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I had a tripod for my pocket transit. It was an antique camera tripod. I removed the couple steel parts, and replaced them with brass. It was light to carry, and increased accuracy by a lot, but I wasn't toting saws or anything. I used it for boundary recon, and one time getting tree heights...

Using a stick to rest the device on will help. Pivot the device on top of the stick.

Yea, I guess, but I always prefer the precision of numbers.

Not quite. It's trigonometry. You're solving a triangle. Basically 2 angles and the included side. edit: The above is for the application here. A clinometer's basic function is measuring vertical angles. Add a horizontal distance to that, and it'll give you the height of an object(tree).

TrailSense has a decent clinometer for android. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.kylecorry.trail_sense/