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Localscope
Location Browser for your iPhone
Localscope is a window to your world that lets you see and know your locality like never before. Discover and find people and places around you using geo-tagged information from multiple local search engines, social networks and media sharing services.
★ Named the best iPhone Navigation app in the App Store Rewind 2011 ★
★ Featured by Apple in Staff Favorites, App of the Week, New & Noteworthy ★
KEY FEATURES
✔ Works worldwide - Explore your location wherever you are
✔ Lookup your recent and favorite search phrases or browse everything nearby in a tap
✔ Explore geo-tagged, user generated photos and videos around you from media sources in a gallery view
✔ 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 results including photo and video content along with 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
✔ Share your findings with your friends using Messages, Email, Facebook or Twitter
✔ 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
✔ And many more nifty features!
INTEGRATED SOURCES
Localscope currently aggregates information from the following services:
✔ Google Local
✔ Google Places
✔ Facebook
✔ Foursquare
✔ Twitter
✔ YouTube
✔ Instagram
✔ Panoramio
✔ Flickr
✔ Picasa
✔ Bing
✔ Wikimapia
✔ Fwix News
✔ Fwix Reviews
✔ Wikipedia
✔ Citysearch
NAVIGATION APP INTEGRATIONS
Localscope integrates with the following navigation apps for one touch turn-by-turn directions to discovered locations:
✔ Built-in iPhone Maps App
✔ TomTom
✔ Navigon MobileNavigator
✔ MotionX GPS Drive & HD
✔ Magellan RoadMate
✔ Navfree / Navmii GPS navigation
✔ MetroView Australia and NewZealand
✔ Sygic GPS Navigation
✔ iGo Primo
✔ Waze
✔ MotionX GPS
✔ VZ Navigator
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
✔ Youtube
SUPPORTED LANGUAGES
Localscope speaks the following languages: Arabic, Chinese - Simplified, Chinese - Traditional, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai and Turkish
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★ : 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
✱ UI is slick and friendly, with a smart use of pulling and swiping
- Kathryn Swartz, Appolicious
✱ Localscope puts local services at your fingertips
- David Chartier, Macworld
✱ Get to know whats around you with Localscope
- Christine Chan, AppAdvice
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