5 Apps to Avoid the Crowds
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Five apps are described that help users avoid crowds in New York City: 1. Density detects foot traffic in businesses to indicate how crowded they are. It will launch in NYC by the end of summer. 2. Anti-Social disables all phone notifications for scheduled periods of time to free users from social media addiction. 3. Avoid Humans uses color codes to indicate crowding levels at events and locations like food, nightlife and coffee to help manage anxiety. 4. Avoid the Shopping Crowds monitors social media for posts and locations of people to advise users where not to shop during holidays to avoid crowds. 5. Google's app uses historical data on business peak hours to determine neighborhood crowding within a
5 Apps to Avoid the Crowds
- 1. CROWDS 5 Apps to Avoid the
- 2. In a city of eight million youre never alone.
- 3. swarms But avoiding the Big Apple overload and escaping social media innovative mobile apps is a whole lot simpler with these five
- 4. Density is a sleek, savvy traffic detection system that uses infrared distance sensors to anonymously detect when someone enters or exits a place of business, counting traffic at trendy bars, grocery stores...and maybe one day even at the DMV. Density
- 5. The California-born device gives users an accurate gauge of the number of visitors at a given time, and is expected to roll out in New York by the end of this summer.
- 6. Anti-Social Anti-Social is a mobile plug-in designed to free us from our social media addiction.
- 7. It lets users set periods of time, up to 8 hours in length, during which all phone notifications are disabled. Which means social media games, ads, posts, comments, and photos are all tucked away for a scheduled block of serenity.
- 8. Avoid Humans In response to the 90,000-strong crowd at SXSW last year, an Austin ad agency rolled out Avoid Humans to help ease anxiety amongst attendees.
- 9. The fast-growing app works to manage crowding in different categories like food, nightlife, and coffee with color-coded prompts of overcrowding danger: green is good and red means avoid at all costs.
- 10. Avoid the Shopping Crowds Designed to keep the noble holiday shopper away from the swarms during the holidays, Avoid the Shopping Crowds partners with Facebook, Foursquare, and Twitter to monitor posts, check-ins and tweets.
- 11. The app then monitors where all the people are converging, and updates users where not to be. Updates on shoppable locations feature prompts like calm, busy, and forget it. The app is available in the Netherlands but similar apps are already developing in the U.S..
- 12. Google Using its unrivaled algorithms and live analyses, tech giant Google has introduced a live app that helps you avoid the bars, restaurants, and other businesses with lines around the corner.
- 13. Piggy-backing off its Popular Times tool, which lets users know when a business is at its busiest, Googles latest iteration determines how crowded the neighborhood is within a specified hour, using historical data on a businesss peak hours.
- 14. In an age and a city in which people interact as continuously with their devices as they do with each other, it should come as no surprise that apps, plugins, and tools are popping up everywhere to solve the issue of overcrowding.
- 15. And whether its stealing one last Indian summer day, or de-stressing over a pizza, a little patch of peace and quiet in the big city is worth some extra space on the home screen.
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