Foursquare Swarm: Check In
•Easier than ever to lifelog. Check in to keep track of where you've been and remember who you've hung out with. After you check in we’ll show you interesting little insights like: “That’s 5 weeks in a row at bars!” or “That’s your 25th time hanging out with Courtney!” Keep track of important milestones every time you check in.•Can't remember a specific location? We've got you covered. This app can track places for you, then you can easily search your check-in history to find exactly what you're looking for. It will remember the places you go for you. •Think you’re a local? Check in and try to earn the title of “Mayor” at your favorite spots. But be careful, others will be coming for that crown. “I checkin and compete to become mayor of my local bar. I love that Foursquare Swarm makes average real life things fun.”
- Melissa, Swarm user*Meet up with friends. Share your location with a check-in and see friends nearby. A serendipitous check-in can help you find friends when you’re out and about. *Don’t have any friends nearby? Not a problem! Not only is this app a great way to lifelog for yourself, but to keep track of your friends’ adventures as well, no matter how far far away they are. *A note on battery. We’ve spent *years
* developing the location technology that powers Foursquare Swarm, making it extremely power efficient. But, as with all apps of this type, continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
Category : Social
Reviews (20)
Have been using this app for years. Perhaps often overuse it as it gives me a "timeout" & no coins when I've done too many check-ins (often frustrating as they're all correct). However what's most frustrating about the latest version is no longer being able to add photos. I thought at first that it might be the image size, But even resizing hasn't helped. My app also has all the required permissions, so it's not from my end.
This app used to work great. Then a feature stopped working during check-ins. I have been in an ongoing battle with their support for over 3 YEARS. I have heard every excuse in the book, my favorite is being told it is a user error and then to be told the next week it is a known error, they are still looking into. Now, I'm being told it's not a high priority bug to fix and it only affects Android users. 1 star for a support team that cant solve ONE ISSUE in a year. I've been beyond patient.
The app doesn't work anymore. The idea behind it may be quite interesting but it is (and it always was) buggy. It always had problems connecting to the internet (unless you had a very strong Wi-Fi) but now it doesn't work at all. It does nothing except for showing the misleading "We can't find you!" message. What a nonsense! Only one star for a very poor programming.
Seriously what is wrong with the "check ins from last year in this day " feature? You just keep turning it on and off for no reason? This feature is the only reason I use Swarm!
Great app if you want to keep a travel log history.
I used to love this app. I loved seeing the history of where I checked in and where my friends were. For over a month now the app keeps crashing or won't let me log in. When I do manage to get it open it asks me to sign in again and then freezes. I am uninstalling it for the 4th time. Not sure I'll reinstall.
I use the app all day round and thanks for the developers. I often recognize some bugs, and this is something negative. Also, I strongly ask to make all the name of chain stores appear. (Ex. Not "Mcdonald's" but "Mcdonald's Queen Street") This made me stick to Japanese because those information are shown in Japanese version. Also, there is a big bug. When I change the listing from "latest" to "distance" it crashes. When this happens I need to reinstall the app so I want the bug to be fixed
Used it for a decade, but now it just crashes constantly. I guess this is the end.
I liked it better when people couldn't check into places when they weren't even in the vicinity of a place. It doesn't make it fair for someone to check in & get to keep a mayor's of a place they're not at. Cause no one works 7 days a week!
Great app, very bad customer support. I have contacted customer support for 4 weeks now only to be asked the same question 3 times. I keep getting automatic emails from their system saying I haven't responded to them, even though I receive an answer from them 2-3 days later. I would really like to give this app a try but their customer support makes it so difficult to communicate my issue - app cannot locate me.
Ever since the last update a one good app turned into a nasty pain. I can't open the app any longer. But not only that when I choose wait when printed that the app struggles to open my phone crashes and ends up in a boot loop. What ever you tried to fix your app made the problems worse. Fix it properly.
Two factor authentication failed. I tried twice with two emails. Annoying.
App is on the decline. I've used it since the early days of Four Square, and I've had fun competing with friends for mayorships and the various places we check in. But, this app has been on the decline for months. It's highly unreliable and more often than not doesn't check in anywhere. Even submitting complaints to the developers has gone nowhere, as I've watched my game lose mayorships daily, because the app refuses to check in. I give this app a "meh."
Good database of places, but the app has an irritating habit of not showing a picture for up to 5 minutes when trying to add a photo on checkin on a Samsung s9. It goes to photo page, shows gray instead of pics, and when it finally shows and you choose one, it goes to a black screen for 5 minutes.
I have no choice but to give the app an unfavorable rating, due to the fact that on countless occasions, I have to check into a venue 3, 4 sometimes five times before it actually takes. Uninstalling and reinstalling the app does not fix the issue. This has been going on since the last update two months ago. Fix the app!!
Boring Definitely not like the old school foursquare-that was actually fun and made it exciting to check in and find new friends and places to go
Swarm's the cuter, more fun FourSquare for checkin' in when you're on the go. Good stuff!
Worse than i expected, even can't set your profile picture
The app using the permissions granted to it to tweak and control the Sim internet connection which no app has done that to me before, each time I open the app the internet connection will be lost for a while before connecting again! What are you doing? Are routing our connections? I will be sure to report this to Google
Absolutely terrible app. I cannot even set a profile picture and after I reinstalled it, I can no longer log back into my account. Here in the reviews, they tell you to contact customer support. However, it seems that their customer support team is basically a bot with the single function of sending an unintelligible auto-reply email. I also suspect that their app development team is also a bot, because a 12 year old playing around with an app building tool would have done a far better job.