Earlier this year Foursquare announced its plans to split check-ins and social features from location discovery and reviewing features from its mobile apps. Swarm, the new app focused on check-ins, launched earlier this year in May while Foursquare gave its users some time to become familiar with having two apps for two different purposes.
Today, the brand new Foursquare stripped of check-ins and heavily focused on location discovery is rolling out on the App Store sporting a new icon as Foursquare’s new model is now fully deployed. Foursquare describes the focus of its new app on its blog:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvMVFGOJ2Z0
We built the all-new Foursquare to realize this vision. The world is a beautiful place full of all sorts of amazing experiences, and our phones should help guide us to them. We’re releasing it today, and can’t wait for everyone to experience it.
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.
Foursquare 8.0 is rolling out for users now on the App Store. (More: Check out the icons and codenames for Foursquare and Swarm before their release).
