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The GateGuru iPhone App Will Find All The Airport ATMs For You

December 10, 2009 at 8:49 AM | by JetSetCD | 0 Comments

We found another iPhone Travel App to add to our list of the Best Travel Apps that debuted this fall! It's called GateGuru, and it just arrived in the iTunes App store on Monday in both paid ($1.99) and Lite (free) versions.

It's practically a must-have for frequent flyers, and we're already having fun messing with it, since it's like a successful mixture of Yelp, Foursquare and FlyerTalk. The Yelp component is strongest, in that GateGuru's main function is for users to add and review airport amenities like ATMs, restaurants, first class lounges and children's play areas in the top 85 US airports. This way, when you're stuck at LaGuardia's Central Terminal, you'll see that you've got an amazing four Au Bon Pains to choose from, in addition to which one is best and which ones are before and after security.

The Foursquare and FlyerTalk-like features are more evident the more your participate. If you're rating and contributing to an airport's offerings on GateGuru, then you enter and climb in a leaderboard, until you achieve "Captain" status of the airport. And of course this syncs with Facebook and Twitter so that you can gloat. All that helps keep our interest piqued and our participation coming, but what we're most impressed with is the detailed information—airport amenities include photos, what the places offer, and exactly where to find them, up to the nearest gate.

The difference between the paid and the free apps are how many airports you get to browse. The paid app gives you access to all the of features and the 85 airport directory, while the free app allows you to download only two airports but still lets you in on the leaderboard and other features. Plus, the blasted app is well-designed and easy to use. Gold star!

Related Stories:
· GateGuru [iTunes]
· GateGuru Lite [iTunes]
· iPhone Travel Apps coverage [Jaunted]

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