MyPlaces – iPhone App Review

MyPlaces! ($1.99)

Version – 1.2.1

Review – “A great way to sort your photos by events!”

If you spend a lot of time traveling and you love taking photos, MyPlaces! is an app that you should tame a look at! The concept is simple. MyPlaces! allows you to sort your photos by the event they were taken for. It also allows you to add location data to your photos if they’re taken with a device that does not have a built-in GPS chip.

When you open up MyPlaces! the first thing you see is a simple interface with a menu bar at the top and bottom of the screen. To add a new event, or “Group,” all you have to do is touch the “+” button in the upper right corner of the screen. All you have to do is enter a name for the group and then touch the “Done” button in the upper right corner. You can sort the list of Groups or the events within them in ascending or descending order by touching the button in the center of the bottom of the screen.

Once you have added and opened up a “Group” you can add individual locations, photos and notes by touching the “+” button in the upper right corner. You’ll be taken to a screen with a map to enter in location you are posting about. At the bottom of the screen is a “Notes” button that will let you view and edit the name of the event and add relevant notes and photos.

It may seem a little silly at first to put your photos in an app to sort them by location when your iPhone already does that for you. With that said, if you’re the kind of person that takes a lot of photos, you’ll very quickly come to appreciate the fact that you can sort your photos into a variety of different sections based on where they were taken and what you were doing! All of that combined with the ability to add notes about the events you’re photographing manage to make this app quite useful.

The best selling points of this app are in how simple it manages to keep itself. At any time if you need to remove entries all you have to do is touch the “Edit” button in the upper left corner of the screen and use the familiar iPhone interface to touch the “-” button on the left and then touch the “Delete” button on the right.

While the interface is pretty simple, if you’re unsure and want to be walked through it all you have to do is touch the “?” button in the lower left corner of the screen. With that said, I don’t think very many people will ever need this feature because of how simple the app is. If you’re still unsure of how useful this app can be, I’d encourage you to try out the “Lite” version of the app for free. It is fully functional, just with ads and a limit on how many groups and events you can add.

- David H.

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