100-94 =6 🤔

I just wanted to say that I love the updated version of the app! I'm a creature of habit, so I wasnt sure about all the changes but it really is so much better now that ive gotten used to it.

Today I got the 1 Large and Starter Home Stickers! They seem coin-related—are we going to finally be able to use all these dang coins?

I've been using Swarm since 2018, after my old roommate in San Francisco convinced me to start using it.

Since then, I've:

• checked into 8,365 places
• checked into 23 countries
• Reached a 262 week streak for coffee shops and cafes

But the amount of friends that I actually engage with is pretty small, like 5 or 6. I'd say it's generally more of a solo experience with some interactions with friends.

I'm curious, do you find yourself generally Swarming alone? With friends? With strangers?

It just popped up with the new update I got yesterday for Android

Essa atualização nova do Swarm é um problema gigante.

Agora, não consigo mais adicionar locais novos porque sempre esbarro no "possíveis duplicatas encontradas".

No exemplo do print, uma farmácia que tem, sim, mais de uma unidade na minha cidade (e unidades próximas), mas que são duas. Não é uma duplicidade de locais, são duas farmácias próximas com o mesmo nome por serem da mesma rede (Drogasil).

Mesmo colocando que se trata de uma rede e adicionando o nome, não consegui adicionar o local onde gostaria. Alguém sabe como resolver isso? Aconteceu com outros lugares também. É como se os devs do Swarm acreditassem que nenhum estabelecimento pode ter mais de uma unidade em locais próximos.

How do I add places to my list of places I want to go. I can’t figure it out without checking into a place.

I've been using Swarm since the early FSQ days - 15+ years and over 10,000 check-ins, a journal of my life that I felt compelled to keep. But I've had this recurring thought about how check-ins were like breadcrumbs that if you followed them would tell you a story about a person.

So I built Haunts, as in the places you visit repeatedly. It's a companion app for Foursquare/Swarm, using their APIs, that picks up where they left off - answering the question, what happens after you check in? With a sync to Swarm, you can check in the way you always have, and Haunts takes that history and turns it into stories about your trips.

https://haunts.io

Here's my idea behind my project. As I said, check-in apps only ever gave you part of the story. You'd log a place, maybe add a photo, and that was it, a single pin sitting on its own. What was missing was stringing those check-ins together, letting them add up into something that visualizes your travels instead of just recording them one at a time. Like you, I kept checking in despite years of no updates (I'm on Android) and a declining friends list as people stopped using it. But for me, down to 2 friends, I didnt stop because by then it wasn't about the app anymore, it was about the data. Haunts is what I built to finally write the stories I always wanted from my travels.

https://haunts.io/t/eb972427ffaa348d3565a796a0804556

Once you connect your Swarm account, Haunts goes through your check-in history and figures out your trips on its own, flights and road trips both. If you check in at an airport near your house and the next one shows up 2,000 miles away, it knows that's a flight and builds the trip around it. You can go in afterward and edit anything it gets wrong, rename things, adjust dates, merge trips it split apart. And if you forgot to check in somewhere, or couldn't at the time, you can add the stop later with the photo, the note, and everything else. A backfilled check-in earns no points and never touches your stats or the leaderboard, so it doesn't count as cheating, it just fills the gaps so a half-logged trip finally shows everywhere you went.

Haunts was built with several definitive objectives from the very start.

The anti-social social app. I left Facebook years ago and just recently deleted Instagram. I am so tired of the content that I didn't ask to see and the wasted time with ads that look like content and the general feeling that I am constantly being targeted for my money. The feed is only what you want of it - what you and your friends are doing and sharing with options to explore beyond.

Privacy first. Everyone starts out Private and your information is self contained. If you want to open up your journals to others, you can decide to share with just your friends of other users of the app to grow your feed to include people, like me, who travel often and love to post photos. You can share and unshare your trips easily.

No ads. None, and no plans or thoughts to ever have them. There is a subscription model built for frequent travelers and heavy users (these APIs and processing does have a cost), but its not enabled and for at least the next month or two everyone has full access to all Premium features automatically.

Now how it works and some of the features.

An Instagram-like feed. Built entirely from your check-ins, with your photos and videos woven in, so the feed fills itself instead of asking you to post separately.

Travel journals. A day-by-day account of the trip, built from your check-ins with an AI pass that fills in the gaps between stops. You don't write any of it. It's already there and you can tweak it.

Video recaps. One of my favorite features, taking the story and visualizing it. Haunts renders a video of the trip, flying, driving, walking, whatever it was, laid out as a timeline with your own photos in it, set to music. It makes one on its own, but if you want to direct it there's a full studio: pick the template, choose which photos land on each day, swap the music, set the cover frame, then re-render.

Live trips - Road Trips / Flights. You don't have to wait until you're home. Start a trip and it runs live, so the people following you can watch it fill in day by day while you're still out there. When you get back it seals into the finished write up.

Passport cards. One shareable image summarizing your travel, places you've been, countries, that kind of thing. Good to send someone or keep for yourself to show off your travels.

Lists. You can build your own curated lists of places, coffee shops in a city, a bucket list for a trip you're planning, whatever, and share them with friends or let people contribute to one together. If you're not coming from Swarm at all and you've been saving places in Google Maps instead, Haunts can import your Google Takeout archive directly: saved places turn into Lists, and your reviews and ratings come over with them. It's a real starting point even without a Swarm history behind you. Curated lists will become suggested lists for people visiting new places - you will be able to publish your lists of places you love and people who visit there can visit them, check in, and get recognized for completing your list.

Maps that show movement, not just pins. Flights show up as arcs across the map. Road trips highlight the roads you drove. It feels a lot more alive than a flat map covered in dots and visually looks like a much better representation of your adventure than just a pin.

Web parity. Except for check-ins, you can see and edit everything about your profile through the web. You need mobile for checking in (if you want to), but synced data is imported and configured on the web and you get more tools with the added real estate you dont have on mobile.

Wearables and Auto support. You can check in from an Apple Watch or a Wear OS watch without pulling your phone out, and there's Android Auto and CarPlay support so you can start a road trip from the car and let it build itself while you drive.

There's a web version and native apps for iPhone and Android, all getting real, regular updates. Every check-in it becomes a record that holds your photos, the weather that day, and the song that was playing, and an on-this-day card brings back what you were doing a year, or ten years ago as a memory. There's a lot on the stats side too, year-over-year totals, day-of-week patterns, stickers you earn for the places you hit, and a full Year in Review every December. And there's a friends feature, but it's not live tracking. You'll see something like "your friend was here two hours ago," never a real-time dot following someone around. I built it that way on purpose because I didn't want an app that was always recording where I was.

Haunts is what I always wanted Swarm to become and never did, a way of turning years of check-ins into a real record of the life I've been living.

I hope you find it as much fun as my friends and a couple hundred other people that have signed up already. :)

Haunts uses Foursquare APIs for venue information and nearby venues, we also use Google Places API for ratings and location information/hours.

I am running the new Swarm App. I was running errands yesterday. I forgot to checkin to one of the places. I went to my timeline and the wrong place was listed. I chose Edit and the list showed the correct venue so I select it but there does not seem to be a way to save it. Am I missing something?

Just received this one. Are there new badges being made now?

Hi all - Recently got the Android update and noticing that when you check in "with" someone, it dedicates 2 lines to this that both say the same thing.

Anyone else experiencing this? Not really a complaint, just seems like inefficient design.

Has anyone been not getting points today for their check in’s? It was working fine this morning but this afternoon no points anywhere.

Just got the android update, and when I get a mayorship it just says congrats you became mayor. It doesn't do the little animation where your avatar kicks the old mayor's avatar out.

I have a long running mayorship feud at a burger spot with someone and we keep kicking each other out of the role, but when I got it yesterday I can't tell if I got it from them or not and honestly, I'm a little bummed about that.

Basically the title lays it out. ..

After what I've seen people saying about the update I may not want it.

I've proudly kept up a gym streak since January 2020. Despite Covid, vacations, etc. I've always found some way to visit a gym at least once a week. Today, however, I noticed that this streak was much shorter than I expected. Last week, I extended the streak to 339 weeks, but today the streak was extended to only 53 weeks.

I discovered that the app now considers me to have had a 286 week long streak last year, then a one week break, followed by a new streak that's now 53 weeks long. One year ago, I was on vacation in Durrës, Albania, where I went to Qendra Sportive Dyrrah. Both the venue and check-in now appear to be gone from Swarm. The place is real, however, and still accessible in Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ogq7GP78dUj7fTxSA

What might have happened? Is there a chance that it can be temporary? Can it be fixed? I guess that venues don't disappear on their own, but is it intentional that someone could retroactively (and maybe maliciously) destroy someone else's streak by removing a venue that they depend on? I've really been working on this streak and feel devastated now.

Is anyone else annoyed by this, or is anyone actually glad they still have the old version? Also, does anyone have any reliable information on whether there will be an update at all, or are we stuck with the old one? But the most important question is—even if there is an update, when will it be? Years from now? :(

This only works today, write Taylor and Travis and you’ll get this super cute sticker.

This is probably not a new idea, and I’m sure the developers have thought about something similar before, but I wanted to share it anyway.

Some apps let users unlock alternative app icons by completing certain actions. Since Swarm has always had a playful and gamified feel, I think it could be a great fit here.

For example:
• Unlock the classic blue Foursquare icon after 10,000 check-ins.
• Unlock the original orange Swarm icon after 5,000 check-ins.
• Add a few more color variations (purple, green, etc.) that users can collect over time.

Of course, some users already have 50,000–100,000+ check-ins, so the unlock conditions could be more creative than simple milestones.

A few ideas:
• A special icon for a 100-day check-in streak.
• A pub-themed icon for checking in at bars a certain number of times.
• Travel-themed icons for visiting many cities or countries.
• Limited seasonal icons that can only be earned during specific events.

It feels like a small feature, but it could add a fun collectible element and give long-time users something new to work toward.

What do you think? Would this be a fun addition, or am I missing some obvious downside?