a result to save it offline 3️⃣ When you're walking, tap a saved place — the compass turns and points 4️⃣ Walk toward it. The needle tracks distance, bearing, and how far you've gone

🌟 Who Is It For? • Travelers ✈️ – Save your hotel, your favorite café, that viewpoint — find them again with no signal • Day-Trippers 🚶 – Wander a new neighborhood without burning through your data plan • Photographers 📸 – Mark the sunset spot you scouted, get back at golden hour • Heritage Visitors 🌏 – Save family addresses before a trip, find them on foot when you arrive • Privacy-Conscious Users 🔒 – No analytics, no ads, no cloud sync — just your phone and a compass • Anyone Abroad 🌍 – Limited data plans? Roaming charges? luftline doesn't care

💚 Save while online. Walk without signal.

👉 Download luftline now and let a single ink needle guide you, even where the network can't. 🧭✨

Privacy Notice

luftline does not collect any personal data. All saved places are stored locally in your phone's Documents directory as JSON. The app uses your location only for distance, bearing, and the compass display — and only while the app is open. Nothing leaves your device. No accounts, no ads, no tracking, no analytics.