Foursquare rebranded its new app and unveiled a new logo last month. Today, the completely redesigned app has been launched that chucks out check-ins and puts more focus on personalized recommendations.
“The new Foursquare frees you from having to read long, random reviews, wondering if those people share your tastes. With Foursquare, find things based on your tastes, the places you like, and the friends and experts you trust most”
said Foursquare in a company blog post.
The new version of Foursquare focuses on learning your interests and suggesting places that you should visit. It suggests you places, things, restaurants and more as per your location. It finds your location and gives you a sliding header bar with options for breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner, snacks, nightlife, shopping, etc. The new app encourages users to add “tastes” or tags saying what products they like coffee, pasta, burger and so on. It then uses these tags to suggest you appropriate places.
Instead of earning badges, Foursquare users are now encouraged to leave tips about the places they frequent. They will also get push notifications of recommendations of restaurants and bars based on places they have visited. The app also categorizes places and hotels by filters such as distance, cost and more.
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Earlier in May, Foursquare un-bundled some of its core features into a separate app dubbed as Swarm which entirely focuses on check-ins and find friends.
You can download the app from Google Play Store and Apple App Store.