New iPhone Photo App: PocketScout

Snap, Save, Share.
Location Scouting Made Simple!

• Quickly add a new location and let PocketScout™ do the hard work for you automatically!
• Tag your locations to help categorize a location based on your needs.
• Share locations with just 1 Tap!!

An Overview Of What’s Included

PocketScout™ has some great features that make your life easier when scouting locations. Here’s what PocketScout™ does to make your life easy

• Automatically grabs your GPS location
• Creates a street address based off of your GPS location without having to manually enter it or figure it out
• Allows you to enter in a name for the location
• Lets you make notes specific to the location that you just found
• Want to get directions from your current location to any of your saved PocketScout™ locations? 1 tap and you’re there!
• Share your location with anyone (including all images, notes, longitude & latitude, street address, directions & map link) with 1 tap!

After you’ve scouted an awesome new location, here’s what you can do with it

• Take additional photos of the location so that you can see the location from different angles (as well as delete photos you don’t want anymore)
• Tag your location with 1 or more tags
• Add / Edit notes for your location
• Add / Edit location name
• Edit the street address (allowing you ability to add suite or apartment numbers; e.g. 601 Murray Circle Suite #2)
• Update the GPS location to further refine the longitude & latitude
• Show how far away you are to any location saved previously, from where you currently are
• Display the date the location was saved
• Every photo taken shows the time and direction faced at the time taken
• Choose between taking a picture or choosing an image from your camera roll if you have one saved already
• Show the location on a map
• Store all locations that had been scouted on your iPhone
• Sort locations based on tags, and display according to your preferences (in the settings section)
• View all relevant details about a location in one convenient window on your iPhone

Customizable settings

• When opening PocketScout™, choose to open with saved locations or adding a new location
• Choose to have your distance measurement in Miles or in Kilometers
• Export all your saved location details to a CSV, Excel-compatible file
• Sort your locations by newest at the top or newest at the bottom
• Manage your preferences for including images, map images and GPS coordinates when sharing a location
• Manage tags to create your own set of tags that work for your scouting workflow
• A help section detailing how to do tasks inside PocketScout™ with screenshots and text instructions

App Store Link: PocketScout; Price: £1.79/$2.99/€2.39

Editors comments: If you shoot with more than just an iPhone, then PocketScout may just be the perfect companion, letting you record and capture information about a location and/or viewpoint to revisit with your high end camera gear.

Want to know more about this app, and how it came to be? Then check out the developers story here.