Description
Spirit of Adventure. Passion for Gear. Say hello to Gear Patrol for iPad. 100% awesome and 100% free, it's simply the best way to discover the latest and best in product, adventure, insights and design in an experience tailored entirely for the iPad.
★ Accolades: iTunes Staff Favorites, Top 10 Lifestyle App, New & Noteworthy, What's Hot
★ What People Are Saying:
"an iPad app that takes Gear Patrol’s fantastic content and gives you an almost magazine like experience on the iPad" - Brett McKay, Art of Manliness
"a welcome way for readers like myself to easily enjoy all of the good stuff that the site has to offer" - Michael Williams, A Continuous Lean
"showcases all the great features and content from the site in a very sleek, easy to use, magazine-like interface" - Bernard Antolin, Acquire
"a kick-ass iPad app for reading a site that’s been dishing out some amazing content from day one" - Atif Kazmi, Por Homme
"an incredible interface" - Jeff Carvalho, Selectism
"our good friends at Gear Patrol have built one of the sleekest iPad apps we've come across in a while... it's free and absolutely awesome!" - Ben Clymer, Hodinkee
★ About Gear Patrol:
Daily, the cadre at Gear Patrol deliver a well-edited selection of gear, style, vehicles, adventure & travel, design, home, photography, videos & films, culture, books, spirits, events, and much more. Obsessively seeking out the very best for men, GP offers up a steady stream of endorsements, style picks, hands-on reviews, on-location insights, and original photography and videos.
★ Win an iPad 2: Download the app and tap "giveaway" to enter to win an iPad 2!
★ First Class Features:
✓ Tailored Design: Enjoy a clean, hybrid magazine + blog reading experience
✓ Big, Exclusive Images: Swipe through beautiful photos, galleries and videos of the products you love -- many exclusive and original to the app.
✓ Dynamic Covers: Feast your eyes on our edge-to-edge cover image slideshow, updated daily. Pop it in your dock and use it like a photo frame.
✓ Favorites: Save all of your favorite features, posts and gear you love with a simple tap.
✓ Sharing: Tweet, post to Facebook, or email a link to your friends.
✓ Obsessions: See what readers and our editors are sharing and linking to the most.
✓ Save Now, Read Later: Save all your favorites to Instapaper.
✓ Viewfinder: Watch our ongoing series of curated videos
✓ Daily Briefings: Follow everything we're reading ranging from startup news to style finds, epic roundups to stock tips.
What are you waiting for?
★ Coming in Future Updates:
This is our first time developing iOS so we'll be the first to admit there's plenty of room for improvement. We're hard at work on more updates and humbly ask for your patience (and kind reviews) as we work to make this app even more awesome. Hopefully you're as excited about it as we are. We welcome you to share any and all feedback with us at feedback@gearpatrol.com. Here are a few thing's we're working on right now:
• Faster loading
• Updated categories and series
• Typography and layout enhancements
• Better memory management
• User Interface updates
• Video playback bug fixes
• Fast app switching, multitasking support
• Making the app even lighter
• Expanded use of 'back' button (Coming Q4, 2011)
• Support for landscape mode (Coming 2012)
★ Follow Us (for real-time updates):
• Follow us at http://twitter.com/gearpatrol
• Like us at http://facebook.com/gearpatrol
• Track us at http://foursquare.com/gearpatrol
• Watch us at http://youtube.com/gearpatrol
• Visit us at: http://gearpatrol.com
★ Special Thanks:
A special thanks goes out to our friends at Lexus, the Engineers of Amazing, who have graciously sponsored this app to bring it to you free of charge.
iPad Screenshots
Customer Reviews
Buggy - no landscape?
These reviewers giving this 5 stars and glowing compliments obviously had a hand in this app or a vested interest in the site. I love gear patrol but this app is buggy, hard to use, and doesn't support landscape mode. This was clearly rushed out and not tested with any kind of focus group. I will be back after a few updates, I'm sure this app will be as awesome as the site, eventually!
One Serious Magazine
This app is 100% pure win. There's a few random quirks here and there, but it totally crushes reading gear patrol on their website. Huge images are worth downloading it alone. It would be nice to see a landscape view, but I never end up holding my iPad that way anyway. Also, it's nice to finally see someone realize that reading columns of text side by side is totally old school -- NOT on the iPad, thank you for making it read like instapaper where I can keep scrolling until I'm done!
Also a heads-up for first timers, the first image on the 'cover' seems to take a few extra seconds to load. I tried it in both my iPads and noticed that. Otherwise, those are some killer photos, seriously! So much bigger than the website too, love it!
Blog to Magazine
Many have written about the consequences of the iPad for print content (say, Wired or the New York Times). The Gear Patrol app raises the question about what will happen when web content comes to the iPad. My own feeling is that with this app Gear Patrol appears to go from blog to magazine. When I looked at this app, I felt like I had a glossy magazine in my hands rather than a blog in front of my eyes. Does this signal that the Gear Patrol folks will start to produce longer, in-depth, content or thought pieces or other content more commonly associated with magazines than with blogs? Or is the apparent magazinification of the blog an accident? It will be very interesting to see whether and how the new format matters for content as Gear Patrol matures.
A few annoyances remain: missing pixels in the word "More" at the bottom of the page, slow loading of video content [perhaps the fault of my own network or Vimeo]. Yet, my experience with with even this initial release of this app did not really suffer from these problems. (Seems like a review for an initial release of this kind should be 4.5 rather than 5 so that one can rate improvements more highly as they occur.)
- Free
- Category: Lifestyle
- Released: Jul 10, 2011
- Version: 1.0
- Size: 4.7 MB
- Languages: English, German
- Seller: Gear Patrol
- © 2011 Gear Patrol, All Rights Reserved
Requirements: Compatible with iPad.Requires iOS 4.2 or later.
