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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 in Staff Favorites, App of the Week, What's Hot
KEY FEATURES
• Works worldwide - Explore your location wherever you are
• Explore geo-tagged information, photos and videos around you aggregated from diverse services
• Lookup your recent and favorite search phrases or browse everything nearby in a tap!!!
• Browse your search results in an amazingly intuitive list or gallery 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, call them directly or store them to your address book in a tap
• 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 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
• Supports 21 languages
• And many more nifty features!
INTEGRATED SOURCES
Localscope currently aggregates information from the following services:
• Google Maps
• Google+ Local
• Facebook
• Foursquare
• Twitter
• iOS Reminders
• YouTube
• Instagram
• Panoramio
• Flickr
• Picasa
• Wikimapia
• Wikipedia
• Factual
• Citysearch
• Yelp
• Qype
• 2GIS
• Zomato
• Baidu
• Yellow Pages Australia
• ParkMe
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 MobileNavigator
• 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
LINKED APPS
Localscope integrates and seamlessly opens results into the following apps to provide further interactions like checking in, liking, commenting etc.:
• Twitter
• Foursquare
• Instagram
• Yelp
• Baidu
OPINIONS
• The first location app I've ever used that I think I'll use every day.
- Jon Mitchell, ReadWriteWeb
• Jaw-Dropping Update for iPhone Navigation App of The Year Localscope
- Eli Milchman, Cult of Mac
• Rated 9/10: One of the nicest experiences for discovering locations that I’ve ever used
- Matthew Guay, AppStorm
• Editor's Choice - Rated 4.5 Star : Essential
- Kyle Flanigan, 148 Apps
• The interface is remarkably easy to use
- Adam Dachis, Lifehacker
• Localscope is easy to use and sophisticated … I continue to recommend Localscope.
- Mel Martin, TUAW
• The Ultimate Find & Drive Combo
- Cody Fink, Macstories
• Localscope puts local services at your fingertips
- David Chartier, Macworld
• Get to know whats around you with Localscope
- Christine Chan, AppAdvice
