Sprint Leaderboard
Fastest 0–100 km/h times recorded in the app.
Duel Results
Recent head-to-head sprint battles. Challenge anyone via the app.
🏆 Showoff Battle
Live car show battles — drift, optics, burnout & more. Vote for your favourite!
Event Map
All events with a pinned location — click a marker for details.
Live Hazard Map
Community-reported hazards. Report them via the Midnight Compass app — they expire automatically after 24 h.
Community Rides
Pre-planned drives you can join. Drivers earn XP for every rider they bring along.
Community Roads
Official roads for time attack. Beat the standard pace to earn points.
Midnight Compass
Your offline co-driver — speed tracking, shared roads, 0–100 benchmarks, a live event calendar and whole countries as a fully offline map, all in one app.
The needle shows the real top speed of all drivers; its sway is decoration; the moon is calculated.
Features
What's in the App
Built for driving — everything works offline, on the road.
Tracks find you while you drive
Come within range of an unknown course and it surfaces on the map — with the moon phase, the road numbers and your speed all in view. You get five minutes to take it.
Then you drive it
Distance, the time to beat, the points on offer and how technical it is — then navigate to the start line and go.
Live speed & 0–100 benchmarks
A real-time speedometer with today / month / all-time records, plus a timed 0–100 km/h benchmark that tracks your personal best.
A map that never loads while you drive
A whole country is stored on your phone as a vector map — roads, buildings and town labels render instantly, with zero connection needed.
Explore & reveal the map
Drive to uncover the world — a fog-of-war layer clears as you go, tracking how much of every region you've explored, day or night.
Decide what the map shows you
Tap the funnel next to the compass and the map's layers fan out as three groups — Unity, Essentials, Roads — each opening its own filters. The menu learns what you actually use and puts it first.
Your places, one tap away
Home, work, the workshop, anywhere else — save them once and the filter lists them by name. Pick one and either navigate straight there or just put it on screen. Workshops taking bookings sit in the same menu.
Every car gets a card
Your own photo across the top, an OVR class worked out from power-to-weight, your top speed, the kilometres that car has actually covered, and your duel record.
And so does the driver
The card other drivers see: your level, how much of the quest board and of your country you have covered, your best vehicle class — and your best car with its marque's flag. Everything on it is earned by driving; there is nothing to buy or type in.
Kilometres become credits
Ten credits for every kilometre you drive, booked once a week — never mid-drive. Spend them in the Midnight Shop on navigation, radar, radio and car graphics, and the wallet keeps the whole history of what came in and what went out.
Quests — six ways to discover a country
Switch between Explore hunts, Compass grand tours, Car History, Culture and Biography with the pills atop the Quests menu — each a different flavour of discovery, each worth points.
Real places, real stories
Thousands of German origins — car makers & inventions, composers & artists, motorsport legends. Drive once to a place of origin to unlock it, then replay its short illustrated quiz from anywhere.
Compass — the grand tours
The top tier: rare multi-origin journeys that chain several places into one epic route — like a tour through the birthplaces of the German car industry — worth 99 points each.
Generate a quest in seconds
Pick a landmark or origin and a difficulty, and the app auto-builds a full multi-stop quest with facts-based questions from 51,000 bundled German landmarks — preview, tweak and publish.
Answer & learn
Every stop tells its story and asks a question — real facts about the places you discover, from when a cathedral was built to who founded a marque.
Speed Heatmap
Every ride drawn on a map with colour-coded speed segments
Fuel Tracker
Log fill-ups, track L/100km and cost-per-km per vehicle
Roads
GPS-triggered A→B timer on community roads with personal bests
0–100 Benchmark
Timed acceleration test with personal best tracking and XP rewards
Performance Classes
S–F tier system based on power-to-weight ratio and recorded times
Quest System
Discover origins, play tiered quizzes, auto-generate & share by QR
In action
See it in action
A look at the newest modes — collect real cars & bikes, and uncover the map by driving.
Game
Midnight Compass: Deutschland
Drive the real German road network — by day, at dusk and at night, in a game that is still being built.
Real roads, real towns
The streets you drive are real streets: lit town roads, mountain ridge roads, an old-town lane. Day, dusk and night are all there.
This is a development build: vehicle models are placeholders and maker logos are pixelated.
The G radar from the app
The drift mode in Compass shows sideways and forward force as a dot on the same kind of radar — rings at 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5 G. The figure beside it is a demonstration, not a measurement.
Data sources. Base geodata: source LGL, www.lgl-bw.de (dl-de/by-2-0); base geodata: Bayerische Vermessungsverwaltung – www.geodaten.bayern.de (data modified), licence: CC BY 4.0; map data: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); land cover: © ESA WorldCover 2021, Copernicus Sentinel (CC BY 4.0).
Whitepaper
Whitepaper
How Midnight Compass works — an offline-first driver's companion for Europe.
1 · What it is
Midnight Compass is an offline-first companion app for drivers. The entire map of your country lives on the phone, so the map, your speed, your routes and the world you explore all work with zero connection — on a mountain pass, in a tunnel or abroad on roaming. Opening the Compass drops you straight onto the map; everything else (speed, drag, drift, quests) is one tap away in the pills along the top. An optional online layer adds community rankings, events, a marketplace and a deep quest system, but the core experience never needs a signal.
2 · The offline map
A whole country is bundled as a vector map (PMTiles — Germany ~3.4 GB, Britain ~1.5 GB, Ireland with Northern Ireland ~0.3 GB, Austria with Switzerland ~1.9 GB, the Netherlands with Belgium ~1.1 GB) and rendered on-device with MapLibre GL — roads, water, buildings and town labels draw instantly in a custom day/night style with a 3D driving tilt. Points of interest (fuel, car-wash, food), ~23,000 mobile-camera hotspots and ~7,000 fixed speed cameras are packed in too, so navigation and warnings work fully offline.
3 · Fog of war — explore & reveal
The map starts hidden under a fog layer that clears as you drive. Every revealed cell is permanent and counts toward an exploration score for each Bundesland and Kreis — a game-like reason to take the road less travelled. A background mode keeps revealing the map and logging kilometres with the screen off, and crews can pool their explored territory into a shared, colour-coded map.
4 · Quests — discover the country
Midnight Compass turns the country you are in into a board of quests, sorted into categories you switch between with the pills atop the Quests menu. Explore holds admin-built treasure hunts: travel to each hidden "?" one stop at a time, answering a question to unlock the next, until the final location is permanently revealed as its reward marker. Car History, Culture and Biography are thousands of real German origins — car makers and inventions, composers and artists, motorsport legends. Drive once to a place of origin to unlock it, then replay its short illustrated quiz from anywhere. Compass holds rare grand tours that chain several origins into one epic journey, and Roads unlock a road you can drive again when you finish them. Anything that isn't location-locked works the same way: a "?" appears on the map, you drive within range to locate it, and from then on you can play it wherever you are. Completions earn points by tier — Compass 99, Car History 50, Roads 35, side quests 25 — tallied in Unity and in Settings → Quest Completion.
5 · Building & sharing quests
Admins build quests by hand in the Builder: set a start, add stops with text, images, videos and a multiple-choice question, mark the final destination's reward marker, then upload to publish for everyone. A Quest Generator can auto-build a whole multi-stop tour from any of 51,000 bundled German landmarks — pick a destination and a difficulty and it lays out a route with facts-based questions to preview, tweak and publish. Finishing a quest can trigger a cinematic Completion Experience: an optional intro video under a "Quest Completed!" overlay before the destination is revealed. And once you've located a quest yourself you can share it by QR — a friend who scans it sees the origin revealed on their map, but still has to drive there to unlock it.
6 · Speed & performance
A GPS speedometer records today / month / all-time bests, a timed 0–100 km/h benchmark tracks your personal best, and dedicated Drag, Drift and Sprint modes measure acceleration, cornering and point-to-point runs. Vehicles are ranked into S–F performance classes from power-to-weight and recorded times.
7 · Roads
The community shares roads worth driving — simple A→B stretches, multi-waypoint routes or free-ride recordings. GPS starts the clock at the beginning and stops it at the end, and the time you are measured against is your own previous one; the board beside it only shows how other drivers got on over the same road, at whatever moment suited them. Nobody drives against anybody in real time, there is no start signal and no opponent — a road can only be started from within range of its marker, and every one of them is a public road with the usual limits on it.
8 · Community
Online extras layer on top: a live event calendar with QR-unlocked meets, a parts marketplace, a vehicle knowledge base, crews with shared territory, and friends with opt-in live location sharing. New accounts are reviewed and approved by an admin before they unlock.
9 · Privacy & technology
Built in Flutter for iOS and Android on top of MapLibre GL and geolocator, backed by a PHP/MySQL service on mi-su.me. Everything that can run offline does; your explored map and stats live on the device, location sharing is strictly opt-in, and background tracking runs behind a visible Android foreground-service notification — never silently.
10 · Offline & online mode
Midnight Compass is offline-first: the whole map, fog-of-war exploration, quests, the Car & Moto Dex, the quiz, your kilometres and speed records all work with no signal — everything that realistically can run on the device, does. Features that inherently need the network are the online mode: sharing crew points, direct messages, the marketplace and admin account approval. In particular, crew points can only be shared with an internet connection; offline you keep playing and everything syncs the next time you are online — the online mode never blocks the offline experience.
11 · Three currencies and the moon calendar
Driving pays. Midnight Credits are earned purely by distance — 10 credits per kilometre — and spent in the Midnight Shop on four upgrades (navigation, radar, radio, car graphic) with five levels each, gated at account levels 20/40/60/80/100. Experience comes from quests and the daily quiz and drives that account level. Research points are the Lab's own currency. What makes the economy legible is that nothing pays out on a rolling clock: every booking lands on a principal moon phase — new moon, first quarter, full moon, last quarter — so there are two paydays a fortnight, on the same days for everyone, computed on the device and identically on the server. A daily check-in adds a small bonus per day and a further +3 % for a clean week.
12 · The Research Lab — parts the crowd commissions
Some parts do not exist any more, and no manufacturer will tool up for forty cars. The Lab is where a crowd commissions them anyway: a development lists its engineering cost, any approval fees and the material cost per unit, and splits the shared part across the number of backers it needs. Backing reserves your points rather than spending them — they stay blocked, and you can leave until the work is finished. When the last backer joins, the goal flips to funded on its own and the development closes to new backers; when it is delivered, the reserved points are finally charged and every backer's stake is recorded as fulfilled. The Depot alongside it turns the same points into fuel cards and workshop goods, where only the shipping workshop ever sees a delivery address.
13 · Territory, seasons and the 5 km grid
Every country pack is cut into 5 km cells named like a chessboard — A1 in the south-west corner through DZ176 in the far north-east, 130 columns by 176 rows. It is pure arithmetic on a fixed anchor, so the phone and the server always agree on which cell a point falls in, and two drivers can talk about "K42" without swapping coordinates. Crews hold territory in those cells. A seasonal run is the sharpest way to take one: it counts only during its own season, the fog covers everything on the day so prior exploration does not help, and going over 100 km/h voids the attempt — route knowledge decides it, not speed. A co-pilot states all of that before the clock starts, and a win takes 100 km of territory for your crew, held until the season ends.
14 · The region radio
Every district can have one station, hand-authored and played from the device as you drive through. Crossing a border never cuts a track off: the new region is remembered and takes over the moment the current segment ends — and if you turn back before it does, nothing changes at all. Stations carry music, callers, stories and news. A caller can leave a tip, and when that call ends you are offered a quest built on the spot from the bundled landmark pack around wherever you happen to be — a different place for every driver, and no connection needed for any of it.
15 · Support — MISUNAI answers
Under Settings → App → About → Support you can ask MISUNAI, Midnight Sun’s self-trained AI, anything about the app. It answers one question at a time from a private PC, not from a cloud, using only what the app’s whitepaper and menus describe — it knows nothing else about you and can be wrong. The page says openly whether MISUNAI is online, offline (the PC is off and the question waits) or “Support busy – learning” while it is being trained. Asking needs a signed-in account; questions are kept for 90 days and deleted with the account.
16 · Radio over Meshtastic
With your own Meshtastic device connected by Bluetooth, Midnight Compass sends and receives messages by radio — no internet, no mobile network. The room is shared with Midnight Quests users; “Everyone” reaches every device on the channel, including people with the official Meshtastic app; and a direct message is locked for the person it is meant for as soon as your device knows their device — the conversation then shows a lock; without it, the message is as open as the channel. As long as everyone in a conversation uses a current Midnight Compass or Midnight Quests, long messages go out in parts and arrive together; under “Everyone”, and to people with only the official Meshtastic app, a message stays one short radio message and anything longer is cut. The app keeps to the legal airtime on its own — it holds back sooner than it has to, so the channel stays free for everyone in range. The Meshtastic radio needs an account: sign in once, and after that it also works offline. The map shows every Meshtastic node from meshmap.net, even offline and above the fog. Where markers would cover each other they become one marker with a number, the “Meshtastic” map filter adds how far the nodes have been heard, and tapping a node shows what it is and whom it hears — and lets you write to it by radio or navigate there.
News
News
Updates and announcements from the Midnight Compass team.
Rankings
Rankings
Top drivers ranked by all-time top speed — with their car profiles.
Events
Events
Upcoming meets, track days, and community gatherings.
Upcoming
0Marketplace
Marketplace
Parts, accessories, and vehicles listed by the community.
Knowledge base
Knowledge Base
Step-by-step guides and technical know-how, organised by vehicle.
Friends
Friends & Messages
Find other drivers, connect and chat — right here on the web, no app needed.
Sign in to add friends and send messages.
MiSu Coins
What MiSu Coins are for
One currency, four apps. It comes out of the membership and buys things money alone cannot.
Parts nobody makes any more
In the Research Lab the community commissions a part together. Your Coins reserve your share — they are only spent once it is actually delivered.
Goods from the Depot
Workshop goods and fuel vouchers, listed by real businesses. The delivery address is seen by exactly one person: the seller of that one order.
A crew of your own
Founding a crew costs Coins, and crew jobs are paid in them. Join a built-in crew instead and you pay in Midnight Credits.
Payday is the moon
Nothing pays out on a running clock. Every credit falls on a principal moon phase — the same day for everyone, computed identically on the device and on the server.
Pay at the table in Coins
Planned for venues that switch it on: the venue shows a QR code, the guest scans it with Compass, and the Coins move from their balance to the house — 130 Coins per euro, the same rate the Depot uses. The owner spends them on, in the Depot and the Lab. Coins stay inside the system: nothing is ever cashed out, to them or to anyone.
A closed loop
Coins never leave the system. They are not paid out, not exchanged back and not turned into money — not for guests, not for venues. What goes in stays in and gets spent.
One account, four houses
The same login, the same Coins. What you earn in one counts in the others.
Membership
Membership & MiSu Coins
Supporting the platform earns MiSu Coins — and Coins are spendable in Compass, Quests and Bistro alike.
Cocinero
per week, on Patreon
- Supporter badge across all three apps
- Coins spend in the Research Lab
- Coins spend in the Depot
Maestro
per week, on Patreon
- Everything in Cocinero
- Found your own crew
- Back projects in the Research Lab
- Daily check-in pays extra
Patrón
per week, on Patreon
- Everything in Maestro
- Enough Coins to carry a Lab project alone
- A hand in what gets built next
How a payday works
The first euro of the week covers the platform's own costs. Every euro after it becomes 70 MiSu Coins.
Payday is a moon phase — new moon, first quarter, full moon, last quarter. That is every 7.38 days, so four paydays in a lunar month. Check in daily and you earn a little more on top.
What Coins buy
Real parts and real work in the Research Lab, and listings in the Depot — the workshop marketplace inside Midnight Garage.
They also found a crew and pay crew jobs. Coins do not expire, and they are separate from Midnight Credits, which you earn by driving.
Nothing is paid on this page. Support happens on Patreon; the tier is then recorded against your Midnight account and turns into Coins inside the apps. mi-su.me stores no payment method and takes no payment. Tier names and amounts follow what is set up on Patreon — if they differ there, Patreon is the one that counts.