Swarm: Check In, Explore, Map

I wish more people would join this app, it’s so much fun to see all the places you visited on the globe. Please bring more stickers and challenges!

Kwam hier 20 jaar geleden altijd was een gezellig café met vriendelijk personeel, is nu een moderne vreetschuur geworden met belachelijke prijzen en onvriendelijk personeel met weinig horeca kennis

Swarm gebruik ik al jaren en het blijft één van de weinige apps die ik nooit heb verwijderd. Voor mij is het een persoonlijk reisdagboek zonder moeite. Even inchecken en later zie ik precies waar ik geweest ben, wanneer en hoe vaak. Simpel, stabiel en verrassend leuk om terug te kijken. Dit soort apps bestaan bijna niet meer.

Why this update? Because of commercial reasons? We use if with family to see and hear about what they are doing, but first you see the page of venues in the neighbourhood, colors are too dull and business-like
No improvement at all!

Being with Swarm/4sqr for 13 years now. Everything was cool until recent updates. Literally no words about new design. It’s just awful and map with my check-ins is just a mess now. But the main problem of UX for me is: every time when I am in a new city I CANT find it and check in there. I can found everything else (businesses, areas, neighborhoods) but just a city. Hate it! Earlier I checked in cities and even countries but now… very VERY annoying and disappointing, you bring the app down

New update is terrible. There was NOTHING wrong with the old interface. I will keep using it for a little while in the hopes that you will revert the changes, otherwise you’ll likely lose me as a user rather soon. This is one of the stupidest decisions you have made.

Being with Swarm/4sqr for 13 years now. Everything was cool, no complaints about new design. But every time when I am in a new city I CANT find it and check in there. Search founds everything else (businesses, areas, neighborhoods) but just a city. Hate it! Earlier I checked in cities and even countries, after I had a trick to find a city on 4sqr site and check in there through it but now it’s no more available

Amazing app, I am still using it but after the update it went from one of my all time favorite app to a mediocre one with the dullest and ugliest interface. The quirkiness is completely gone, the map update is horrendous and checking your streak is so much harder to check than before. I hope they will fix it because I think you’ll lose more people than you would gain with what I can say is top 10 worst update for any mobile app

Vind dit een geweldige app om je bewegingen vast te leggen. Leuk dagboek voor waar ik geweest ben en leuk om bekenden te volgen. Na de update opzich prima qua werking alleen de update van de kaart is vreselijk! Zo jammer dat je geen overzicht meer hebt van je eigen pins… ik zit in Swarm niet te wachten op suggesties van wat er is, daarvoor gebruik ik Maps wel. Ik wil alleen mijn bezochte plekken zien. Gauw terugdraaien ajb!

I’m highly motivated to design my own app now that the new UI doesn’t let me look at my map history with just pointers all around. Neither does it give me my worldwide view . You’ve totally neutered your app. This isn’t a step backwards but a monumental miss that will be taught later in design schools

Update was disaster. Now its not comfortable, not useful, not simple and just embarrassing.

Where are all my orange dots? I want to zoom in on the map to see where I went. This update sucks

I’ve been a user for many many years and this redesign is just soulless, where is the fun in this gray, text-based interface?..

I’ve been using this app for years now. I can understand that an update was needed but it’s simply terrible to use. It’s not ‘easier to check in’ in some cases it’s practically impossible!

They changed the map. Now it looks like a google map for poor people. Before it was a map of your checkins, we used it for our short travels around the country, we checked where we’ve been and where we haven’t yet been. Now it is basically hidden, your checkins are somewhere under the layer of useless random data.

Not happy with the latest “new ui” update.
Can’t check-in into cities anymore, since the search list is to short and you can’t filter on types or extend the search.
Also adding new venues is impossible since the submit button stays disabled whatever you do.
Contacting support won’t help either, you’re forced to fill in detail you can’t find anywhere (like account uuid) so you won’t be able to reach a real person at all

Terrible changes made in july 2025. Please bring back the old Swarm, otherwise I’ll delete the app.

Foursquare itself was great to find trendy places, Swarm is of no use as they seem to have lost the majority of people commenting after checking in. Swarm itself lacks some users and therefore does not have up to date information. They should start thinking of integrating OSM information of places as nobody will be able to make the necessary changes.