Pizza Compass, an iPhone app created in collaboration with artist Daniel Blackman and Oak Studios, was released on May 5.


Pizza Compass is a location-based service application that specializes in locating pizza shops. The app allows users to arrive at a pizza parlor by walking in the direction of the slices of pizza displayed on the screen. When you approach the pizza shop, steam will rise from the pizza slice on the screen, indicating that the pizza will soon be ready to eat.


While there are a variety of location-based apps, this app is new in that it specializes in pizza. The official page of the app also features the catchphrase "No Frills, Just Pizza. Mr. Blackman, who came up with the idea of developing this app, expresses his enthusiasm as follows.

'Our goal is very simple. To develop an app for eating pizza that will change humanity for the better."


Pizza Compass" is compatible with iOS 6.0 or later and can be purchased from the iTunes App Store. The price is 85 yen. The app is for the U.S., but can be used in Japan as well.