Localscope - Find places and people around you 12+

Cynapse

Designed for iPhone

    • £2.99

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Description

Location Browser for your iPhone

Localscope is a window to your world that lets you explore your surroundings like never before. Discover and find places, people and information around you using geo-tagged data from multiple local search engines, social networks, media sharing services and other apps.

• Named the best iPhone Navigation app in the App Store Rewind 2011
• Featured by Apple as Editors' Choice, App of the Week, Staff Favorites, What's Hot

KEY FEATURES

• Explore geo-tagged information and media around you aggregated from diverse services
• Intuitive dashboard view lets you see everything thats immediately around you from all of Localscope's sources
• Search for anything around you and view results simultaneously from all sources
• Browse your search results in an amazingly intuitive list view with realtime direction pointers and distance meters
• Lay the results out on the map or look through the state of the art augmented reality view to spot the results in the real world
• Flick through results from different services and experience them side-by-side using the intuitive source slider
• Get rich information about places including informative badges for ratings, checkins, likes and more
• Navigate and get directions to your results using your favorite navigation app
• Call the place directly or store it to your address book in a tap
• Book a ride to the place you just discovered using Uber
• Add geo-tagged reminders for any location and choose to get push notifications on arrival or departure from the proximity of the location
• Share your findings with your friends using Messages, Email, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp or Sina Weibo
• Explore detailed information about a result using the in-app browser or open it into a linked native app
• Explore any part of the world by setting it as your virtual location
• See POIs laid out on a map on connected car receiver HUDs or other supported secondary displays. Even works with the AppleTV over Airplay Mirroring
• Works worldwide - Explore your location wherever you are
• Supports 21 languages


INTEGRATED SOURCES

Localscope currently aggregates information from the following services: 

• Google
• Facebook
• Foursquare
• Twitter
• iOS Reminders
• Instagram
• Panoramio
• Flickr
• Wikimapia
• Wikipedia
• Factual
• Citysearch
• Yelp
• 2GIS
• Zomato
• Baidu
• Dianping
• Yellow Pages Australia

NAVIGATION APP INTEGRATIONS

Localscope integrates with the following navigation apps for one touch turn-by-turn directions to discovered locations:

• Apple Maps App
• Google Maps
• TomTom
• Navigon
• Garmin
• MotionX GPS Drive
• Magellan RoadMate
• Navfree / Navmii GPS navigation
• MetroView Australia and NewZealand
• Sygic GPS Navigation
• iGo Primo
• Waze
• MotionX GPS & HD
• VZ Navigator
• Telenav
• Geobyte GPS Navigation UK and Ireland
• Denso Navibridge
• Gokivo GPS Navigator
• Yandex Navigator
• Skobbler
• AMap by AutoNavi
• The Transit App
• Baidu Maps App
• Yandex Maps
• City Mapper
• Maps+
• iWayGPS
• Streets - The Street View App
• Tube Tracker (London)
• TopoMaps

OPINIONS

• The first location app I've ever used that I think I'll use every day.
- ReadWriteWeb

• Jaw-Dropping Update for iPhone Navigation App of The Year Localscope
- Cult of Mac

• Rated 9/10: One of the nicest experiences for discovering locations that I’ve ever used
- AppStorm

• Editor's Choice - Rated 4.5 Star : Essential
- 148 Apps

• The interface is remarkably easy to use
- Lifehacker

• Localscope is easy to use and sophisticated … I continue to recommend Localscope.
- TUAW

• The Ultimate Find & Drive Combo
- Macstories

• Localscope puts local services at your fingertips
- Macworld

• Get to know whats around you with Localscope
- AppAdvice

What’s New

Version 4.5

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

- Fixed Instagram Service
- Fixed CitySearch Service
- Removed YouTube Service
- Removed ParkMe Service

Ratings and Reviews

2.0 out of 5
2 Ratings

2 Ratings

Laurence Cope ,

Doesn't show any tweets

I bought this to show tweets near but but it shows No Results all the time. No matter what I search.

All the other results seem to be directory listings.

Can't see any local social posts.

MushroomSandalHater ,

One small fix needed

For twitter, it doesn't show nearest person in order. All random miles away. Also can't you search with ALL engines? Please update. Other than that, pretty good interface so i'm hoping they update to make it useable..

UPDATE: After 1.3 update all the result do NOT show up in order of nearest first..what kind of schoolboy error is this??!?!

UPDATE: After 1.4 They have STILL not fixed the order of nearest first for ANY results!! This is totally rubbish. Get aroundme instead as it's free and the you can actually see what's local to you rather than this app.

Ming Monger ,

Great app

I would have five starred this app, it is great but there is one thing that annoys me about it. In the settings / options area there is a option to choose metric (km) or US imperial (miles). Why is the option metric or US? I live in the UK but prefer miles to the metric system ( a lot of other uk residents probably do too) The UK still uses miles per gallon to determine economy of its cars ? So what is the thinking behind US or metric. Prove to others you have the ability to let the user choose the measurement system they want to use and not the dictation of the countries most used format and I will grant the app five stars. All you need is a metric or imperial measurement toggle and everyone is happy. It isn't the US versus everyone else in the world .... Unless you are saying the US are the primary users of this app ? I wonder if the app developer is American ? ?

App Privacy

The developer, Cynapse, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

No Details Provided

The developer will be required to provide privacy details when they submit their next app update.

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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