5 location based apps you don’t want to live without today!

You don’t want to be stranded on a weekend holiday thinking about the route to where you are going, how you will go or is there any friend around! What do you do in such scenario? You simply utilise these apps, which are proving out to be your must-haves!

Olacabs.com, a marketplace for all types of cabs and car rentals for you! It's quite simple: You enter your city and your need. The app searches the available inventory of partners and provide you with a list of results and prices of different available cars from different operators. You can see the rating of that operator, what other customers said of them, and then book it right there on the app.

‘FrndiNeed’ is a socially enabled app that helps in utilising your geo-location to make every day travel smoother, safer and economically viable. This app lets you find your nearby friends and ask them for Lift or Poke them for instant plans. Users can also use other features including Packing Planner and press the SOS tab for help in urgent situations.

SocialShout! app is a way of incorporating the social networks (the online) into the shopping experience (the offline). The great thing about Social Shopping by SocialShout! is that it benefits both sides – customers and merchants. Customers win by getting great discounts, deals & offers. Merchants win by getting word of mouth across the social networks.

Tinder is another popular app that uses geo-location technology. Essentially a dating app, it lets users set a specific locality radius, which gives them the option to match and fix a meeting with anyone (who uses the app) within that distance.

Last but not the least, the ever-so-helpful, the new Google Maps draw a tailored map for every search and click you make. So whatever you're trying to find or wherever you're trying to go, you'll always have a map highlighting the things that matter most.