Localscope - Find places and people around you

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