We’re very excited to introduce the new Aardvark Mobile iPhone App!
As of this morning, Aardvark Mobile is available for free download in the iPhone App Store.
Aardvark Mobile is the future of Social Search: Ask any question (from anywhere), and get a *live* answer from someone in your social network in under 5 minutes!
Lots of great Aardvark questions come up everyday when you’re out and about. With Aardvark Mobile, it’s now super-simple to get connected to a friend (or friend-of-friend) with the right knowledge and experience about…
- Neighborhood places (”What fun bars downtown have outdoor seating?”)
- Travel tips (”What are some day trips near Berlin that aren’t too touristy?”)
- Entertainment (“Any recommendations for live music - indie rock, world music, whatever! - to check out tonight?”)
- App recommendations (”What’s the best strategy game for my iPhone? Something less than $10″)
- Or anything else
People love to help, so you get a personal response in minutes!
How it Works
Aardvark works the same way on the iPhone as it does over IM or email:
1. Ask your question in plain English, like you would to a friend.
A list of your previous questions and answers…2. Aardvark discovers someone who’s online now and can give you an answer right away.
You’ll get a PUSH notification with an answer within minutes.
3. You can also answer questions for your network!
See open questions about topics you’re interested in.Special Features
- Built-in location detection
Aardvark will find answerers in your neighborhood, automatically.
- Language engine analyzes your question to find key topics
Or you can select from a list.
- Get notified when someone answers your question
Or when there’s a question you can answer.
- Connect to friends
Using Facebook Connect, or email invites from your address book
- Secret Aardvark Shake
Find the screen where a little shake gives a surprise…
Thank You!
We’ve been working extremely hard on the Aardvark iPhone app for several months. Ben Keighran and his team (Gene Tsai, Nick Maher, and Brad Robinson) deserve a special thank you here. Ben is Aardvark’s lead advisor for mobile products, and he led the charge on the iPhone app, from the initial designs through the final implementation details. Thanks guys!
Also a shout out to our friends at CarbonFive who helped us build the very first prototype of the iPhone app. As always, extremely valuable to have an early version that we can use to gather user feedback and learnings along the way. Thanks CarbonFive!
And I want to give a special thanks to all of our amazing users who volunteered to help us by testing early version and giving useful feedback along the way. We absolutely could not have produced such a great app without your help — we’ve included a special “thank you” in the App itself 
Try it out and let us know what you think!
19 Comments
Sweet. Can wait to have my own answer genie in my pocket!
Downloaded and tested and really love it!!!
Well done, waiting to see more features
Been using it for a day now, and it’s just what I’ve been waiting for, since I don’t use IM much. Excellent UI and some nice features. Unfortunately, push notifications aren’t working for me for some reason.
I’ve been testing this app for months. It’s absolutely gorgeous and works seamlessly with the entire Aardvark experience.
I’ve been showing it off to friends for a while now — Ben, his team, and the Aardvark team as a whole have done a phenomenal job on this one.
Varkwards and onwards guys and gals!
Great
Downloading it now
any plans for a WM app?
Thanks for all the enthusiasm everyone! In case you can’t tell, we’re all VERY excited about the app.
Jereme, if push notifications still aren’t working for you, shoot me an email (alison@aardvarkteam.com) and I’ll make sure we get things working.
Mike, we’re definitely planning on looking at other mobile versions of Aardvark soon - if you’re interested in a WM app (or anything else!), you should request it in our community forum (http://vark.com/community).
If you’re interested you should also check out some of the great press Aardvark has gotten
Macworld - You’ve got questions, Aardvark Mobile has answers: http://www.macworld.com/article/142818/2009/09/aardvark.html
TechCrunch - Aardvark’s iPhone App Is The Best Way To Use The
Service Yet: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/15/aardvarks-iphone-app-is-the-best-way-to-use-the-service-yet/
ReadWriteWeb - Got a Question? Ask Aardvark on the iPhone:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/got_a_question_ask_aadrvark_on_the_iphone.php
Search Engine Land - Aardvark Launches iPhone App For Answers
“On The Go”: http://searchengineland.com/aardvark-launches-iphone-app-for-answers-on-the-go-25870
Update to my previous post: I don’t know why, but push notifications started working. This is now officially one of my top apps. I can’t believe how quick I get answers.
Sadly, the links you’ve provided will simply redirect a PC web browser into the Apple iTunes store.
Great app!
But…
It’d be cool to have a Mute button in the Answer screen for Tags you know nothing about.
After redirecting a question to a friend (by email) you have to press Cancel (?) to make the question go away. The app doesn’t “understand” you forwarded the question to a friend…
Just tried the service for the first time, asking a mortgage question that’s been annoying me for weeks. Immediately got three great, thoughtful and useful replies! Wow!
I just started using this, and Push notifications are not working at all. Anyone else experiencing this?
A friend just recommended your site. I’m looking forward to trying it on my Laptop.
(1) I have a Samsung Omnia smartphone. Any chance the iPhone app can work on it? If not, how soon do you think you’ll make an app available?
(2) Does each time I use Aardvark count as a Text or Email message? (e.g., I use Verizon) What if I send a question, get a reply, respond to the sender, share it, etc.?
If the answer is “Yes,” then I presume it means I need to get an unlimited monthly plan from Verizon. Thanks very much.
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