Where To? Search nearby places app for iPhone and iPad
4.6 (
2096 ratings )
Travel
Navigation
Developer:
FutureTap GmbH
Free
Current version:
13.3, last update: 3 months ago
First release : 04 Sep 2014
App size: 138.68 Mb
Discover the best locations worldwide: Where To? finds the closest and best rated places to eat, shop, party, and relax.
“In a matter of seconds the Where To? app can direct you to any type of place youre looking for”
- CNN
SEE WHAT’S AROUND YOU
Where To? is an incredibly easy way to find the closest steakhouse, bank branch, billiard club, or anything else you might be looking for – whether you are on vacation in Paris or in your own back yard! See your options on the built-in map, in a list sorted by distance or in Augmented Reality. With just a few taps, you can find any type of place you are looking for, close to wherever you are!
AUGMENTED REALITY
Explore a cool new way of visualization by displaying nearby locations in the live camera image, on top of reality. Being able to see through walls, it’s like X-ray vision for your iPhone.
YOUR LOCAL GUIDE
Where To? is your local guide in your pocket! It provides you with dinner menus, photos, videos, business hours, and more details. All you have to do is choose — then make a reservation, order your meal, or check the place’s homepage.
CHECK REVIEWS
Is the food delicious? The service great? Let others know! Where To? also collects and displays ratings and reviews from various 3rd party platforms.
FAVORITES AND COLLECTIONS
Save your favorite places and organize them in collections. Import collections from KML or GPX. Share places and collections with your friends.
SHOWS YOU THE WAY
Whether by car, bike, walking or public transport, Where To? gets you where you want to go. Use the built-in route planner or any of more than 80 apps from the App Store. The bike navigation also supports shared bikes and scooters from more than 250 micromobility services.
CAR INTEGRATION
Turn the key and let your car guide you to the destination. You can send locations to supported onboard navigation systems (Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Mini).
WIDGETS
Access nearby places right from your home or lock screen – with configurable widgets in various types and sizes.
ADD TO SIRI
Enhance Siri by creating a shortcut to search using Where To? for nearby places. Or create workflows using the Shortcuts app.
GEO ALARMS
Create location-based reminders and get notified when arriving or departing.
SUPPORT FOR APPLE WATCH AND MESSAGES
Show your favorite places, select your favorite category or search by voice. And the included Apple Watch app displays nearby results right on your wrist! The included iMessage app lets you search for locations and share them in a conversation without leaving the Messages app.
¿HABLA ESPAÑOL?, PARLEZ-VOUS FRANÇAIS?
You’re going to Mexico and don’t know what a „Hair Salon“ is in Spanish? Where To? searches in 11 different languages and translates all categories to the local language on-the-fly.
AWARDS
- Featured by Apple as iPhone App of the Week and in App Store Rewind
- Multi-year winner of the Best App Ever Awards (“Best Travel App”)
WHAT OTHERS SAY
“continues a remarkable tradition as one of the best ways to find places around town” (4.5 of 5 stars)
- MacLife
“Highly recommended”
- Engadget
“the excellent location-aware points of interest finder for the iPhone”
- Daring Fireball
SOCIAL MEDIA
Follow us for announcements and updates:
- Facebook: https://fb.com/wheretoapp
- Mastodon: https://urbanists.social/@whereto
- X: @futuretap
Where To? PRO Terms of service: https://www.futuretap.com/whereto-pro-terms
Pros and cons of Where To? Search nearby places app for iPhone and iPad
Where To? Search nearby places app good for
My go to app when looking for almost anything, especially restaurants. Love it.
It is the greatest app to use to get yourself around in a new city or even in your home town. Great for finding just about anything and links up to my TomTom gps app. Great APP.
Some bad moments
This app used to be good until the most recent two revisions. Now the wheel spins for minutes and minutes and the screen is frozen while waiting for network update. Somebody screwed up and modified either server access or app access to network. Please fix. Useless as it is.
3D was one of the coolest features about this app. First I have to pay for an update, then the update takes away a key fetaure!! Updates are suppose to add to the betterment of an app, not take away things!! One star until it is fixed.
Been using this App for a while now and find the upgrade better but not necessarily worth the price. Hope to see 3D back and other improvements in the future.
This app is only ok. In my opinion its missing some basic functionality. The biggest example that comes to mind is that when you leave the app it continues to use location services. It even does so if you force quit the app, so its a battery killer. Youll have to go into settings every time and disable and then reenable location services whenever you want to use the app again. The other thing thats missing is just the ability to look at the map and see whats around you. You always have to choose a category, it would be nice to be able to customize the map so you could choose what categories were always displayed around you without starting with a category.
While the app was due for a visual design overhaul (to align with iOS 7 & 8), that doesnt really warrant a paid upgrade with no real additional functionality.
But when I discovered a companion app for my Pebble smartwatch that you can use for directions and "keep your iPhone in the pocket while walking or driving" I ponied up.
Boy, was I disappointed to find that these directions consist of - literally - just the direction (and distance - in a straight line).
There is no real-life use case where that information can be used as a substitute for driving directions, allowing you to keep your phone in your pocket. Unless your car can fly, you probably shouldnt just aim toward a restaurant and floor it. Or you and the restaurant are in the middle of an open field.
Even walking its questionable if you can use the direction and as-the-crow-flies distance to get to a destination.
So its a bit perplexing that they would market this as a way to navigate while keeping your phone in your pocket. Its actually misleading. Hopefully, its just version 1.0 of this feature and they plan on displaying actual, navigable directions in the near future.
Definitely dont upgrade just for the integration with Pebble. Its cute, but currently fairly useless.
Okay, I like the update and that it is very efficient. But my problem with it is that the program has lost a lot of its wow factor. I cant imagine that one would add 3-D in the current OS system since everything is going flat, but it needed something to make it exceptionable. For instance the maps could have a lot more color and could be a little bit more 3-D the dial could have a little bit more color and so forth.......something. Now that may be immaterial to most people but when youve bought this app based upon that wow factor then without it, makes it a little less palatable. I used to love opening up the app in its previous version. It felt as if I was in a very elegant study(and that the bread ground the beautiful black dial etc.). Now it feels like Im in a board room with a bunch of stodgy professors and no one has any interest in any other color but Tan. No, no ladies in red here.
