Explore nearby, find places, check-in and more with Social Scout

Explore nearby, find places, check-in and more with Social Scout

February 6, 2013 | By Jandieg

Free version now available! Discover the world of Facebook Places with Social Scout for Windows Phone!

Be part of the most popular checking-in platform in the world, with a rich social connection and millions of places! As recently announced by Facebook, it is not just about a social network, it’s about interacting with anything being around or in between, things that connect us. One of those things is Places. You can search for places on Facebook, and you can check-in in those places and at the same time enrich your social activity. This app will make that job very easy and entertaining.

The features

Being a 1.0 version, yet it packs a lot of innovative and useful stuff:

• Nearby places with distance and orientation using GPS and compass
• Powerful searching
• Friends close to you
• Check-in
• Driving directions
• Tag or attach photos to check-ins *
• Comment or like friend’s check-ins
• Check-in history of your friends and yours
• Suggestions of places to eat around you *
• View people profiles and check-ins *
• Most visited places by area (by friends or by all)
• Link to Facebook Touch
• Skins / themes

* Features not available (or limited) in the Free version and Trial version. Free version has Ads, which will make screen real state smaller and can make the app slower on launch (due to advertisements).

Do my friends need this app in order to interact?

Not at all. Social Scout will grab your friends activity no matter how they check-in, as long as they do it through Facebook either directly or via other apps or smartphones using a Facebook connection. Some users though, may set some particular privacy configurations for their Facebook account, so on those cases Social Scout might not be able to access check-in information from them.

Bonus

You will notice that there is kind of an embedded app inside, it’s a Facebook Touch app you can access from either Social Scout or by pinning it to your home screen. This Facebook Touch has some particular features you won’t find on others (many) of similar Facebook touch browsers, such as full screen view of pictures, pinch to zoom, full screen browsing, horizontally rendered like/comment/share buttons, integration with Social Scout for checkin or places-related content, etc.

Overall, this app does a great job immerging you into the exciting location based social buzz. Welcome to Social Scout, hope you enjoy it!

Download the app here!