If you like traveling and are competitive by nature, check out Quadstreaker. It is a fun exploratory location-based game for your iPhone. You simply install it on your iPhone and move from one place to another. It tracks your movements and logs your progress on its map. Every area is divided into quads, and the [...]
Losing your beloved smartphone is an incident that nobody would ever want to experience. Fortunately though, you can download some apps that can help you locate your missing phone, or even remotely wipe your device during the worst-case scenario, in order to protect the important data that is saved in it. aeGis is an Android [...]
Find out what’s going on at your favorite coffee shop or park. Evzdrop is a location-based app for Android and iOS that lets you see what others are saying in certain locations – and broadcast what’s going on to others nearby. Some location-based services are statistic-focused, attempting to quantify who goes where the most and [...]
Using coupons is a simple way to save money for most goods and services you use. But usually you have to find and collect coupons from different stores and then find time to actually visit each store to redeem your coupons. Now, thanks to a handy mobile app, Roximity, you no longer have to. It [...]
If you’re always busy on the weekends, attending festivals, shows and other events then you might be interested in Now., an application designed to share and discover events that are happening right now (as if you hadn’t guessed). The platform uses your iOS device’s location and fetches relevant goings on, as well as giving you [...]
Whenever you are in some location – a street corner, cafe, stadium etc. there is a high chance that some big event happened there (movie shooting, robbery etc) but you won’t know since not every location is geo tagged and you dont’ always check online about the places you are at. If you want to [...]
Google already provides maps in search results when looking for businesses with real-world addresses, but many websites that feature addresses do not. If you rely on maps to make sense of unfamiliar addresses then you might want to consider the Quick Maps add-on for Firefox (also available for Chrome). The add-on can be installed without [...]
You might have lived in your city for years without knowing some of the most significant facts about it. For example, do you know what the average age of a person is in your city? Do you know the division of political contributions from Democrats and Republicans from your area? Do you know what the [...]
Conversing with people and sharing ideas with them over text messaging and online forums is inconvenient for many people. Apart from the inconvenience of typing itself, the text you send to others does not fully convey your emotions. You cannot express the sad, sarcastic, funny, or happy tones of your voice by a few lines [...]
Many of us have been using Google Maps to navigate through city streets by using point-to-point routes. Google has excelled in this area, where it can now suggest different routes to users, and you only have to pick the best one for you. But what if you want to find the best route for multiple [...]
If you like sharing your location wherever you are and stay connected with friends at the same time, check out Snapp. It is a social networking application that integrates with major social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare) and tracks you wherever you go. It goes further than similar location sharing apps and lets you share your [...]
Google Maps offers a highly valuable service and let you save map locations for easy referencing later. But in order to do this, you must be signed into Google. In case you want to make use of Google Maps and its location labeling without signing into your Google account, you should try out a tool [...]
Swarmly is an iOS app that gives you an instant answer to the question – where should I go? It shows you the hottest places near you (clubs, bars, restaurants etc) in real time based on the number people currently visiting a particular location. It gives you a real-time map view of busiest places, coloured [...]
Are you looking for a way to send the real world places you find on the web straight to your phone so you can go check them out in real life? If so, Grafetee is the perfect application for you. It is available for Android and iOS, so you can use it no matter what [...]
To be able to talk about something relevant, you may need to find someone close to you. Or maybe you’d like to ask something to someone for information on a local item. This is very hard to do without the right tools, as it’s not only awkward but an often unsuccessful technique to simply ask [...]
When you visit historical places and landmarks, you often do not know much about them. Unless you take a book a with you, there are not really any helpful guides on hand that explain the significance of the location you are visiting. It is even more unfortunate when landmarks are in the way of your [...]
Buying an expensive smartphone only to lose it later in the subway, bus, office, or any other place can be extremely frustrating and upsetting. There are numerous phone applications which you can install and use to locate your phone through GPS. But normally after running those apps for a while, many users exit them to [...]
Do you wonder where your time goes? Sometimes at the end of a day it can feel like we didn’t do anything or go anywhere. Other times it feel like we traveled half the world in an instant. If you want to be able to look back and see where you went, Track My Life [...]
Have you ever wanted to have a wallpaper that changes depending on your location? There’s a few that change depending on your current time, but barely any that work based on your location. If you move around a lot with your Mac computer, have you ever wanted to see what the area looks like? Satellite [...]
If you are holding a party, a group hike, or on a meet-up, you would probably want to share your location with your friends. Apple already has a Find My Friends app, but what if you want a cross-platform and a more secure app that stores only your most recent location? Enter Trackroom, an iOS [...]