Vicinity
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lifestyle | $2.99 | ActiveGuru Ltd. | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
It provides one tap access to nearby services and amenities such as bars, restaurants, taxis, takeouts and gas stations. Vicinity also utilizes your location to display nearby Wikipedia articles and photographs from both flickr and Panoramio, providing a useful source of education and interesting places to visit.
The location list shows all the places and their distance from you in real time, and is sorted so you can quickly select the nearest. Simply tap an item to view details and photos, visit websites, phone or get directions.
Combining hundreds of data sources supporting many countries worldwide, including the US, UK, most of Europe, Canada, Australia and more, Vicinity is one of the most comprehensive location based applications to date.
★ Features:
- Automatically finds the nearest businesses and places when you select a category
- Choose from up to 4 data providers, ensuring you always get the highest quality business listings for your area
- Wikipedia, flickr, Panoramio and nearby places listings in addition to businesses
- List automatically sorted by distance and updated as you move around
- Perform custom searches for businesses
- Shows distance in large type allowing you to quickly scan the list
- Tap a business or place for further details
- Star ratings for many locations
- Get reviews, photos and more on the 'more details' page
- One tap to call a selected business
- Easy access to walking or driving directions using your favourite Sat Nav apps or the Maps app
- Need to find businesses elsewhere? Got an inaccurate GPS signal? Simply use the location selector to override the search area.
- Location selector lets you use your current location, pick where you want to search on a map, or select a previously used location
- Set a business or place as your search location to find others nearby
- Location bar shows your GPS signal accuracy and the place name of where you are
- Swap between miles and kilometres using the Settings app on your device
- Does not require Location Services/GPS, so the app functions well on an iPod Touch
- Save a business to your device's address book
- View a map of a location within the app
★ Awards and Accolades
- iTunes 2008-2009 Top 10 Best Selling App Overall
- Featured in the official iPhone TV ads
- Top 3 paid app in overall AppStore charts (various time periods)
- Recommended by newspapers and magazines including the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Times, MacWorld and more...
What are you waiting for? Download the app today!
Reviews
What? No Gas Station?
djl0525
How they left out gas stations is beyond me. Skip this app and try AroundMe instead. It has twice as many categories!
Love it
Dmytro
I love the app, but to be more successfull please add: 1. Gas stations 2. Pharmacies 3. Search 4. And more settings to customize it more
Needs more
Mshells
I find it to be useful but it needs hospital and RX (CVS) locations along with gas stations and librarys. What it lists is a good start, but for the working and traveling more everday stuff is needed. I'll add another star when it earns it. Michelle
Crash-a-Rama
hispeednw
New version crashes constantly when using Nearby Places. More buggy than the last version.
Good if not great.
Sdallnct
I travel a lot. So I thought this would work well for me. And by and large it does. However it does miss a lot. I'm not sure where these type apps pull their data from, but I have now downloaded 3-4 of them. They all give different results. So now I don't rely on results from any one of them. But I take a couple minutes to check them all out. So overall I'd say this was a "nice" app. But if you are really looking for new places or places that are within walking distance, I would get a couple of these type apps and use them all.
This app is a work in progress.
akfromhill
The people who wrote Vicinity need to go over their work and make this app function like its supposed to. In Canada, it doesn't even load results. Big disappointment.
Simple to Use with Third-Party Integration
palsyboy
The distinguishing feature of this app for me is its integration with Panoramio, Wikipedia, and Flickr. The rest of it is comparable to its competitors.
Has potential. Not there yet.
Silicon Valley Nerd
First of all, there IS a way to change between miles and metric, its in the settings menu for the iphone. Aside from that, this is a decent app. Allows you to find places around you quickly. I wish it would give more information about the places it shows (say, give reviews and ratings etc, instead of just the phone number and address), that would make this app pretty killer. Also, the yahoo link at the bottom is pretty useless. If this combined with UrbanSpoon, the possibilities are amazing.
Not very good.
FLewis (SPEEDY)
I don't think this is a good app. It works ok. But I was expecting more. When you say "where am I?" it gives you the latitude and longitude, but not an address. This app needs some work.
