AroundMe

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About this app

AroundMe quickly identifies your position and allows you to choose the nearest Bank, Bar, Gas Station, Hospital, Hotel, Movie Theatre, Restaurant, Supermarket, Theatre and Taxi.
AroundMe shows you a complete list of all the businesses in the category you have tapped on along with the distance from where you are.

Ratings and reviews

I tested this app using my hometown. Good points: it actually does show you a lot of locations and connects to Google Maps to give directions. Very simple user friendly design. Bad points: not a lot of category options (movies is listed 3x and bars listed 2x). I'd recommend to install when going on trips for the emergency stuff like gas stations and hospitals, but even then you can just Google it. Just not as useful as it could be. Should add more categories (like maybe events or hikes).

Requires GPS and location sensing on. Doesn't allow you to punch in an address and work from that. Why is this useless? Well, let's say you're planning to visit or vacation somewhere else, you cannot preview local businesses of interest. As for the GPS & location tracking, it's rather snoopy and intrusive if you don't want that info shared. Far easier to enter a street address as needed.

I tried to find a vape store near me. No catagory. Instead it showed me stores with "herbalist" in the title. This is years after my original review, below. I'm uninstalling. I needed a taxi in Boston. The app shows me a list. Several #'s were discontinued. Others were Taxi & Limo associations. I went to look for a vape shop in Oregon. 2/3 were no longer in operation. By the looks of the addresses, they weren't recently closed. They need to update their results, do some housekeeping.

What's new

Bugfixing