Apps like GeoGuessr, but for direction

Most “GeoGuessr for direction” apps — Direction Guesser, WhichWay, GeoguessAR — test whether you know where a place is on Earth and can point toward it. Noriento tests something more basic: whether you know which way you are actually facing, right now, with no map or landmark to reason from. It is the daily-game format applied to raw spatial orientation instead of geography.

Two families, often confused

GeoGuessr's descendants split cleanly once you look at what they measure.

Place-knowledge games — Direction Guesser, WhichWay, GeoguessAR. You are given a target you have to recognise (a country, a landmark, a city), and the game scores how well you located it. Get better at these by learning the map.
Orientation games — Noriento. You are given true north, which needs no recognition at all. The game scores how well you sensed it. Get better at these by paying attention to where the sun was when you walked in.

Both are fun. They just improve different things, and only the second one gets at the thing people mean when they say they have no sense of direction.

The short list

Game	What you point at	Where it runs	Price
Noriento	True north — and optionally a city, the moon, the sun or a planet	Any phone browser; Google Play	Free; $1/mo for extras
Direction Guesser	Places and landmarks on a daily rotation	iOS and Android	Free
WhichWay	Countries on a 3D globe	Web; Google Play	Free
Find North	True north	Apple Watch only	Free
GeoguessAR	Places, through the camera	iOS	Free

If you want both

Noriento carries the place-guessing mechanic as well: Places hands you a city each day and scores the bearing you point. So you can run the pure-orientation game as the daily habit and the geography one when you want the harder version, without a second app.

What makes any of these worth playing daily

A number, not a verdict. “34° off, to the west” is something you can carry into tomorrow. “Close” is not.
One attempt. Retries let you converge by feel instead of committing, which trains nothing.
Visible history. A week of errors on one chart says more than any single result.
No door to get through. If it needs an account before the first guess, most people never make one.

Noriento does all four. Free, in the browser, about ten seconds.

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Questions

Is there a GeoGuessr for compass directions?

Noriento is the closest thing to it for pure direction: a free daily game where you point your phone toward true north and get scored in degrees of error. Direction Guesser and WhichWay are the place-guessing version — you point toward countries or landmarks you have to recognise first.

What is the difference between a direction game and a geography game?

A geography game scores what you know — where a country sits on the globe. A direction game scores what you sense — which way you are facing right now. Noriento is the second kind, which is why it needs no prior knowledge to play.

Do any of these work without downloading an app?

Noriento and WhichWay both play straight in a mobile browser. Noriento is also installable to the home screen and listed on Google Play, but nothing needs to be installed to make your first guess.