Marco Polo: Find Your Phone by Shouting MARCO!
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utilities | $0.99 | Matt Wiechec | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
*** NEW! iOS 8 Nearby Widget—now find misplaced devices right from your Notification Center. Just swipe down to reveal Notification Center and Marco Polo will automatically find any device around you! ***
#1 Paid Utility App in 80 countries! #1 Top Paid App Overall in 32 countries! Featured on: Popular Science, Cult of Mac, Gizmodo, CNET, TUAW, The Daily Dot, Business Insider, and many more!
The Marco Polo app runs silently in the background and never disturbs you until you need it. No more panic attacks or getting to a Mac to find your device—Marco Polo works with just your voice and completely offline (no Wi-Fi or cellular needed). The app will listen across multiple rooms, even multiple levels in your home, and will override silent mode so you can find your device no matter what. Simply launch the app, then shout MARCO! That’s it!
For even more fun try installing Marco Polo on multiple devices. You can distinguish each device by changing the input phrase, voice and custom response, so that each iOS device behaves differently.
Note: Marco Polo currently uses an acoustic model for North American accents. If you have a non North American accent it may be less responsive.
FEATURES
• Change the input phrase and shout anything you want
• Over 30 unique character voices to customize how your device sounds when it responds
• Control what your device says back with custom responses like: “I’m Over Here”, “Who's There?”, and “iPhone Reporting”, or enter your own phrase!
• New iOS 8 Nearby Widget; now find other devices with just a tap, right from Notification Center
• Works even if your device is in sleep or silent mode
• Push Notifications light up your screen making it easy to find your device in the dark
• Volume Boost maximizes your device’s volume level, even if you left the volume low
• Works with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
LIMITATIONS
These limitations are imposed by iOS and are required for all apps that use the microphone:
• While Marco Polo is listening in the background your iOS device will show a red bar at the top of the screen.
• Some notifications and sounds will get silenced. Phone calls, calendar alerts, and clock alarms will continue to make sounds.
PRIVACY & REQUIREMENTS
• Marco Polo does NOT require Wi-Fi or cellular. All voice processing is done on your device and is never sent or stored anywhere. Nothing ever gets saved. Nothing ever leaves your device.
• Nearby Widget requires iOS 8 and a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) compatible device. However devices running iOS 7 that are BLE compatible can still be discovered. Devices must be running Marco Polo.
Reviews
Great Idea!
dannielleroy
This is a lot of fun. The widget is really handy and its cool to show my friends!
Bad
Boney15
Ok. It works like 2 feet away. And it works with someone else's voice but not mine. The mic stinks and it does not listen very well. The good about it is that you can change the saying and voice.
Too many false responses
This Space for Rent
Too many false responses to words other than "Marco," make this app near worthless. It could be a good app if false positives are addressed. The fact that the app triggers on "Mar" rather than "Marco," makes it trigger far too many false responses. This makes it impractical for its intended purpose. While it seems to trigger mostly on "Marc," which will still trigger words like Mark, market, marker, even words such as Mardi Gras, marvelous, Marcy, March, mercy, etc. will trigger. There definitely needs to be some improvement to eliminate the triggering of false responses
Don't Do It
Just ok...
Does not measure up to the advertisement. The first thing that was ridiculous, the voice command did not recognize my voice. I'm a small woman with a pitch that matches. So to get the response I had to disguise my voice and try to sound more "manly." So ridiculous. Then the practical application is a joke. Even when my husband and son, both with low, "manly" voices tried to retrieve my phone, they had to be right on top of it to get that coveted "polo" response. Thus, entirely negating the need for the ap at all. Ridiculous! And, not in a good way.
Poor
Nikki 06
You have to be max like 3ft away from it to work. Also the app must be open at all times for it to work.
It's ok.. I guess
Jaiden J.
At first I thought the app was really cool, but then I found out why there are so many bad reviews (I wish I'd had read them). It doesn't work for more than 2 feet. There's a lot of other crap, but read the other reviews, I agree with them 100%
Loving Rose
Loving Rose
Too sensitive. Goes off on words or sounds other then what it supposed to. Also you have to be fairly close to it forward to hear you even when shouting. I'm glad I only paid a dollar for it. Pretty worthless.
Not worth the $1
Chupp 22
Does not work far away. Also drains your battery because you have to keep the app open in the background in order for it to work. Not worth it!
