Stuck On Earth - Free World Travel Guide

A new kind of travel app that brings you the best places in the world to photograph, visit, and experience. It's the ultimate app for explorers, photographers, and daydreamers. Especially daydreamers. :)

Category	Price	Seller	Device
Travel	Free	SIC Media	iPhone, iPad, iPod

Stuck On Earth - Free World Travel Guide Screenshot on iOS

"Gorgeous" - GigaOm
"It’s the ultimate scouting tool that every photographer will want to have with them everywhere they go." - Thomas Hawk
"This is a beautiful, well-crafted iPad app that isn’t like anything else I’ve seen on the iPad yet. It’s for people who want to explore the earth, or who want to photograph it." - Robert Scoble

Video preview at: http://www.StuckOnEarthApp.com

Features:
- The most efficient tool for finding millions of places to visit. Sorted by Most Awesome!
- A smart algorithm chooses the best locations and photos based on a combination of crowdsourcing, algorithm, and curation.
- A wonderful map interface that allows you to zoom into any level in any country to find the best places to visit.
- A "Download All" button that lets you vacuum up all the locations on a map into a trip for offline viewing.
- Create trips for the future: "Florida in 2013" or "Wine escapade in France, le sigh!"
- No ideas for future trips or places to photograph? Try our countless Top 50 Lists to get inspired!
- I KNOW when you are in the middle of a trip, you rarely have internet, so all your personalized trips and maps are avail offline.
- A customized experience based on your personality type - Photographer, Explorer, or Daydreamer.
- Professional voice actress, Karen Hutton, serves as your personal travel guide.

Community:
- Photographers help you find the best spots, like "Thomas Hawk's Top 50 Secret Spots in San Francisco"
- Create your OWN top 50 lists and submit them to the editor to be featured on the main map.
---> To do that, just create a trip, choose the trip from the home screen, then click "Submit" in the lower left.

About the App and Me:
Hello, I'm Trey. I'm the guy that made this app.

I believe that one of the great purposes of life is to have as many awesome experiences as possible. To fill your life with stories -- this is a wonderful goal. To this end, I created this app very much for myself. I am a travel photographer, and I run a travel photography blog at StuckInCustoms.com . I've accidentally become an expert on travel photography over the past seven years, so I wanted to create an app that I honestly use ALL THE TIME to plan out my trips.

There is a big problem that this app solves for me, personally. I have limited time, and I want the best information about where to visit and what I will see, generally, when I get there. When most people look at travel guides, they simply look for the pretty pictures and think, "I want to go THERE." This takes that experience to the next order of magnitude, and makes it all extremely practical with Trip-Planning.

Even if you don't travel, you still want to find interesting places to see and experience within a short drive of your home. Or maybe there are hidden gems right in your very town that you've never discovered. Because our algorithm is a cool mix of crowdsourcing plus human-curated lists, you'll see some really good results.

All in One:
So, this is it, Stuck on Earth. You don't need to use multiple apps, webpages, and other resources to plan your trip. All the countries, cities, and rural areas of the world are in here (well, except North Korea) -- all in one place. Add photos to your trip, and they'll be available offline. Everything you need is right here in this app. Thanks, and enjoy!

Reviews

Not What I Expected
jccr

I want to like this but I can get most of these photos on Google Earth. Is the voiceover really necessary, too?

Really liked it, until the update.
Missadventures1

Thought this app was great, but since the update it crashes every time before it even finishes loading...sigh.

Love it..but...
Solsector

Constant crash on my iPad 3. It's working fine on my first gen iPad

Great Photos, but..
DonsPC

Pros: Great photos. Lots and lots of photos of interesting places. Linking them to a map gives good context. The dev guys responded quickly and professionally when I queried them. Cons: Not intuitive. Still cannot find the help feature. When adding photos to a trip, the app added several photos I did not select. There is no way to delete a photo from a trip. No ability to add my own photos unless I submit them to the app authors. In the photos that exist, there are many that are of poor quality or not applicable to the location, if not outright mistakes. For me, the cons out-weigh the pros. I'd like to create a trip and to get photos already associated with my destinations. When I return, I want to be able to add my own photos to the existing ones. It was not clear in the description that adding photos would require anything other than importing them into the app. I am disappointed.

App is fixed?????
Abbey 854

I deleted the app on my IPad3 and reinstalled it and it no longer crashes when opened. Enjoy

Great concept, not so great execution
Muralin

Terrific concept but UI is not very intuitive. Not obvious how I can add my photos. When I switch to another app, it forgets where I was. I also find the voice over a distraction.

Stuck for sure
!hyperfocal!

Slow to install, slow to open, slow to use. Freezes often while opening. I am currently in Hawaii and thought I would give this a try. Very frustrating. When you install the app you have to enter a name (why?) and then you have to pick from one of three categories. But there is no explanation on what difference that selection will make. To change categories it looks like you have to reset the app. One of the categories I tried was photographer. I was looking for places to take photographs that maybe I was not aware of. More frustration. The map pins are slow to load and most of the points are useless. The first 5 random photos were family pics with no relevancy. Two had the heads cut off. Obviously there is no quality control. I turned the obnoxious voice and sound off because the app was already slow enough. Also, the interface designer chose cutesy over intuitive. I am not one to write a review and when I do it is generally very terse. This app has gotten my longest review by far to date and does not even begin to express the depth of my frustration. In my opinion this app is just a lot more marketing fluff from Trey.