AroundMe

Local knowledge at your fingertips. [get it]
My rating 2.5/5, iTunes Store rating 3/5

AroundMe uses your location to tell you what is around you. You can find your nearby petrol stations, supermarkets, parking facilities, cash machines, places of interest and many other facilities too. You are offered a map, address, directions and contact details where available.

On the occasions I have used it I have found it to be either missing information or holding some out of date information, but I only know this because I am using it where I already have the local knowledge. For the most part it seems accurate and useful.

The application is very easy to use, you launch it and then select what you are looking for, this has to be considered one of the main appeals of the application because much of the functionality is actually available in the Google Maps application that comes with the iPhone, if you select "Search" and enter what you are looking for (such as "Supermarket" or "Petrol") it will drop pins in all the nearby places that such facilities are known to exist, giving you access to similar information to that which AroundMe provides. Because the iPhone comes with this functionality via Google Maps, I have rated AroundMe lower than I would have done if it was a unique app.


I have kept AroundMe on my iPhone but I rarely use it.