Yelp 3.1.1 - iPhone - iPod Touch - 284910350 Category: Travel Author: Yelp Vote(s): 48211 Price: Free Released: July 11, 2008 Version: 3.1.1 Download Yelp Get Yelp for Free
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Looking for a burrito joint open now? An Irish pub nearby? A gas station you can drive to before your tank hits empty? Yelp for your iPhone is here to help. Use us to search for places to eat, shop, drink, relax and play then read reviews from an active community of locals in the know.
FEATURES:
- Search for businesses near you
- Tap quick links to find nearby bars, restaurants, cafes and more
- Narrow your searches by 'hood, distance, price, and what's open now
- Browse reviews to read what's great (and not so great) in your city
- Add Quick Tips, photos, and draft reviews for your favorite businesses
- Check-in and share on Facebook and Twitter
- Make reservations on OpenTable without leaving the Yelp app
- Look up addresses and phone numbers for thousands of businesses, then call or map them from your iPhone
- Yelp does augmented reality with Monocle. Overlay business information onto the world around you Yelp, Inc 2011
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Easy to use but only very limited access to the goodness of Yelp.com In case you don't know, Yelp is the best review site on the web for finding and choosing restaurants, shops and other businesses by location and rating, optionally filtered by many other criteria. Yelp users are very dedicated to providing in-depth and insightful reviews. Since Yelp users and the reviews they write are themselves rated, and since the Yelp community is both large and very healthy, the reviews and ratings are generally high quality and reliable, and provide comprehensive coverage of all the major metro areas. This first version Yelp iPhone application uses the iPhone's location awareness to give you a quick list of what's near you, but you can only view the top 20 results. This would be fine if you could tell it whether you cared about proximity or higher ratings more, but you can't. You can't do category-based search as you can on Yelp.com, so when I searched for "pizza" only 1 out of the 5 results were for a pizza joint, though I did get better results when my search was "restaurants pizza". On the plus side you can filter by distance, price, neighborhood and whether it is "open now". You can't filter by the many other criteria supported on Yelp.com -- But that's okay since you want an iPhone app to be simple. Unfortunately the filters that are supported don't remember your settings, so you have to re-enter them each time you search. On Yelp.com you can move the map view around to find more places in other parts of the map. Not possible on the iPhone Yelp. There is no link to your Yelp account if you have one. This means that all the bookmarks you create on Yelp.com for restaurants you want to try don't synchronize to your iPhone and vice-versa. You cannot access your own reviews or lookup what your friends like. You also cannot write a review of a restaurant or other business on the spot, while it is still fresh in your mind and while you can conveniently include a photo taken with your iPhone.This is a first version, so I fully expect Yelp to address most if not all of these shortcomings in the not too distant future. Maybe they'll come out with Yelp Pro. Until then, this is better than nothing.
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Version 1.0
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Jul 13, 2008
- Yelp review by
brownsugarcinnamon
Good, destined for greatness? Way to go, Yelp. Very solid app that tells you exactly what you want to know: what's the best stuff nearby. There's one feature I do consider missing, though: the tie in to your user account. • I want to share my bookmarks between my phone and my account. • I'd also like to write reviews on the go. • Maybe (maybe?) even post a picture of an establishment.
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Version 1.0
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Jul 14, 2008
- Yelp review by
Chad Wilkens
Good start but needs improvement The Yelp App is a pretty solid start. Easy to get to reviews, find resturaunts. I think the biggest thing missing is integration with the normal maps program. Finding the restaurants is good, but then when you pick one and want to get directions, I had to type in the address manually into google maps. Ideally I'd want it to open up in google maps w/ directions from current location.
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Version 1.0
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Jul 13, 2008
- Yelp review by
DaBruceski
Great App, MAPS is a problem Yelp is awesome- the full web version is great and this app is very nice. My one complaint and its no small inconvenience is that when you find a place to go - a restaurant for example it shows you the address and you can touch it to bring up a map. Unfortunately the map is inside the application itself and although powered by Google does not seem to allow you to pan zoom or get driving directions. I think there should be a way to launch Google Maps from Yelp so you can get driving directions, etc. Please add this feature. Also, the search results seem limited to 20 results. WTF? weak. This app is a good start but needs some updating and more advanced features.
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Version 1.0
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Jul 15, 2008
- Yelp review by
monkeydigsapple
Decent app, could be more robust This app is all right. It's nice to be able to read reviews on the fly, but it could be so much better if I could write a review right from the app and post it. Maybe in a future update?
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Version 1.0
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Jul 14, 2008
- Yelp review by
Solosoul
Very Useful App Find all the places you want to go.Great use of the iPhone 3G GPS.The price is really right too.
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Version 1.0
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Jul 19, 2008
- Yelp review by
hdtravel
Yelping the Yelp App. Boo. The App is ok. But if you are a Yelper, you want to write reviews with ease and this app does not let you do it. Boo!
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Version 1.0
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Jul 13, 2008
- Yelp review by
DCJeff
Can't login to my Yelp account? YELP, HELP!I would like to be able to log in to my account so I can add to and review my bookmarks, post a review, automatically search my saved locations, etc. Make this functionality work and I'm sure you'll make a lot of users very happy.
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Version 1.0
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Jul 13, 2008
- Yelp review by
mdulle
Best location-based app so far but... This is great... it actually found a whole heap of restaurants nearby and I immediately ran to yelp.com and created an account, only to return to my iPhone app and find that there's no way to logon and review from my phone. I'll be honest--I have zero intentions to use your website, yelp.com. I have every intention to use your iPhone app, though.Here's what I'd love to see:1. I can add restaurants that are not yet listed and review them.2. I can post a review from my iPhone, with a photo!You *have* to do these two things to the iPhone app to make it a success. I mean, how cool would it be to be eating at a restaurant, totally loving or hating on a dish, break out the iPhone, snap a pic of it with a good/bad review, and have that posted? That would make this service so dang useful... of course you already know that. Just make it happen now!
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Version 1.0
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Jul 25, 2008
- Yelp review by
OldNo7fan
Perfect for on the go dining experiences. This app is perfect for yelpers that need to let their opinions out instantly!
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Version 1.0
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Jul 10, 2008
- Yelp review by
JFCFinancial
Yelp Needs Help! This is a very amateurish implementation of a Yelp interface that is not nearly as good as the mobile Safari app that you can also run on the iPhone. I really like the Yelp website. It is a great local resource, but they clearly have no experience nor aptitude for developing mobile apps and it shows. The functionality is exceedingly limited and poorly packaged. One gets the feeling that all the hype made them feel that they needed to check off the iPhone square so they did, but with the absolute minimum of effort. Fortunately, you can expect to see lots of independent software developers attacking this space with much more enthusiasm and competence.
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Version 1.0
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Jul 13, 2008
- Yelp review by
LagunaticOne
Excellent location aware finding app. Best one of the bunch, and there are quite a few out there.
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Version 1.0
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Jul 10, 2008
- Yelp review by
earthx
"Nearby" functionality doesn't work I tried to search for nearby restaurants. It displayed a message saying "a connection error has occurred" every time with no other useful info.
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Version 1.0
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Jul 10, 2008
- Yelp review by
edog1203
Yelp Hits The Big Time Finally! We've been waiting for Yelp to become more iPhone/iPod Touch accessible since they (iPhone/iPod Touch) came out. This will make it so much easier to find restaurants/things to do then ever before.
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Version 1.0
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Jul 10, 2008
- Yelp review by
The Dukeses
Great idea. I hadn't heard of of yelp before finding this app, but it seems like a great idea, and it seems to work well.
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Version 1.0
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Jul 15, 2008
- Yelp review by
ttrygve
No good... iWant is 10 times better!!! Don't waste you time on this one.
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Version 1.0
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Jul 30, 2008
- Yelp review by
PrivateCowBoy
Grt app, but needs Maps integration I love this app. It helped me find a Thai restaurant at a new obscure location which I never would hv visited unless I read the reviews. But I couldn't get driving directions to the place from my current location. I had to open Maps, find the same location by name(WTF) and then get driving directions.
This will be an even better app when integrated with the maps app.
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Version 1.0
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Jul 15, 2008
- Yelp review by
Neel_the_Devil
Still lacking some features... Seems great, but I have yet to figure out how to write a review or add a picture without going on the website. Other than that, it is quite good.
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Version 1.0
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Jul 13, 2008
- Yelp review by
BJOwens
finally!!!!! using yelp on the iphone before now was just ubsurd! now, its as easy as pie!!! thank god!
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Version 1.0
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Jul 10, 2008
- Yelp review by
fondue
Where There is a free app called "Where". It has full maps capabilities, in fact it has a map integrated right into the application. With "Where" you can find things through Yelp, and find the nearest starbucks it uses the Eventful application, and Gas Buddy, Quibbler, HeyWhatsThat, the sky ( a map of the night sky), local search, all specified to your location. I feel this yelp is useful, but i think "Where" is a more compact application with more options.
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Version 1.0
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Aug 3, 2008
- Yelp review by
OPTIMUS_subPRIME
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Yelp - iPhone Travel Application Looking for a burrito joint open now? An Irish pub nearby? A gas station you can drive to before your tank hits empty? Yelp for your iPhone is here to help. Use us to search for places to eat, shop, drink, relax and play then read reviews from an active community of locals in the know. ... Yelp - Released: July 11, 2008 - Vote(s): 48211
