Trover is free (iPhone). The Trover social network allows you to share interesting photos and links to a specific location with your friends. Using Trover, you can discover great things and places nearby, talk about your discoveries by taking photos with the superb camera of your iPhone, and share the joy of friends who liked your recommendations.
You may be a little confused by the name, but you read it right, it’s not location-based photo tagging, but the opposite. The concept behind the Trover app is unique enough to warrant such a caption. There is a suite of travel and photo-sharing apps for iOS users, but this app somehow manages to combine these two utilities into one, allowing users to see what sights are near them. And by “see,” we mean really see, like a picture uploaded by past users! So, instead of just reading about a place and the sights it offers, you can actually see all the notable things associated with a particular area and thus learn so much more.
The app’s interface makes it feel like you’re really traveling through the various sites near you. As you scroll down, the distance from your current location (displayed at the top of the app) also increases, and the recommended driving mode also changes. You can walk to a place within a mile of your current location, but you would have to take a plane to cover a thousand miles.
The photos you see on the Trover home page are sorted according to their distance from your current location. Once you tap on a particular image, the details of the location are displayed, along with comments from users who have visited it in the past. Scroll down from the details and you’ll get a map of the location associated with your current location. If you really like the location you discover, you have the option to Share it with your contacts on Twitter and Facebook or via email.
The feeds as well as the favorites In sections show photos added by users who may be near you or anywhere in the world (depending on the popularity of the publication). All in all, a pretty good app with a neat interface and cool concept, and on top of that, it’s free! Click the download link at the end to download Trover from the iTunes App Store.
