App Detail » Localscope - Find places and people around you

What's New

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

- Fixed Instagram Service
- Fixed CitySearch Service
- Removed YouTube Service
- Removed ParkMe Service

App Description

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, What's 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 Localscope's 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 I've ever used that I think I'll 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

• Editor's 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

App Changes

• May 28, 2011 New version 1.5.1
• May 23, 2011 New version 1.5
• March 25, 2011 New version 1.4
• March 17, 2011 New version 1.3
• February 22, 2011 Price increase: FREE! -> $1.99
• February 21, 2011 New version 1.2
• February 18, 2011 Price decrease: $2.99 -> FREE!
• January 24, 2011 New version 1.1
• January 10, 2011 Price increase: $0.99 -> $2.99
• August 27, 2011 New version 1.7
• September 21, 2011 New version 1.7.1
• October 14, 2011 New version 1.8
• October 22, 2011 New version 1.9
• November 24, 2011 Price decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99
• November 30, 2011 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
• December 18, 2011 New version 2.0
• March 03, 2012 New version 2.1
• March 21, 2012 New version 2.2
• March 29, 2012 New version 2.2.1
• May 03, 2012 New version 2.3
• June 01, 2012 New version 2.4
• July 13, 2012 New version 2.5
• August 01, 2012 New version 2.5.1
• October 16, 2012 New version 3.0
• October 28, 2012 New version 3.0.1
• November 23, 2012 Price decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99
• November 28, 2012 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
• January 04, 2013 New version 3.1
• January 04, 2013 Price decrease: $1.99 -> FREE!
• February 24, 2013 New version 3.2
• March 28, 2013 New version 3.3
• April 24, 2013 New version 3.4
• April 24, 2013 Price increase: FREE! -> $1.99
• July 05, 2013 New version 3.5
• July 09, 2013 Price decrease: $1.99 -> FREE!
• July 12, 2013 Price increase: FREE! -> $1.99
• July 28, 2013 New version 3.5.1
• September 04, 2013 Price increase: $1.99 -> $2.99
• November 29, 2013 Price decrease: $2.99 -> $1.99
• December 04, 2013 Price increase: $1.99 -> $2.99
• December 08, 2013 Price decrease: $2.99 -> FREE!
• December 10, 2013 Price increase: FREE! -> $2.99
• December 13, 2013 New version 4.0
• December 21, 2013 Price decrease: $2.99 -> $1.99
• January 03, 2014 Price increase: $1.99 -> $2.99
• February 07, 2014 New version 4.1
• April 30, 2014 New version 4.2
• April 30, 2014 Price decrease: $2.99 -> $1.99
• May 07, 2014 Price increase: $1.99 -> $2.99
• May 11, 2014 New version 4.2.1
• July 18, 2014 Price decrease: $2.99 -> FREE!
• July 20, 2014 Price increase: FREE! -> $0.99
• July 25, 2014 New version 4.2.2
• July 25, 2014 Price increase: $0.99 -> $2.99
• December 01, 2014 Price decrease: $2.99 -> $1.99
• December 02, 2014 Price increase: $1.99 -> $2.99
• June 22, 2015 New version 4.3
• June 26, 2015 Price increase: $2.99 -> $3.99
• July 01, 2015 New version 4.3.1
• July 18, 2015 Price decrease: $3.99 -> $2.99
• September 25, 2015 Price decrease: $2.99 -> FREE!
• September 28, 2015 Price increase: FREE! -> $2.99
• October 05, 2015 New version 4.4
• November 28, 2015 Price decrease: $2.99 -> FREE!
• December 01, 2015 Price increase: FREE! -> $2.99
• December 21, 2015 Price decrease: $2.99 -> $0.99
• January 02, 2016 Price increase: $0.99 -> $2.99
• January 10, 2016 Price decrease: $2.99 -> $0.99
• January 21, 2016 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
• February 01, 2016 Price increase: $1.99 -> $2.99
• August 01, 2016 New version 4.5
• November 25, 2016 Price decrease: $2.99 -> $0.99
• November 29, 2016 Price increase: $0.99 -> $2.99