MapHook app for iPhone and iPad
4.0 (
9360 ratings )
Travel
Social Networking
Developer:
MapHook
Free
Current version:
3.1.2, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 09 Jul 2010
App size: 8.93 Mb
Out and about?
Use MapHook to search for interesting places near you. View other people’s public Hooks or look at whats trending near you from Yahoo, Twitter and Foursquare. You can also see Wikipedia info about things near you or checkout Yelp reviews of nearby restaurants, shops, etc. MapHook displays it all! Simply open your map and watch the pins magically appear. Or do your own search. Its that easy.
Hooks are like digital memories.
When you create a Hook you can include a picture, add a video, write about what youre doing, categorize it and have it tagged to a map. You decide what you want to include and who you want to share it with. Using the app or the website, Hooks are quick and easy to create. Got lots of memories - lots of Hooks? Combine them into a "Story" and share your amazing "Story" with others. Theyre your adventures, your places -- all coming to life in your MapHook!
Got Friends? Share Hooks!
Whether its an individual, a group or the rest of the world, you decide who you want to share your stuff with, create a bunch of groups! You can even send a Hook by email to anyone or push your Hooks to Twitter and Facebook. When you see your friends latest Hook - you can "like it" and leave them a comment! Be social, have fun and create beautiful Hooks!
Pros and cons of MapHook app for iPhone and iPad
MapHook app good for
I was incredibly impressed with this app, but Id like the ability to create links to more web resources than Wikipedia and Yelp. Making the notes field recognize hyperlinks would revolutionize this app for me and allow me to use it to annotate locations for educational purposes. Still, youve set the bar high with this app particularly with how you handle lists of contacts.
The ability to create hooks for multiple places, and then rate the location youve hooked is very nice. As well being able to see others opinions of a specific place can help a lot in deciding whether you would want to go there or not. This app will be fun to use for keeping good memories of places, hopefully I will be able to get my friends in on this too.
I am new to MapHook, but it only took me a couple minutes to figure it out! I am already having fun coming up with hooks to share and have been checking out any hooks that are close to me or places Ive been! A very fun free app!!
I really like what MapHook has done, the ability to add some quick details about a location including photos, comments and reviews is easy. I just hope they can manage to catch more users... not a lot of hooks in my area yet! Ill have to spread the word :)
I love using MapHook for 2 big reasons. 1) its easy, and 2) I can choose who I want to share things with. I can take pics, write blog entries, whatever - but I get to choose who can see em - family, friends, or the entire world. Having a website that matches the phone app doesnt hurt either!
Certainly the most interesting concept around. A possible Facebook+twitter killer!
Some bad moments
iPhone 4 and it keeps crashing. App has potential so I hope this gets fixed.
Title says it all. Its pretty much unusable in its current state.
Asks for too much information for sign up. Deleted. Not yet ready to share my phone number, email, and location with you.
This is a good idea but too much demographic information is required. Also, anything you post becomes property of MapHook per the user agreement.
I wanted to, but it wants my phone number? Why on earth? Remove that requirement and Ill try it again... As for now, its gone.
This looked interesting but you cant even view or see anyone elses hooks unless and sign up and create an account.
Annoying as I dont need 1000 usernames on 1000 different sites.
Learn from Yelp! Let us view the map and hooks and then if we want to post we can sign up.
