Quickie Review: iWant

July 31, 2008 · Print This Article

iWant is a free iPhone app that helps you find what you’re looking for. Now, that could be anything from car rentals to restaurants. The GPS finds your location, thereupon show you the nearest places to you.

Granted, there are many other apps out there like this–Yelp, Nearby, urbanspoon, just to name a few. But I think iWant is interesting considering it’s attempting to give you knowledge on all major business types. Pretty bold, don’t you think?

The interface is very neat and easy to use. The icons are representative of the categories. You can organize the search results by distance of rating, plus a five-star system (powered by yelp) helps you keep tabs on what’s

good and what’s better left avoided. whether you have the yelp app, you can read reviews on places you find in iWant through yelp. Pretty cool synchronization, there.

Plus, when you want to see where something is, you just go on the map icon in the lower right hand corner.

All in all, I like that app. But it doesn’t offer anything additional. But something has to be said for an app that lives up to what it claims to do. I have to respect that.