Foursquare Swarm: Check In
September 26, 2025
More About Foursquare Swarm: Check In
• Indian Restaurant? Check. Karaoke bar? Check. Haven’t been to an Art Museum yet? Now’s your chance to go somewhere new! Explore more and collect different types of places so you can keep track and remember your history. You’ll earn fun Stickers along the way.
• Whether it’s your 10th week in a row at the gym, first time to Canada, or the 25th time you’ve gotten ice cream with your BFF, the more you check-in, the more helpful insights you’ll get as you track your habits and explorations.
•Keep up and meet up with friends. Share your location with a checkin and see friends nearby. A serendipitous checkin can help you find friends when you’re out and about and see who’s here.
•Don’t have any friends nearby? Not a problem! Not only is this app a great way to lifelog and remember for yourself, but to keep track of your friends’ adventures as well, no matter how far far away they are.
•Lifelog your adventures so your history is less questions, more remembering the good times.
*A note on battery. We’ve spent *years* developing the location technology that powers Foursquare Swarm, making it extremely power efficient. But, as with all apps of this type, continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
Latest Version
6.10.74
September 26, 2025
Foursquare
Travel & Local
Android
25,400,140
Free
com.foursquare.robin
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User Reviews
Jennifer Guo
2 years ago
nice in theory but frustrating to use. E.g., I accidentally deleted a check-in and there doesn't seem to be a way to restore. I wish u could manually add check-ins & times from the past & not only check-in real time (besides the recent places they suggest). I wish there was a way to bulk-delete or turn off their automatic suggested check-ins, bc that feature is helpful when I'm travelling, but i dont want to check into all the places i go every day in normal life & deleting 1 by 1 is tedious
K D
5 months ago
I'm writing this review specifically about their so-called privacy controls. I requested my account be deleted more than two weeks ago and they still haven't managed to do it. How have they not figured out how to push the delete button after this long? They'll do anything to avoid actually allowing you to control your information. They're also absolutely impossible to contact (page won't even load)! DELETE IT ALREADY
Zekushion
3 years ago
A nice app to keep track of which places you visited, but I have one big problem. I've reinstalled this app three weeks ago after years of not using it and logged into my old account. I was able to change my profile info but I've not been able to change my profile Pic, no matter how many times I closed and reopened this app. Even now after the newest update, I still cannot change my profile Pic and it's infuriating. Please fix this
A Google user
5 years ago
App has been fine, but I ran into a frustrating big that the developers seem to think is with my phone. I have a Pixel 3a. I set location permission to "only while using the app". Even though I had a dialog window that asked for "always on" location, and then has a "remember my choice and do not ask again" when it comes to the only while in use option, the app asks me EVERY TIME if I want to change my settings to always on. I've tried uninstalling, reinstalling, removing my settings.
A Google user
6 years ago
I use the app all day round and thanks for the developers. I often recognize some bugs, and this is something negative. Also, I strongly ask to make all the name of chain stores appear. (Ex. Not "Mcdonald's" but "Mcdonald's Queen Street") This made me stick to Japanese because those information are shown in Japanese version. Also, there is a big bug. When I change the listing from "latest" to "distance" it crashes. When this happens I need to reinstall the app so I want the bug to be fixed
A Google user
5 years ago
Great app, very bad customer support. I have contacted customer support for 4 weeks now only to be asked the same question 3 times. I keep getting automatic emails from their system saying I haven't responded to them, even though I receive an answer from them 2-3 days later. I would really like to give this app a try but their customer support makes it so difficult to communicate my issue - app cannot locate me.
Turki T.
3 years ago
Absolutely terrible app. I cannot even set a profile picture and after I reinstalled it, I can no longer log back into my account. Here in the reviews, they tell you to contact customer support. However, it seems that their customer support team is basically a bot with the single function of sending an unintelligible auto-reply email. I also suspect that their app development team is also a bot, because a 12 year old playing around with an app building tool would have done a far better job.
JJ Singley
1 month ago
Never able to use because I couldn't sign up. Wouldn't connect to Google auth and when trying to sign up with email the code sent for 2 factor failed 3 times. Yelp is my go to now. Too bad because I liked Foursquare.
A Google user
6 years ago
Have been using this app for years. Perhaps often overuse it as it gives me a "timeout" & no coins when I've done too many check-ins (often frustrating as they're all correct). However what's most frustrating about the latest version is no longer being able to add photos. I thought at first that it might be the image size, But even resizing hasn't helped. My app also has all the required permissions, so it's not from my end.
Stuart Millard
1 year ago
I've been a Foursquare user since 2010, and use it every single day for checking in and researching new venues. My only gripe is that, at some point in the last couple of weeks the app has developed a fault whereby it doesn't seem to file photos correctly in my device storage so I constantly get notifications about a "new photo storage location" having been detected. This has happened on two separate handsets, so can't be a local issue.
CM
3 years ago
It's been great for years but since the most recent update, my check-ins constantly fail. It happens several times a day and re-installing the app hasn't helped. Quelle damage. PS: there's also been a problem for ages when you add a photo and accidentally hit 'Confirm' too soon, and the app freezes up and has to be closed. Frustrating bug.
John Homan
3 years ago
I've been a user for a long time, enjoyed checking in and seeing where friends have been. However, since a November update I'm having major issues with the app finding my location so I can check in, I try opening & closing the app several times, it helps a little bit but not a lot. Don't try to report a bug or provide feedback within app, you'll get an email saying undeliverable. I tried emailing support via computer and no response, if it don't work properly then I'll have to delete account.
Tomi Häsä
1 month ago
Foursquare-era is over (see the notification in the app). You can still use Swarm to log in to places.
Deanna Lucas
1 month ago
Works fine except I can't delete check-ins now. It asks if I want to delete but there's no yes or no option it's just blank
A Google user
6 years ago
Planet Fitness location permanently closed all of a sudden? Go to drop a pin, it's a duplicate. Gym quit coming up for check-in, which is open 24/7. Not closed. Uninstalled to reinstall, but since I use it primarily to track my gym check-ins, I'll leave it uninstalled. Foursquare, too, which said the gym I was standing in the middle of was permanently closed. 😂
Diamond Lou
2 years ago
This app used to work great, but for the last week it's been disconnected from Facebook. Every time I try to reconnect, it sends me to an error screen saying that app is not active and that the app producers know of the problem. I have been in contact with Swarm customer service and it's like pulling teeth. First they told me at my account didn't exist until I sent them screenshots and my swarm account number, then they suggested things that I had already done four times.
Deanna O'Reilly
4 years ago
I love this app! Been using it since 2011. I check my day in history almost every day and reminisce, enjoying all the memories! I learned over the years to add notes when I check in or go back and add them later. They help me remember what I was doing at that location! Plus, when I found a couple of small quirks throughout the years I submitted tickets and their support team responded and resolved very quickly. Did I mention that I love this app?
A Google user
5 years ago
After the most recent update, every single time I check in I'm prompted to update my settings to allow Swarm to access my location when I'm not using the app. I don't want to change my settings, and being continually asked to is really decreasing my enjoyment of the app. Even after selecting the "don't ask again" option from my phone menu, I keep getting the pop-up. I've used Foursquare/Swarm for almost ten years, but I'm not sure how much longer I'll be a user if this continues.
Casey Watkins
2 years ago
It's definitely useful, but a few edits could make it extremely usable. I love having a timeline of the places i go, but the check-in process is pretty restrictive to present, current, online locations. I wish you could go back and edit the time you visited the place. Sometimes my phone isn't or I've had a couple places that didn't automatically generate and when I go back I can't edit when I visited it. It also has some hiccups when you try to check in from a friend's place.
Shawn S
4 years ago
This app used to work great. Then a feature stopped working during check-ins. I have been in an ongoing battle with their support for over 3 YEARS. I have heard every excuse in the book, my favorite is being told it is a user error and then to be told the next week it is a known error, they are still looking into. Now, I'm being told it's not a high priority bug to fix and it only affects Android users. 1 star for a support team that cant solve ONE ISSUE in a year. I've been beyond patient.
