Nice. Almost there – MapAlarm - Store My Places, OpenStreetMaps, Send My Position, GPS Reminders Review

First and foremost, it does what it says it's going to do. It does it well and cleanly. Three stars for that. Add a star for the battery saving tweaks which are a good plus. I see myself using this on long train trips or drives, and on commutes that can get delayed. The interface is a bit wonky which prevents this from being a five-star app. There are planty of ways to set a new "place" (location) including choosing from the Contacts, which frankly makes a lot of sense. Other location alarms don't do that or allow you to enter an address (which you do in Map Alarm by searching the map). The idea is you create "places" and you create "tasks" and link them together when you want an alarm. Trouble is "meta" data is tied to the place, when it would be better tied to the "task" (please call this "alert" or "alarm"). I either use the system default distance or set a specific distance for each place and that's the distance used regardless of the task. I may want to call my spouse to come to the station when I'm two miles away from home on the train, but call my teenager when I'm ten miles away so he has adequate time to get dressed for dinner. Or have a different distance for a similar task depending on whether I'm on the fast-moving train or the slow-moving bus. Currently I have to have all be the same distance because distance is tied to the place. It's also be nice if the distance was a wheel or something instead of set values (with a choice between metric and English). f not that, at least give the option to have whole distances in miles OR km (currently the whole numbers are km only and the English equivalent is given in feet…nobody thinks of long distances in feet). Those are niggles though. It works and the price is right. Looking forward to future improvements and updates.
Review by iByron on MapAlarm - Store My Places, OpenStreetMaps, Send My Position, GPS Reminders.