Localscope - Find places and people around you app for iPhone and iPad

4.2 ( 2672 ratings )

Travel Navigation
Developer: Cynapse

2.99 USD

Current version: 4.5, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 21 Dec 2010
App size: 13.21 Mb

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, Whats 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 Localscopes 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 Ive ever used that I think Ill 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

• Editors 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

Pros and cons of Localscope - Find places and people around you app for iPhone and iPad

Localscope - Find places and people around you app good for

I use it in Canada. Works well. It could be quicker when launching. Bravo!

I live in Paris and love using this app to find new places to visit or getting some inspiration for photos

How can anyone rate this below 5 stars?!! Its the only useful app. It makes the iPhone worth buying.

This little app is very cool. Ties in with Navigon, too. I was amazed at how quickly the search results came up! Definite keeper, even if it doesnt show ALL of the stuff in that area, it still shows way more than I expected. Very slick (and quick!) app!

Perfect location app. Everything seems to work well. I had two crashes in the first two tries, but then started working once it figured put where I was (Europe). Hope this will not be a problem.

This app is awesome but i dont know how to change into the view that browses with ur phone camera

Some bad moments

At 1€50 the App id love to use it just the once. I open it and it keeps crashing. Again and again... Please update !!!

I was excited to download this app to use for an upcoming trip. I was playing with it to check what pulled up under certain categories. There are many places in several categories that arent showing up that are in the vicinity. I pressed Ferry, of which there are none in Edmonton, and got pin points for a car audio store, a salon, the number for an airline carrier that doesnt even operate in Canada, a restaurant and a couple other things. Now I question how reliable it is if Im in a place Ive never been to and it leads me to a wrong location. I was pretty excited to use this as a tool, but now Im not sure if I can trust it. Wish there had been a free trial version. :(

Update 3: So now I have to update to IOS6 for this to work now??? Not impressed…deleted until its compatible with IOS 5 again. Update 2: Now needs integration with the Garmin App. Update: Works great as before. Just needs integration with apps Like CoPilot. This app works great with my Navigon GPS app. Hopefully there will be updates that will integrate it with other GPS apps such as TomTom and Magellan.

I have been using Localscope since 2010. Just downloaded the latest version which promises free upgrade to lifetime premium membership. However, the premium features are not available to me in the app. The app tells me that I must to purchase premium membership to access these feature? What is going on???

My address and location are wrong and dont exist , the gas station across town you have located 2 blocks away in a residential cul- de- sac. You should be ashamed! Incompetent. No stars! Wont let me submit unless I put one! Adding to this review-11 May 2013. Even worse now. Directions wrong and new address give directions to prev. Address.

At start it looked pretty good and useful. The video was very good also. So I got it..... But it doesnt work!! All it does is show all. Cant choose as video showed.....re-different types of businesses to search for! STUCK on one page!!!!!! 4 small lines at top of screen which likely goes to 3 other pages, will NOT let me go to other pages!!!!!!

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