Developer(s) Tweakersoft Development status Active | Initial release September 2008 Available in 10 languages | |
Operating system Type Local search (Internet) | ||
AroundMe is a mobile application for iOS, Android and Windows Phone platforms created by Italian "Attorno a me s.r.l.", that allows users to quickly find nearby Point Of Interest (POI) such as restaurants, hotels, theaters, parking, hospitals and much more. In 2008 AroundMe was given second place in the top 10 iPhone OS apps [1] by Time. It was included on Time's 2011 ranking as well.
AroundMe was the first mobile application for the iPhone to use the Google’s location-aware API and also was the first mobile application to make use of Google dynamic mobile advertisement. As of March 2009 over 5 million copies of AroundMe have been downloaded and installed.
Description
AroundMe uses a phones navigation capabilities to perform location-aware searches.
A ‘Favorites’ section allows the user save specific entries while the category 'nearby' is used to identify nearby cities, parks, geographical locations, airports and attractions which are linked to appropriate Wikipedia entries.