Get Home is a simple app designed to ‘get you home’ no matter where you are.

 

Getting Home: When you first launch Get Home you are prompted to either enter your home address, or use your current location as your home. When you get directions to your home using the app, this address/location will be used as the destination. You can also change your home location at any time by going to the Get Home pane in the Settings app.



The developer of this app said ‘I expect drunk people to use this’ and I find this to be true. If you’re slightly drunk and can still read a map, you can tap the ‘Where Am I?’ button in Get Home to locate yourself using the Google Maps app. If you’re slightly more drunk, you can ‘get walking directions’, and this also links to the Google Maps app, and tells you the quickest route to get home on foot. If you’re even more wasted, you can tap either the ‘Bus Route’ or ‘Call Taxi’ buttons to find your way home via a bus, or call a taxi service nearby. Finally, at the ’21st birthday’ level of drunkenness, you can either text or call a trusted friend to come pick you up.

While this app does all of these things perfectly, I can’t see myself using this app anytime except for when I’m completely wasted (which I never am). It is nice to have easy-to-read-(while-drunk) text and color-coded actions, but each of these types of directions can be obtained directly within the Google Maps app. This app is useful for those who can only see enough to tap on the pretty blue icon on their iPhone’s screen, and then tap on one of the pretty bars to find their way home without having to stumble their way through the Google Maps app (and the iPhone keyboard).

Graphics and Interface: While this app’s usefulness for me is limited, the graphics are downright gorgeous. Apple’s own shiny buttons don’t do justice to the graphics in this app.



Bottom Line: This app is perfect for drunk people who need to find their way home. The graphics are gorgeous, the text easy-to-read, and the colors nice and bright so each function can be easily distinguishable when you’re completely wasted. There are a few quirks; the app doesn’t work the best on the iPod Touch, as the Touch only has wifi-based locations services instead of a GPS, though the app was still able to give me walking directions, find a taxi service nearby, and locate me pretty accurately. And of course, the phone and text functions don’t work on the Touch. It would be nice if this app could link to other apps such as Skype and TextFree, but unfortunately this isn’t possible.

I give Get Home 3 out of 5 views of the app through beer goggles.



Price: $1.99



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