Earthscape (iTunes link), the incredible iPhone application that brings Google-earth to the iPhone, just discounted its $10 pricetag to…free. For a “limited time.”
The app, which we first wrote about in May, puts a little globe in your pocket that you can spin around and zoom in to specific locations. It shows where you are based on your GPS coordinates, highlights locations with Wikipedia entries (and lets you read those entries as well) and flickr photos. Users can also take their own photos and add them to the application’s database. They are then optionally displayed to other users with the geotag information (see if you can find the TechCrunch image I uploaded to Atherton, California).
We wrote about the application again last month. It’s worth the $10, and so it’s definitely worth it for free.
See the demo video below for more information:
Wish i had an iPhone
The 99% of the world that doesn’t have or want an iPhone doesn’t care.
This is why us 1% rule the world…muahahahaha
I know alot of people that have the iphone now.
Andit’s a good phone, but really nothing to brag about.
There are plenty of other phones that could out-do the iPhone.
Some of us need to know that it’s available on the iPod Touch as well as the iPhone.
Hmm, shows up in my AppStore for 3.99 € – discount only in the US store?
actually… in the AppStore on my iPhone, it still shows up for 3.99€, but in the AppStore in iTunes it shows up as free. Weird…
if you click download it should change to free. at least it did for me. you have to verify it so there’s no risk if it doesn’t work.
What exactly did ” limited time ” mean ?
Read what Arrington said. Click on the app even though its 3.99 $. On the app page, it says its free.
Certainly not showing as free in the UK.
please try clicking download and see if it changes to free. if not, please let me know.
Ok, it’s now showing as free in iTunes and £2.99 on the iPhone itself. So I guess it’s just a case of the Wifi store not being in sync.
right it says its £2.99 on itunes for me as well as on my phone so its defo not free yet for us brits…
I’m guessing they cache prices for the main screen’s listing, but once you go to an app’s “details page”, it pulls the actual price record. So, like Mike said, just check out the detail screen, and see if it’s free…
Nope. It still says £2.99 in the iPhone version of the store
I get re-directed to Australia iTunes where it’s not for free!!
Maybe they still have to catch up
Just tried to get it from the appstore on the iPhone in the UK. Shows as Free in the listing but the details page shows it as £2.99. Trying to buy it returns a message stating “This item is currently being modifed, please try again later”.
it’s free on itunes but still priced $4,99 through the phone’s app store – weird
Not free in the Australia store.. yet.
US Account to the rescue
They want $AUD5.99 down here in Australia, using App store over the air. Just saying.
Really cool. Will get it right away…….
a new geobrowser, I will wait version 2.0 better
Nope, still showing as £2.99 for me in the iTunes store on my Mac.
Unfortunatelly, it doesn’t have resolution enough to see the streets at Lisbon City.
It says $4.99 on the Canadian store… but once you click on it to get to the download page the button says FREE.
However, I don’t think it’s worth it… it doesn’t get to a very high resolution. No close-ups of any city I checked out.
$4.99 is US store.
COOL WILL IT TELL ME IF EVERYONE WHO USES IPHONE ARE WEIRDOS OR NOT
COOL APPLICATION IF YOU EAT DING DONGS FOR BREAKFAST AND FARTY HOTDOGS FOR LUMCH AND STINKY MEXICAN BEANS FOR DINNER.
Crap the what are you talking about?
Still $4.99, are you now marketing iPhone apps through your site? How many more people now know of this app, visited the app store and bought it anyway?
Well the good news is, I have just downloaded this application FREE OF CHRAGE and I must say I am very impressed with it. So go it before it’s gone
Take a look at the free SnapMyLife iPhone app which allows you to upload photos which are automatically geo-tagged and see photos taken near you (or any other location round the world) on a Google Maps view – the app includes social networking features with a stream of photos, comments and favorites of friends you follow. Full disclosure – I work at SnapMyLife.
in the future when they start charging for the app again will we have to pay for updates?
Michael,
It is free as you mentioned in the App Store through the phone. Searching for the App brings you to the $4.99 price point, but as you stated clicking further shows that the app is free prior to installing to your iPhone.
As from the App Store:
“** WE WANT YOU TO USE EARTHSCAPE!! FOR A LIMITED TIME, WE ARE MAKING IT AVAILABLE FOR FREE: WE BELIEVE IF YOU TRY IT, YOU’LL AGREE THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING IPHONE APPS AVAILABLE TODAY — SO DOWNLOAD NOW AND START TAKING PHOTOS TO SHARE WITH THE WORLD **”
Wow, cool application, how come i didn’t know about it?
So what’s the deadline?
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Cool app, could do with more loopt-style buddies so you can share photos with friends. I tell you, though, my battery is down to 50% after using it for around 45 minutes. It’s a triple whammy: GPS, LOTS of 3G data and 3D grahpics all going on at the same time. Good luck iPhone battery!
I downloaded 2 seconds ago, and it still says FREE on the app page even though it says 3.99 when shown as a list (on iphone). Thanks Michael!
So, how is this app better than iPhone’s built in mapping app. What am I missing?
They are now charging $4.99 .. not free anymore..
it says $4.99 but if you click it, it says free. I tried downloading it and it said “This item is being modified”.
Welp, guess I missed it that was fast. When I try to download it it says $4.99 on the search screen, free on the app screen. When you click install it says “This item is being modified. Please try again later.”
If they change it to free again, I will try it … otherwise no thanks.
In my (US) iTunes application (Mac), on the Earthscape details page, it says “Free”, after you select “GET APP”, a dialogue with “Are you sure you want to buy and download the Application “Earthscape?”, after selecting “BUY”, another dialogue with: “Purchase of this item is currently not available. This item is being modified. Please try again later”
Same here on both US iTunes Mac and iPhone: “This item is currently being modified. Please try again later”
I was just able to download it!
This is so cool! My prediction is that soon the iphone will have every application you can think of.
You guys are all idiots. Stop searching for it and go into the Photography category where it is listed as free. When you search for it you will not get the updated results, you never do, it always takes atleast 24 hours for the search results to be updated in the app store.
I can now download the app via iphone app store. Enjoy
Thanks for the info Albert. It worked for me the same way.
Works fine in Canada. Downloaded it via wifi and it showed up as free.
Thanks for the tip on the App. I’m currently downloading.
Thanks again!
Jake
NoteScribe: Premier Notes Software
“Earthscape (iTunes link), the incredible iPhone application that brings Google-earth to the iPhone” – its NOT google earth, its google earth LIKE
I guess you could say we were TechCrunched… For those of you who found the performance less than stellar, our servers got hit pretty hard by the rush of new users, which was way beyond what we had expected. Our guys have things back on track now though, and performance is much better. We will continue to add additional capacity on the back end over time as we also continue to add more functionality to Earthscape — think of this version as a starting point for much more to come, and please let us know how we can improve it by mailing us at support (at) earthscape (dot) com.
Nice tip. Just got it and looks sweet.
good