My favorite iPhone apps - AroundMe
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My family and I recently drove about 2200 miles cross country. If you've ever done this you know that the hard part is deciding where to go and how to get there once you exit the highway. Not knowing what's available leads to the obligatory stop at a Hardees or worse yet McDonalds .
At first look, AroundMe seems like a standard locating app for services. Also as GPS's get more and more advanced some may wonder why they would ever need the Aroundme app.
I'll tell you. This free app works fast in conjunction with the iPhones GPS. I have tried other category based location search applications that retrieve information much slower and present the info extremely poor compared to this one.
As an example of the apps usefulness, the family stopped in a small town outside of St. Louis and wanted to grab a first aid kit and also stop somwhere to eat something a little different than the aforementioned Hardees or McDonalds. I opened AroundMe, selected Restaurant from the default categories and it informs me that there is a Culvers Butter Burgers, 300 yds from where I was. After 2 clicks I have a map that leads me directly to the restaurant. I was able to use the Search function to find a Walmart for the first aid kit with no trouble at all.
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For the trivia buff, you can get almanac style information from the Nearby category. This came in handy many times during the trip especially when passing through the smaller towns along the interstate.
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The only drawbacks I see from the app are that the categories are somewhat limited. Also when you request a search when you click the + sign for additional results and none are available AroundMe will return a list of the same locations. Since the distances are listed, it's easy to spot the duplicates but I think this is minor enough to ignore.
All in all AroundMe works as advertised. And you can't beat the price.
TC
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