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Localscope - Find places and people around you is #6 in Navigation Paid in India and charting in 16 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 9 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
24 Sep 2026Localscope - Find places and people around you update history & changes
Last change · 14 events since 20 Dec 2010Full timeline ↓Full timeline · 13 events in the last 12 months
- 📈Localscope - Find places and people around you entered the top 10Top Paid · Navigation · RU
- 📈Localscope - Find places and people around you entered the top 100Top Grossing · Navigation · RU
- 📈Localscope - Find places and people around you entered the top 10Top Paid · Navigation · IN
- 📈Localscope - Find places and people around you entered the top 100Top Paid · Navigation · US
- 📈Localscope - Find places and people around you charting in a new countryUnited States
- 🆕Localscope - Find places and people around you first spotted by AppInsider#24 in Top Paid · Navigation · Italy
- 🆕Localscope - Find places and people around you released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Navigation PaidLocalscope - Find places and people around you at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-09. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Localscope is a paid navigation and discovery app that aggregates geo-tagged data from social networks, search engines, and media services to help users explore places and people around them. The app holds the #6 position in the US Navigation Paid chart, with notable presence in Russia (#13) and Brazil (#18), indicating sustained relevance in key international markets despite its age.
Similar apps: Foursquare, Yelp, Google Maps
Localscope - Find places and people around you on the App Store
App details
Localscope - Find places and people around you downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Localscope - Find places and people around you's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| India | NavigationPaid | #6 |
 Japan | NavigationPaid | #33 |
 China | NavigationPaid | #44 |
 South Korea | NavigationPaid | #20 |
 Russia | NavigationPaid | #12 |
 Brazil | NavigationPaid | #18 |
 United States | NavigationPaid | #151 |
 France | NavigationPaid | #37 |
 United Kingdom | NavigationPaid | #63 |
| Italy | NavigationPaid | #25 |
 Saudi Arabia | NavigationPaid | #19 |
 Indonesia | NavigationPaid | #19 |
 Canada | NavigationPaid | #35 |
 Germany | NavigationPaid | #70 |
 Australia | NavigationPaid | #44 |
 United Arab Emirates | NavigationPaid | #18 |
Apps near Localscope - Find places and people around you on the chart
Navigation Paid, around #6.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisReview momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Localscope - Find places and people around you
From the 50 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users report that the app is largely broken due to outdated APIs and failed integrations with major services like Instagram and YouTube. While some long-time fans appreciate the concept of aggregating local data, many find the current version useless for actual navigation or discovery.
Mixed but leaning positive (56% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for regular updates, and being useful. The main complaints are about recent updates, and not being useful. Recent reviews are more positive than earlier ones.
What people like
- Updates: “Great application and need some updates”
- Useful: “It is very helpful and useful!!”
- Ease of use: “This little app has a simple design, making it a stupid easy to use”
- Design: “Great design and very used”
Common complaints
- Updates: “Don't like your new version”
- Useful: “Not as useful as it used to be”
- Ease of use: “It is now easier to use any other app to find what you're looking for”
- Design: “The interface also needs improvement”
About Localscope - Find places and people around you
Localscope is a window to your world that lets you explore your surroundings like never before. Discover and find places, people and information around you using geo-tagged data from multiple local search engines, social networks, media sharing services and other apps.
• Named the best iPhone Navigation app in the App Store Rewind 2011
• Featured by Apple as Editors' Choice, App of the Week, Staff Favorites, What's Hot
KEY FEATURES
• Explore geo-tagged information and media around you aggregated from diverse services
• Intuitive dashboard view lets you see everything thats immediately around you from all of Localscope's sources
• Search for anything around you and view results simultaneously from all sources
• Browse your search results in an amazingly intuitive list view with realtime direction pointers and distance meters
• Lay the results out on the map or look through the state of the art augmented reality view to spot the results in the real world
• Flick through results from different services and experience them side-by-side using the intuitive source slider
• Get rich information about places including informative badges for ratings, checkins, likes and more
• Navigate and get directions to your results using your favorite navigation app
• Call the place directly or store it to your address book in a tap
• Book a ride to the place you just discovered using Uber
• Add geo-tagged reminders for any location and choose to get push notifications on arrival or departure from the proximity of the location
• Share your findings with your friends using Messages, Email, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp or Sina Weibo
• Explore detailed information about a result using the in-app browser or open it into a linked native app
• Explore any part of the world by setting it as your virtual location
• See POIs laid out on a map on connected car receiver HUDs or other supported secondary displays. Even works with the AppleTV over Airplay Mirroring
• Works worldwide - Explore your location wherever you are
• Supports 21 languages
INTEGRATED SOURCES
Localscope currently aggregates information from the following services:
• Foursquare
• iOS Reminders
• Panoramio
• Flickr
• Wikimapia
• Wikipedia
• Factual
• Citysearch
• Yelp
• 2GIS
• Zomato
• Baidu
• Dianping
• Yellow Pages Australia
NAVIGATION APP INTEGRATIONS
Localscope integrates with the following navigation apps for one touch turn-by-turn directions to discovered locations:
• Apple Maps App
• Google Maps
• TomTom
• Navigon
• Garmin
• MotionX GPS Drive
• Magellan RoadMate
• Navfree / Navmii GPS navigation
• MetroView Australia and NewZealand
• Sygic GPS Navigation
• iGo Primo
• Waze
• MotionX GPS & HD
• VZ Navigator
• Telenav
• Geobyte GPS Navigation UK and Ireland
• Denso Navibridge
• Gokivo GPS Navigator
• Yandex Navigator
• Skobbler
• AMap by AutoNavi
• The Transit App
• Baidu Maps App
• Yandex Maps
• City Mapper
• Maps+
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