Foursquare is killing its metropolis information app to concentrate on the check-in app Swarm

It’s the top of an period for one of many App Retailer’s earliest success tales. Foursquare is shutting down its signature metropolis information app with the intention to “focus our efforts on constructing a fair higher expertise in Swarm,” the corporate stated in . The app will shut down December 15, whereas the net model will keep on-line till “early 2025.”

The shutdown is a notable reversal of a method the corporate introduced a decade in the past when it, controversially, opted its famed “check-in” service right into a separate app. That app grew to become generally known as Swarm whereas the Foursquare-branded app grew to become a “” stuffed with user-generated opinions and native suggestions.

Now, Foursquare says its future is, as soon as once more, the check-in. “We’re additionally introducing thrilling new options and capabilities into Swarm all year long (👀 a few of which can look acquainted to you) with the intention to unlock new use circumstances which will higher help your wants,” the corporate stated, including that further updates are anticipated “early subsequent yr.”

It’s not clear why the corporate is altering its technique to elevate Swarm over its namesake app. The corporate greater than 100 workers earlier this yr in an effort to “streamline” operations. Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley, who’s at the moment co-chair of the corporate’s board of administrators, stated in a submit that the corporate is “doing advantageous,” although he expressed disappointment with the information. “I might be mendacity if I did not admit that I’ve been in an actual funk these previous couple of days over this information,” he wrote.